Sentences with phrase «atmospheric processes -lsb-»

He also has a Master of Science in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he concentrated his research and study in environmental fate and transport, oceanic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and the ecological effects of pollutants.

This situation is the result of the particularities of the atmospheric processes and extremes, the rapid runoff in the deep valleys, and the changing soil conditions.

The thought experiment of varying L -LCB- * -RCB- in a hysteresis loops is rather fanciful, but many atmospheric processes could act to either increase or decrease the greenhouse effect over time.

The oceans and seas absorb the heat from the atmosphere and redistribute it through the means of water currents, and atmospheric processes, such as evaporation and the reflection of light allow for the cooling and warming of the overlying atmosphere.

The resulting warming due to the water vapour is in fact larger than the initial warming due to the CO2 that forced it to happen, and this is the point of the Lacis paper - yes, water vapour is a more important greenhouse gas than CO2, but water vapour doesn't change systematically with time UNLESS CO2 is changing and initiating a warming that sets into motion the surface and atmospheric processes that allow water vapour to systematically increase.

The conditions resulting from a combination of all atmospheric processes operating at one time in any one place.

But just as serious, very little effort has been devoted to determining whether the models» characterization of natural atmospheric processes actually corresponds with the real world and whether the alarmists» hypotheses survive use of the scientific method.

identifying atmospheric processes controlling aerosol life cycle and their influence on clouds

Predictions of sea ice changes will have large uncertainties without sustained observations; improved understanding of ice, ocean, land, and atmospheric processes; and advances in coupled and system models.

Organic ‐ coated aerosols are believed to play an important role in atmospheric processes thereby influencing global climate.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

My research interests center around development, evaluation, and application of optical remote sensing techniques to investigate atmospheric processes.

Any atmospheric processes that slow down the rate OLR can be considered a resistance.

These atmospheric processes are closely interlinked with environmental, social and economic pillars on which development should be based, and all together may influence the selection of sustainable development paths.

In an attempt to deal with the problem, the US Atmospheric Science Program (ASP) ``... has as its long - term goal developing comprehensive understanding of the atmospheric processes that control the transport, transformation, and fate of energy related trace chemicals and particulate matter.

Furthermore, a model that could realistically simulate the impact of increasing atmospheric particle concentration on climate must eventually include the simultaneous coupled effects of all the important atmospheric processes, such as fluid motions and cloud microphysics, in addition to the radiative transfer effects.»

«Understanding what drives the meteorology on Saturn, and in general on gaseous planets, has been one of our cardinal goals since the inception of the Cassini mission,» said Carolyn Porco, imaging team lead, based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. «It is very gratifying to see that we're finally coming to understand those atmospheric processes that make Earth similar to, and also different from, other planets.»

Unmanned aerial system and tethered balloon system measurements have supplemented ARM Mobile Facility data to help improve understanding of atmospheric processes in the Arctic.

The real atmospheric processes do certainly deviate significantly from the idealized case, and determining more realistically what is going on is important for meteorology.

PNNL researchers are expanding knowledge of fundamental atmospheric processes, developing state - of - the - art modeling capabilities, and improving understanding of how human and natural systems interact.

On the surface, it releases more heat than normal, which is carried poleward by normal atmospheric processes.

The future monitoring of atmospheric processes involving water vapor will be critical to fully understand the feedbacks in the climate system leading to global climate change.

Thus the paper continues «It thus seems natural that one should represent (atmospheric processes) by posing certain additional constraints in the maximization problem, considering that constraints 1) and 2) will continue to be valid.

A comparison of the radiative equilibrium temperatures with the observed temperatures has indicated the extent to which the other atmospheric processes, such as convection, large - scale circulation, and condensation processes, influence the thermal energy balance of the system.

It was an appropriate hypothesis that rests in a knowledge gap (freely admitted by climate scientists - again in the IPCC), but Spencer seemed unable to pinpoint how long - term cloud changes can be decoupled from temperature changes (he hypothesised that ocean / atmospheric processes, like ENSO and PDO, can cause long - term changes in cloud dynamics - but didn't show how that happens).

