Sentences with phrase «atmospheric system on»

In engineering terms there was a step function change to the Earth's atmospheric system on that date in June.

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The US and global transportation systems rely on a deep understanding of atmospheric conditions and long - term weather patterns.
The Initiative is based on the finding that «4 ‰» annual growth rate of the soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO2 and aims to use a range of agricultural systems to sequester CO2 and store it in the ground as soil organic carbon (SOC).
«This research demonstrates our grasp of tunneling on a molecular system that is of vital importance to the understanding of atmospheric chemistry,» said Klippenstein, a distinguished fellow in Argonne's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division who performed the theoretical calculations.
Lozier (p. 1507) discusses how recent studies have challenged our view of large - scale ocean circulation as a simple conveyor belt, by revealing a more complex and nuanced system that reflects the effects of ocean eddies and surface atmospheric winds on the structure and variability of the ocean's overturning.
The entire housing rolls away on rails to help the telescope cool to ambient temperature; an adaptive optics system adjusts 1,000 times per second to remove atmospheric blurring.
Earlier guidance systems relied on radio links to ground computers and were vulnerable because atmospheric explosions during a nuclear war would have disrupted radio transmissions.
Morgan O'Neill, the paper's lead author and a former PhD student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), says the team's model may eventually be used to gauge atmospheric conditions on planets outside the solar system.
Yet there is no doubt that research into atmospheric aerosols is becoming increasingly important due to the effects that they can have on the global temperature of Earth, given that solar radiation is the main source of energy for Earth - Atmosphere system.
The presence of atmospheric water was reported previously on a few exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, but this is the first study to conclusively measure and compare the profiles and intensities of these signatures on multiple worlds.
In 2016, researchers reported the first use of a deep - learning system to identify tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers and weather fronts: loosely defined features whose identification depends on expert judgement.
For the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate Change.
NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System Version 5 (GEOS - 5) model simulates the atmosphere in 3 - D, which allows the research team to follow atmospheric gases from their sources on the ground through their journey to the upper atmosphere.
The Harvard China Project is a research program focused on China's atmospheric environment, energy system, and economy, collaborating with researchers at Chinese universities and across the schools of Harvard.
Meanwhile, here on earth, we still have the same remaining problem of our trapped thermal atmospheric content that can not escape away from Earth's self contained system that is maintained by the greenhouse gases that surrounds the earth that is said to be increasing in content, and because it increasing in content, the thermal kinetic capacity (global warming potential of certain said gases will rise with it.)
Heatwaves are important climatic extremes in atmospheric and oceanic systems that can have devastating and long - term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent socioeconomic consequences.
Therefore, the strongest motivation for the current scientific review is the need for a synoptic organization of the available knowledge on the field of interactions at different planetary systems, in parallel with a comparative analysis encompassing the inter-connection among planetary space weather aspects belonging to different disciplines (e.g. plasma variability and its effects on atmospheric heating).
The models aimed to simulate how the planet's climate system would react to rising CO2 levels, relying on a combination of mathematics, physics, and atmospheric science.
This was accomplished using a stochastic climate model based on the concept that ocean temperature variability is a slow dynamical system, a red noise signal, generated by integrating stochastic atmospheric forcing, or white noise71.
[Response: You may also be interested in the article by Richard Feely and colleagues, Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans arguing that quite apart from any climate impact from atmospheric CO2, there is a much more direct impact from the dissolution of CO2 in the world's oceans.
PNNL is using an integrative research approach that draws on our depth and breadth of capabilities in atmospheric chemistry, climate physics, modeling, and measurement to address critical scientific questions related to the role of aerosols in the climate system.
Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.
The consensus is that several factors are important: atmospheric composition (the concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane); changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun known as Milankovitch cycles (and possibly the Sun's orbit around the galaxy); the motion of tectonic plates resulting in changes in the relative location and amount of continental and oceanic crust on the Earth's surface, which could affect wind and ocean currents; variations in solar output; the orbital dynamics of the Earth - Moon system; and the impact of relatively large meteorites, and volcanism including eruptions of supervolcanoes.
Analyzing such systems, whether they are on the surface of a catalyst, a microbial community, or atmospheric aerosols, and understanding their impact requires tools that can accurately identify and quantify hundreds of molecules,» said Dr. Julia Laskin, a PNNL chemist, who has been advancing the frontiers of the Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, nicknamed nano - DESI, for the last 3 years.
