Sentences with phrase «in terrestrial systems»

It reiterates — also with «high confidence» — earlier calls for «an integrated approach» that includes «reducing CO2 emissions by reducing deforestation, forest degradation and forest fires; storing carbon in terrestrial systems (for example, through afforestation); and providing bioenergy feedstocks.»

Despite faster rates of warming in terrestrial systems compared to ocean environments, the velocity of range shifts for marine taxa exceeds those reported for terrestrial species.

From John HarveyIt is not only in terrestrial systems that tomatoes can indicate the past presence of wastewater pollution (16...

Major challenges in the near future include assigning clearer attribution to sea ice as a primary driver of such dynamics, especially in terrestrial systems, and addressing pressures arising from human use of arctic coastal and near - shore areas as sea ice diminishes.

While each of the models consider abatement opportunities in the terrestrial system, the method of attaining these opportunities differs across the four RCP models.

There's also a big difference in the cumulative amount of carbon stored in the terrestrial system, once N and P are limited.

It supplies a plausible mechanistic link for solar variability amplification in the terrestrial system.

Recent work attempts to account for the chain of physical processes in which solar magnetic fi elds modulate the heliosphere, in turn altering the penetration of the galactic cosmic rays, the flux of which produces the cosmogenic isotopes that are subsequently deposited in the terrestrial system following additional transport and chemical processes.

Not exact matches

While such simplifying assumptions were deemed acceptable in the past, they can no longer be regarded as a correct reflection of the underlying dynamics of any realistic natural system.12 Above all, we have shown the contingent (or probabilistic) nature of all dynamically evolving systems at both the microscopic (atomic and sub-atomic) and macroscopic (terrestrial) levels.

[246][248] Tourism Landmarks, National Border, Region and Terrestrial plain of the 4th Republic of Ghana Coastal Plain Accra, Apam, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum National Park, Kokrobite, Nzulezo, Sekondi - Takoradi, Ada Foah The Gulf of Guinea coastal plain with the seat of government and capital city, several castles and forts and the best preserved rainforest in Ghana Ashanti - Kwahu Koforidua, Kumasi, Obuasi, Sunyani Forested hills and the ancient Kingdom of Ashanti Volta Basin Tamale massive and world's largest Lake Volta, the river system that feeds it and Ghana eastern border crossing Northern Plains Wa, Bolgatanga, Mole National Park Savanna plains and north Ghana trade route and border crossing

In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems.

The new realization of the International Terrestrial Reference System DTRF2014, created by the geodesists at the TUM on behalf of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, is already eagerly awaited in the expert community.

«The timing of snowmelt and length of the snow - free season significantly impacts weather, the permafrost, and wildlife — in short, the Arctic terrestrial system as a whole,» said Christopher Cox, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, Colorado.

Similar objects in the Solar System likely delivered the bulk of water on Earth and represent the building blocks of the terrestrial planets.

The rise of industrial systems in the past century has transformed the majority of the terrestrial biosphere into intensively used anthromes dominated by novel ecological processes.

In the Solar System, the asteroid belt contains the leftover building blocks for the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, so planetary scientists study the asteroids to gain a better understanding of how rocky, and potentially habitable planets are formed.

The discovery is remarkable because the debris appears to be rocky and suggests that terrestrial planets like Tatooine — Luke Skywalker's home world in Star Wars — might exist in the system.

Dr David Armstrong from the University of Warwick's Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, commented: «Mercury stands out from the other Solar System terrestrial planets, showing a very high fraction of iron and implying it formed in a different way.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

To better understand the likelihood of such a scenario in the Earth - Moon system's origin, Richard C. Greenwood and colleagues analyzed the oxygen isotopic compositions of a large set of lunar and terrestrial samples.

Although Elton and Leopold identified trophic cascades in primarily terrestrial systems, such as the Kaibab Plateau and northern Mexico, today the majority have been observed in aquatic systems.

Terrestrial radio transmissions in E-band are suitable as a cost - effective replacement for deployment of optical fiber or as ad - hoc networks in the case of crises and catastrophe, and for connecting base stations in the backhaul of mobile communication systems.