Cosmic rays, solar activity and the climate OPEN ACCESS FOCUS ON HIGH ENERGY PARTICLES AND ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES T Sloan and A W Wolfendale 2013 Environ.

If we (scientists) are honest, we understand that the study of atmospheric processes / dynamics is in its infancy.

Due to computational constraints, the equilibrium climate sensitivity in a climate model is usually estimated by running an atmospheric general circulation model coupled to a mixed - layer ocean model, because equilibrium climate sensitivity is largely determined by atmospheric processes.

It is less well known that this behaviour exists within atmospheric processes and temperature in particular (e.g. Koscielny - Bunde, et al., 1998; Koutsoyiannis, 2003; Climate, hydrology and freshwater (Discussion) Cohn & Lins, 2005 for instrumental temperature records; Koutsoyiannis, 2003; Rybski et al., 2006; Koutsoyiannis & Montanari, 2007 for proxy temperature time series)....

She develops and applies numerical models for small - scale atmospheric processes and study these processes effect on the general circulation.

At toa all of the atmospheric processes are integrated into the energy dynamic.

A lovely short book, with short, accurate explanations eg, ideas for simple experiments eg and calculations to demonstrate atmospheric processes and helpful illustrations.

Bearing all the above in mind, as well as the fact that currents in the ocean are mostly generated by winds, we come to the conclusion of the paramount importance of atmospheric processes -LSB-...]»

It has been postulated that teleconnections, oceanic and atmospheric processes, on different timescales, connect both hemispheres during abrupt climate change.

Of course, this doesn't mean that much, since the «closed» system will not be open to the vacuum of space, and is not subject to other atmospheric processes like convection and to cloud and precipitation feedbacks, all of which render the experiment fairly meaningless.

This is due in part to prevailing weather patterns, such as the jet stream, as well as recurring atmospheric processes, including El Niño and La Niña.

You adhere to a simplistic view of atmospheric processes that ignores the primary effects of water.

It is a layman's expression, and reflects in no way the physical dynamic that govern the ocean and atmospheric processes.

It is both data and the atmospheric processes AGW theory predicted which proves this theory is full of it.

To obtain realistic simulations, it was found necessary to include additional energy sources and sinks: in particular, energy exchanges with the surface and moist atmospheric processes with the attendant latent heat release and radiative heat inputs.

The Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (off Chile and Peru), the Benguelan Current LME (Namibia and South Africa), the Canary Current LME (Morocco), are the other main upwelling ecosystems, all driven by similar oceanographic and atmospheric processes, all on the eastern sides of ocean basins (western sides of continents).

Well, weather prediction is much less certain than climate prediction, since even small «butterflies beating their wings in South America» can effect change in short - term atmospheric processes.

Re # 104 — «Well, weather prediction is much less certain than climate prediction, since even small «butterflies beating their wings in South America» can effect change in short - term atmospheric processes.»

The transport processes are also very variable from winter to winter and the amount of ozone pumped into the Arctic is also correlated with temperature (this is not a causal relationship — the correlation exists, because variability in temperatures and in ozone transport are both driven by the same atmospheric processes).

Introduced in recent years, this term is used to describe the current geological era in which our earth finds itself, defining the human being as the most important factor influencing the planet's biological, geological and atmospheric processes.

As a meteorologist, you are expected to collect quantitative data regarding the current state of the atmosphere and make use of the scientific implications of the atmospheric processes so as to project how the atmosphere will evolve in the coming period of time.

In October, NASA's second Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS - 2) returns to the eastern tropical Pacific to recover instruments installed in September to investigate the oceanic and atmospheric processes that control changes in salinity.

A new study confirms that this was not Floridians» imaginations: From 2011 to at least 2015, the rate of sea level rise across the southeastern US shot up by a factor of six, from 3 - 4 millimeters a year to 20, and a combination of oceanic and atmospheric processes seem to be responsible.

Scientists in the ASGC division have a rich experience in atmospheric processes and climate modeling.

The UAS and TBS measurements have supplemented data obtained by the third ARM Mobile Facility at Oliktok Point — part of ARM's North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory — to help improve understanding of atmospheric processes in the Arctic.