It was the IPCC's conclusion that little was understood about the «potential for major abrupt change... in the uptake and storage of carbon
by terrestrial systems,» Randall et al. (2007), p. 642.
Not exact matches
The new realization of the International
Terrestrial Reference
System DTRF2014, created
by the geodesists at the TUM on behalf of the International Earth Rotation and Reference
Systems Service, is already eagerly awaited in the expert community.
The International Monitoring
System (IMS), established
by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for
terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.
The rise of industrial
systems in the past century has transformed the majority of the
terrestrial biosphere into intensively used anthromes dominated
by novel ecological processes.
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.
I wonder if there is a non-equilibrium quasi steady state non-reproducible thermodynamic
system, one with a vast number of internal degrees of freedom (other than the
terrestrial climate
system), which is successfully described
by a computational model.
«The GOSIC Portal provides convenient, central, one - stop access to data and information identified
by the Global Climate Observing
System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS) and the Global
Terrestrial Observing
System (GTOS) and their partner programs....»
The amount of CO2 added to our atmosphere
by terrestrial volcanoes is estimated to represent only a small fraction of that emitted
by humans, but the total amount entering our climate
system via the ocean from submarine volcanoes and fissures in the Earth's crust is unknown.
Global Observing
Systems Information Center (GOSIC) provides convenient, central, one - stop access to data and information identified by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) and their partner programs, such as the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) and regional observing systems, such as the GOOS Regional Alliances
Systems Information Center (GOSIC) provides convenient, central, one - stop access to data and information identified
by the Global Climate Observing
System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS) and the Global
Terrestrial Observing
System (GTOS) and their partner programs, such as the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) and regional observing
systems, such as the GOOS Regional Alliances
systems, such as the GOOS Regional Alliances (GRA).
Despite widespread recognition that hunter - gatherers and early farmers were capable of transforming
terrestrial ecosystems around the world, these early anthropogenic changes have yet to be understood as global change processes and are generally portrayed
by global change scientists as localized and insignificant compared with contemporary changes in the Earth
system (11, 14).
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].
But as Media Matters for America noted when Stossel previously downplayed the threat posed
by global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2001 that» [r] ecent regional changes in climate, particularly increases in temperature, have already affected hydrological
systems and
terrestrial and marine ecosystems in many parts of the world.»
It reiterates — also with «high confidence» — earlier calls for «an integrated approach» that includes «reducing CO2 emissions
by reducing deforestation, forest degradation and forest fires; storing carbon in
terrestrial systems (for example, through afforestation); and providing bioenergy feedstocks.»
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.