Sentences with phrase «atmospheric scientist katharine»

In one study, Dennis Hartmann, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, pinpointed a climate cycle that seems to be linked to the most well - known of such phenomena, El Niño.

What any atmospheric scientist knows (I suspect even Judith knows this) is that these brief shallow «pauses» in - between the stronger upsurges are noise from the periodic decadal and multi-decadal oscillations (PDO, AMO) plus strong ENSO years.

As a research atmospheric scientist, I study how warming in the Arctic is affecting temperature regions around the world.

MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel believes he gained insight into Smith and his approach after an exchange a couple of years ago.

An atmospheric scientist makes a discovery that seems to challenge a particular model of sea level increase due to global warming.

How would you react if someone concludes in the following way: «The atmospheric scientist was not wrong to withhold the information from the public; she wisely foresaw the danger that it would be deployed in misleading ways and attempted to do her bit for the promotion of public freedom».

The standard logbook entries made at the time contain no information about how the measurements were taken, so the cause was overlooked, says David Thompson, first author on the paper and an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

«I hope this report will stress the virtual certainty among the scientific community that humans are affecting the climate system in profound ways, mainly through burning ever - increasing amounts of fossil fuels,» said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

I'm a chemist, not a physicist or atmospheric scientist, so my interest was mainly in the thermodynamics of atmospheric science.

Neither is it surprising to see Sir John T. Houghton — «British atmospheric scientist and an evangelical» (and erstwhile scientific co-chair of the IPCC)-- popping up in there.

An atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian, Hayhoe is a firm believer in manmade climate change and recently addressed a UN-sponsored climate change conference in Edmonton, Alberta, on the woes that await the human race if global warming is not curbed.

«Our findings show that if we do not want to melt Antarctica, we can't keep taking fossil fuel carbon out of the ground and just dumping it into the atmosphere as CO2, like we've been doing,» says one of the report's authors, Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford University's Carnegie Institution for Science, California.

What would you say if an atmospheric scientist made sweeping conclusions about your field of medicine, I wonder?

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions: Read more...

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions:

One group had to defend Susan Solomon, the much lauded atmospheric scientist who, while a co-leader of the 2007 science assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, staunchly refused to provide her personal view of the implications of global warming research despite the prodding of reporters.

Dr. Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist, added that polls and input he has received from various sources indicate that «public opinion has moved toward the view that scientists often try to suppress alternative hypotheses and ideas and that scientists will withhold data and try to manipulate some aspects of peer review to prevent dissent.

For example, he gives Bill Gray credit (and rightly so) for the important contributions he has made to our current understanding of hurricane genesis, and shows a somewhat bemused admiration for Gray as a sympathetic relic of a dying breed of atmospheric scientist.

As Ralph J. Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences (and an award - winning atmospheric scientist) put it in an interview two years ago: «Does it take a crisis to get people to go along a new path or can they respond to a series of rational, incremental gains in knowledge?»

Crichton may be doing a grave disservice, but he isn't an atmospheric scientist any more than Mary Shelley was an anatomist.

Now, if you are an atmospheric scientist, this is taken for granted.

The prime climate question confronting societies around the world remains as Ralph Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, framed it in 2007: «Does it take a crisis to get people to go along a new path or can they respond to a series of rational, incremental gains in knowledge?»

11:41 a.m. James B. Elsner, an atmospheric scientist at Florida State University studying extreme storms, sent this thought by e-mail:

I'm no atmospheric scientist and haven't really considered the stratospheric cooling issue but, if an increase in the amount of atmospheric CO2 raised the average altitude from which the stratosphere receives radiation in the CO2 bands, wouldn't it receive less radiation in those bands?

But the planning goes back at least a year or two and the main organizers are Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, a Cambridge University economist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focused on reducing sooty pollution and climate change, and Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, who is also a professor of history and ethics at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Jerry Toman, there are at least three errors in your notion of me as a «prominent atmospheric scientist» — can you find them?

A new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson has revealed that worsening air pollution and higher carbon dioxide emissions go hand - in - hand - the results suggest intensifying global warming will increase the number of smog - related deaths.

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

Here's a fascinating 1996 video interview of Rowland by the atmospheric scientist Richard Somerville of the University of California, San Diego:

http://climate.nasa.gov/news/1141/: «Norman Loeb, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, recently gave a talk on the «global warming hiatus,» a slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface air temperature.

It appears to be a short report from the recent European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, focussing on a contribution to that conference by Markus Rex, an atmospheric scientist of the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany, and his colleagues.

Here's an excerpt and link, followed by some reactions from Hamburg and from Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric scientist at Cornell who has published work challenging Cathles and Ingraffea's conclusions on the climate impact of gas drilling.

Dr. Schlesinger is an atmospheric scientist and engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign who for three decades has been studying human influence on climate and what to do about it.

A reply has come in from Drew T. Shindell, the NASA atmospheric scientist who was a leader of the team that wrote a new World Meteorological Organization / United Nations Environment Program report on the merits of cting to curb black carbon and ozone.

Quote: Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, 15th Jan 2009,» My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit.

Re 235: Hank, sorry — I'm not an atmospheric scientist.

(I've had some very long discussions about these subtleties with Susan Solomon, the federal atmospheric scientist who was co-leader of the group that wrote the science summary for the 2007 report.

Finally, here's a brief video discussion of geo - engineering on The Wall Street Journal Web site, featuring Dale Jamieson and Alan Robock, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers who's been modeling the climate consequences of human atmospheric meddling — from global warming to nuclear winter — for decades:

See postscripts I'm saddened to have to mark the death on Saturday of Ralph J. Cicerone, a brilliant atmospheric scientist who skillfully shifted into academic leadership as chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, but really hit his stride through a decade, just ended in June, as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cicerone was an atmospheric scientist whose research placed him at the forefront in shaping science and environmental policy, both nationally and internationally.

El Niño could actually knock out the high - pressure pattern and with it the unusually hot weather, Cliff Mass, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, said.

Higher rates of rain fall there, which is then channeled into valleys, agitates rivers that aren't ready for the gush of water, said Jeff Weber, an atmospheric scientist at the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colo..

Research by Dr. Ben Kravitz, atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was recently covered by Carbon Brief, a U.K. - based climate and energy journalism website.

«Irene did about what was expected from the forecasts,» said atmospheric scientist Eugene McCaul, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. «The rainfall was probably the biggest threat, partly because most ofthe East and New England have had a very wet August even before Irene's onslaught.»

Wan, formerly at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, is an atmospheric scientist.

Jennifer Francis is an atmospheric scientist at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.

«Soot on snow in the northwest plateau causes more warming than all other sources in the area,» said corresponding author Hailong Wang, an atmospheric scientist at PNNL.

This atmospheric scientist works at the SETI Institute, which searches for life outside our solar system.

Indiana University Bloomington atmospheric scientist Rebecca Barthelmie, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, and her co-authors received a poster award at the recent European Offshore Wind Energy conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

«Controlling black carbon may be the only way of preventing the loss of the Arctic completely,» said Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist who researches air pollution and climate change at Stanford University.