Atmospheric research refers to the study and investigation of the Earth's atmosphere. It involves examining different aspects of the air, like its composition, properties, and behavior, to better understand how it affects our climate, weather, and the environment.
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It was completely unrelated to my previous work, but — as with my initial interest
in atmospheric research — I had a personal stake in the topic.
The Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG) provides expertise on measurements and processes to best meet the aerosol science objectives of the ARM Facility, the ASR program, and the broader
atmospheric research community.
A new paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) summarizes efforts by the ARM Climate Research Facility, through collaborations with university and federal partners, to develop and use unmanned aerial capabilities
for atmospheric research in the Arctic.
Dr Pearman is one of a dozen senior climate change experts who have left the Melbourne - based
atmospheric research division in the past three years as revealed in The Age on Saturday.
The planet's annual atmospheric CO2 growth rate is being measured at NOAA's Hawaii - based Mauna Loa Observatory, a leading
atmospheric research facility.
Who in her right mind would want to detour from doing world - class
atmospheric research at a laboratory tucked under the Rockies to be a co-leader of a years - long, largely administrative review by hundreds of experts from dozens of countries of existing studies on the atmosphere?
Though PEARL may be able to reopen for part of the year under a new pool of Environment Canada
atmospheric research funding (which will have to bankroll a broader range of research with 30 per cent less money than the funding channels it replaces), it likely won't be able to operate as it had previously through the long Arctic winter night.
Franck Montmessin of the
LATMOS atmospheric research centre in France says ozone forms when sunlight breaks up carbon dioxide molecules on the planet's daylight side.
«We have eight aircraft standing ready,» says Darin Langerud, director of the North Dakota State Water Commission's
atmospheric research board, «and when conditions are right to promote rain or to suppress hail, they go up.»
Additionally, the AIRS technology has been used to
conduct atmospheric research missions, high - altitude mapping, remote sensing operations and more.
Investigators who use ARM Climate Research Facility data are major contributors to
atmospheric research aimed toward improvements to regional and global climate models, on average publishing 150 journal articles each year.
Australia's CSIRO's
atmospheric research unit has found the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations» top climate change body, with harmful emissions exceeding worst - case estimates.
And when the Keeling Curve is added to
atmospheric research from the past, it shows a trend that has alarmed scientists worldwide: CO2 levels are rising at a dramatic pitch, one unseen in the entire geologic record.
The Center conducts multidisciplinary marine, cryosphere, and
atmospheric research with integration of modeling, data assimilation, and service development.
As early as November, 1979, Shaw had told Harold Weinberg in a memo
on atmospheric research that environmental groups «have already attempted to curb the budding synfuels industry because it could accelerate the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere.»
Dr Pearman, who headed the division
of atmospheric research for 10 years until 2002, said he was admonished by his Canberra superiors for «making public expressions of what I believed were scientific views on the basis that they were deemed to be political views.
He has attended residencies at Skowhegan, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, the Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics and the National Center
for atmospheric Research, and recently finished a three - year stint at the National Science Foundation in D.C. Aaron has curated several shows for MASS, including Wally, Methods of Entanglement, Ping Pong, Systems of Growth and Decay, and 20 MB — several of which touched on issues of technology and science.
Value - added products (VAPs) are higher - order data products that have been analyzed and processed to ease scientist's use of ARM data
in atmospheric research and global climate models.
The stratollites are used for communications, surveillance, weather forecasting,
atmospheric research, and other applications.
«We could be making the next epochal advancement in oceanography,» says Craig McLean, NOAA's assistant administrator for oceanic and
atmospheric research and acting chief scientist.
«Nevertheless measured ozone depletion rates were often quite a bit larger than theoretically calculated in our models,» Markus Rex points out a long unsolved problem of
atmospheric research.
The ARM Facility funds a global team of scientists and engineers to keep abreast of advances in technology for
atmospheric research.
Dr. Schmid is also the Manager of the DOE ARM Aerial Facility, which provides airborne measurements required to answer science questions proposed by
the atmospheric research community.
Dr. Alex B. Guenther, a renowned scientist in land ecosystem and
atmospheric research, has joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to lead research in the interactions between terrestrial systems and climate.
Alexander Mangold from the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium was kind enough to spend part of his day telling us about
the atmospheric research he and his colleagues carry out at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.
Interim Captain Billy Crudup orders that they land on the unfamiliar but seemingly habitable planet, and those 20 minutes of
atmospheric research are reason enough for them to not only land but to go out exploring sans helmets.
The stratollites are used for communications, surveillance, weather forecasting,
atmospheric research, and other applications.
Reached by funicular railway from Interlaken, Jungfraujoch also houses
an atmospheric research facility whose viewing platform offers unparalleled vistas of the vast Aletsch Glacier and surrounding mountains.
The User Executive Committee (UEC) provides advice and recommendations regarding the ARM Facility user experience and serves as the official voice of the user community and advocate for
atmospheric research.
The ARM Climate Research Facility is guided by several constituent groups that help steer the overall direction of ARM by providing input on how to best meet the Facility's — and
the atmospheric research community's — science goals.
Raju, M. P., P. D. Safai, S. M. Sonbawne, & C. V. Naidu (2015) Black carbon radiativeforcing over theIndian Arctic station, Himadri during theArctic Summer of 2012,
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Mathematical physicist Enting (author of the Australian Mathematical Scences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial) worked at Australia's leading science agency, the CSIRO, for 24 years in
atmospheric research and modelling of the global carbon cycle.
Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air - sea interactions, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for
atmospheric research.
When leading experts had to state a consensus opinion they were circumspect, as in a 1975 National Academy of Sciences report about plans for international cooperation in
atmospheric research.
During the 1980s he was the chief research scientist in
the atmospheric research division of Australia's premier scientific organization — the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Eric J. Barron, who was named the director of
the atmospheric research center in May, said the step had been unavoidable given steady erosion of the center» budget, most of which comes from the National Science Foundation.
Roger A. Pielke Jr., a former staff scientist at
the atmospheric research center and now a political scientist at the nearby University of Colorado, said the cut undermined an increasingly important branch of science.