Sentences with phrase «estimate carbon content»

«You can estimate carbon content from the air but you can't build relationships from the air.»

Provisions exist to avoid double taxation and to estimate the carbon content of electricity from unspecified / unknown generation sources, and electricity sold by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

Brazilian nonprofit organization Idesam provided technical support to determine which portions of the 248,147 - hectare territory were in danger and estimate the carbon content.

Then, she combined these data with results from previous research to estimate the carbon content of beaver meadows throughout the region.

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His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

Existing satellite maps of the area have estimated trees» carbon content based largely on their height, but have not accounted for large regional variations in their shape and density.

Key to the new estimate are so - called emissions factors, which are derived from the carbon content, heating value, oxidation rate, and other variables that allow carbon emissions to be calculated for the amount of a given fuel consumed.

The costs of carbon capture retrofitted to an existing cola plant have been estimated (in an actual engineering analysis, not some whimsical guess) at an additional 6 - 8 cents per kwhr to capture 90 % of the CO2 content.

And that's because of the permafrost, the vast subterranean body of icy soils throughout the Arctic region whose total carbon content is estimated to be roughly double what's currently in the atmosphere.

In this role he leads research work on carbon pricing, peer review of national and sub-national GHG estimates, technical content development, climate finance, trainings & capacity building, and technical review.

Snow samples have been measured for their elemental carbon (used as a proxy for black carbon) and mineral dust content in order to estimate their impact on snow reflectance.

Estimates of the carbon content of all fossil fuel reservoirs including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale and various gas reservoirs that can be tapped with developing technology [114] imply that CO2 conceivably could reach a level as high as 16 times the 1950 atmospheric amount.

Estimates are in particular based on carbon isotope - 13 ratios and stomatal anatomy in naturally preserved leaf material, leaf intercellular CO2 concentrations offer new insights into the carbon content of past atmospheres.

By dividing the total temperature change (as indicated by the best - fit linear trend) by the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide content, and then applying that relationship to a doubling of the carbon dioxide content, Loehle arrives at an estimate of the earth's transient climate sensitivity — transient, in the sense that at the time of CO2 doubling, the earth has yet to reach a state of equilibrium and some warming is still to come.

EIA's emission factors will improve the accuracy of estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, especially at State and regional levels, because they reflect the difference in the ratio of carbon to heat content by rank of coal and State of origin.