«The carbon cycling that happens in freshwater systems needs to be accounted for in estimates of terrestrial production,» Holgerson said.

Over the past few years, terrestrial telescopes such as the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope (MAGIC) in the Canary Islands and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) in Namibia have seen low - energy photons from a gamma - ray burst (GRB) arriving before their high - energy counterparts.

Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers propose that the Red Planet didn't form in the inner solar system alongside the other terrestrial planets as previously thought.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terrestrial life.

This study highlights the key role of vegetation in controlling future terrestrial hydrologic response and emphasizes that the continental carbon and water cycles are intimately coupled over land and must be studied as an interconnected system.

But we already have some good terrestrial carbon sequestration systems, including the vast subarctic peat forests of Russia and North America, the huge equatorial peat forests of Borneo, the Amazon basin and the smaller forests in New Zealand, Tasmania and South America.

Understanding the origin and fate of methane on these bodies will provide crucial clues to the processes that shape the formation, evolution and habitability of terrestrial worlds in this solar system and possibly in others.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

My research focuses on the formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System and around other stars, especially with regards to the delivery of water and other biologically - important materials.

In this paper, we review the scientific aspects of planetary space weather at different regions of our Solar System, performing a comparative planetology analysis that includes a direct reference to the circum - terrestrial case.

In the latter half of 2008, two teams of astronomers began technically difficult searches for small terrestrial planets around the two brightest stars of the Alpha Centauri triple system.

More generally, these two results demonstrate that the longterm habitability (and astronomical observables) of a terrestrial planet can depend on the detailed architecture of the planetary system in which it resides.

(3) Do dense warm dust systems preferentially occur for disk systems in the 10 — 300 Myr terrestrial planet formation era?

Understanding this «end member» among the terrestrial planets is crucial to developing a better understanding of how the planets in our solar system — including our own!

Dr. Alex B. Guenther, a renowned scientist in land ecosystem and atmospheric research, has joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to lead research in the interactions between terrestrial systems and climate.

Today's announcement follows February's discovery of a system of seven terrestrial planets, three of which were in the habitable zone.

Stephen obtained his B.Sc in marine biology and biotechnology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, an Advanced Technical Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and a Master's degree in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, where his research focused on terrestrial and oceanographic predictors of Steller sea lion habitat in the north Pacific.

The results hint that a large fraction of planets smaller than 1.5 times the radius of Earth may be comprised of the silicates, iron, nickel and magnesium that are found in the terrestrial planets here in the solar system.

Of these candidates, 219 are new in this catalog and include two new candidates in multi-planet systems (KOI - 82.06 and KOI - 2926.05), and ten new high - reliability, terrestrial - size, habitable zone candidates.

KNOXVILLE — Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terrestrial life.

It speaks to the very heart of trying to understand how life may have evolved not just on earth but on other terrestrial bodies both in our own solar system and indeed around other stars that have planets that lie in the so - called «habitable zone» (where liquid water can exist on the surface).

In his view, Pluto and the solar system's other dwarfs deserve a place at the planetary table, alongside giants like Jupiter and terrestrial worlds like Earth.

It will perhaps even detect signs of extra-terrestrial life as the SKA will be sensitive enough to detect signals, comparable to terrestrial television transmitters, from planets in nearby solar systems.

«We find that transfer of rock capable of carrying life has likely occurred from both Earth and Mars to all the terrestrial planets in the Solar System and Jupiter, and transfer from Earth to Saturn is also probable,» conclude the researchers.

DefinitionSamarium — neodymium dating uses the radioactive decay of 147Sm to 143Nd and 146Sm to 142Nd to measure the age of rocks and minerals and to trace and date geochemical processes responsible for the chemical differentiation of the Earth and the terrestrial planets and to the geochemical and cosmochemical communities in the early 1970s, the Sm — Nd radioactive decay systems have grown into essential tools in geochronology and particularly for the Sm - Nd dating of gabbro - and garnet - bearing contact metamorphic / anatectic rocks from Krutfjellet, Nordland, and some geochemical aspects of the intrusives

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

Their presence in large numbers can have significant impacts on terrestrial systems.