Sentences with phrase «as weather scientists»

Not exact matches

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria plowed through unusually warm oceans this summer, each one broke records, startling even the scientists who study extreme weather.

Scientists and energy experts say that a distributed grid that doesn't rely on a single power plant for energy generation could help vulnerable island regions such as the Caribbean weather strong storms like Irma or Maria.

Erring seems almost congenital to scientists as well as to gamblers, stock market experts, and weather forecasters.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

With the weather serving as the prod for some to put on their running shoes or keep others at home, the scientists got a good idea of who socially infected who with the running bug.

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

Scientists in northern Spain tracking populations of Drosophila subobscura, a type of fly, observed reversible changes in the frequency of genetic mutations, or «chromosomal inversions» in the flies» genomes — essentially, parts of the chromosome get flipped around with the seasons, as the weather changes from hot to cold.

«The timing of snowmelt and length of the snow - free season significantly impacts weather, the permafrost, and wildlife — in short, the Arctic terrestrial system as a whole,» said Christopher Cox, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, Colorado.

According to Loecke and Burgin, who both also serve as scientists with the Kansas Biological Survey, surface - water nitrate spikes like the ones plaguing Iowa will occur more widely throughout the agricultural Midwest as weather whiplash becomes more commonplace in the region.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

For nearly a century, scientists had assumed Jupiter's weather worked like Earth's, with light zones forming around updrafts just as white clouds condense around rising currents here.

Climate scientists believe that the frequency and severity of extreme - weather events will increase as temperatures continue to rise.

For decades, scientists believed that the erosion of mountains caused carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to drop, as silicate rocks newly exposed to rainwater would «weather,» taking up carbon in carbonate minerals that would sluice down rivers and be sequestered on the sea floor.

Groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists responded with fact sheets explaining the difference between climate and weather.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Yet the surfaces of nearly half of all NEAs appear fresh, as scientists term it, with no effects of space weathering.

A bat ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Frick uses weather radars to monitor the movements of animals that used to vanish quickly from scientists's view as they took to the night sky for daily or seasonal journeys.

Scientists have found vivid evidence of climate change in Southern California's Santa Rosa Mountains, where the dominant plant species are creeping up the slopes as the weather gets warmer.

«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

Some scientists believe that as they meander around the world, their activities can be better weather predictors than variations in sea surface temperatures.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

A European initiative is tracking birds using weather radars, and its scientists hope to get the funding to monitor insects as well.

There is hope that attribution of hurricanes and other dynamic weather events will improve as scientists tinker on climate models, said Adam Sobel, a climate scientist at Columbia University.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Weathers and other scientists determined that clouds and fog were major carriers of acid and other pollutants, transporting them even to remote places such as the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The scientists found that winds blowing a century ago had a similar relationship with global weather as the more recent links that have been discovered by other scientists.

Scientists expect some annual variability as wind and weather patterns change, but predict the contraction will continue long - term.

Scientists are reluctant to directly link climate change with extreme weather events such as storms and drought, saying these fluctuate according to atmospheric conditions, but green groups link the two in their calls for action.

As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world's weather.

Scientists are still looking into how climate change might affect other types of extreme weather, such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

Scientists keep a close eye on its status as events can cause devastating extreme weather around the world.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

Now, scientists from St. Andrews University in Scotland said the signal may have come from the planet's extreme weather, mainly from its huge lightning storms millions of times more powerful than what we have on Earth, as per The National.

This, scientists say, is potentially very good news, as we could use the barrier to protect Earth from extreme space weather resulting from events like coronal mass ejections — huge explosions on the sun, where plasmas and magnetic field are ejected from its corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere.

Students are conducting original research on the weather, for instance, using some of the same tools as professional scientists, then sharing their data and results with others all over the globe.

Winter is a great time to extend your students» knowledge of weather and the climate with activities such as learning vocabulary terms and the components of climate systems, as well as how scientists act like detectives when studying climate changes.

Many pragmatists and scientists see attempts to link warming to temporal weather patterns (e.g. Sen. Feinstein's recent remarks on Capitol Hill) as a mistake, one that undermines the real debate.

And yes, things have heated up in the last few years, probably due to an unusually intense El Nino, but that is the sort of thing climate scientists used to refer to as «weather» as opposed to «climate,» though now they seem to be changing their tune.

As Starley Thompson, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., put it, the challenge of recognizing global warming amid the ups and downs of weather is like trying to discern cornstalks rising in a weedy field.

While it is true that any one particular storm or weather event can not be attributed to climate change alone, unusual rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.

The correlation between the two seemed so clear, so dramatic and so dangerous that scientists became convinced not only that fossil fuels were causing the rapid increase in atmospheric warmth, but that the increase was so dangerous as to destabilize the planetary weather system generally.

And if weird weather matches my understanding of what we expect to see as expressing the climate changes produced by global warming, I think it is my duty to say so, and I hope more climate scientists find ways to say so as well.

Cuts would constitute the nation's first restrictions on carbon dioxide, a gas that has no direct effect on human health — in fact, it is the bubbles in beer — but that many scientists have concluded is already altering ecosystems and weather patterns as it accumulates in the atmosphere.

«We lack a Terra Britannica, as it were: a gathering of terms for the land and its weathers,» he wrote in a beautiful essay in The Guardian, «-- terms used by crofters, fishermen, farmers, sailors, scientists, miners, climbers, soldiers, shepherds, poets, walkers and unrecorded others for whom particularised ways of describing place have been vital to everyday practice and perception.»

As I read further, from the context, he appears to be referring to a specific question about extreme weather — yet his rhetoric seems to be aimed at implying a broader conclusion about the intellectual clarity, and motives, of the scientists he calls «alarmists.»

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.