Sentences with phrase «emissions modeling research»

This paper examines the benefits and challenges related to mobile source emissions modeling in a GIS framework and identifies future GIS mobile emissions modeling research needs.

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Andrew Weaver, who holds the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis, says when it comes to saving energy and cutting carbon emissions, it's not enough to provide people subsidies on retrofits or other upgrades.

The conclusions, in a report by the UK Energy Research Centre, are based on modelling the likely shape of the energy sector in 2050 when greenhouse emissions will need to have fallen by 80 % on 1990's level.

According to Graf's model, Toba's massive sulphur emissions created large sulphate particles that were less able to reflect light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

Gareth Williams, who researches remote reefs from Bangor University, UK, told the meeting that modelling work currently under review suggests that even if the world manages to reduce its greenhouse - gas emissions, many reefs will bleach annually by 2030.

I developed a generic model for emissions prediction based on thermodynamic principles (fundamental research), but using empirical constants so as to ensure its valid application to different engines (applied research).

Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climodel, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cliModel, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climate.

When the team combined OCO - 2 data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States with computer models of how emissions plumes would disperse, its estimates of those plants» emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

Using published data from the circumpolar arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling, and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

The authors of this new research paper analysed data and models from the USEPA's updated global non-CO2 GHG mitigation assessment to investigate the potential for GHG reductions from agricultural emissions from seven regions globally, offsetting costs against social benefit of GHG mitigation (e.g. human health, flood risk and energy costs).

According to Graf's model, the vast sulphur emissions created sulphate particles that grew large and so reflected less light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

«For gamma ray bursts, models predict that an early X-ray emission would be seen,» said Aaron Tohuvavohu, Swift science operations and research assistant, Penn State.

The emission model is continuously being developed, as research on emissions to air regularly is evaluated.

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater thanmodel, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater thanModel, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater thanmodel, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions greater than B1).

We carry out research, testing and development of air quality measuring methods and equipment, emission inventories, dispersion models and the chemical analyses of air quality.

However, reams of peer - reviewed research, basic physics, the ability to track the specific chemical fingerprint of fossil fuel - driven carbon, and the fact that no models can replicate this century's warming without pumping up carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere give scientists confidence that human carbon emissions are driving the globe's temperature higher.

A new framework for climate scenarios research brings an integrated view of economics, demography, and greenhouse gas emissions to the development of emissions scenarios that underlie climate models.

While finishing up her dissertation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Parkinson and climate scientist William Kellogg decided to take the theory about carbon dioxide emissions increasing global temperatures and apply it to a sea ice model that Parkinson had built.

This research, which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the first time that summer heat and its dependence on the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have been studied in a climate model simulation.

[12] In fact, using the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change developed by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, even if all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States were effectively eliminated, there would be less than two - tenths of a degree Celsius reduction in global temperatures.

Heritage research has also found that these models are extremely sensitive to reasonable changes in assumptions; in fact, under some assumptions one of the models provides a negative SCC, suggesting net economic benefits to carbon dioxide emissions.

NOAA scientists have developed a new high - resolution climate model that shows southwestern Australia's long - term decline in fall and winter rainfall is caused by increases in manmade greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion, according to research published today in Nature Geoscience.

Lead author Carmody McCalley, postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, explained that the question has always been whether these microbes matter for models of GHG emissions to the overall role of thawing wetlands in climate change.

«There was a concern that it is a lot harder than suggested by energy scenario models to achieve climate targets, because of the energy required to produce wind turbines and solar panels and associated emissions,» explains project leader Dr Gunnar Luderer, who is an energy system analyst at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research (PIK).

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1999 «University Research Program Award» der Ford Motor Company für die Arbeiten zum Thema «Development of global inventories of road traffic emissions and their employment in a chemistry - climate model» (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. R. Sausen)

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They are used to hand off information from one area of research to another (e.g., from research on energy systems and greenhouse gas emissions to climate modeling).

Van der Werf's research team developed rough estimates of the greenhouse gas emissions arising from recent Indonesia fires using estimates from past years based on satellite data and fire emissions models.

The experts say their research DOES NOT UNDERMINE THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVE GLOBAL WARMING, BUT THEY CALL FOR A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE WAY CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS CONSIDER WATER VAPOUR.

Using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, Jascha Lehmann from Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and colleagues rolled climate forward to 2100 and looked at the change in storm tracks under a high carbon - dioxide - emissions scenario.

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We compare aircraft observations to modeled CH4 distributions by accounting for a) transport using the Stochastic Time - Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model driven by Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorology, b) emissions from inventories such as EDGAR and ones constructed from California - specific state and county databases, each gridded to 0.1 ° x 0.1 ° resolution, and c) spatially and temporally evolving boundary conditions such as GEOS - Chem and a NOAA aircraft profile measurement derived curtain imposed at the edge of the WRF domain.

Jahn's research uses the results from one climate model to to assess the impact of different emission scenarios on Arctic summer sea ice.

Research addressing this question relies on global climate model simulations based on a range of anticipated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios.

Kondratyev, and E.S. Posmentier, 2001: Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions: Unknowns and un certainties, Climate Research 18: 259 — 275.

In the sections that follow, we highlight some significant research needs that will improve our ability to model and potentially manage reservoir GHG emissions.

Dr. Marcia Rocha, Head of Climate Policy Team Policy Analysis Team leader, research scientist specialised in advanced data analysis and modelling; works on equity, and analyses emissions reduction targets and their impact on global temperature rise.

Climate change and energy policy with focus on energy technology policy assessment, energy supply policy assessment, renewable energy development and energy conservation, including energy and emission scenarios, assessment on energy and fuel tax, research on China's potential to achieve its energy targets and development of the Integrated Policy Assessment models.

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Research that always begins with the pre-conceived notion that human emissions are causing X so we need to spend Y and you need to do Z in order to avert disaster 100 years from now, «based on our high - tech model simulations».

The USGS model also underestimates the extent of permafrost loss by the end of the century, he said, adding that his research shows two - thirds of the state's permafrost could be lost by 2100 if human carbon emissions aren't cut.

AER scientists contributed atmospheric transport modeling and research expertise to the new study by Harvard University, which is «the first of its kind to quantify methane emissions from natural gas leaks in an urban area».

The research would also highlight non-GHG benefits achieved due to the implementation of climate policy, and evaluate the outcome of Canada's emissions if all provinces or the federal government had implemented existing «best - in - Canada» policies (as they came into effect) relative to Canada's emissions target for 2020, using Navius Research's economy and emissionresearch would also highlight non-GHG benefits achieved due to the implementation of climate policy, and evaluate the outcome of Canada's emissions if all provinces or the federal government had implemented existing «best - in - Canada» policies (as they came into effect) relative to Canada's emissions target for 2020, using Navius Research's economy and emissionResearch's economy and emissions model.

Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: unknowns and uncertainties (Climate Research, Vol.

Based on new research, this latest paper echoes findings from the Beijing - based Energy Resources Institute (ERI) in July 2013, which modelled an emissions peak in 2025.

Greenblatt's research, which was funded in part by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), is the first attempt to comprehensively model all relevant policies in order to assess their combined effect on reducing California GHG emissions, especially through 2030.

The research considered emissions based on models similar to the two most popular electric cars available to American drivers: the midsize Nissan Leaf and the full - size Tesla Model S.

Now research using a coupled model of human behaviour and climate finds that individual behaviour can significantly alter emissions trajectories and global temperature.

«Scientists were quick to declare the results of the Turner et al paper, which covered 1 per cent of the Antarctic continent, did not negate a long - term warming because of man - made climate change... «Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.»