Sentences with phrase «components of the earth»

Some needed ingredients are only offered in some specific components of earth.

With the discovery of the nature of the inner core, the basic components of Earth's composition — and even the planet's evolution from its molten origins — were in place.

Silicon dioxide, commonly called silica, is one of the most - abundant natural compounds and a major component of the Earth's crust and mantle.

The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system.

The integrated Earth System Model, or iESM, is being used to explore interactions among the physical climate system, biological components of Earth system, and human systems.

There are many possible sources for the components of Earth's primordial atmosphere, from the so - called solar nebula, a cloud of dust and gas leftover from the sun's formation, to comets and other impactors that may have delivered significant amounts of chemicals to Earth during or after the planet's formation.

While each of these components of the Earth's system tells a part of the story of the warming planet, together they combine into a powerful narrative of the planet's plight.

CESM is a fully - coupled Earth System model, meaning all components of the Earth (atmosphere, land, ocean and cryosphere) «talk» to each other in the model.

Energy content changes in different components of the Earth system for two periods (1961 — 2003 and 1993 — 2003).

Other scientists have suggested that oxygen may be a key component of the Earth's interior.

ECCO model - data syntheses are being used to quantify the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, to understand the recent evolution of the polar oceans, to monitor time - evolving heat, water, and chemical exchanges within and between different components of the Earth system, and for many other science applications.

Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone, ice sheet mass, water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?

The paper illustrates the importance of remembering that the atmosphere and ocean surface are just a small component of the Earth's climate system — with the ocean depths having a vast capacity to absorb and move heat on time scales ranging from years to centuries and longer.

Change in energy content in different components of the earth system for two periods: 1961 - 2003 (blue bars) and 1993 - 2003 (pink bars).

Children and future adults need both literacy and numeracy, understanding of the arts and of the sciences, academic skills and social skills, knowledge of self and knowledge of other people, knowledge of humans and knowledge of non-human living and non-living components of Earth, knowledge of present times and knowledge of other times.

In other words, they fail the most basic type of test imaginable; and in the words of Li et al., this finding suggests that «global climate models should better integrate the biological, chemical, and physical components of the earth system.»

«Because of its reflectivity, Arctic sea ice is a critical cooling component of the earth's climate system; its loss will mean a much hotter world,» added Mr. Pomerance.

To sum up, Dana Royer says it best: «the geologic record contains a treasure trove of «alternative Earths» that allow scientists to study how the various components of the Earth system respond to a range of climatic forcings.»

Processes in several nonlinearly coupled components of the Earth system contribute to sea level change, and understanding these processes is therefore a highly interdisciplinary endeavour.

The marine component of the Earth system has an important influence on the atmosphere on a range of timescales.

Sea ice is an important component of the Earth system; it is highly reflective, altering the amount of solar radiation that is absorbed; it changes the salinity of the ocean where it forms and melts, and it acts as a barrier to the exchange of heat and momentum fluxes between the atmosphere and ocean.

I and many other climate skeptics have argued that CO2 is not only not a pollutant but rather a vital component of Earth's ecosystem, particularly for plants.

The problem of formation of the Black and Caspian Sea sea - level regime, which is considered as a component of Earth climate, is addressed through a time series of parameters for the past 200 years.

That is precisely what I have done: Using annual sunspot number as a representative of the long term (on the decadal scale) solar magnetic field impact and small variable component of the Earth's magnetic field, as calculated from data by Jackson and Bloxam.

PAGES» science structure addresses the key components of the Earth system through the themes climate, environment, and humans.

Except of course there is no identifiable component of the Earth system called «the globe».

The 6 main components of the Earth's Greenhouse Effect.

And, even tho we may safely assume you are referring to radiative energy transport in the Earth's atmosphere, the interactions of that energy with all other components of the Earth's climate system are the critically important aspects.

The physical components of the earth, from its atmosphere to its oceans, closely integrate with all of its living organisms to maintain climatic chemistry in a self - regulating balance ideal for the maintenance and propagation of life.

We also use and develop community models to represent other components of the Earth system.

Research teams had previously studied the Permian extinction with more limited computer models that focused on a single component of Earth's climate system, such as the ocean.

Such potential «tipping points» have been identified in various components of the Earth's climate system and could have important effects on future climate.

Lisiecki et al. (2008) analysed orbital responses in proxy indicators of oceanic overturning and found that the AMOC is sensitive to maxima in the obliquity and precession components of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Advance Science: Advance scientific knowledge of the integrated natural and human components of the Earth system.

This short - term variability reflects natural patterns of heat and energy exchange between the different components of the Earth's system.

That's enough to conclude that it is larger than the atmospheric increase, and thus to conclude that the natural component of the earth system has to be a net sink, not a net source.

Human activities may have the potential to push components of the Earth system past critical states into qualitatively different modes of operation, implying large - scale impacts on human and ecological systems.

Here we introduce the term «tipping element» to describe large - scale components of the Earth system that may pass a tipping point.

Image above: CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a critical component of the Earth's atmosphere.

Components of the Earth's climate system that vary over long timescales, such as ice sheets and vegetation, could have an important effect on this temperature sensitivity, but have often been neglected.

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Sea ice is a critical component of the Earth's climate system and has a wide - reaching impact beyond the polar regions.

We consider such references to be the real «rhetorical devices» because they obscure the key scientific issue: whether this critical component of the earth's biosphere will cause significant and destructive global warming.

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Tipping elements are components of the Earth System that are sub-continental in scale and could be tipped into qualitatively different states by small external perturbations.

The Service will provide comprehensive climate information covering a wide range of components of the Earth - system (atmosphere, land, ocean, sea - ice and carbon) and timescales spanning decades to centuries (i.e. based on the instrumental record).

; What about other components of the Earth's climate system?

These features are important components of Earth's global ocean circulation that move water mainly horizontally.

Thus, until the last century, population and GDP per capita were low enough that the Human System remained a relatively small component of the Earth System.

The 23,000 - year and 41,000 - year cycles are driven ultimately by two components of Earth's orbital geometry: the equinoctial precession cycle (23,000 years) and the axial - tilt cycle (41,000 years).