Sentences with phrase «global measurements of»

Global measurements of precipitation will be adversely affected by all three lost capabilities.

NOAA: Each year since global measurements of CO2 began, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased.

-LSB-...] With satellites, they have collected regional and global measurements of the «greenness» of the land surface and assessed the presence or absence of vegetation, while looking for signals to distinguish trees from shrubs from ground cover.

While continuous global measurements of most of these changes are not available through the 1961 - 2006 period, some humidity observations are available and do show upward trends over the continents.

But such understanding requires global measurements of aerosols with sufficient detail to define their properties and their effect on clouds, a task that remains elusive»

A small amount of cooling was detected at the ocean's surface, consistent with global measurements of sea - surface temperature.

For the period before 1870, global measurements of sea level are not available.

Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.

While a co-founder of the cancer vaccine company Calviri, she is also the VP of Research at HealthTell, Inc., which is developing global measurements of immune health.

We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

Our global measurement of health outcomes may not have been sensitive enough to detect important differences.

The composite score (reliability coefficient in this study: =.83) is used as a global measurement of working alliance.

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Dr. Amy Gershkoff is the Global Director of Analytics for Burson Marsteller, where she designs custom measurement solutions for social and digital communication programs.

GIC reported a 20 - year annualized real return - its key measurement gauge - of 3.7 percent above global inflation for the year ended March, down from 4 percent a year ago.

However, a number of organizations, including the Global Impact Investing Network and the Global Impact Investing Rating System, are working toward standardizing reporting and measurement.

Topics include but are not limited to municipal financial market developments, the use of quantitative measurement / technical analysis in the stock market, the outlook for the U.S. stock market and the world, the U.S. banking system, and the global economic outlook.

Headquartered in Germany, Elster Gas is a global provider of industrial combustion equipment and gas measurement and control products.

It's based on my experience leading global enterprise social business and digital marketing programs for IBM, where I led my amazing team in establishing the technology giant's social media strategy including employee advocacy, social media listening and monitoring, influencer and brand engagement guidelines, social media governance, policy and measurement standards to a global workforce of over 400,000 employees.

Panel discussions will cover not only munis but also the outlook for the US and world stock markets, the global economic outlook, and the use of quantitative measurement and technical analysis in the stock market.

They assist brand owners control the variables through print facility certification and scientific, repeatable measurement of global packaging.

For more details see the Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction and Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste.

Global food companies are hungry for insights, and we oblige with resources from published research to our patent - pending EsSense Profile ® — a scientific measurement of the very emotional human response to flavor.

Consistent with the second step of the approach endorsed by Champions 12.3, this summer we partnered with the World Resources Institute to launch the first ever global standard for the measurement of food loss and waste (FLW).

The EDF team is designing MethaneSAT to provide more - precise measurements, at a resolution of 1 square kilometre, with global coverage at least once a week.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

This work was supported by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science under the auspices of the project «Convergent Science and Technology for Measurements at the Nanoscale» (15011053), grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea (2014-023563, NRF -2008-0061906, NRF - 2013R1A1A1076141, NRF - 2012M3C1A1048861, 2011-0017605, BSR - 2012R1A2A2A01045496 and NMTD - 2012M3A7B4049888) funded by the Korea government (MSIP), a grant (2011-0031630) from the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics through the Global Frontier Research Program of MSIP, the Priority Research Center Program (2012-0005859), a grant (2011-0030786) from the Center for Topological Matters at POSTECH, the NSF (DMR - 1122594), AFOSR (FA95550 -09-0705), ONR (N00014 -13-1-0662), Army Research Office (ARO) grant W911NF -13-1-0471 and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2013.

Global annual emissions calculated from laboratory measurements could reach 1.5 x 1014 grams of methane and 5 x 1016 grams of carbon dioxide.

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

The study, published online today in Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet of direct measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.

Climatologists looking for signs of global warming have been vexed by a contradiction between ground - based and airborne temperature measurements.

In addition to these measurements several ground stations of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receive data from GPS, Galileo and GLONASS.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

Unfortunately, current simulation models, which combine global climate models with aerosol transport models, consistently underestimate the amount of these aerosols in the Arctic compared to actual measurements during the spring and winter seasons, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of these substances on the climate.

For the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC with its ground stations and modern weather satellites provide reliable global data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapor.

As superb as these maps are, they are only the beginning — these contain less than 10 percent of the measurements that MOLA can potentially collect during the Global Surveyor mapping mission, and the MOLA instrument is collecting about 900,000 measurements of elevation every day.

One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled measurements of ocean temperature.

«St. Laurent Institute has adapted true single - molecule sequencing technology to global transcriptome analysis, providing state - of - the - art technology for the measurement of the output of the human genome,» said Georges St. Laurent III, Scientific Director of the St. Laurent Institute.

Earlier this spring, Marcelino's group published the first global index to standardize measurements of different coral species» vulnerability to thermal stress.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

Executive Summary The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was created to make the best possible estimate of global temperature change using as complete a record of measurements as possible and by applying novel methods for the estimation and elimination of systematic biases.

The loss of satellite - based «ocean color» measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — help regulate the global carbon cycle.

The newly released measurements constitute a nearly continuous global record of the variability in this radiation belt for the past 16 years, including how it responds to solar storms.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

«What we have found is that America has wonderful health care services for those who enjoy them,» says Lopez, today an IHME affiliate professor and the Rowden - White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

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.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.