Sentences with phrase «global atmosphere»

Plants and soils combined contain more than 2,000 billion tons of carbon, more that twice as much as the entire global atmosphere.

Now add a well - mixed global atmosphere and — who knows?

Use of the WOUDC data are governed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) data policy and WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) data use policy.

To find out if including the shielding of PAHs by viscous aerosols would improve global atmosphere models, the scientists used laboratory experiments to develop a new way of representing PAHs in a global model.

The latest analysis of observations from the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Programme shows that globally carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) increased from 2014 to 2015, and that the...

GFDL GAMDT (The GFDL Global Atmospheric Model Development Team), 2004: The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations.

The measurements of atmospheric composition were started in 1991, and the Sammaltunturi station was established as a node of the Pallas — Sodankylä Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station in 1994.

Sticking with the environmental theme, the issue up for debate this time was whether there is a public right to a healthy global atmosphere.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

Some energy specialists will explain below why the global coal boom renders the legislative debate on climate somewhat moot from the standpoint of the shared global atmosphere, where the source of emissions is irrelevant to their ultimate heating influence.

Pallas - Sodankylä, A Global Atmosphere Watch station.

51.938 ° N, 10.248 ° W. Via Global Atmosphere Watch, World Meteorological Organization.

Now, add to that the complete disappearance of statistically significant global warming - for the UK's HadCRUT4 there has been no statistically significant warming since October 1996; and for the RSS global atmosphere dataset, it has been since November 1992 - and one then begins to wonder about the incompetence of elite science.

But the report's Executive Summary managed to obfuscate this result by referring to global atmosphere rather than tropical.

Anderson, J.L., et al., 2004: The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2 / LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations, J. Climate, in press.

The measurements of atmospheric composition were started in 1991, and the Sammaltunturi station was established as a node of the Pallas — Sodankylä Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station in 1994.

Dennie: I am slowly coming to the realization that the planet is heating up not only from greenhouse gasses and aerosol particulates holding in heat, but that the major cause of the increased atmospheric heat is due to microwave technology and the exponential increase in its saturation of the entire global atmosphere.

Participating #lawschool teams will again #twtmoot an #envlaw question, addressing before the #STCC (Supreme Twitter Court of Canada) the question of a public right to a healthy global atmosphere.

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch programme will therefore continue its crucial monitoring, research and assessment activities to provide scientific data needed to understand and ultimately predict environmental changes, as it has done for the past 25 years» said Mr Jarraud.

In November, the administration signed off on a report from federal scientists saying that «there is no convincing alternative explanation» for the «continuing, rapid, human - caused warming of the global atmosphere and ocean.»

The recently published data reveal that Haumea measures 2,320 kilometers in its largest axis — almost the same as Pluto — but lacks the global atmosphere that Pluto has.

«Consequently, the real - world risks resulting from CO2 storage deep beneath the bed of the North Sea are likely to be extremely small, and many thousand times less than the impacts of continuing to dump CO2 into the global atmosphere,» he said.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

«We see a similar trend in computer models of the global atmosphere when they simulate the last century using the historical changes of greenhouse gases.

While this circulation is so slow that a blob of air may take decades to travel to the upper atmosphere, it impacts the chemical composition of the global atmosphere because many chemical properties are very different in the lower and upper atmosphere layers.

This slow heartbeat in the tropical upper atmosphere, referred to as the quasibiennial oscillation (QBO), impacts the winds and chemical composition of the global atmosphere and even the climate at Earth's surface.

The rewards are equally huge: improved energy security for the world's most populous nation as well as reductions in air pollution, whether the smog from burning coal that blankets Chinese cities or concentrations of carbon dioxide are emitted into the global atmosphere.

Because the amount of light reaching the telescopes dropped abruptly at the beginning of the eclipse, rather than gradually, and rose sharply at the end of the event, the team suggests that Makemake has no global atmosphere — or, at best, a wisp of methane atmosphere with a surface pressure no more than 12 - billionths that of Earth.

The results are «consistent with warming of the global atmosphere,» says Gaffen, although she emphasizes that precise reasons for a hotter United States are unknown.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

The second says that nations intend to keep concentrations of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere at levels below those which will cause serious disruption to the climate.

So Matei and colleagues set a climate model running that simulates the behavior of the global atmosphere and ocean, including the AMOC.

First registered for use in the United States in the 1950s, endosulfan is one of the most abundant pesticides found in the global atmosphere.

«The final judge of our efforts is the global atmosphere and its judgment at present is harsh.»

These newcomers were described at an international climate conference held in Melbourne last month to mark the end of the World Meteorological Organisation's 10 - year Tropical Ocean - Global Atmosphere (TOGA) experiment.

Volcanoes provide natural background levels of sulfur dioxide that need to be taken into account when studying the global atmosphere and regional effects.

Typically refers to a three - dimensional model of the global atmosphere used in climate modeling (often erroneously called «Global Climate Model»).

Those local disruptions cause a domino effect through the global atmosphere that can alter weather thousands of miles away.

Puncak Jaya is the only place to get ice core data from the western side of what's known as the Pacific Warm Pool the single largest heat source to the global atmosphere.

Although Makemake shows no global atmosphere, it may have an atmosphere that only covers part of the surface.

Broecker's articulation of likely effects of freshwater outbursts in the North Atlantic on ocean circulation and global climate (Broecker, 1990; Broecker et al., 1990) spurred quantitative studies with idealized ocean models (Stocker and Wright, 1991) and global atmosphere — ocean models (Manabe and Stouffer, 1995; Rahmstorf 1995, 1996).

Maureen Raymo, William Ruddiman and others propose that the Tibetan and Colorado Plateaus are immense CO2 «scrubbers» with a capacity to remove enough CO2 from the global atmosphere to be a significant causal factor of the 40 million year Cenozoic Cooling trend.

We compared the temporal variability of the heat content of the world ocean, of the global atmosphere, and of components of Earth's cryosphere during the latter half of the 20th century.

«We developed and implemented new modeling approaches based on laboratory measurements to include shielding of toxics by organic aerosols in a global atmosphere model that resulted in large improvements of model predictions,» said PNNL scientist Dr. Manish Shrivastava.

Make - make does not appear to have a global atmosphere at a level of one thousandth of that of Pluto's atmosphere, but it may have an atmosphere that only covers part of the surface (ESO new release; and Jeff Hecht, New Scientist, November 21, 2012).