Sentences with phrase «improve weather and climate»

The 2nd Pan-GASS meeting sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science is focused on «Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes» (UMAP) and aims to bring together NWP and climate scientists, observationalists and modellers to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science and to coordinate efforts to improve weather and climate models.

For my research in climate science, I use a satellite to measure physical and optical properties of clouds with the view to further improve weather and climate models.

The paper (DOI 10.1038 / ngeo2957), published May 29 in Nature Geoscience, is the first to look at biosphere - atmosphere interactions using purely observational data and could greatly improve weather and climate predictions critical to crop management, food security, water supplies, droughts, and heat waves.

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It states, in part, «Creating a sustainable regional food system that meets [the $ 1 billion] demand and offers equal access to nutritious food will improve public health, bolster the city's «good food» economy, build resilience in the wake of extreme weather events and reduce the city's «foodprint» as a way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.»

Regardless of what climate models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving risk prediction and forecasts.

Other crowdsourced projects include labeling aerial photos of Mongolia in a quest to find Genghis Khan's tomb and improving climate models by poring over World War I ship logs for weather information.

Small, low - cost satellites may vastly improve future predictions of weather and climate change

«Medical experts argue that dealing with climate change will improve our public health by reducing the likelihood of extreme weather events, reducing air quality and allergen problems, and limiting the spread of pests that carry infectious diseases.»

NASA is preparing to launch a duo of cloud - monitoring satellites that could help produce more accurate weather predictions and improve our understanding of how clouds affect climate.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

«Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent: Engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30 % of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions.»

There is hope that attribution of hurricanes and other dynamic weather events will improve as scientists tinker on climate models, said Adam Sobel, a climate scientist at Columbia University.

Among the scientific advances that will be required is better integration of weather and climate models to improve decadal climate information to help people plan,» Moss said.

Even so, our forecasting abilities must further improve for Montanans to better prepare for short - term variation in weather patterns and expected long - term impacts associated with climate change.

This understanding will help scientists improve global climate projections and predictions of extreme weather and climate change.

Because the monsoon drives weather patterns around the world and affects the stratosphere globally, this research will also improve our understanding of climate processes worldwide and will improve climate predictions where we live.»

As research leaders in developing and using models to provide scientific insights into weather and climate change, Qian and others are striving to understand uncertainty in systems and modeling to improve projections and help prepare vulnerable regions for potential climate change impact.

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

2.4 by 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality

The purpose of NASA's Earth science program is to develop a scientific understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human - induced changes and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.

Through its actions, NCAR seems to be stating that physical science alone holds the key to coping with climate change, or even working to improve our resilience during typical seasonal fluctuations and weather events.

Of course, there are some differences — the butterfly effect has a basis in physical reality, so as our understanding of physical processes and the ability to mathematically model them improves, so will our ability to bridge the gap between predicting weather and climate.

«Along with VIIRS, NPP carries four more instruments that monitor the environment on Earth and the planet's climate, providing crucial information on long - term patterns to assess climate change and data used by meteorologists to improve short - term weather forecasting.»

We strive to translate scientific discoveries into improved models for weather forecasting and climate prediction.

In addition, they said, the data should help improve long - term weather and climate forecasting, and should help in understanding the workings of severe storms.

The potential benefits of this commonality are significant and include improved predictions on all time scales and stronger collaboration and shared knowledge, infrastructure, and technical capabilities among those in the weather and climate prediction communities...

Preventive and adaptive actions, such as setting up extreme weather early warning systems and improving water infrastructure, can reduce the severity of these impacts, but there are limits to the effectiveness of such actions in the face of some projected climate change threats.

The subseasonal to seasonal timescale provides a unique opportunity to capitalise on the expertise of the weather and climate research communities, and to bring them together to improve predictions on a timescale of particular relevance to the Global Framework for Climate Services climate research communities, and to bring them together to improve predictions on a timescale of particular relevance to the Global Framework for Climate Services Climate Services (GFCS).

GFDL scientists strive to improve the understanding and prediction of weather and climate extremes.

