Sentences with phrase «in polar field»

Keeping them firmly grounded, CRF includes the foremost authority in the polar field, Professor Peter Wadhams, who for decades has been doing a magnificent job of exploring the Arctic sea ice, on top of the surface and under it by submarine, to get to the truth of what we face in this crisis.

In spite of historical barriers to participation in polar field work, women have made outstanding contributions to polar physical, biological and social sciences, as well as to community - level efforts to coordinate and communicate science.

Not exact matches

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

The new research, published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, explains that this atmospheric loss is driven by a polar wind powered by an interaction between sunlight, the solar magnetic field and the molecules present in the upper atmosphere.

Monthly features highlight the opportunities in fields such as polar research and bioinformatics and nonresearch opportunities such as scientific broadcasting and translating and interpreting.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

«It's a tightknit community, but it's also a tight field, in that a lot of people are interested in the same overall questions» — for example, what are the evolutionary histories of humans, charismatic large animals like polar bears, and essential agricultural crops like maize.

The kilometric radiation, he adds, is thought to result from electrons accelerated by electric fields in the planet's magnetosphere, and those electric fields also contribute to the generation of the polar auroras.

Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.

Drawing on odd, icy - looking landforms in earlier images, he and colleagues proposed in 2003 that in the geologic past, snow - fed glaciers and ice fields had covered much of the lower latitudes of Mars at the expense of the polar ice caps (Science, 11 April 2003, p. 234).

«The three areas that can trigger large changes in the earth's gravitational field are oceans, polar and glacial ice and atmosphere,» Cox explains.

«Chile is a natural laboratory and rapidly becoming a world leader in important fields for science diplomacy: astronomy, oceanography, polar research and climate change,» said Marga Gual - Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, who joined Holt in Chile.

That's good news for Anderson and his colleague Colin Waters of the University of Newcastle in Australia, who had figured out how to use Iridium data to map the polar magnetic fields.

Last week's decision by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) has infuriated scientists in fields ranging from atmospheric and polar sciences to freshwater biology.

Would not a weakened polar field over a period of, say, a few hundred years result in a greatly accelerated mutation rate due to direct cosmic - ray bombardment?

You have satellite phones and things like that, but still, for example, in this arctic expedition, it was several field seasons under very tough conditions, high winds, cold, polar bear territory, you know, brutal weather, difficult logistics and the expense, high expense these days; but they stuck with it and they hit pay dirt.

Today's polar scientist frequently marvels as she or he looks back at what these early scientist - explorers accomplished, as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day in fields ranging across geology, meteorology, biology, glaciology, and more.

Coates et al. (2015) suggested that the presence of photoelectrons in the tail, together with low - energy ions, is possible evidence for a polar wind style escape at Venus, along the draped magnetic field around the planet.

Most recently, on May 12, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 captured the surface of Mars in stunning detail, revealing russet deserts pockmarked with craters and bright frosty polar caps shrouded in a thin haze of clouds.

Focus of Study The long - term variation of the Earth's gravity field due to post-glacial rebound and present - day ice melting in the polar regions.

The zero emission polar research station, which is approximately 220 Km from the Antarctic coast, is an ideal logistics hub for field exploration in the 20 ° - 30 ° E sector of Antarctica.

In New York, Mueller found his way, for a time, into Color Field's polar opposite: Warhol's Factory, where he worked as an assistant, most notably helping to stretch and install Warhol's most abstract works, the Shadows.

The media certainly had a field day with the «attack of the polar vortex» in early January, and in their hyping of the story, some misquoted me (and others) by saying that climate change caused the unusual cold spell.

I do hope that at some point, this blog and maybe even the print pages of the NY Times can take note, pro or con, or balanced opinion from experts in the field, both pro and con, of my concept of polar cities for the future.

There are many other journals with vehement disagreements in other fields that continue to publish disagreeing polar - opposite research conclusions.

