Sentences with phrase «earth system processes»

Throughout its life, the USGCRP has created and maintained a mix of atmospheric, oceanic, land, and space - based observing systems; gained new theoretical knowledge of Earth System processes; advanced understanding of the complexity of the Earth System through predictive modeling; promoted advances in computational capabilities, data management, and information sharing; and developed and harnessed an expert scientific workforce.

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.

Assessment of human - environment systems together is so important, the document stresses, because the interdependence of Earth system processes affects ecosystems, human communities, and socio - economic sectors.

However, there remains a serious lack of knowledge about fire's fundamental role in Earth system processes, as well as an insufficient appreciation of fire's interaction with anthropogenic global environmental change,» the authors write.

«Species and ecosystems will encounter not only a range of climate conditions that is potentially different from any in the past but also the broader conditions of the Anthropocene, in which human actions either dominate or strongly influence a wide range of Earth system processes,» the researchers write.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

When applied to complex earth system processes, where several irreversible processes compete to deplete the same gradients, it is easily shown that the maximum thermodynamic efficiency is much less than the classic Carnot limit, so that the ability of the earth system to generate power and disequilibrium is limited.

While the stated objective of the PB framework is to «guide human societies» away from a state of the Earth system that is «less hospitable to the development of human societies», it offers little scientific evidence to support the connection between the global state of specific Earth system processes and human well - being.

Steffen et al concede that «not all Earth system processes included in the PB have singular thresholds at the global / continental / ocean basin level.»

In essence, the Planetary Boundary analysis simply identifies Earth System processes that — in the same manner as climate — regulate the stability of the Earth System, and if impacted too far by human activities potentially can disrupt the functioning of the Earth System.

Postgraduate students from earth and environmental sciences will have an opportunity this summer to explore earth system processes in the Azores archipelago west of Portugal.

It attempts to define the earth system processes that humanity needs to be active stewards of in order to avoid deleterious or even catastrophic tipping points in critical Earth systems.

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NASA's Insight lander was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Denver and delivered to Vandenberg Airfare base in California on February 28, and will probe the deep interior of the Red Planet to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped rocky planets such as Mars and Earth.

For innumerable convergent reasons (the rapid increase of ethnic, economic, political and cultural links) the human individual finds himself definitely involved in an irresistible process tending towards a system of organo - psychic solidarity on earth.

We need not anthropocentrically imagine the evolutionary process to culminate in man, for it is quite conceivable that in time it might bypass man and the entire class of mammals to favor some very different species capable of a greater complexity than man can achieve; if not here on earth, then in some other planetary system.

We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system.

This is obviously a major re-education process of mankind in the Last Days to eliminate the idolatrous image - worshipping systems of the religions of the Earth.

Instead of using R - 22 refrigerant, which can damage the earth's protective ozone layer when released, the refrigeration systems used in the manufacturing process employ glycol as refrigerant.

A dynamic simulation of that process, carried out by A'Hearn's colleague Kevin Walsh of Southwest Research Institute, sheds light on many long - standing puzzles about the solar system: not only where the Oort Cloud comets come from, but also why Mars is so small and airless com - pared with Earth.

Such craters provide a record of the solar system's early history; a similar record on Earth has long since been obscured by plate tectonics, erosion and other processes.

This in turn helps scientists understand the processes by which Earth's tectonic plates are built, as well as the deep plumbing of volcanic systems.

Close observations of Vesta will help astronomers understand the early days of the solar system, as well as the processes that formed and shaped rocky planets like Earth.

Previously, the idea was of Earth as a sort of isolated system on which processes evolved.

«What are the Earth - system processes that determine the ability of the [planet] to remain in a stable state?»

Earth's crust is now understood as a complex system of fault surfaces, with rises and drops in stress reflecting the interplay of positive and negative feedbacks operating in the rupture process.

«We have reached the planetary stage of sustainability, where we are fiddling with hard - wired processes at the global Earth - system scale,» Rockström says.

Gutowski adds, «The problem is that the earth's climate system involves myriad nonlinear processes that are interlinked.

The moon is one of a number of «ocean worlds» in our solar system that hold the ingredients for life, and is known to be covered with rich organic material that is undergoing chemical processes that might be similar to those on early Earth, before life developed.

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.»

By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.

Some of these planets, all located far beyond Earth's solar system, could contain vast deposits of graphite or diamonds, and their apparent abundance prompts new questions about the implications of carbon - intense environments for climate, plate tectonics, and other geological processes, as well as for life.

The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth system.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

Now, researchers who study the Earth's climate system have extended the state - of - the - art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic processes, projecting conditions through 2300.

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.

His current scientific research and teaching are focused on the effects of multiphase processes in the Earth system, climate, life & public health (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=czxG87cAAAAJ&hl=en; http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6263-2010).

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 international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

The aim of this session is to provide a framework for reviewing the state - of - the - art on these issues and to identify possible interrelationships between Earth and the Sun and space weather by assessing the level of coupling in the relevant physical systems and processes.

Developing earth system model land surface process descriptions and improving model parametrisations by means of sophisticated model - data fusion techniques

The Met Office Hadley Centre Earth System models have included the processes of CO2 fertilisation and increased water use efficiency for nearly 20 years, and other Earth System models do so as well.

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 moEarth's climate — to improve earth system moearth system models.

Finally, I would expect that there will be a further representation of the human system in Earth system models (ESMs) and that integrated assessment models (IAMs) will try to be more geographically explicit — in order to better represent local processes, such as water management and presence of renewable energy.

Earth system models integrate atmospheric, oceanic, chemical, and biological processes, many of which are too complex or occur at scales too small to simulate directly (e.g., formation of individual clouds).

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

Cosmic rays — high energy particles from beyond the solar system — bombard Earth's upper atmosphere continually, in the process creating the unstable carbon - 14.

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He begins to question his own faith and belief in hope and the future as it relates to what humans are doing to the earth and the systems around him that preach righteousness while enabling polluters and taking their cash in the process.

The emergence of life on Earth, around 3,8 billion years ago, was a complex process of exceptional natural phenomena, inherent in all living systems.

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