Sentences with phrase «for atmospheric scientists»

20 years ago, the AMS was the main professional society for atmospheric scientists: NOAA, university, and private sector with the majority of members from NOAA.

The SGP site offers high - quality data and simulations for atmospheric scientists to use.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

Now, to find out how the glaciers formed in the first place, scientists created models that simulated atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet for the last 50,000 years (a mere 200 orbits around the sun for Pluto).

«Boundaries for a Healthy Planet,» by atmospheric scientist Jonathan Foley, explains the safe thresholds for environmental processes that profoundly affect sustainability.

«Minerals from Papua New Guinea hold secret for recycling of noble gases: Scientists find atmospheric gases trapped in minerals that are crystallized in Earth's mantle.»

A switch to natural gas won't do Kenneth Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said EPA's actions have to be the first step, and the agency needs to take similar steps every two years or so.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The idea that a microscopic, floating biomass was influencing the world's weather was just too weird for most atmospheric scientists.

They have been overlooked for decades, but scientists are finally recognizing how diverse this atmospheric ecosystem is and — perhaps — how much influence it could exert over tomorrow's weather or next year's harvest.

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

For example, the tiny particles known as aerosols are far better understood, says atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England andalso a lead author.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

Freshwater such as lakes, though, receive various sources of carbon dioxide from decomposing organic and inorganic matter swept into them, which makes it hard for scientists to distinguish between the direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 and these other elements.

«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

«If these trends continue for the next few years,» says atmospheric scientist Bryan Johnson of NOAA in Boulder, Colo., «we'll have confidence things are improving.»

Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).

One breakthrough occurred when atmospheric scientist Anthony Delgenio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies noticed that storms coincided with electrostatic discharges.

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).

«We're trying to find out exactly what is coming from the rings and what is due to the atmosphere,» Hunter Waite, Cassini team lead for the mass spectrometer instrument and an atmospheric scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said at the Sept. 13 news conference.

Despite the drawbacks, the proposal «is incredibly important and definitely worth taking seriously and looking into further,» says atmospheric scientist Richard Anthes, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

The American Geophysical Union, representing more than 62,000 Earth, atmospheric and space scientists worldwide, has teamed with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to make lawyers available for confidential sessions with scientists at its annual meeting next month.

Chemists, for example, tend to hang out in New Jersey, while atmospheric and space scientists cluster in Colorado.

«The key is to account for large year - to - year fluctuations that have obscured a gradual increase in the long - term evolution of ozone,» says atmospheric scientist Murry Sal

The net result is a greater chance for unusually cold winters, or at times unusually warm ones, in the northeastern U.S. and Europe, according to an article by Cornell University Earth and atmospheric scientist Charles Greene in Scientific American's December 2012 issue.

The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.

Scientists thought that by providing iron, a trace element required for growth, they could create large plankton blooms and draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.

This makes this roadmap a transdisciplinary document of relevance for many communities, from astronomers to planetary scientists and from atmospheric physicists to life scientists.

For years most scientists have attributed this ominous event to atmospheric dust following a volcanic eruption.

The scientists knew that under atmospheric pressure all compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, except for methane, water, and carbon dioxide, are thermodynamically unstable.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.

Francesco Panerai of Analytical Mechanical Associates Inc., a materials scientist leading a series of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab for NASA Ames Research Center, discusses a 3 - D visualization (shown on screens) of a heat shield material's microscopic structure in simulated spacecraft atmospheric entry conditions.

For instance, if scientists detect a cyclone - like hotspot on a far - off exoplanet, they may be able to estimate storm activity and general atmospheric conditions across the entire planet.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

«Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols.

The study makes a good case for paying more attention to soot, says atmospheric scientist Donald Wuebbles of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champagne.

The researchers present a «good case» for the new theory, says atmospheric scientist James Kasting of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Released April 27, the images of Saturn's cloud tops are a «big step forward» for understanding the planet's atmosphere, says Cassini imaging team member Andy Ingersoll, an atmospheric scientist at Caltech.

For example, in a simulated world where the atmospheric CO2 levels were double today's values — a scenario many scientists believe likely — models predict that Earth will warm by more than 2 °C.

The body of several thousand atmospheric scientists, climatologists, glaciologists, oceanographers and other scientists, hailing from 154 countries, are more certain than ever that humanity is to blame for global warming, which may be linked to odd events like trees blossoming in the Luxembourg Garden here in the middle of winter.

Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a «public» computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

And because she is a geophysicist, her rise next year would mark a break for NAS, which by tradition would have selected a new leader from the biological sciences after the two - term presidency of atmospheric scientist Ralph J. Cicerone.

Although scientists have measured atmospheric CO2 levels for decades, the current network of ground stations, observatories, aircraft and other instruments emerged during an era when researchers were trying to answer questions about the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, gets asked the question so often about the connection between big rain events and climate change that he had this response via email: «Here we go again.»