Sentences with phrase «current understanding of»

I think I need a really good reference to our current understanding of these issues.

However, when the numbers represent the global temperature record, we can actually say that they are entirely consistent with the current understanding of the physics of global temperature processes.

Personally, I wouldn't be rushing to point to this as evidence that the current understanding of AGW is wrong.

Thus the climate modeling community has limited data to inform model development efforts, which encapsulate the current understanding of climate.

In this article, I will review our current understanding of Atlantic TC and hurricane trends with respect to: A) the historical record of basin - wide TC numbers; B) the historical record of hurricanes and TC intensity; C) distant past proxy estimates of TC (primarily, hurricane only) counts; and D) distant past proxy measures of TC / hurricane intensity.

That something would be as - yet - unknown physics, carrying with it all the same potential complexities (and likely contradictions to our current understanding of physics).

The answers to those questions should be obvious and renders the bulk of your point rather irrelevant as an attempted refutation of current understanding of recent global climate history.

In this web focus, we present a variety of original research, opinion and review pieces that highlight our current understanding of how climate change is affecting ENSO.

To draw together our current understanding of wood function, we identify and collate data on the major wood functional traits, including the largest wood density database to date (8412 taxa), mechanical strength measures and anatomical features, as well as clade - specific features such as secondary chemistry.

However, our current understanding of the range of likely climate sensitivity values isn't much better than it was decades ago.

I find the posts (and responses) are best when the reader gets clear explanations of the current understanding of climate phenomena (with the associated uncertainties) and links to sources for further reading.

Our results indicate that based on the current understanding of the Earth system, the window for achieving 1.5 C is still narrowly open.

Our current understanding of the relationship between cloud properties and the GEC remains verylow, and there is no evidence yet that associated cloud processes could be of climatic significance.

FMI implements method that improves current understanding of air chemistry in boreal forests, which will help to improve predictions of global climate models in the future.

While it is definitely an opinion piece, and a wonderful example of how to disagree without being disagreeable, it's also a great resource for our current understanding of hurricane...

Humanity Has A Significant Effect on Climate — The Scientific Community Has The Responsibility To Communicate The Current Understanding Of What is Certain And What Remains Uncertain

I often wonder what scientists in 2200 will think about the inadequacies in the current understanding of mother earth.

I will be surprised in our current understanding of anthropogenic contributions to CO2 is seriously challenged.

I'm prepared to wait for the paper, but given all the other evidence unrelated to Salby's calculations, I will be surprised in our current understanding of anthropogenic contributions to CO2 is seriously challenged.

This finding, although based on a short record from a potentially anomalous solar cycle, suggests that a major revision to our current understanding of solar forcing of climate may be in order.

The results of this analysis indicate that observed temperature after 1998 is consistent with the current understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors that have well known warming and cooling effects.

But neither approach evaluates whether the current understanding of the relationship among radiative forcing, internal variability, and global surface temperature can account for the timing and magnitude of the 1999 — 2008 hiatus in warming.

I would think, given the length of time Professor Salby «sat» on his findings and had others review them before releasing them in these lectures, that there is a very good chance that this will, indeed, seriously challenge our current understanding of anthropogenic contributions to CO2.

In addition, formal elicitations of expert beliefs have frequently been used to bring current understanding of model studies, empirical evidence, and theoretical considerations to bear on policy - relevant variables (88).

Lenton et al. (2008) and Nobre and Borma (2009) have summarized current understanding of «tipping points» in Amazonian forests.

They are based on current understanding of energy, biomass, carbon, nutrient and water relations, and their interacting dynamics with and among species such as primary producers.

The theories, no matter how good they are merely express current understanding of photon behaviour.

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.

«Given the current understanding of the failure of the Green Energy and Economy Act in Ontario, and this policy's addition to the staggering debt, let this be a time to push the pause button and enact a Province wide moratorium, not just on offshore, but onshore as well.

The current understanding of the generation of the solar cycle is well - covered in this paper: http://www.leif.org/research/Jiang-Choudhuri-2007.pdf although some of the details are still under debate.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

As for your question about the Salzer et al paper, I think it an excellent piece of work that well summarizes the best current understanding of growth trends in the high elevation bcp stands.

Professor Curry, I hope you will bear with me and allow me to post our current understanding of what controls Earth's climate.

Consensus = the current understanding of how the pieces fit.

«Because there is considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how the climate system varies naturally and reacts to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, current estimates of the magnitude of future warming should be regarded as tentative and subject to future adjustments (either upward or downward).»

The degree of this internal consistency is a critical factor in assessing the level of confidence in the current understanding of the climate system.

This explanation has several important implications for our current understanding of the physics of the Earth's atmosphere, and for weather prediction:

There are multiple scientists, researchers, professors, as well as weather and climate change experts that have come out within the past couple of years and have openly admitted our current understanding of climate change and global warming to be false.

My point is that in order to move beyond current understanding of something, you have to be prepared to move outside the cloistered world of standard formulas and see if they really are applicapable to and work normally in the postulated scenario.

Our current understanding of the relationship between cloud properties and the GEC remains very 9 low, and there is no evidence yet that associated cloud processes could be of climatic significance.

The current understanding of those cycles is that changes in orbital parameters (the Milankovich and other cycles) caused greater amounts of summer sunlight to fall in the northern hemisphere.

While walking in the snow today it struck me that it is exactly forty years since the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock published a paper in the journal Nature that built on this observation laid a foundation of our current understanding of climate change.

Our current understanding of the atmospheric emissions for the feedstock of the CFCs, CCl4, does not allow us to predict its concentration in the atmosphere.

Also, current understanding of glacial ice melting due to global warming indicates that the Western Antarctic...... Read more»

The goals of the selected stops are to underscore the current understanding of the late glacial history of the western Superior basin and to provide new insights to spark discussion.

He explained how the drafting process involves hundreds of climate scientists compiling the most important findings from thousands of articles in the peer - reviewed literature into a concise, distilled summary of our current understanding of the Earth's climate system that is subject to multiple rounds of careful review.

As a conservative person, given current understanding of greenhouse gasses, I feel we should work to mitigate the problem as soon as possible so as to reduce the cost and impact.

It was the Seine's rise and fall, in response to heavy rain, that inspired our current understanding of river systems.

Even if warming continues just linearly, our current understanding of the ice caps suggests accelerating sea level rise past the middle of this century.

I'm not sure what you would label me, but I am certain that the current understanding of Physics that explains the temperature lapse rate with GHG's and radiative forcing is incorrect.