Sentences with phrase «climate system scientist»

Climate system scientist Paul Beckwith recently set off a media firestorm after posting a video of the jet stream....

«Limiting total CO2 emissions from the start of 2015 to beneath 240 billion tonnes of carbon − 880 billion tonnes of CO2 — or about 20 years of current emissions would likely achieve the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,» says study leader Richard Millar, a climate system scientist at the University of Oxford.

Not exact matches

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

Collaboration with Earth scientists to identify the systems — from climate science, materials science, biology, and other areas — which can be codified to apply reinforcement learning for scientific progress and discovery is vital.

Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.

But money is only part of what makes a EURYI award useful, says Brian O'Neill, a climate scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, who was one of the first EURYI winners 3 years ago.

These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system.

Reconstructing past climate records can help scientists determine both natural patterns and the ways in which future glacial events and greenhouse gas emissions may affect global systems.

Climate scientist Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota, who is part of a team of researchers that defined safe limits for 10 planetary systems, including climate, argues for erring on the side of cClimate scientist Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota, who is part of a team of researchers that defined safe limits for 10 planetary systems, including climate, argues for erring on the side of cclimate, argues for erring on the side of caution.

If we are trying to manage the climate system to control it and engineer it, we have to be able to measure what we are doing to it,» said Dian Seidel, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory.

A. David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey senior scientist and climate system modeling expert with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, is lead author of the paper.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

The report cautions, however, that the U.S. climate monitoring system is inadequate for properly measuring regional climate changes, which could make it difficult for scientists to provide meaningful predictions to local businesses or officials.

Over the next decade a few scientists devised simple mathematical models of the climate, and turned up feedbacks that could make the system surprisingly variable.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

Earlier scientists had sought a single masterkey to climate, but now they were coming to understand that climate is an intricate system responding to a great many influences.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

They announced that although the climate system was so complex that scientists would never reach complete certainty, it was much more likely than not that our civilization faced severe global warming.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

This has given scientists the time to piece together an understanding of Earth's climate system and the effects of fossil fuel emissions.

Since climate change is already leading to higher average temperatures overall, the finding that extremes are also more likely was not surprising, said Sophie Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and the climate system science center and the lead author on the paper.

New research published in Geophysical Research Letters by University of Melbourne scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science shows that a positive IPO would likely produce a sharp acceleration in global warming over the next decade.

Scientists are interested in studying ancient warming events to understand how the Earth behaves when the climate system is dramatically perturbed.

Finney believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.

Martin Hoerling, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory who researches the connections between climate change and weather extremes, said a link between a warmer Arctic and the recent cold is unlikely.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Scientists, engineers and economists from the following institutions contributed to the research: the JGCRI, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland, BAEconomics, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, and Resources for the Future.

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

«The various processes and feedbacks between the physical forcing factors in the climate system are under active investigation by a whole community of climate scientists,» he says.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Co-researcher Professor Matthew England from the University of New South Wales added that scientists still had much to learn about the climate system of Antarctica and the region, and how it would affect people and the environment.

«[T] he high seas provide a range of ecosystem services, from driving weather systems and modulating the climate to the production of a high percentage of the oxygen we breathe,» states a letter signed by hundreds of marine scientists, including conservation icon Sylvia Earle, in support of the Law of the Sea approach.

«This study is very important because [dust devils] are a big source of dust in the atmosphere on Mars,» but the methods of counting them are «primitive,» says Jeffery Hollingsworth, a research scientist who models the martin climate at the NASA Ames Research Center Planetary Systems Branch in Moffett Field, California.

What's more, scientists say the plant's extraordinary sensitivity to temperature makes the industry a strong early - warning system for problems that all food crops are expected to confront as climates continue to change.

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

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After the Colorado floods in 2013, Martin Hoerling, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, and his colleagues found that climate change has decreased the likelihood and strength of heavy rainfall in northern Colorado.

«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.

They then looked at another source of data: that of the Clouds» and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instruments which measure fluxes of reflected and emitted radiation from Earth to space, to help scientists understand how the climate varies over time.

«This mixture shows the role that agroforestry can play in addressing both climate mitigation and adaptation in primarily food - focused production systems of Africa» says Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior Scientist, Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the aclimate mitigation and adaptation in primarily food - focused production systems of Africa» says Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior Scientist, Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the aClimate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the article.

Scientists want to use NEPTUNE Canada to study how different systems interact, answering questions such as whether earthquakes trigger methane release, and how climate change is affecting the ocean.

So far, the climate system has responded to rising carbon dioxide levels at a fairly steady rate, but many scientists worry about possible nonlinear effects.

The true gloomsters are scientists who look at climate through the lens of «dynamical systems,» a mathematics that describes things that tend to change suddenly and are difficult to predict.

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«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

One of the most productive scientists in applying dynamical systems theory to climate is Tim Lenton at the University of East Anglia in England.

Diffenbaugh said the congressman and the scientists had «a very pleasant and positive discussion about the level of scientific understanding that we have about the climate system, the institutions of science by which we conduct our day - to - day work and the peer - review process, and how public decisions are made within the context of scientific understanding.