Sentences with phrase «climate change modeling»

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Climate change is an important issue confronting society, and it is hoped that the work contained in this thesis will aid climate change modeling by focusing attention to realistic fossil fuel production projections.
I studied physics at Princeton University before switching my major to mechanical engineering, where I specialized in control theory and feedback loops, a topic that will be important when we get into the details of climate change modeling.
«Adjusting to Policy Expectations in Climate Change Modeling.
Acknowledgments: This study was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science Climate Change Modeling Program and Atmospheric Systems Research program.
Also like California, Stevens said, climate change modeling predicts a future of hotter summers, accentuated droughts, and shrinking winter snowpacks in Turkey's Taurus Mountains, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers arise.
LNCC operates the largest supercomputer in Latin America, serving as a national facility for research projects that range from Zika virus genomics to climate change modeling.
A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.
It's also useful in cosmology and charting the far reaches of the Milky Way, weather prediction and climate change modeling or even aerial reconnaissance missions for national defense.
So Jones and his colleagues combined data from 11 standard climate change models with their own models on projected population patterns.
The data is important for climate change models, since the emissions released by thawing permafrost could significantly affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Similar conclusions were reached about impacts of climate change on wheat in the UK, where climate change models are predicting warmer, wetter winters for the country.
Regional climate change models predict an increased freshwater runoff into the Baltic Sea.
If so, the increased frequency and intensity of heat waves forecast by climate change models could bring about considerable changes to these environments,» Orizaola concludes.
A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) study found that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the Southern Appalachian region of the U.S. could disappear due to warmer temperatures predicted by global climate change models.
Current climate change models indicate temperatures will increase as long as humans continue to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but the projections of future precipitation are far less certain.
«During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average: Amplification of warming at poles consistent with today's climate change models
A ClimateWire investigation into the origins of the flood disaster uncovered evidence that points to a calamity caused by man, the cumulative effect of erratic weather forecast by climate change models, massive deforestation, and lax attention to infrastructure maintenance and engineering standards.
That means existing climate change models predicting the effects of rising temperatures and heat stress on maize may be counting on yield boosts that aren't coming, and overestimating how much our corn fields will yield in the future.
The research, led by the University of Leeds and published today [12 June] in the journal FEMS Microbiology Ecology, will help improve climate change models that have previously neglected the role of microbes in darkening the Earth's surface.
The researchers» predictions of the problems each country would face were based on climate change models produced by Austra - lia's national research organisation, the CSIRO.
The research may force a re-examination of the role of acidity in atmospheric chemistry, especially where it affects key processes in climate change models.
Scientists need to understand their underlying chemical and physical mechanisms in order to better integrate them into climate change models.
«While laboratory studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.
Given the inverse relationship observed between their values, it has been possible to determine the additional area of vegetation needed (in this case of green roofs) necessary to reduce the temperature by the same amount as it is predicted to rise in different climate change models for Seville.
The researchers showed that the climate change models used by the IPCC underestimate Africa's emissions, which could account for 20 - 55 % of global anthropogenic emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants by 2030.
«Africa's air pollution underestimated in climate change models
The latter is something that current climate change models can not capture because they do not focus on the community as a whole.
Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.
Climate change models have typically underestimated the amount of sea level rise observed over the past century.
The marathon was used as a benchmark, coupled with climate change models and heat stress measurements
The Holuhraun lava field explosion of 2014 and 2015 could help scientists sharpen climate change models
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.
But scientists have struggled to pinpoint how much — and how quickly — that should affect climate change models, with researchers in the last two years suggesting a U.N. panel had underestimated its impact by half, according toThe New York Times.
Climate change models predict that carbon dioxide levels and ocean acidity will more than double before the end of the century.
«New tool puts a consistent value on experts» uncertainty on climate change models
Some economists use their own simplified climate change models in their work.
William Nordhaus http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu/ with link to full and simplified economics of climate change models (named DICE)
Climate change models anticipate that the high - altitude safe haven for the Akiapōlāʻau (Hemignathus wilsoni) on Hawaii Island, Puaiohi (Myadestes palmeri) and Akeke'e (Loxops caeruleirostris) and the Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) on Kauai, and Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) and «Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei) on Maui will disappear.
We have to produce climate change models much more quickly than we are doing now.
To find out, new science combines basic psychology with climate change models.
The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater than B1).
The impacts on human development are presented by climate change models as uncertain.
In the original article Angela did write: «This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.»
This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.
A larger mystery than either missing carbon or the influence of clouds / water vapor on climate change models is why the physical and life science community and the (in theory) science - based climate change advocates have not taken the time to adequately consult the evidence or experts (albeit exceptions certainly do exist) on communication about environmental issues, risk, or environmental and health literacy.
The work of pioneers such as Prigogine and Haken come to mind, although their work is not directly in climate change modelling.
DeBuys finds that things will be fine for the 3.5 million people who currently depend on this water for daily use as long as (1) predictions of climate change models prove groundless, (2) the kind of droughts documented by tree rings and other records of past climate disruptions don't occur, and (3) the cities of central Arizona don't grow so much that they consume their agricultural buffer, their main protection against uncertain years ahead.
«Current climate change models greatly underestimate the amount of methane being released by thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic, according to Canada's National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS).
These are all things that climate change model should take into account to arrive at better predictions of the future, but the full effects of this nitrogen fertilization aren't yet entirely clear.
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