His current research is mainly focused on the application of efficient computational methods to understand the structure and dynamics of hydrogen - bonded systems ranging from water clusters to atmospheric aerosols.
So weather forecasts rely on the predictability of atmospheric systems that persist a couple of weeks.
This 2006 study found that the effect of amplifying feedbacks in the climate system — where global warming boosts atmospheric CO2 levels — «will promote warming by an extra 15 percent to 78 percent on a century - scale» compared to typical estimates by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
However, many practical challenges remained in the way of it becoming a successful production tool for use in our game Horizon Zero Dawn: authoring cloudscapes on a regional scale, animation and transitions, integration into our atmospheric system, further optimization to pay for these new features, and the task of creating a language and long term plan for what we want to achieve in the context of our game engine, Decima.
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference.
Includes detailed information on the characteristics of the atmosphere, factors affecting wind, global atmospheric circulation systems, global pressure patterns and Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells.
Its effortlessly cool appearance complements the superior Bespoke Audio system; the contemporary use of copper creates an atmospheric setting for the most encompassing music system on the market,» commented Torsten Müller Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls - Royce Motor Cars.
What we're using is a dynamic weather system in the game that takes in atmospheric considerations and condensation factors and time of day and then generates realistic weather based on all those parameters that get fed into it.
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In Gallery II, a large, wall - based sculpture of colorful ceramic disks on rotating arms titled, THIS ONE GOES OUT ACROSS THE SEMAPHORE SPECTRUM, simultaneously takes form as a double solar system model or an antiquated signal device used to communicate turbulent atmospheric conditions to pilots in air or at sea.
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.
This painting is based on a rectangular system of co-ordinates, but the total effect is like an atmospheric veil.
[Response: You may also be interested in the article by Richard Feely and colleagues, Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans arguing that quite apart from any climate impact from atmospheric CO2, there is a much more direct impact from the dissolution of CO2 in the world's oceans.
Haarsma et al. (2015) argue on the basis of model simulation that the weakening of the Gulf Stream system will in the future be the main cause of changes in the atmospheric summer circulation over Europe.
In the atmospheric CO2 analysis and forecast, the modelled CO2 fluxes from vegetation are bias corrected based on the optimized fluxes from the CAMS flux inversion system (Agusti - Panareda et al., 2016).
The third major satellite in this system, a craft called Aura that will focus on atmospheric studies, is to be launched in 2004.
As the Trump administration charges forward with its war on science by canceling a «crucial» carbon monitoring system at NASA, scientists and climate experts are sounding alarms over atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) that just surpassed a «troubling» threshold for the first time in human history.
The first is climate inertia — on very many levels, from fossil lock - in emissions (decades), ocean - atmospheric temperature inertia (yet more decades), Earth system temperature inertia (centuries to millennia) to ecological climate impact inertia (impacts becoming worse over time under a constant stress)-- all this to illustrate anthropogenic climate change, although already manifesting itself, is still very much an escalating problem for the future.
«d. Reconstructions of paleoclimate data over the last 60 million years show that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide exert a strong control on the climate system
Anomalies in the oceanic carbonate system recorded in marine sediments at the time3, for example while coral reefs were forming, apparently left no signature on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
Explore the sensitivity of the climate system to atmospheric chemical composition with emphasis on connections to biosphereic processes and feedbacks
Cross Cutting Priority 1: (Integrated Global Environmental Observation and Data Management System) focuses on developing a global - to - local environmental observation and data management systems for the comprehensive, continuous monitoring of coupled ocean / atmospheric / land systems that enhance NOAA's ability to protect lives, property, expand economic opportunities, understand climate variability, and promote healthy ecosystems.
The 2nd Pan-GASS meeting sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science is focused on «Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes» (UMAP) and aims to bring together NWP and climate scientists, observationalists and modellers to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science and to coordinate efforts to improve weather and climate models.
Requires the Climate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakeholders.
Judith I understand the APS actually wrote to IPCC questioning on what basis they determined that certainty of the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is INCREASING.
Why is it that revolutionary changes in our social / economic / political system are greeted with enthusiasm, as «progress», and yet the rather small increase on atmospheric [CO2], a byproduct of cheap transport and electricity that underpins our whole way of life, is treated as a disaster?
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