Sentences with phrase «for atmospheric studies»

Seven temperate Earth - sized exoplanets readily amenable for atmospheric studies transit the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 (refs 1,2).

Its ultra-short period and high irradiation make it a benchmark target for atmospheric studies by HST, Spitzer, and eventually JWST.

Not exact matches

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

While natural patterns of certain atmospheric and ocean conditions are already known to influence Greenland melt, the study highlights the importance of a long - term warming trend to account for the unprecedented west Greenland melt rates in recent years.

«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.

«This record represents an important benchmark for the study of the history of atmospheric oxygen,» Higgins said.

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).

«Plant - inspired power plants: Pitt study outlines framework for developing catalysts that turn excess atmospheric CO2 into new source of liquid fuel.»

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.

E. coli cells will be genetically engineered to change color in response to conditions under study: carbon dioxide levels, atmospheric pollutants and pathogens, for example.

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.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Knowing what to look for Previous studies investigating heat wave prediction have looked for patterns in the tropics, but this research was interesting because the predictive factor is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs in the middle latitudes, Schubert said.

Nestled against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) studies weather, climate and atmospheric science.

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.

Robert Watson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of East Anglia in the United Kindgdom, is being honored for his studies of the ozone hole and work toward an international agreement to ban the use of the chemicals causing ozone depletion; he later chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Following on this study, I plan to continue investigating whether gaseous mercury is also a dominant source of pollution in other remote lands, and the mechanism of plant mercury uptake, which may be the main pathway for atmospheric mercury deposits to land.

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.

«The cooling impact of sulfate was larger, and the way sulfate interacts with the atmosphere is more straightforward, so sulfate has received more attention,» explains Drew Shindell, an atmospheric physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

Production of organohalogens by microorganisms has to be taken into account for the study of halogen cycling in atmospheric chemistry as well.

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.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

Peacock, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., usually studies how the ocean's water absorbs atmospheric gases.

«In our study we used satellite data for sea ice and sea surface temperatures to run some coordinated hindcast experiments with five different atmospheric models,» Ogawa says.

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty, assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead author of the study.

Even if all greenhouse emissions were to stop today, atmospheric carbon dioxide will remain high for millennia, and ocean surface temperatures will stay elevated even longer, a new study predicts.

«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.

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

«Our results are specific to the Sahara, but they likely have implications for the world's other deserts,» said Sumant Nigam, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD and the senior author of the study.

Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem in KU's Department of Geography are co-authors of a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the effects of large wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the turbines can generate.

The research team led by Yoshitaka Oishi of Fukui Prefectural University and Professor Tsutomu Hiura of Hokkaido University's Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere studied how bryophytes can be a tool for evaluating complex atmospheric conditions in urban areas.

«Such information may not only be relevant for atmospheric methane budget studies but may also be important for understanding the leaking potential of petroleum systems, whether they are commercial or not.»

Fredric Taylor, whose team at the University of Oxford has already made detailed studies of the atmospheres of Venus and Earth, comments: «We are very keen to compare the main features of the atmospheric circulations of all three Earth - like planets for the first time.»

For example, one 1965 study by researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas showed that dogs exposed to near vacuum — one three - hundred - eightieth of atmospheric pressure at sea level — for up to 90 seconds always survivFor example, one 1965 study by researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas showed that dogs exposed to near vacuum — one three - hundred - eightieth of atmospheric pressure at sea level — for up to 90 seconds always survivfor up to 90 seconds always survived.

This empirical analysis of atmospheric pollutants, traffic congestion, consumer choice of fuel and meteorological conditions provides an important tool for studying other large cities, such as Chicago, New York, London and Beijing.

The north Atlantic Ocean is globally important, as it is a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide, said Eric Achterberg, chief scientist for the research cruise and lead author of the study.

In the «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences» (PNAS), the team has now studies how different biogenic compounds produce ELVOC's and how relevant these compounds are for the atmospheric processes.

For the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate ChanFor the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate Chanfor the International Panel on Climate Change.

«It's a tricky area of study, but omitting the coastal ocean from the overall carbon budget leaves a gap in projections for future atmospheric CO2 levels.»

But some space scientists have long made use of arXiv, and a subset of the earth scientists who published in the journals of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) have already become accustomed to such openness, as EGU has posted studies online prior to review for more than 15 years, says Ulrich Pöschl, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, who helped found the journals.

But the new study accounts for more climate variables, not just temperature, that could come into play, including atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and rainfall patterns.

Such measurements will probe the atmospheric structure and composition, providing unique information useful not just in the solar system but also in the study of Jupiter - like exoplanets, where no comparable data will be available for the foreseeable future.

«In some regions, it is possible for average snowfall to decrease, but the snowfall extremes actually intensify,» study lead author Paul O'Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a news release.

If it is true, as some studies suggest for example, that El Nino events become more frequent and greater in magnitude due to anthropogenic forcing (this is not yet a settled issue), then, given the established relationship between the El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extratropical Pacific / North American atmospheric circulation, we might expect increased baroclinicity and greater storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Pacific ocean and neighboring western U.S..

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing on hot Jupiters now are testbeds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies on terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» comments lead researcher Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University.

Field and laboratory studies provide the foundation for Stage 1, which focuses on improving scientific understanding of isolated atmospheric processes.

The planet transits a relatively bright star and exhibits the third largest transit depth of all transiting exoplanets with V $ < $ 11 in the southern hemisphere, making it a promising candidate for future atmospheric characterization studies.

The study demonstrated improved techniques for discovering what could be behind atmospheric motion on Antares, while showing that there are still mysteries surrounding what, exactly, causes the star's turbulent churning.

Our study emphasizes the need for careful analysis when considering how the atmospheric dynamics of a synchronously rotating terrestrial planet may differ from our own.