Sentences with phrase «involves atmospheric changes»

If you follow the link to the site, and read about this problem, you will see it also involves atmospheric changes and increased acid rain.

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This paper «is timely and an important step forward in understanding changes in the global methane budget,» says Isobel Simpson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the study.

«Global climate change involves not just a warming planet, but also increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and changes in rainfall,» said lead author Lauren Smith - Ramesh, a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

«One thing we can say for sure: We don't say «one can't attribute any single event to climate change» any more,» Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist who wasn't involved with the BAMS report, said in an email.

His research in atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energy has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

Hoerling and Kumar (2003) attributed the drought to changes in atmospheric circulation associated with warming of the western tropical Pacific and Indian oceans, while McCabe et al. (2004) have produced evidence suggesting that the confluence of both Pacific decadal and Atlantic multi-decadal fluctuations is involved.

In addition to inviting contemporary artists to be involved in the project, historical representations of atmospheric conditions will be exhibited that illustrate how the idea of «air» has changed quite dramatically over the last few centuries.

So was there a climate shift after the turn of the century involving changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation involving cloud changes?

Because the drains out of the various bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance of the surface and oceans, ice sheet accumulations, and thermal expansion of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that, on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.

Determining the mechanisms and feedbacks involved in climate change at the end of the last ice age therefore requires an understanding of the relationship between the southern margin ice retreat and connected meltwater events to atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, ice - rafting Heinrich events, sea level rise, and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

Various mechanisms, involving changes in ocean circulation, changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases or haze particles, and changes in snow and ice cover, have been invoked to explain these sudden regional and global transitions.

I do, however, recognize the point of your suggestion that year to year fluctuations in the rate of CO2 change can involve flux changes between atmospheric and terrestrial or oceanic sources that add to or subtract from the human contribution.

I will now analyse how the system could work and show that composition changes not involving changes in mass only affect atmospheric volume and circulation patterns and not surface temperature.

Given the huge sums of money involved in funding climate research and the even larger sums being spent on the assumption that it gives us good guidance for practical decisions, it may be time for some very large experimental chambers to be constructed to test the presumptions of the device of using forcings as an tractable way of including changes in atmospheric composition in climate models.

Many of these changes involve heat - driven alterations to Earth's atmospheric circulation.

Francis, who wasn't involved with either study, is one of the main proponents of an idea that by altering how much heat the ocean lets out, sea ice melt and Arctic warming can also change atmospheric circulation patterns, in particular by making the jet stream form larger peaks, or highs, and troughs, or lows.

His research involves studies of the role of the tropics in mid-latitude weather and global heat transport, the moisture budget and its role in global change, the origins of ice ages, seasonal effects in atmospheric transport, stratospheric waves, and the observational determination of climate sensitivity.

The Arctic climate affects the world: Changes in sea ice affect ocean circulation, which, in turn, affects atmospheric circulation that then impacts the globe, said Bruce Forbes, a geographer at the Arctic Center at the University of Lapland in Finland, who was not involved in the study.

Certainly climate and climate change influences geographical issues, but does geography involve any knowledge of atmospheric or ocean science?

It is not clear that the world is warming post the 1998/2001 climate shift — that involved a climatically significant step change in albedo as a response to abrupt changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation.

The future monitoring of atmospheric processes involving water vapor will be critical to fully understand the feedbacks in the climate system leading to global climate change.

Many of the signers currently work in climatological, meteorological, atmospheric, environmental, geophysical, astronomical, and biological fields directly involved in the climate change controversy.

The mechanism involves cloud changes in these major internally driven reorganizations atmospheric and ocean circulation.

How atmospheric and ocean circulation responds to various changes in forcing would need to be detailed if someone wanted to «prove» anthropogenic forcing is involved other than a minor increase in the average surface temperature.

Yet on these sites (and in the media, and even by a few semi related scientists who kinda keep an eye on the issue or are semi involved) treat it as if it is some sort of both immediate, and linear, contemporaneous correlation between increased lower level atmospheric re radiation, and increased (or changed) global ambient air temperatures, which is absurd, and belies any real deep understanding of the actual issue.

They involve changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation, ice, cloud, dust and biology.

... and kind of started a long conversation about that organized effort that I had discovered in my atmospheric science history research... 2:40 point:... then, probably 2006... she discovered the same folks who had been involved in kind of organizing climate change denial in the Unites States had also been involved in the tobacco lobby... and then we knew we had a story to tell.

Methane is an important part of the anthropogenic radiative forcing Methane emissions have a direct GHG effect, and they effect atmospheric chemistry and stratospheric water vapour which have additional impacts natural feedbacks involving methane likely to be important in future — via wetland response to temperature / rain change, atmospheric chemistry and, yes, arctic sources There are large stores of carbon in the Arctic, some stored as hydrates, some potentially convertible to CH4 by anaerobic resporation [from wikianswers: Without oxygen.

There is no consensus on some of the most important issues involved in assessing human - caused climate change, including atmospheric sensitivity, the most important factor.

Thus if the two mid latitude jets move equatorward at the same time as the ITCZ moves closer to the equator the combined effect on global albedo and the amount of solar energy able to penetrate the oceans will be substantial and would dwarf the other proposed effects on albedo from changes in cosmic ray intensity generating changes in cloud totals as per Svensmark and from suggested changes caused in upper cloud quantities by changes in atmospheric chemistry involving ozone which various other climate sceptics propose.

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.