Sentences with phrase «earth systems»

Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, said UCAR is concerned that the proposed budget cuts for federal earth systems science programs will undermine scientific progress needed to protect the U.S. from natural disasters.

The programme is coordinated by the Environmental and Resources Department within the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta, and is supported by: The Department of International Law (Faculty of Laws), the Institute of Earth Systems, the Department of Biology (Faculty of Science) and the International Ocean Institute.

Future ocean projections for the year 2100 were compiled from all available data generated by Earth Systems Models as part of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Taylor et al., 2012) as in Mora et al. (2013).

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 7 (3): 1285 - 1304.

«Less spatially detailed models often struggle to simulate the jet stream's complex behavior,» said Dr. Jian Lu, PNNL Earth systems scientist, lead author of the paper.

Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

M.T.B. was supported by NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, J.A.B. acknowledges support from the ARCCSS (CE110001028), E.C.J.O. by ARC grants FS110200029 and CE110001028, N.J.H. acknowledges funding support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub Project 2.3 (grant B0024391), P.J.M. by Marie Curie CIG PCIG10 - GA -2011-303685 and NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, S.C.S. by an Australian Government RTP Scholarshipin, M.F. by a CAS - CSIRO collaborative project on Marine Science and the Blue Economy and the Western Australia Marine Science Institution.

UAH Earth Systems Science Center research associate Dr. Lihua «Lucy» Wang in UAH's Rocket - city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar Laboratory.

He finds Earth systems science «an emerging field, crossing boundaries, integrating experts from specialties that have had little involvement.

The fact that humans have altered the very atmosphere, geology, hydrology, and other Earth systems that we all are living in.

Colwell, a former president of AAAS, publisher of Science, praised the leadership of Cicerone and said that it is significant that the NAS Council selected another expert on Earth systems to follow his tenure.

A new integrated computational climate model developed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions marks the first successful attempt to bridge Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

Institute for Environmental Decisions, Department of Earth Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.

The study, «The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation quality in the Community Atmospheric Model, CAM5.1,» has been published online in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Human alteration of Earth systems tends to be far more extensive and complex than one would expect based on numbers alone.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

«There is broad consensus that the further and the faster the Earth system is pushed towards warming, the greater the risk of unanticipated changes and impacts, some of which are potentially large and irreversible,» according to the report.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA.

He is the author of more than 200 peer - reviewed and edited publications and serves as director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

For four billion years, the rate of change of the Earth system (E) has been a complex function of astronomical (A) and geophysical (G) forces plus internal dynamics (I): Earth's orbit around the sun, gravitational interactions with other planets, the sun's heat output, colliding continents, volcanoes and evolution, among others.

In addition to historical records and ground observations, the researchers will use newly available Earth System Data Records from NASA — satellite images of the Amazon and its tributaries over the complete high - and low - water cycles.

In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

Co-author Eric Rignot, UCI professor of Earth system science, added, «Now that the picture is clear, the role of the ocean in glacier evolution is overwhelming.»

Russell Schnell, deputy director of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, said in an email the agency compares its work against international research.

Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, on Monday sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with two of their authors, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn.

It was conducted by a team of scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory.

«Stabilizing or reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, therefore, requires very deep reductions in future emissions to compensate for past emissions that are still circulating in the Earth system,» the draft report says.

The paper, published online yesterday in the journal Science, was co-authored by Jessie Creamean, a postdoctoral associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and Kaitlyn Suski, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

«Tropical glaciers are a bellwether of human influence on the Earth system,» says Will Steffen, director of the International Geosphere - Biosphere Program in Stockholm, Sweden.

Their research is published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

These questions were explored by the team headed by UFZ researchers Prof. Andreas Huth and Dr. Rico Fischer in a new study arising from the Helmholtz Alliance «Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics.»

The Hydrology and Earth System Sciences study highlights the need to carefully interpret dripwater cave data, and to also look into changes in its trace metals, as opposed to only δ18O, when analysing it.

«The maximum surface temperature profile is a fundamental characteristic of the Earth system, and these temperatures can tell us a lot about changes to the globe,» said Mildrexler.

Coasts around the Indian Ocean will be hard hit, as will Japan, south - east Australia and Argentina (Earth System Dynamics, doi.org/kbf).

Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's oceans through the end of the 21st century.

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

«When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,» explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural Hazards and the Earth System.

We look forward to working with Congress in the months ahead to maintain the level of funding needed in the fiscal year 2018 budget to support essential Earth system science research.»

«We are concerned that the administration's proposed cuts to research into the Earth system sciences will undermine the continued scientific progress that is so vitally needed to better protect the nation in the future from costly natural disasters,» Antonio J. Busalacchi, the president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.

Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.

Katherine Mackey, PhD University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science Website

«Preserving biodiversity may hence not just be about loving trees and weeds and birds and bugs; it may also be a tool to stabilize key elements of the Earth system.»

«The Amazon rainforest is one of the tipping elements in the Earth system,» says lead - author Delphine Clara Zemp who conducted the study at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

«It adds to the evidence that the mid — 20th century is not only important as regards Earth system change, but that it left durable markers in strata.»

«We're actually changing and continuing to change how the Earth system functions and leaving markers that could still be found in a million years time,» says Earth scientist Karen Bacon of the University of Leeds in England.

Navin Ramankutty, an assistant professor of geography and Earth system sciences at McGill University in Montreal, says this study is the first to take a comprehensive look at the consequences of deforestation on the entire world.