Sentences with phrase «comprehesive atmospheric measurement»

Satellites are becoming very important because they can do remote sensing, taking and reporting atmospheric measurements.

The bet paid off: Her theoretical models of the chemistry of extrasolar planets have helped researchers make the first atmospheric measurements of a distant world.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

«Our study is the first example of how atmospheric measurements can help to check on fossil fuel CO2 emissions over an area large enough to encompass nations, provinces or states.»

Since then, the station has grown to produce twenty - six suites of atmospheric measurements.

Other data, such as atmospheric measurements, were not held by the permit holder or submitted to the government.

This mission is fulfilled by operating atmospheric observatories around the world that collect massive amounts of atmospheric measurements to provide data products that help scientists study the effects and interactions of clouds and aerosols and their impact on the earth's energy balance.

Collaborative products range from published papers that build realistic radiative transfer models from within the ocean to the top of the atmosphere to the assembly of novel databases that contain ocean and atmospheric measurements useful to develop novel algorithms.

The scientists wondered whether these clouds were a result of measurable conditions, and whether they skewed atmospheric measurements on the island.

Her main research field is atmospheric compositional change and atmospheric measurements.

Dr. Rafkin also develops space instrumentation and missions for remote and in situ atmospheric measurements.

Variations of deuterium (δD; black), a proxy for local temperature, and the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO2 (red), CH4 (blue), and nitrous oxide (N2O; green) derived from air trapped within ice cores from Antarctica and from recent atmospheric measurements (Petit et al., 1999; Indermühle et al., 2000; EPICA community members, 2004; Spahni et al., 2005; Siegenthaler et al., 2005a, b).

Welgegund measurement station is a comprehesive atmospheric measurement station approximately 100 km west of Johannesburg, South Africa.

TGO's camera has taken several test images of Mars, and the orbiter's two atmospheric measurement suites also completed successful demos.

Also, atmospheric measurements of the amounts of methane released by permafrost (a top - down approach) are far less than estimates of these amounts made using point - based field assessments and ecosystem modeling (bottom - up approaches).

The patterns of salinity change can be used to infer changes in the Earth's hydrological cycle over the oceans (Wong et al., 1999; Curry et al., 2003) and are an important complement to atmospheric measurements.

Such study will require multiple year - round exploration campaigns, including drilling of sub-sea permafrost to evaluate the sediment CH4 potential and comprehensive atmospheric measurements to assess the ESAS strength as a greenhouse gas source.

This was the value in 1950, when the direct atmospheric measurement sequence began.

The advantage of the ocean heat content changes for detecting climate changes is that there is less noise than in the surface temperature record due to the weather that affects the atmospheric measurements, but that has much less impact below the ocean mixed layer.

The accuracy of RRTMG is verified through comparison to AER's reference radiation code LBLRTM, which is directly validated with atmospheric measurements provided by high - quality spectral measurements from satellite -, aircraft - and ground - based instruments.

Including this, there is an overlapping period of about 20 years between the ice core CO2 measurements and the south pole atmospheric measurements:

AIRS data are less reliable than atmospheric measurements: accuracy is about + / - 5 ppmv, against NDIR measurements + / -0.1 ppmv.

WOUDC is one of six GAW WDCs that collect, document and archive atmospheric measurements and the associated metadata from stations worldwide and make these data freely available to the scientific community.

For the latter, the analysis of the air entrapped in the ice is the only direct way to determine their concentrations for times before precise routine atmospheric measurements were done, that is, before 1958.

All the urban heat island stuff and atmospheric measurements have essentially gone by the wayside.

In addition, he has taught graduate - level courses in meteorology and in atmospheric measurements at the Tri-cities branch of Washington State University.

There are few atmospheric measurements of this compound yet, «but sporadic data suggest it is a significant source of chlorine in the atmosphere,» said Hossaini.

In the short - term, a key issue that needs resolving is the mismatch between global methane budgets from top - down (derived from atmospheric measurements) and bottom - up (derived from measurements of methane emissions at the land surface from different methane producing environments) approaches.

Compare it to the detail in our atmospheric measurements.

Experimental observations discussed include both atmospheric measurements [continue reading...]

Ocean heat flux is a turbulent and complex system [7] which utilizes atmospheric measurement techniques such as eddy covariance to measure the rate of heat transfer expressed in the unit of joules or watts per second.

All that doesn't mean atmospheric measurements from satellites and balloons are worthless, unreliable, or uninformative.

I haven't chosen any of the different options, because the mass balance only allows three possible options, based on the emission calculations and the atmospheric measurements:

Ocean heat content and sea level rise measurements may provide a more reliable answer than atmospheric measurements.

GLOBALVIEW data products are designed to enhance the spatial and temporal distribution of atmospheric observations of CO2, CH4 and other related atmospheric measurements.

temperature, other climatic variables, and concentrations of aerosols and trace gases; and (2) making raw and processed atmospheric measurements accessible in a form that enables a number of different groups to replicate and experiment with the processing of the more widely disseminated data sets such as the MSU tropospheric temperature record.

Better atmospheric measurements are not enough, however.

The changes in the atmospheric abundance of individual gases are shown in the lower panels using a combination of direct atmospheric measurements, estimates of historical abundance, and future projections of abundance.

Another, in regards to modern calculations, is that atmospheric measurements are usually restricted to a small number of absorption bands, owing to the limits of technology.

Also, while we have good atmospheric measurements of other key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, we have poor measurements of global water vapor, so it is not certain by how much atmospheric concentrations have risen in recent decades or centuries, though satellite measurements, combined with balloon data and some in - situ ground measurements indicate generally positive trends in global water vapor.»

Impact: From atmospheric measurements, the North American continent has been estimated to be a major carbon sink in some years but the uncertainty is high and surface carbon inventory assessments are not in agreement.

SIZRS is a coordinated program of repeated ocean, ice, and atmospheric measurements across the Beaufort - Chukchi sea seasonal sea ice zone (SIZ) utilizing US Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flights of opportunity.

Carrying out atmospheric measurements often entails having to consider how representative measurements taken in a single location are, and whether local conditions, such as landforms, affect observations.

My comment did not relate to the ice cores but to CO2 measurements of the atmosphere in the Vostok region similar to the atmospheric measurements taken at Mauna Loa.

As ARM's newest observation facility, the Eastern North Atlantic began operations in September 2013 and mirrors ARM's other long - term atmospheric measurement facilities around the world.

In a novel application of space - based atmospheric measurements, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), in collaboration with GeoOptics Inc., is investigating the use of radio occultation measurements to improve severe weather forecasting.

In conclusion, the present atmospheric measurement network, current information on air - sea fluxes and current understanding of vertical atmospheric transport are not sufficient to allow full use of the potential of inverse modelling techniques to infer geographically detailed source - sink distributions of anthropogenic CO2.

First of all, the supposed amount of «increase» is based on an «apples vs. oranges» comparison of proxy records (ice core reconstructions) with modern atmospheric measurements, a scientific incompetence.

Here is what NOAA states about the inadequacies of ocean heat content measurements:» Nonetheless, preliminary processing of Argo data indicates that it is not without problems associated with different calibration and manufacturers of the instruments; a problem common for atmospheric measurements.

The lack of pollution emissions guarantees that the atmospheric measurements will not be distorted by the residues associated with fuel combustion.