Sentences with phrase «global water cycle»

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate change.

Although many researchers support Ridoutt's work, others say we don't yet know enough about global water cycles to accurately measure environmental impact.

River systems, and more generally the entire global water cycle, control the movement of constituents over vast distances, from the continental land - masses to the world s oceans and to the atmosphere.

Durack, P. J., Wijffels, S. E. & Matear, R. J. Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000.

The Aquarius instrument will measure the ocean's salinity in a bid to better understand the global water cycle — and climate change

However, in the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC concluded that «Modelling indicates that SRM methods, if realizable, have the potential to substantially offset a global temperature rise, but they would also modify the global water cycle, and would not reduce ocean acidification.»

For instance, a study this year of ocean - salinity data from between 1950 and 2000 by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) found that the global water cycle — the rate at which water evaporates and falls as rain — has increased at double the pace projected by models that aim to simulate the global climate.

The Earth's rising temperature is expected to knock the global water cycle out of whack, but exactly how it will change is uncertain.

«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.

The jet stream is inextricably tied to the global water cycle and the observed increase in extreme weather events, motivating scientists to uncover the mysteries of jet stream activity.

Related Content «Atmospheric River» Aims at West Coast; Warmup in Plains Rich Moisture Feed Helped Blizzard Bury Northeast Climate Change Has Intensified the Global Water Cycle Atmospheric Rivers Grow, Causing Worse Floods Ahead

Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes.

Changes in the global water cycle in response to the warming over the 21st century will not be uniform.

This issue points out the importance of establishing a salinity monitoring network that would provide insight into the global water cycle that we do not presently have.

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A reexamination of the global water cycle shows that tropical coastlines exert a profound influence on atmospheric water circulation by wringing water vapor from the atmosphere.

Atmospheric rivers are long plumes of concentrated water vapor that are an important feature of the global water cycle.

It also says that human influence has been detected in: warming of the atmosphere and the ocean; changes in the global water cycle; reductions in snow and ice; global mean sea level rise; and changes in some climate extremes.

As part of my past and ongoing research I have used a range of observations and models to examine how clouds interact with background aerosols, how clouds respond to warming, and what role clouds play in the global water cycle.

Paul Durack has primary research interests in Physical Oceanography, Ocean Heat exchanges, Global change, the Hydrological Cycle, Oceanography and Global Water Cycle Change.

Thus, to successfully predict the future of the global water cycle, we need to understand the changes in transport of freshwater in the ocean.

Citation: Stammer, D. (2016), Salinity monitoring gives insight into the global water cycle, Eos, 97, doi: 10.1029 / 2016EO049749.

The global water cycle is one of the fundamental elements of the Earth's climate system, involving the exchange of freshwater within the entire ocean - land - atmosphere system.

Observing changes in salinity helps scientists understand ocean circulation and currents, the global water cycle, and other fundamental features of the seas.

Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes (Figure SPM.6 and Table SPM.1).

«In general, understanding how Earth's climate varies on decadal timescales and, especially, the way in which fresh water is passed between different reservoirs within the global water cycle, rightfully remains at the forefront of climate science with wide - ranging implications with regards to understanding future conditions both in the near - term and long - term.

Scientists plan to use the Iso2k database to uncover how external climate forcings, anthropogenic forcings, and internal variability contributed to variations in the global water cycle.

Extending this concept to the global water cycle, Pielke and Chase (2003) quantified landscape forcing in terms of precipitation and moisture flux changes.

The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (Summary for Policymakers) states, «Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes.

States that changes in the global water cycle are expected as a result of anthropogenic climate change, but large uncertainties exist in how these changes will be manifest regionally, especially the case over the tropical oceans

As temperatures get warmer, the global water cycle is changing as evaporation and precipitation increase.

At the same time, the global water cycle is intensifying due to climate change, with wetter regions generally becoming wetter and drier regions becoming even drier.

«Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes,» the report said.

Huntington is the author of a recent review of more than 100 peer - reviewed studies showing that although many aspects of the global water cycle — including precipitation, evaporation and sea surface temperatures — have increased or risen, the trend can not be consistently correlated with increases in the frequency or intensity of storms or floods over the past century.

«As more and more carbon is released to the atmosphere by human activities, the climate warms, triggering an intensification of the global water cycle that produces more powerful storms, leading to destruction of more trees, which then acts to amplify climate warming.»

The world's population relies on the global water cycle for food security and economic prosperity.