Sentences with phrase «global observations of»

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.

See also Keeling, C. D., 1993, Global observations of atmospheric CO2, in Heimann, M., ed., The Global Carbon Cycle, New York, Springer - Verlag, p. 1 - 31.

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.

References: recent global observations of co2 fertilization effects.

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.

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

The global observations of electron density profiles from the COSMIC satellites are used for the period of time 1 October 2007 — 31 March 2009, when the 9 - day oscillations in external forcing (solar wind, Kp - index, and the NOAA Power Index) are strong.

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

For the first time, simultaneous global observations of the ERB and a multitude of cloud, aerosol, and surface properties and atmospheric state data are available with a high degree of precision.»

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.

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.

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.

Global observation of EKC hypothesis for CO2, SOx and NOx emission: A policy understanding for climate change mitigation in Bangladesh.

Not exact matches

His entire speech hinged on the simple observation that the addition of carbon to the atmosphere was effectively a worldwide subsidy that had contributed to global warming and prevented humanity from freeing itself from the fossil - fuel era.

With regard to the Fed's observation on oil prices, Yellen said it is «one of the most important developments shaping the global outlook.»

This observation is important because it highlights the potential for an evolving global environment to complicate the challenge of crafting economic policy, and in particular, monetary policy.

Perhaps it makes sense to conclude with the more general observation that changes in the size of global capital flows and the accompanying imbalances increase the importance of sustaining the credibility of monetary policy, because they increase the costs of a loss of credibility or a negative shock to credibility.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

The reasons Costa Rica tops the IL Global Retirement Index fall in line with these observations, although IL offers more detail with an expanded set of criteria.

Karyn Twaronite, global diversity and inclusiveness officer at consulting and accounting firm EY, told Bloomberg that she had received hundreds of emails from employees «raising concerns, thoughts and observations» and «areas of angst,» but also noted she was «hopeful, because there's so much dialogue.»

Communism, philosophically, is what comes after Capitalism if one is going along with Marxs thesis on the law of motion for economies; he gave no time - table, nor no indication of what this future form of the economy would be like - it could be sometime in the middle of this century, or it could be a millenia away; in his thesis, it is almost tautologically true; until then Marx expected Capitalism to succeed as a global force - this was an earlier observation of Hegel that foresaw that «trade» would become «world - historical» in its European form.

But completing the global picture will require many types of observation, including those from instruments on Earth, he adds.

«We need a global space observation system to be in place sooner than later,» says Jean - Yves Le Gall, the head of CNES, France's space agency in Paris.

A GLOBAL analysis of lightning during hurricanes has bolstered observations that the worst winds come a day after the bolts strike.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Its GOLD mission — short for Global - scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission — is slated for launch January 25, the agency announced January 4.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

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.

To address those and other questions, the TOAR research team has produced the first - ever global - scale scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, based on all available surface observations and the peer - reviewed literature.

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

«Advances in global climate models and high quality ocean, atmospheric and land observations are helping us push the frontiers of snowpack prediction.»

Observations are continuing to monitor variability in the production rate, and to determine the global gas production rate, as a function of its distance from the sun.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

Jim Butler, director of NOAA's Global Monitoring Division in Boulder, says that NOAA can not simply fold Keeling's CO2 stations into its own observations budget, given that the value of having two CO2 networks is scientific independence.

The observational data of the study consisted of nearly a million (990,301) observations of 94 different bird species, and the results have now been published as part of the international Global Change Biology publication series.

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

Our observations are adding to a detailed picture of the world's coral reefs, being pieced together online at a repository called the Catlin Global Reef Record.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

They used a high - resolution ocean model that has been shown to do a good job of matching direct satellite observations of the global ocean system.

Using global climate models and NASA satellite observations of Earth's energy budget from the last 15 years, the study finds that a warming Earth is able to restore its temperature equilibrium through complex and seemingly paradoxical changes in the atmosphere and the way radiative heat is transported.

The report calls on the new president to reverse «the deterioration of the U.S. Earth observation infrastructure» and take the lead internationally in monitoring global climate.

The Viking missions of the mid-1970s and subsequent ground - based telescopic observations saw hints of clay, but they were ambiguous, and mid-infrared spectrometers on NASA's orbiting Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey probes came up blank.

The study reveals the importance of long - term observations at key locations of the global ocean circulation.

To get around the problem, Fasullo and Trenberth decided to examine how well 16 global climate models reproduce recent satellite observations of relative humidity in the tropics and subtropics, a quantity that is directly related to cloud formation.

Within minutes of discovery, Sand activated observations with LCO's global network of 18 robotic telescopes, spaced around Earth so that one is always on the night side.

«With such improved satellite data we can for the first time combine global SIF observations with in - situ ecosystem scale data of gross carbon uptake.

The team made observations at many different wavelengths, optimised for different features and cloud layers in Jupiter's atmosphere, to create the first global spectral maps of Jupiter taken from Earth.