Sentences with phrase «global observations»

Our second essential source of information is provided by global observations today, especially satellite observations.

In a first, geologists have compiled a set of global observations of the movement of the Earth's mantle — the 3,000 - kilometer - thick layer of hot silicate rocks between the crust and the core.

Rising temperatures have caused the amount of Arctic sea ice to shrink dramatically since global observations began in the 1970s.

For global observations since the late 1950s, the most recent versions of all available data sets show that the troposphere has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere has cooled markedly since 1979.

Implement the Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations (IGACO) through the GAW programme contributing to the WMO Integrated Global Observations System

We compared the present - day simulations with near - global observations from the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument flown on NASA's Terra satellite and with local surface measurements.

Rising temperatures have caused the amount of Arctic sea ice to shrink dramatically since global observations began in the 1970s.

As far as current global observations are concerned, Hansen cites both the decline of Arctic sea ice and the worldwide retreat of mountain glaciers as causes for major concern.

The U.S. Earth Observing System run by NASA comprises polar - orbiting and low - inclination satellites that make long - term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere and oceans.

SkS has looked at another study (Kaufmann [2011]-RRB- which suggested an increase in aerosol forcing (greater cooling) due to the rapid industrialization in China in the last decade, however we don't have any direct and accurate global observations yet to support this.

However, lacking global observations of surface mass and ocean heat content capable of resolving year to year variations with sufficient accuracy, comprehensive diagnosis of the events early in the altimetry record (e.g. such as determining the relative roles of thermal expansion versus mass changes) has remained elusive.

Systematic global observations are an essential underpinning of research to improve understanding of the climate system.

First of all probably the biggest climate news of 2017 comes not from the scientific literature (is therefore not featured in the Royal Society report), but from direct global observations: based on preliminary data the current year is likely to rank among the three hottest years on the global record — including 2015 (2nd) and 2016 (1st), with 2014 ranking 4th.

Near global observations of other surface «weather» variables, such as precipitation and winds, have been made for about a hundred years.

Secretary of Commerce Don Evans also announced a $ 103 million two - year federal initiative to accelerate the deployment of new global observation technologies, focused on oceans and atmospheric aerosols and carbon.

«There is a need for global observations if we're going to obtain a full understanding of these phenomena.

References: recent global observations of co2 fertilization effects.

Interestingly, the near - global observations show a greater drop in outgoing longwave radiation at the CO2 wavelengths around 700 cm - 1 compared to the change over tropical regions.

Plans for the next decade of the World Climate Research Programme require continuing global observations of clouds and the most practical way to fulfill this requirement is to continue ISCCP until it can be replaced by a much more capable system with similar time resolutions and global coverage.

The World Meteorological Organization have released their annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin which described the state of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, based on Global observations through to 2016.

Simultaneously exploiting global observations and local high - resolution simulations with the data assimilation and machine learning tools that have recently become available presents the key opportunity for dramatic progress in Earth system modeling.

The sea - surface height measurements begun by TOPEX / POSEIDON satellite in 1992 and now carried on by Jason provide an unprecedented 13 - year - long record of consistent, continuous global observations of Earth's oceans.

Satellite altimetry has provided global observations of rising sea levels since the early 1990s [Cazenave et al., 2014].

New tools from data assimilation and machine learning make it possible to integrate global observations and local high - resolution simulations in an Earth system model (ESM) that systematically learns from both.

Meech is helping coordinate a global observation campaign, which presently includes nights on large telescopes in Chile and Hawaii, as well as five orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope.

By 2020, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is due to be completed, the country is expected to host 70 % of the global observation surface for large optical and infrared telescopes.

In 2017, NASA is launching two missions to investigate this dynamic region: the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, and Global Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD.

To make any global observations about de novo mutations, one generally needs unbiased whole - genome sequencing data for an individual and both parents.

Above the surface, global observations since the late 1950s show that the troposphere (up to about 10 km) has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere (about 10 — 30 km) has cooled markedly since 1979.

Trenberth was, of course, referring to the inadequate state of global observations, such as the sparsely sampled deep ocean among other things, but his comment was predictably distorted by misinformers and spawned a fake - skeptic climate myth of its own.

Her photographs are an effort at unity between personal reconciliation and global observations.

The required efforts in global observations and climate analysis are challenging, but the benefits from improved understanding of climate will surely warrant the work invested.

There are no global observations on changes in export production or respiration.

It consists of four components: analysis software, an observationally based collection of global or near - global observations, a database of performance metrics computed from all models contributing to CMIP, and usage documentation.

Since the late 1970s, other data from Earth - observation satellites have been used to provide a wide range of global observations of various components of the climate system.

The results open the possibility that recent climate sensitivity estimates from global observations and [intermediate complexity models] are systematically considerably lower or higher than the truth, since they are typically based on the same realization of climate variability.»