Sentences with phrase «for climate analysis»

Meteorologists picked 30 years as a rule - of - thumb for climate analysis because such perturbations typically don't persist for such long periods.

Other researchers uncovered large uncertainties in climate predictions made by the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), a widely used, multimodel tool for climate analysis.

It was recognized that a number of missions planned in Europe will be of great value for climate analysis and that there is an acute need for better international collaboration and awareness spanning the full spectrum of activities from high - level data access agreements to pragmatic documentation exchange.

Carbon comes in different isotopes, two of which are most important for climate analysis: carbon with 7 neutrons (13C), and carbon with 6 neutrons (12C).

«Thirty years is not an appropriate length of time for a climate analysis, much less finding causal factors like climate change,» says Roger Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.

Pielke has a more defensible argument — «'' Thirty years is not an appropriate length of time for a climate analysis, much less finding causal factors like climate change,» — and he's bright enough to cherry pick data sets with a lot of noise and statistically infrequent occurrences that do require more than 30 years (look!

But I don't think any airport site (unless it hasn't changed / expanded over its history) should be used for climate analysis.

But fortunately for climate analysis, the GHCN station at Bariloche Airport has remained in operation.

Related The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which runs one of the critical hubs for climate analysis, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has just published «guidance for the next U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the importance of better understanding and predicting weather, water, climate, and other aspects of the Earth system.»

Not exact matches

Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

[3] Robert Keohane and David Victor, 2011, «The Regime Complex for Climate Change», Perspective on Politics, 9 (1), pp.7 - 23; Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg, Harro van Asselt and Fariborz Zelli, 2009, «The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis», Global Environmental Politics, 9 (4), pp.14 - 40.

New York City spends more to brace for rising seas and other side effects of climate change than any other of the world's 10 biggest cities — about $ 2.2 billion last year — outstripping spending by London, Paris, Beijing, Mexico City and other megacities, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.K.'s University College London.

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable added: «This was a chance for the chancellor to match the brilliant analysis of climate change by Sir Nicholas Stern, who argued for urgent preventative measures costing one per cent of GDP.

But money is only part of what makes a EURYI award useful, says Brian O'Neill, a climate scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, who was one of the first EURYI winners 3 years ago.

Using historical aerial photo analysis, soil and methane sampling, and radiocarbon dating, the project quantified for the first time the strength of the present - day permafrost carbon feedback to climate warming.

«All six years since the last report (2001 to 2006) are among the seven warmest years on record,» notes Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and another lead author.

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

«Stronger» results than IPCC Even after the Berkeley project's initial findings last year agreed with prior analyses by NASA, NOAA and the Hadley Centre, Muller resisted pinning the blame for climate change on man - made greenhouse gas emissions.

A full 23 percent of China's greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to Western exports, according to an analysis by researchers at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in England.

According to McFadden, not only does this analysis demonstrate that wintertime climate can be important for northern cities, it also shows the effects in terms of flood risks.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

«No climate bill has ever had this level of review, and the Obama administration stands behind this analysis,» Boxer said, explaining that EPA spent five weeks studying the House - passed bill and then worked for another two weeks on the Kerry - Boxer approach.

Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policyclimate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policyClimate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers.

Scientists, engineers and economists from the following institutions contributed to the research: the JGCRI, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland, BAEconomics, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, and Resources for the Future.

Overeem's technique «has the potential to give good quantitative rainfall estimates for real - time hazards forecasting, as well as regional and global climate model analysis in regions of the world where the impact could be great,» Baeck says.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he saFor the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he safor all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

Vahmani and Jones used a high - resolution regional climate model for their analysis; Vahmani then added a component to the model to account for irrigation water.

The researchers have now drawn together research on climate change, energy, housing and transport to provide an analysis that spans disciplines of how Australia's desert region could become a highly livable and prosperous area for existing and new residents.

Indian delegates first formally complained about the IPCC's social cost analysis before the Climate Conference in Berlin in April, when environment minister Kamal Nath wrote to ministerial colleagues round the world claiming the calculations were «absurd and discriminatory», and called for them to be «purged from the process».

Instead, we should offer a thorough analysis of carbon budgets aimed at avoiding 2 °C and the implications for how quickly and deeply we need to cut CO2, as well as the associated climate impacts that society will need to be resilient to if policies fail to deliver.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Moreover, their results were nonsynchronous: «Their analysis doesn't consider whether the warm / cold periods occurred at the same time,» says Peter Stott, a climate scientist at the U.K.'s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Braclimate scientist at the U.K.'s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in BraClimate Prediction and Research in Bracknell.

In the team's new analysis, Smith and Mizrahi use what they contend are more reasonable projections for emissions reductions, a more conservative timeline for the development and deployment of methane - capture technology, and more realistic estimates for how quickly Earth's climate will respond to reductions in methane and soot.

For scientists like Fasullo and co-author Kevin Trenberth, head of NCAR's climate analysis section, determining the climate's precise sensitivity to the CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere has been an unusually tough task.

Their analysis emphasizes the greater vulnerability of poor populations to climate impacts and highlights the need for better modeling, like that proposed by the Princeton team, to reduce poverty and climate change.

But a new analysis led by Michael Pahle of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany shows that when the German government issued permits in 2005, its allocation rules encouraged a «dash for coal».

Climate models such as those developed at GFDL can help researchers predict future levels of smog, enabling cost - benefit analyses for costly pollution control measures.

This is a much - needed approach, because climate change «really deals with all aspects of weather,» says Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

The time - consuming analysis — there were 2000 pieces of wood to look at — created a climate record for the forest going back a century, which they describe online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«The strength of life - history analyses for resolving the extinction debate rests in the knowledge that the age of final weaning is a life - history landmark that is expected to change differently in response to predation and climate - related nutritional stress,» said Cherney, who will speak during the Romer Prize Session at the paleontology meeting.

Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has a 19 - page document of «extremely foul, nasty, abusive» e-mails he's received just since November.

The analysis showed that changes in cloud cover can serve as a proxy in climate models for wind velocity in the atmosphere, which can not be directly measured.

Scientists have combined genetic analyses with new modeling approaches for the first time to help identify how well balsam popular trees are adapted to handle climate change.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

On the whole, in terms of magnitudes of risks that we used in our analysis [in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change for the U.K. government], my best guess is that we underestimated them.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.