Sentences with phrase «earth system drives»

The questions about origin of life and life shaping the earth (and vice versa) are integral to an overarching framework of how energy flow through the earth system drives the engine of evolution (physical, chemical, biological, and social).

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Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.
Tokyo based next - generation car design and manufacturing company Four Link Systems say they hope Earth 1 will get approval to drive on the roads by March 2018.
Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.
Some exoplanet systems have planets a fifth as close together as Earth is to Mars, a factor that could drive interplanetary fraternisation
NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.
Solar radiation is the main energy source driving the earth's atmospheric system.
«The amazing increase in Chinese manufacturing over the past 15 years has driven the world economy to new heights and supplied consumers in developed countries with tremendous quantities of lower - cost goods,» said co-author Steven J. Davis, an assistant professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.
These large systems of rotating currents are common in Earth's oceans, where they are driven by wind.
Study co-author Katy Sheen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.»
This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.
It's also the driving force behind San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane's research into exoplanets — planets that exist outside Earth's solar system.
«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»
Mission scientists describe the findings as almost paradoxical, because the two worlds had been thought too small to sustain the internal heat that drives geologic activity on Earth, and they do not experience the tidal heating that drives such activity elsewhere in the outer solar system.
It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.
«The atmospheric and oceanic CO2 increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels,» says Pieter Tans, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, who leads the U.S. government effort to monitor global greenhouse gas levels.
In this earth system model, human belief systems and corresponding climate governance will drive anthropogenic GHG emissions that force the climate system, while the magnitude of climate change and related extreme events will influence human perception of associated risk.
For years, scientists have wondered if certain surface features are the result of plate tectonics, which, if true, would make Europa the only known place in the Solar System other than Earth to experience large, subduction - driven quakes.
For example, the agency is partnering with the Indian Space Research Organization to develop the NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission that will routinely provide systematic observations of Earth's land and ice - covered surfaces at least twice every 12 days, enabling greater scientific understanding of the dynamic processes that drive the Earth system and natural hazards, as well as providing actionable support for disaster response and recovery.
The residents of Earth have finally discovered the miracle of Jump Drive, meaning we can leave our puny solar system and head out for the stars!
The «CER - Water Cycle Labs» contains five labs for middle school students, this laboratory activities are aligned with the NGSS (MS - ESS2 - 4 Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's Systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity), ready to use.
I soon found myself running the Volvo's Drive - E powertrain in Eco-plus mode, letting the eager stop / start system and early - shifting eight - speed automatic help save the Earth.
EQUIPMENT GROUP 401A,VOICE - ACTIVATED TOUCHSCREEN NAVIGATION SYSTEM, WHITE PLATINUM METALLIC TRI-COAT, Navigation System, COOLED DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEATS, Keyless Start, Bluetooth Connection, Rear Spoiler, Cooled Front Seat (s), All Wheel Drive, DARK EARTH GRAY; LEATHER / MIKO SUEDE HEATED SPORT BUCKET SEATS, ENGINE: 2.7 L V6 ECOBOOST, FRONT LICENSE PLATE BRACKET, TRANSMISSION: 6 - SPEED AUTSYSTEM, WHITE PLATINUM METALLIC TRI-COAT, Navigation System, COOLED DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEATS, Keyless Start, Bluetooth Connection, Rear Spoiler, Cooled Front Seat (s), All Wheel Drive, DARK EARTH GRAY; LEATHER / MIKO SUEDE HEATED SPORT BUCKET SEATS, ENGINE: 2.7 L V6 ECOBOOST, FRONT LICENSE PLATE BRACKET, TRANSMISSION: 6 - SPEED AUTSystem, COOLED DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEATS, Keyless Start, Bluetooth Connection, Rear Spoiler, Cooled Front Seat (s), All Wheel Drive, DARK EARTH GRAY; LEATHER / MIKO SUEDE HEATED SPORT BUCKET SEATS, ENGINE: 2.7 L V6 ECOBOOST, FRONT LICENSE PLATE BRACKET, TRANSMISSION: 6 - SPEED AUTOMATIC
Under the umbrella of Honda's Earth Dreams Technology program, the new Fit Hybrid will be the first to employ Honda's Intelligent Dual Clutch Drive system, or i - DCD.
The available MMI ® navigation plus system provides available Audi connect ®, enabling Google Earth ™ with 3D satellite imagery, a Wi - Fi hotspot for up to eight passenger devices, local traffic and weather, flight information, news and more.5 Safe navigation while driving Always pay careful attention to the road, and do not drive while distracted.