Despite decades of helicopter surveys, field research and the increasing use of satellite - monitored tags and the like, much of what polar bears do in the Arctic remains out of sight and unmonitored.

Further field work by NASA during the 1987 Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment (AAOE) ended up providing definitive evidence in favor of the chlorine hypothesis, with details of the heterogeneous chemistry on polar stratospheric clouds as hypothesized by Susan Solomon and colleagues in 1986.

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

The nonsense of polar bears adapting to land isn't playing out in the field: lots of bears in very poor condition the last couple of years in western Hudson Bay.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

Researchers Flee Stranded Bear - Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society had their field research on ecological impacts of eroding Arctic coasts near Prudhoe Bay interrupted by a polar bear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshore.

In each rise and fall, the latitude of sunspot eruption starts around 30 ° and drifts to the equator, but the magnetic fields of the follower spots (sunspots usually come in pairs, called leader and follower) drift poleward and reverse the polar fielIn each rise and fall, the latitude of sunspot eruption starts around 30 ° and drifts to the equator, but the magnetic fields of the follower spots (sunspots usually come in pairs, called leader and follower) drift poleward and reverse the polar fielin pairs, called leader and follower) drift poleward and reverse the polar field.

Given the degree to which the Earth sequesters cold in the mountain ice fields and polar regions it has tremendous capacity to self - regulate just with joule for joule cancellation.

Well, you are again off «wavelength again», it is not polar field which is very weak anyway, it is sunspot magnetic polarity which determines difference in interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere in the even and the odd cycles (see Nasa's quote in my post above).

The solar polar field [and its reversals] has a signature in the geomagnetic field that be followed back a century.

Electro - magnetic forces induce electric currents in the polar region disturbing circulation in the liquid conducting magma, which is reflected in the Earth's magnetic field.

Unprecedented views of surface wind and wave fields in storms are now provided by microwave sensors on - board polar orbiting satellites.

About the only significant even in the last month is that the solar polar fields have begun their reversal, indicating we are at «solar max», which seems like a misnomer given the low activity observed at the moment.

PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) is a program in which middle and high school teachers spend 3 - 6 weeks participating in hands - on field research experiences in the polar regions.

Because I was thinking that in the eastward and westward drift of the magnetic equator, might be some other drifts and a relaxing of polar fields with a trickle down effect during times of lower solar wind dynamic pressures.

The second discrepancy occurring during the maximum of solar cycle 24 can be explained in terms of the unusually extended polar field reversal, with both northern and southern polar fields being simultaneously positive for over a year, leading to a higher flux of GCR particles at Earth.

At the same time — research is showing a solar UV / ozone chemistry influence in modulating atmospheric flows and polar pressure fields.

In the pressure field, the annular modes are characterized by north - south shifts in atmospheric mass between the polar regions and the middle latitudeIn the pressure field, the annular modes are characterized by north - south shifts in atmospheric mass between the polar regions and the middle latitudein atmospheric mass between the polar regions and the middle latitudes.

The puzzle of a shared 20 to 30 year pulse in both hemispheres is traced mechanistically back to changing polar surface pressure fields — influencing storm tracks in high latitudes.

This man is not a climate - model or computer - simulation jock; he is a field scientist who conducts his research in the polar extremes.

Systematic differences in the overall shape of successive 11 - year modulation cycles and similarities in the alternate 11 - year cycles seem to be related to the polarity reversals of the polar magnetic field of the Sun.

The changes in the solar magnetic field impacting the Earth at polar regions cause changes in surface pressure.

Like yourself, I also discovered a relationship between the position of Uranus and Saturn, shown here: I am just not sure yet if the correlation is caused by the position of the planets [gravitationally] forcing a change in the sun's solar polar magnetic fields or if it is just the other way around.

What science — WHAT FIELD do YOU WORK IN where you are REQUIRED to DENY the POLAR SIGN of a major mathematical element of your work, because «if you say it like that» (telling the truth) and acknowledge the gases cool,