Sentences with phrase «between terrestrial systems»

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.

Not exact matches

In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems.

The research, which was funded by the Royal Society, forms part of a broader programme of study challenging the traditional division between marine ecology and «mainstream» ecology, the notion that marine systems are somehow fundamentally different from terrestrial systems, and that this demands separate research approaches and indeed research institutes — to study them.

Pat's general research interests include (1) the evolution of birds, (2) the relationship between osteological features and different soft - tissue systems (e.g., pulmonary, neurosensory), and (3) the biogeographic history of terrestrial vertebrates on Gondwanan landmasses during the latter half of the Mesozoic.

Modelling interactions between terrestrial and atmospheric systems requires coupling successional models to biogeochemical models and physiological models that describe the exchange of water and energy between vegetation and the atmosphere at fine time - scales.

Immediate challenges that confront models of the terrestrial - atmosphere system include exchanges of carbon and water between the atmosphere and land, and the terrestrial sources and sinks of trace gases.

Once CO2 has been emitted into the atmosphere, the carbon cycle will redistribute it between the atmosphere, oceans, and terrestrial biosphere, but it will not disappear from those systems for thousands of years.

That is determined by consideration of the absorption of the atmosphere of terrestrial radiation (and radiation emitted by the atmosphere), which essentially ends up determining at what altitude the temperature has to be determined via radiative balance between the Earth system (earth + atmosphere) and the sun and space [which for the earth system with its current albedo is ~ 255 K].

My research interests aim in understanding the role aerosols play in the Earth system, by studying the interactions and feedbacks between the atmosphere, the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean, and climate.