Sentences with phrase «by atmospheric chemist»

The importance of this distinction was made clear in a recent assessment led by atmospheric chemist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [pdf].

An international team led by atmospheric chemist Qiang Zhang of Tsinghua University in Beijing looked at emissions data across 13 global regions for 2007, the last year comprehensive information was available.

Not exact matches

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

However, atmospheric chemist James Kasting of Pennsylvania State University in University Park says most models still point to a toasty primitive Earth engulfed by thick greenhouse gases.

An international group of atmospheric chemists and physicist could now have solved another piece in the climate puzzle by means of laboratory experiments and global model simulations.

The concept of the «Anthropocene» was originally suggested by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist who is also part of the «Anthropocene Working Group,» in the year 2000.

«The hope is that we can buy time by reducing short - lived climate forcers,» said Patricia Quinn, an atmospheric chemist researching these pollutants at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

This is the idea behind the Anthropocene, a new epoch in Earth history proposed by the Nobel Prize - winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen just 15 years ago.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

So poke holes; but my fit is better than anyone else's and my model is better than any box model, only used by «atmospheric» chemists.

«We were underestimating warming via black carbon by a factor of two,» says Patricia Quinn, an atmospheric chemist who contributed to the study.

They showed the evidence to 77 domain experts (i.e., atmospheric chemists with expertise in condensation trails, and geochemists working on atmospheric deposition of dust and pollution), and asked about each of the claims made by «SLAP theorists.»

Well I'm just an atmospheric chemist by training so what do I know about «climate science», but it seems to me that doing the work that can be done with statistical methods that are generally agreed to be «correct» rather than flaky, describing the methods used in detail so that others can follow the arguments and criticise where needed woudl be A Good Thing.

A scientific journal, Climatic Change, published a series of papers on the subject in August, including one by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel - prize - winning atmospheric chemist.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.