Sentences with phrase «data for climate research»

In addition, science teams need to be funded to utilize the AMSR - 2 data for climate research.
But, my purpose of writing about this system is to show that there is an automated system in place that has practical uses (farming, public safety, emergency management, general weather info) as well as collecting data for climate research.

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A «coverage gap» in future years The agency had sought $ 910 million this year for its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), which will provide data for weather forecasts, search - and - rescue operations and climate change research.
Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.
«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Stefan Rahmstorf at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and colleagues, compared the predictions made in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the actual subsequent data.
While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.
The researchers from Wageningen University & Research, Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia, University of East Anglia and the Center for International Forestry Research analysed the spatially distributed pattern of hydrological drought, that is the drought in groundwater recharge, in Borneo using a simple transient water balance model driven by monthly climate data from the period 1901 - 2015.
The achievement of first author Kira Rehfeld and her colleagues: they have for the first time gathered and compared data from diverse climate archives and a total of 99 research sites.
Westerling and colleagues from the Scripps Institution, the Desert Research Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey used statistical methods developed for climate predictions to analyze 20 years» worth of data.
And Sawe has started working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to explore some of their Pacific Ocean data for another data sonification project down the road that could add another song to the soundtrack of climate change.
When Richard C. Willson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research analyzed the data in the September 26, 1997 issue of Science, he noticed an increase in TSI of 0.036 percent from the previous minimum in 1986.
Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inclimate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inClimate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.
NASA last week abruptly decided to shut down a venerable research satellite that has been gathering critical global climate change data for a decade.
This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.
Data - quality issues, including the reanalysis and reprocessing of past observations, have become a topic in its own right in climate research, says Adrian Simmons, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, and chairman of the GCOS steering committee.
Earth - observation programs will fail to provide the data continuity required for climate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., lasclimate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., lasClimate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., last week.
Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»
He has served on national and international advisory committees for paleoclimate research, ocean research, and data management issues, and has contributed to national reports on abrupt climate change and climate extremes.
The Radar Science and Operations Groups provide enhanced coordination with the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) science team to ensure ARM radar instruments and data products are producing the information necessary for improving climate model physics.
The Intel «Cherry Creek» supercomputer — which ranks among the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers for its combination of speed, power, and energy efficiency — cut down calculation time on complicated analyses from years to days, advancing fields such as genomics and bioinformatics, medical and climate research, molecular modeling, and data analytics.
User Facility: The ARM Climate Research Facility at Manus for data, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for computing resources, both BER user facilities sponsored by the DOE Office of Science.
But they do highlight a big challenge for climate modellers, and present major research opportunities both for modellers and for climate scientists who work with proxy data
Scientists of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F) have now responded to calls for integration, and provide a concept for linking data of both researchResearch Centre (BiK - F) have now responded to calls for integration, and provide a concept for linking data of both researchresearch fields.
The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it iresearch from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it iResearch Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.
At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.
Find out how researchers are using data from U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climate Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climateResearch Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climateresearch related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climate climate — to improving regional and global climate climate models.
The ARM Data Center offers computing infrastructure to support next - generation ARM model simulations, petascale data storage, and big - data analytics for atmospheric and climate science reseaData Center offers computing infrastructure to support next - generation ARM model simulations, petascale data storage, and big - data analytics for atmospheric and climate science reseadata storage, and big - data analytics for atmospheric and climate science reseadata analytics for atmospheric and climate science research.
Find out how researchers are using data from the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improve earth system Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improve earth systemResearch Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improve earth systemresearch related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improve earth system climate — to improve earth system models.
Maintaining data quality (DQ) for an organization with the size and complexity of the ARM Climate Research Facility is a significant challenge, and is managed by the ARM Data Quality Offdata quality (DQ) for an organization with the size and complexity of the ARM Climate Research Facility is a significant challenge, and is managed by the ARM Data Quality OffData Quality Office.
The ARM Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG) coordinates ARM Climate Research Facility observations of aerosols and atmospheric trace gases with user needs to ensure advanced, well - characterized observational measurements and data products — at the spatial and temporal scales necessary — for improving climate science and model forClimate Research Facility observations of aerosols and atmospheric trace gases with user needs to ensure advanced, well - characterized observational measurements and data products — at the spatial and temporal scales necessary — for improving climate science and model forclimate science and model forecasts.
Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful trends from their anClimate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful trends from their anclimate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful trends from their analysis.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute's public website provides various services and research data, for instance, about the weather, the climate and seas.
In the original memo that unveiled the new performance report, NJDOE's Chief Performance Officer / Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting, Bari Erlichson (2013) stated: While [sic] the evaluation of student outcome data is crucial for school improvement, we know that these data alone can not capture the dozens of other essential elements of schools such as a positive school climate, participation in extracurricular programs and the development of non-cognitive skiData, Research, Evaluation and Reporting, Bari Erlichson (2013) stated: While [sic] the evaluation of student outcome data is crucial for school improvement, we know that these data alone can not capture the dozens of other essential elements of schools such as a positive school climate, participation in extracurricular programs and the development of non-cognitive skidata is crucial for school improvement, we know that these data alone can not capture the dozens of other essential elements of schools such as a positive school climate, participation in extracurricular programs and the development of non-cognitive skidata alone can not capture the dozens of other essential elements of schools such as a positive school climate, participation in extracurricular programs and the development of non-cognitive skills.
According to the new national research report of K - 12 educators The State of Climate & Culture Initiatives in America's Schools, 70 % of school administrators use their data from existing climate and culture initiatives to plan for school improClimate & Culture Initiatives in America's Schools, 70 % of school administrators use their data from existing climate and culture initiatives to plan for school improclimate and culture initiatives to plan for school improvement.
1967 The International Global Atmospheric Research Program is established, mainly to gather data for better short - range weather prediction, but climate research is iResearch Program is established, mainly to gather data for better short - range weather prediction, but climate research is iresearch is included.
What initially troubled me was the aberrant behavior of the climate research unit at East Anglia University, which has been the main data source for AGW arguments.
Earlier this year, I criticized his habit of launching largely overheated and unsubstantiated attacks on climate scientists, but credited him for assembling a talented research team centered on the gifted data analyst Robert Rohde (you'll hear from Rohde below), to take a new approach to compiling and analyzing temperature records going back two centuries.
McKitrick, R., and Michaels, P.J., A test of corrections for extraneous signals in gridded surface temperature data., Climate Research, 26, 159 - 173, 2004.
eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate changes which took place in the past • to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system • to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of climate data
The declining signal over India shown by the GPCP decadal mode is broadly consistent with gauge measurements since the 1950s — that several research groups including my own are trying to understand, perhaps relating to emissions of anthropogenic aerosol — although there are discrepancies between these gauge - based data sets themselves (see our recent review in Nature Climate Change, for example).
Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aClimate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate policy are based on values as much as data.
Compare to meteorological records and climate data, and you can see that policy makers really don't take climate research that seriously, If they did, they'd apply the stricter standards of policy - relevant research, as they do for economic data and for new drug approvals.
A team of scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has compiled data on Arctic Ocean summer ice melting from 1953 to 2006, concluded that the ice is melting much faster than climate models had predicData Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has compiled data on Arctic Ocean summer ice melting from 1953 to 2006, concluded that the ice is melting much faster than climate models had predicdata on Arctic Ocean summer ice melting from 1953 to 2006, concluded that the ice is melting much faster than climate models had predicted.
The Carbon Dioxide Research Program of the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established a network of 1219 stations in the contiguous United States for the specific purpose of compiling a data set suitable for detecting and monitoring climate change over the past two centurData Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established a network of 1219 stations in the contiguous United States for the specific purpose of compiling a data set suitable for detecting and monitoring climate change over the past two centurdata set suitable for detecting and monitoring climate change over the past two centuries.
I have read somewhere that money for climate research had increased significantly over the past years, but then I haven't checked the data.
Based on new research, federal scientists suggest that an apparent recent slowdown in global warming — a common talking point for many people who dispute human - caused climate change — did not occur, but only seemed so based on incorrect data.
The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.
Inadequate data seriously limits climate research, but scientists and governments who manipulate it for political goals make it impossible.
In this light paleo research is very important too — as indeed when one looks at high - CO2 warm periods (for instance in the Tertiary) some data seems to suggest a climate sensitivity that would be somewhat higher than the IPCC range.
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