Sentences with phrase «climate predictions»

But it will be years before these forces are incorporated in official forecasts issued by federal climate prediction centers, he said.

Her research was focused on developing and testing high - performance and high - resolution numerical methods for the next generation of climate prediction models.

So we have a model of the atmosphere that doesn't know how clouds work but is the sole basis for climate predictions of global warming.

Some scientists are revisiting some basic assumptions of climate prediction models, such as the effects of clouds and smoke particles in the atmosphere.

Since these variables are very important for future climate prediction, these results are quite encouraging.

Since beginning operations, ARM has made significant contributions to improving climate prediction models as they represent radiative heat transfer, aerosol processes, and cloud processes.

Little is certain in the field of global climate prediction.

It does apply to climate predictions as well as long term weather predictions.

It helped to teach people about climate prediction and more generally about computer modelling.

This suggests that ongoing improvements in model formulation driven primarily by the needs of weather forecasting may lead also to more reliable climate predictions.

If confirmed by further research, this newly discovered effect — which is not seen in current climate prediction models — could significantly reduce estimates of future climate warming.

The purpose of the experiment was to compare model responses, the goal was not climate prediction.

Moreover, a certain resistance to take climate predictions seriously has been created.

But, what is the difference between climate prediction and climate change projection?

Because the average person isn't going to trust your 80 - year - from - now climate prediction if your weather prediction over the next 10 years isn't on the money.

There is thus no way to make credible climate predictions.

In addition to long - term projections, more detailed climate predictions spanning the next ten years were performed for the first time.

When do you graduate from long range weather to the much more lucrative climate predictions?

Knowledge that all official weather and climate predictions come from computer models and are consistently wrong.

[click, Image 2] Climate predictions are focused on longer - term influences of the sun, oceans, land, and ice on the atmosphere.

Because whatever the uncertainties surrounding climate prediction, the fundamental science is pretty clear.

Elsewhere in this issue, we move from climates past to future plans for climate prediction.

The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions.

There is indeed a great deal of uncertainty in climate predictions, but most of the uncertainty comes not from the hard science side but from the social science side.

Finally it is not true, as implied on Page 12, that «sole reliance on models to the exclusion of observed behavior» is the basis of future climate prediction.

An immediate benefit of the development of this new index is improved seasonal climate predictions.

This is far from the case regarding global climate prediction.

The Decadal Climate Prediction Project addresses a range of scientific issues involving the ability of the climate system to be predicted on annual to decadal timescales, the skill that is currently and potentially available, the mechanisms involved in long timescale variability, and the production of forecasts of benefit to both science and society

While there are a variety of approaches for defining a La Niña or El Niño year, NCDC's criteria is defined as when the first three months of a calendar year meet the La Niña or El Niño threshold as defined by NOAA Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) Oceanic Niño Index (ONI).