Continuing advances in weather and climate science will make it possible for the WMO community to satisfy this demand for continuously improved services, as well as to contribute to the 2030 Agenda.

This capability would enable a model to continuously update and improve parameterization approaches on the fly, with the potential to improve climate predictions and short - term weather forecasts.

The main objective of the Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards Project for Nepal is to diminish the impacts of extreme climate - related events, protect lives and assets, and support agricultural livelihoods by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning systems, upgrading the existing hydromet and agricultural information management systems, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and wClimate Related Hazards Project for Nepal is to diminish the impacts of extreme climate - related events, protect lives and assets, and support agricultural livelihoods by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning systems, upgrading the existing hydromet and agricultural information management systems, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and wclimate - related events, protect lives and assets, and support agricultural livelihoods by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning systems, upgrading the existing hydromet and agricultural information management systems, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warning.

World Bank: The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved funding of a project that aims to enhance government capacity to mitigate climate - related hazards in Nepal by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate - vulnerable communities.

Requires the Climate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakehClimate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakehclimate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakehclimate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakehclimate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakehclimate information by local and regional stakeholders.

(v) conduct research to improve forecasting, characterization, and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities, including its effects on agricultural production, natural resources, energy supply and demand, recreation, and other sectors of the economy; and

There are some source of predictability that are still not fully resolved (including those dealing with improving climate models, but also related to unexplored initial conditions or driving conditions), and a great benefit of these predictability studies is that they mimic the practice of weather prediction by confronting models with observations at the relevant time and spatial scales, leading to the necessary inspiration for this model improvement.

Tracking sea surface temperature over a long period is arguably the most reliable way researchers know of measuring the precise rate at which global temperatures are increasing and improves the accuracy of our climate change models and weather forecasts.

«The White House decision to create the Joint Polar Satellite System by restructuring NPOESS will improve the development of critical Earth - observing instruments required for improving weather forecasts, climate monitoring and warning leads for severe storms,» NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said yesterday.

6) More research funding into improved nuclear energy makes lots of sense (fast breeder, thorium, nuclear fusion, etc.) 7) Preparation for natural weather disasters and adaptation to whatever climate Nature (or anyone else) throws at us both make imminent sense, as our hostess has stressed.

We will discuss the evidence for change, the inability of our climate models to predict these changes, the processes responsible for sea ice reduction and improved representation of these processes in climate models, and the impacts of sea ice change on local and global weather and climate.

Adaptation: Sierra Leone has begun adaptation efforts including sustainable land and natural resource management programs as well as improved technical and institutional capacity development to provide improved access to weather and climate data.

Computer models are helpful for improving our understanding of how weather and climate systems work and change over time.

For example, the National Academies recently published a study on the attribution of extreme events in the context of climate change, noting that «advances have come about for two main reasons: one, the understanding of the climate and weather mechanisms that produce extreme events is improving, and two, rapid progress is being made in the methods that are used for event attribution.

This project generated important knowledge on how the vulnerability of agriculture could be reduced and how the buffering ability and resilience could be improved with regard to climate change, climate variability, and changes in the occurrence and strength of extreme weather events.

Climate - smart agriculture includes practical techniques — mulching, intercropping, agro-forestry, and improved water management — as well as technological advances such as better weather forecasting, according to the World Bank.

Increase process understanding of the coupled Arctic system and Arctic lower - latitude interactions to improve NOAA weather, climate, and sea ice forecasts.

Identify new sources of predictive skill and improve predictions of weather, water, and climate through observations, understanding, and modeling of physical processes and phenomena of the coupled Earth system.

Additionally, the development of new technologies and strategies to improve the collection and distribution of observations is central for adaptation and mitigation of the impacts from severe weather events to climate extremes.

Washington, D.C. — A survey of North American cities by the ACEEE and the Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) finds that confronting the challenges of extreme weather, adapting to a changing climate, and improving the health and resiliency of urban populations are driving cities to develop and implement strategies to reduce excess urban heat.

APPLICATE brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in weather and climate prediction in order to improve climate and weather forecasting capacity and to provide guidance on the design of the future observing system in the Arctic.