The performance hybrid system, one of Honda's new «Earth Dreams» technologies (earlier post), utilizes a front - mounted 30 kW + electric motor, located within the 7 - speed dual clutch transmission, and a novel dual electric motor drive unit (independent 20 kW + units on each side) with a bilateral torque adjustable control system to instantly generate negative or positive torque to the rear wheels during cornering.
And this leadership is only going to grow as we accelerate the deployment of new Earth Dreams Technology engines, transmissions and electric drive systems.
The Accord Hybrid's two - motor hybrid system, part of an expanding lineup of Honda Earth Dreams Technology ™ powertrains, seamlessly blends electric - only, hybrid and engine drive modes along with powerful regenerative braking to provide responsive and efficient performance in a wide range of driving situations.
The base V6 engine, which shares the Acura TL's new Earth Dreams powertrain technology, is combined with a front - wheel - drive transmission and a four - wheel steering system.
The Nemesis system in Middle - earth: Shadow of Mordor was undoubtedly the game's greatest accomplishment, bringing procedural gameplay to a character - driven story.
«Middle - earth: Shadow of War truly drives the genre forward by taking the Nemesis System to new heights and allowing players to create their own personal journey within Middle - earth
Race against the AI, climb the ranks and upgrade your hovership • 25 + tracks scattered around 5 locations on a post-apocalyptic Earth, plus boss circuits • 7 event types, from classic Race to innovative Arena Race and Score - Based Endurance • 5 upgradable racing hoverships, each requiring a different driving approach • 10 + racing - focused, upgradable powerups: additional turbo, shields, self - repair drone, advanced grip system, slipstream enhancers, and more
Analysis • Title: Middle - Earth: Shadow of War • Developer: Monolith Productions • Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment • System: PS4 • Format: Retail / PSN Download • Cross-Buy: No • Cross-Play: No • Players: 1 (Online Conquests and Online Vendetta Game Modes) • Hard Drive Space Required: 43.09 GB
Two core boundaries — climate change and biosphere integrity — have been identified, each of which has the potential on its own to drive the Earth System into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed.
To my eye, this animated graph, produced by the federal Earth Systems Research Laboratory, is one of the best attempts to put the recent human - driven surge in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere into long - term context:
The precautionary principle suggests that human societies would be unwise to drive the Earth System substantially away from a Holocene - like condition.
I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.
Consensus is growing that we have driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth - system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.
«Transgressing a boundary increases the risk that human activities could inadvertently drive the Earth System into a much less hospitable state, damaging efforts to reduce poverty and leading to deterioration of human wellbeing in many parts of the world, including wealthy countries», said Professor Steffen.
Primary producers — plant life and ocean phytoplankton — play an integral part of the Earth system; some would say that they drive the entire biosphere.
SOI relates directly to the differential pressure driving the major wind systems which impact the speed of rotation of the Earth and are the essence of the climate system as it evolves day by day basis.
``... over glacial — interglacial timescales, climate dynamics are largely driven by internal Earth system mechanisms, inc... twitter.com/i/web/status/9… 1 day ago
One part of the difficulty is that the Earth is a highly multivariate and chaotic driven / open system with complex nonlinear coupling between all of its many drivers, and with anything but a regular surface.
«We build on this insight to demonstrate directly from ice - core data that, over glacial — interglacial timescales, climate dynamics are largely driven by internal Earth system mechanisms, including a marked positive feedback effect from temperature variability on greenhouse - gas concentrations.»
This drives the evolution from atmospheric models to physical climate models to earth system models.
Two core boundaries — climate change and biosphere integrity — have been identified, each of which has the potential on its own to drive the Earth system into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed.
The physical basis for this cycle is that it is the result of excitation of a lightly damped mode in the Earth's climate system driven by random inputs, not a steady state sinusoid.
For a thought experiment, lets suppose we could let the earth stabilize to an absolutely isothermal condition, then «turn on» the weather, sun etc. to let the drivers begin to drive the system.
Most CM experiments based on RCPs will be driven by greenhouse gas concentrations (Hibbard et al. 2007).8 Furthermore, many Earth system models do not contain a full atmospheric chemistry model, and thus require exogenous inputs of three - dimensional distributions for reactive gases, oxidant fields, and aerosol loadings.
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