Sentences with phrase «earth system»

I'm not sure where whales and bullets fit into this whole mix of earth systems awareness.

Fan is also looking at how severe storms and these physical impacts can be represented in earth system model simulations.

The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the ocean and its physics, chemistry, and biology, which may result in breakthrough in earth system science.

But even today, with currently one of the most powerful computer systems worldwide used for earth system research, the resolution and fidelity of climate simulations are still constrained by computational limitations.

There is an ambiguity in the photographs between the natural and human realm, reflecting the complex phenomenon of humanity's geological impact on earth systems today.

We propose to link models of human belief systems concerning risk associated with climate change with models of the ecological and climate systems into a coupled earth system model.

And we want to better understand the interplay of sea level, climate and coasts, as part of our integrated Earth system science.

And yes, that is indeed an illustration comparing a complex Earth system phenomenon to, well, a shark.

The building influence of humans on the climate — and other earth systems that matter — is still just about the most unconventional story, the hardest story, you can imagine.

These two are far from one and the same and those times when they go in opposite directions can tell us a great deal about important Earth system dynamics.

Such interactions remain the largest uncertainty in models designed to simulate future earth system conditions.

This scarcity has hampered our ability to understand, model, and predict the influence of polar climate change on the overall Earth system.

The biggest fear is one of presumed «tipping points» that would accelerate and fundamentally alter earth systems into a new unknown state.

«Without collaborative action now, our shared Earth system may not be able to sustainably support a large proportion of humanity in the coming decades,» it warned.

History suggests that interventions in large - scale, dynamic physical and biological earth systems almost always lead to unforeseen outcomes.

Using a prominent human - Earth systems model linked with international community climate projections, the team showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.

Always new, thrilling and interdisciplinary challenges arise from the close collaboration with the climate and earth system sciences.

Identify new sources of predictive skill and improve predictions of weather, water, and climate through observations, understanding, and modeling of physical processes and phenomena of the coupled Earth system.

Our CMIP5 experiments with Earth System Models included many of the integrations found in the long - term CMIP5 experimental design.

They use the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) and National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (NCAR CESM) models respectively.

«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.

Architecture of Earth System Governance in the 21st century 2.

A scientific framework in support of global sustainability, emerging from Earth system science and resilience research, is the recent concept of Planetary Boundaries (Rockström et al., 2009).

The second implication seems to be that a step change in Earth system sensitivity (about double), consequent to ocean circulation changes, can be expected pretty much any time now, or perhaps has already happened if there has been an irreversible commitment to the circulation changes.

«The annual potential of CO2 consumption is defined by the grain size and the weathering rate of the rocks used,» says Thorben Amann from Universität Hamburg's Institute for Geology, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), he is also lead - author of the study.

Experience with solution algorithms, data assimilation methods and tools, coupling of components and processes, nonlinear and linear solvers, limiters, and / or other numerical issues common with complex codes within earth system models of varying complexity

The Strategic Plan talks about harnessing the power of social media to integrate the public's observations on Earth System processes with the data used by researchers, farmers, government officials, and businesses.

Understanding Earth systems begins with observing, measuring, and analyzing data collected in the field or sampled remotely.

Data are used in a variety of ways from single observation analyses, to multi-observation process studies, to assimilation into Earth system models.

Department of Commerce Group Bronze Medal Award (2007): For superior federal service for designing and implementing the consolidation of six research organizations in Boulder, Colorado into the new NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.

Dr. Mathis Wackernagel is a panelist on Whole Earth Systems at the St. Louis Climate Summit.

Shedding the mystical connotations that many «New Age» adherents attributed to Gaia, several universities have now created departments studying Gaia's effects, but under less anthropomorphic titles such as Earth System Sciences or Biogeochemistry.

Stefan Rahmstorf is Head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, said there is no doubt the sharp increase in weather disasters is an effect of human - caused climate change.

Ken Caldeira Senior Member Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science; and Professor Environmental Earth System Sciences Department Stanford University, Stanford, Calif..

While the primary contribution is in improving our ability to anticipate how earth system interactions will modulate the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the fact that the models require simulation of land and ocean ecosystems make them extremely valuable for a range of applications in ecosystem impacts and feedbacks as well.

Debra Roberts, Working Group II Co-Chair added: «As an IPCC Special Report focused on two Earth systems which together cover the majority of the planet's surface and which affect the majority of the global population, a diverse and skilled author team is critical in ensuring a report of the highest policy relevance.»

A paper about the work was published in the journal Earth System Science Data.