Sentences with phrase «climate physicist»
A climate physicist is a scientist who studies the Earth's climate system and tries to understand how it works. They analyze data, use computer models, and conduct experiments to learn more about climate patterns, weather events, and how they might change in the future. Full definition
In April a group led by climate physicist Duncan Wingham of University College London announced the discovery of more subglacial lakes.
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Climate physicist Jeffrey Shaman of Oregon State University in Corvallis and epidemiologist Melvin Kohn of the Oregon Health Department in Portland believed that what might matter more to the virus is absolute humidity — especially because the evidence for the impact of relative humidity was never all that strong.
PNNL climate physicist Dr. Ruby Leung and atmospheric scientist Dr. Yun Qian developed one of the two regional climate change scenarios used in the assessment, which was released in February 2009.
«Impurities cause the snow to darken and absorb more sunlight,» says Charlie Zender, a climate physicist at the University of California, Irvine.
Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, says that, even though CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel sources are down, global emissions overall are still increasing, mainly because of changes in terrestrial ecosystems, including deforestation in the Amazon Basin.
One of his co-authors, Jacob Schewe, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, says it is necessary to account for natural variability, model uncertainties and other factors that could obscure the picture.
In the same week as the publication in Science, Reto Knutti, a climate physicist at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich, and his colleague, Markus Huber, reported in Nature Geoscience that the apparent slowdown could be attributed to a cocktail of causes: a longer period of weaker solar irradiance — the sun has its own cycles of intensity − and to the cycle of El Niño and La Niña weather phenomena in the Pacific, and also to incompletely measured data.
«Impurities cause the snow to darken and absorb more sunlight,» says Charlie Zender, a climate physicist at the University of California, Irvine.