Sentences with phrase «atmospheric scientists at»

RENO, NV (Friday, July 14, 2017): Recently published research led by atmospheric scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) demonstrates a connection between the occurrence... Read more

Methods: Researchers Drs. Samson M. Hagos and L. Ruby Leung, atmospheric scientists at PNNL, surveyed tropical divergence in three global climate models, three global reanalyses (models corrected with observational data), and four sets of field campaign soundings.

The Department of Energy's Research Aircraft Facility (DOE - RAF), also located at PNNL, serves atmospheric scientists at DOE and other institutions in carrying out airborne research.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

That information can then be plugged into atmospheric models to calculate cumulative emissions across larger areas, says Steve Wofsy, an atmospheric scientist at Harvard who is working on the project.

«I'm pleased [the new] results show that what we'd previously theorized,» says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new work.

«With this simulator, we can explain in great detail to the operational weather community [weather forecasters] the tornadic echo from polarimetric radar,» says Robert Palmer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and co-author of the paper.

A switch to natural gas won't do Kenneth Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said EPA's actions have to be the first step, and the agency needs to take similar steps every two years or so.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

The team's analyses «are quite important,» says Björn - Martin Sinnhuber, an atmospheric scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«Quantifying the sulfur dioxide bull's - eyes is a two - step process that would not have been possible without two innovations in working with the satellite data,» said co-author Nickolay Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«The unique advantage of satellite data is spatial coverage,» said Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at Goddard.

«I think it's safe to say we're on the threshold of recovery,» says Michelle Santee, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.

Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«I don't think many studies have realized this yet: Black carbon impacts global warming in at least four different ways,» said V. Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Using a 3D model to tease out the underlying trend is a «much more sophisticated way to do the attribution,» says Ross Salawitch, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«The magnitude of the event really surprised me,» said lead author Stephen Conley, president of Boulder - based Scientific Aviation and an atmospheric scientist at University of California, Davis.

«We're trying to find out exactly what is coming from the rings and what is due to the atmosphere,» Hunter Waite, Cassini team lead for the mass spectrometer instrument and an atmospheric scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said at the Sept. 13 news conference.

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

«The partnership that we have had with the Japanese has been exceptional,» says Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Computer models suggest that deploying aerosols can have «an appreciable impact on tropical cyclone intensity,» writes William Cotton, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University.

The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.

Ronald Cohen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who was not part of the research, calls the new study «provocative,» and says it shows agricultural fertilizer contributes a significant fraction of total NOx emissions in California.

An instrument on the NASA AURA satellite has detected record lows of the inert forms of chlorine and rising amounts of the active ones, notes Gloria Manney, an atmospheric scientist at NorthWest Research Associates in Socorro, New Mexico.

«This is not the first scientific paper on Inuit knowledge,» said lead author Elizabeth Weatherhead, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado.

«But no one has had a comprehensive set of observations of what really happens after you seed a cloud,» says Jeff French, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wyoming (UW) and SNOWIE principal investigator.

David Fahey, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado, said that the researchers will need to do additional analyses to reduce the «significant uncertainties associated with the role of black carbon in the climate.»

You can't repeat the experiment because you'll never have the same atmospheric conditions again,» says Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

«We're trying to figure out how to deal with the greenhouse gas problem» says Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and co-author of the study.

«Any uncontaminated air in any one of the three coffins would be the Rosetta Stone of the atmosphere,» says Joel Levine, an atmospheric scientist at the NASA Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Virginia.

«The recommendation is great,» says Joyce Penner, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Karen Shell, an atmospheric scientist at Oregon State University, called the new findings «one piece of the climate sensitivity puzzle.»

After the Colorado floods in 2013, Martin Hoerling, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, and his colleagues found that climate change has decreased the likelihood and strength of heavy rainfall in northern Colorado.

Released April 27, the images of Saturn's cloud tops are a «big step forward» for understanding the planet's atmosphere, says Cassini imaging team member Andy Ingersoll, an atmospheric scientist at Caltech.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

... It's very intriguing,» says Robert Oglesby, an earth and atmospheric scientist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The finding was provocative but there had been «lots of debates about whether it is genuine or merely an observational artifact,» says William Lau, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who was not involved in the study.

«This is an important paper,» says Brian Toon, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

But the chilling effect of minor eruptions has been hotly debated, says David Ridley, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

One major question is how climate change may be intensifying westerly winds around Antarctica, and what those changes will do to southern polar clouds, says Andrew Vogelmann, an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

«We should clearly be able to see large metropolitan «super-cities» like Los Angeles,» says Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who helped to develop the network of ground - based monitoring stations that will be used to test the quality of OCO - 2's data.

Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, gets asked the question so often about the connection between big rain events and climate change that he had this response via email: «Here we go again.»

«This is going to be a sea change in our understanding,» says Lynn Russell, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and a co-principal investigator on AWARE.