Sentences with phrase «focus on climate variability»

It precludes a focus on climate variability over time as well the risk of impacts from slow onset events, such as sea level rise and rising temperatures.

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Dr. Jefferson's research focuses on urban watersheds and stormwater management, hydrologic responses to climate variability and change, and landscape evolution.

Currently, ACME collaborators are focused on developing an advanced climate model capable of simulating 80 years of historic and future climate variability and change in 3 weeks or less of computing effort.

«My view on this is that the research needs to broaden out to have more of a focus on variability more generally so that a) we can predict the next few years better b) we can refine our estimates of the sensitivity of the climate system to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.»

SPARC, together with others in the WCRP community, focuses on understanding atmospheric dynamics and climate variability to provide better climate predictions on scales from seasonal all the way to centennial.

Global warming was not yet an issue at the KNMI where the focus was much more on climate variability, which explains why the article of Hansen et al. was unnoticed at that time by the second author.

Global warming was not yet an issue at the KNMI where the focus was much more on climate variability, which explains why the article of Hansen et al. was unnoticed at that time by the second author.

Here we use a risk assessment framework to examine the potential impact of El Nino events and natural variability on rice agriculture in 2050 under conditions of climate change, with a focus on two main rice - producing areas: Java and Bali.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

His work at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium focuses on the impacts of internal climate variability on the hydrological cycle of British Columbia and streamflow temperature moClimate Impacts Consortium focuses on the impacts of internal climate variability on the hydrological cycle of British Columbia and streamflow temperature moclimate variability on the hydrological cycle of British Columbia and streamflow temperature modeling.

The scientific focus is on better understanding of climate variability and climate trends using paleo (past)- climate data, instrumental data, and numerical models and theory to assess the importance of internal and external forcing of past, present and future climate.

Cross Cutting Priority 1: (Integrated Global Environmental Observation and Data Management System) focuses on developing a global - to - local environmental observation and data management systems for the comprehensive, continuous monitoring of coupled ocean / atmospheric / land systems that enhance NOAA's ability to protect lives, property, expand economic opportunities, understand climate variability, and promote healthy ecosystems.

«Although climate change and variability involves all aspects of the climate system [Pielke, 1998], the assessment of anthropogenically - forced climate change has focused on surface temperature as the primary metric [Mann and Jones, 2003; Soon et al., 2004].

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

The platform will complement existing GMES / Copernicus pre-operational components, but will focus on datasets which provide information on climate variability on decadal to centennial time scales from observed and projected climate change impacts in Europe, and will provide a toolbox to generate, compare and rank key indicators.

His research focusses on understanding and predicting climate variability and change in the polar regions, including the response of Arctic extreme weather to climate change.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.

Betts says:» the authors seem to assume that climate science is entirely focussed on anthropogenic climate change, and that natural variability is only researched as a supplementary issue in order to support the conclusions regarding anthropogenic influence.»

Uncertainty creates the impetus to focus on pragmatic emission reductions regardless of short term climate variability.

The article focuses on the study which examines the impact of climate change on rainfall variability in tropical countries.

Here, we focus on the range of projected climate trends that results from the superposition of the GHG - forced climate change signal and intrinsic variability of the NAO.

Up to now, we have focused on the spatial characteristics of climate anomalies associated with historical NAO variability.

What's needed is a climate blog focused on exploration of natural variability with zero tolerance for politics.

To establish scientific cooperation focusing on: (a) Monsoon and ocean variability, climate change and sea level variations, (b) Marine ecosystem studies, including algae blooms and (c) Coastal zone management including impact on society.

Favourite plays include hyper - focus on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus on interannual OHC variability; confusion of cause and effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and general inability to see that natural variability from now on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate climate behaviour.

Our results point to the need for future observational and modeling studies to focus on the regional and seasonal characteristics of Antarctic climate change, the regional response to ozone depletion, the influence of tropical variability and climate change on Antarctic climate, and on the mechanisms that link sea ice and air temperature in Antarctica.

We have been focused on climate models rather than on climate dynamics and theory that is needed to understand the effects of the sun on climate, the network of natural internal variability on multiple time scales, the mathematics of extreme events, and the predictability of a complex system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos.

They are required only to focus on «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the atmosphere, and which is in addition to natural climate variability.»

Anna Taylor, of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Oxford has no PhD at all, her research focuses on «stakeholder engagement in adapting to multiple stresses, including climate variability and change, water scarcity, food insecurity and health concerns» — not climate science, and has simply not been alive long enough to join the ranks of the specialists of specialisms that Dessler demands of sceptics.

The focus of this physical climate model is on the role of aerosols, aerosol - cloud interactions, and atmospheric chemistry in climate variability and climate change.

Another explanation for the recent hiatus in warming focuses on the internal variability of the climate system.

Our research should focus on those ecosystem linkages we need to understand in order to wisely manage our fisheries, and this includes the ability to incorporate natural climate variability along with long term changes.

Murdock, T.Q., J. Fraser and C. Pearce (editors), 2007: Preliminary analysis of climate variability and change in the Canadian Columbia River Basin: Focus on water resources, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report,climate variability and change in the Canadian Columbia River Basin: Focus on water resources, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report,Climate Impacts Consortium report, 57 pp.

What the paper does focus on, Hansen said, is determining whether extreme weather events like the Texas heat wave can be attributed to climate variability — the natural ups and downs in seasonal temperature — or to the global upward trend in summer temperatures that science now links with climate change.

This conference will focus on climate change and variability from observational and modeling perspectives.

Although the study was primarily about climate modeling for future climate variability, it was focused on the severe climate variation of the Little Ice Age (LIA).

This paper focuses on the El Niño / Southern Oscillation which, along with volcanoes, is one of the major causes of short - term climate variability.

Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers was a USDA - NIFA funded research and extension project focused on improving the usability of climate information for agricultural production in the Midwestern United Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers was a USDA - NIFA funded research and extension project focused on improving the usability of climate information for agricultural production in the Midwestern United climate information for agricultural production in the Midwestern United States.

On the other hand, the climate researcher does not focus on forecasting but rather applies the scientific method to understanding the underlying physical processes and causes of climate variabilitOn the other hand, the climate researcher does not focus on forecasting but rather applies the scientific method to understanding the underlying physical processes and causes of climate variabiliton forecasting but rather applies the scientific method to understanding the underlying physical processes and causes of climate variability.

«Much of the work has focused on evaluating the models» ability to simulate the annual mean state, the seasonal cycle, and the inter-annual variability of the climate system, since good data is available for evaluating these aspects of the climate system.

This section focuses on the relationship of runoff, lake levels, groundwater, floods and droughts, and water quality, with observed climate variability, climate trends, and land - use and land - cover changes reported since the TAR.

However, to gain insight on the influence of climate change on Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane frequency, we must focus on longer (> 100 yr) records of Atlantic hurricane activity since very strong year - to - year and decade - to - decade variability appears in records of Atlantic tropical cyclones.