Sentences with phrase «key climate processes»

I consider that little credence should be given to estimates for ECS derived from GCM simulations, for various reasons, not least because there can be no assurance that any of the GCMs adequately reflect all key climate processes.

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A key goal of the study was to understand how creationist interest groups, science interest groups, public opinion about evolution and political climate influence the political - reform process related to how evolution is taught in schools.

The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.

He points out that Canada's economy grew while key climate regulations were enacted on coal and other sectors and alleges that the speeding up of oil pipeline approvals was necessary to end a process that used to drag on indefinitely.

The research may force a re-examination of the role of acidity in atmospheric chemistry, especially where it affects key processes in climate change models.

But the Bush White House ultimately stopped the EPA rulemaking process on climate change and instead punted all of the key decisions to the Obama administration.

The ice sheets themselves are the biggest challenge for climate modelling since we don't have direct evidence of the many of the key processes that occur at the ice sheet base (for obvious reasons), nor even of what the topography or conditions are at the base itself.

PNNL researchers play a key role in reducing uncertainty through improved process understanding and modeling of climate processes such as clouds and aerosols.

Plants are major contributors to the chemical weathering of continental rocks, a key process in the carbon cycle that regulates Earth's atmosphere and climate over millions of years.

Key climate - relevant biogeochemical processes such as calcification, primary production and nitrogen fixation are investigated using a large array of techniques, ranging from molecular tools to physiological and ecological approaches.

A key issue in Australia is that climate change exacerbates other threatening processes.

Accurately interpreting climate simulations and quantifying uncertainty is a key to understanding and accurately modeling atmospheric, land, ocean, and socio - economic phenomena and processes.

The capability demonstrated by models under these conditions increases confidence that they simulate some of the key processes and teleconnections in the climate system.

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

During the webinar, we will share the processes and resources districts can use to: • Develop literacy around school climate / culture and social - emotional learning • Understand survey data in order to surface key insights • Create school site and district action plans for promoting positive school climate and SEL SBCUSD and 400 other districts partner with Panorama Education to collect and use school climate and SEL data and to deliver professional development trainings and workshops.

While some of the equations in climate models are based on the laws of physics, many key processes in the model are only approximated and are not directly related to physical laws.

It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...climate change at high northern latitudes...»

Since we very plainly stated the official values of all key parameters and explained the fact of and reasons for any departures we had made from those official values in our own determination of climate sensitivity, the entire process was fully transparent, allowing any reader of our paper to substitute his or her own choice of parameter values for ours.

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You have pointed out the importance of rational skepticism in science, yet precisely this key aspect of the scientific method was crushed by the IPCC process, political representatives and a handful of influential «mainstream «climate scientists.

Troubled and opaque Administration review process is a harbinger of problems for the Fourth National Climate Assessment By Nicky Sundt CSPW Senior Fellow A final draft of a key federal report on the science behind climate change has been leaked... Continue reClimate Assessment By Nicky Sundt CSPW Senior Fellow A final draft of a key federal report on the science behind climate change has been leaked... Continue reclimate change has been leaked... Continue reading →

Speaking of «skeptic» sour grapes, a key passage of the report dealt with supposed interference in the peer review process, referring indirectly to the debacle at the journal Climate Research:

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 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 climate scientists, observationalists and modellers to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science and to coordinate efforts to improve weather and climate climate models.

This can only be achieved with dedicated infrastructures to dynamically process massive information and to perform retrospective - analyses which will be essential key instruments for breakthroughs, and to stimulate multidisciplinary Earth system research and applications in marine and climate sciences.

The components and entry points of the mainstreaming process are explored, key climate change adaptation and mainstreaming concepts are defined, and a comparative overview of existing tools and guidelines is provided.

In our study, we were able to identify and realistically reproduce the key processes for the two abrupt climate shifts.

He told the Climate News Network: «One key way the UN process can help is with finance.

In this post, we will examine some of the key findings in the Cato report and demonstrate how they are flawed, and that Michaels and Cato unwittingly acknowledge that the EPA is correct about the threat of human - caused climate change in the process.

These GCM experiments further re-emphasized the key point of our Science paper that water vapor is indeed a fast feedback process in the climate system.

Chapter 8 discusses the atmospheric radiative processes, a key element in climate change.

The complexity and non-linearity of the climate system does not allow such a simple statistical derivation of climate sensitivity without a physical understanding of the key processes and feedbacks.

A growing literature considers response strategies that aim at preventing damage to particular key elements and processes in geophysical, biological and socio - economic systems that are sensitive to climate change and have limited adaptation potential; policy - makers may want to consider insights from the literature reviewed here in helping them to design policies to prevent DAI.

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

A key part of this process will be to develop a national energy and climate plan for 2030 and beyond, as well as to incorporate climate objectives into integrated energy planning.

The consistent covariance of TLC reflection with surface temperature on timescales from seasonal to interannual and under global warming in climate simulations indicates that temperature is a key factor controlling TLC cover, and that similar processes likely govern the TLC response to warming across the timescales.

Although the first two sources of model uncertainty - different climate sensitivities and regional climate change patterns - are usually represented in climate scenarios, it is less common for the third and fourth sources of uncertainty - the variable signal - to - noise ratio and incomplete description of key processes and feedbacks - to be effectively treated.

Incomplete understanding of three key properties of the climate system — equilibrium climate sensitivity, rate of ocean heat uptake and historical aerosol forcing — and their underlying physical processes lead to uncertainties in our assessment of the global - mean temperature evolution in the twenty - first century 1,2 6.

Beer C (2016) Permafrost Sub-grid Heterogeneity of Soil Properties Key for 3 - D Soil Processes and Future Climate Projections.

«This means a major uncertainty over key processes driving past and future climate.»

A sound prior is a key ingredient in the process to reach a consensus low - uncertainty estimate of climate sensitivity to inform climate policy.»

For example, all estimates of government revenue and outgo depend on some sort of economic model, which superficially have the same weaknesses as climate models: validation issues, adjustable parameters, some key processes (convection, precipitation, human behavior) can't be reliably modeled.

In the final months of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment reporting in 2007, the world's three leading climate science agencies asked people directly and intimately involved with the report for their views on how the process had gone and some of the key issues it Climate Change's Fourth Assessment reporting in 2007, the world's three leading climate science agencies asked people directly and intimately involved with the report for their views on how the process had gone and some of the key issues it climate science agencies asked people directly and intimately involved with the report for their views on how the process had gone and some of the key issues it raised.

To better assess confidence in the different model estimates of climate sensitivity, two kinds of observational tests are available: tests related to the global climate response associated with specified external forcings (discussed in Chapters 6, 9 and 10; Box 10.2) and tests focused on the simulation of key feedback processes.

Based on the understanding of both the physical processes that control key climate feedbacks (see Section 8.6.3), and also the origin of inter-model differences in the simulation of feedbacks (see Section 8.6.2), the following climate characteristics appear to be particularly important: (i) for the water vapour and lapse rate feedbacks, the response of upper - tropospheric RH and lapse rate to interannual or decadal changes in climate; (ii) for cloud feedbacks, the response of boundary - layer clouds and anvil clouds to a change in surface or atmospheric conditions and the change in cloud radiative properties associated with a change in extratropical synoptic weather systems; (iii) for snow albedo feedbacks, the relationship between surface air temperature and snow melt over northern land areas during spring and (iv) for sea ice feedbacks, the simulation of sea ice thickness.

A key feature in the process of developing the Climate Data Store, is the desire to incorporate user needs, which will help inform and shape its design.

In a continued effort to provide key datasets that support the process of developing resilience to climate change, eleven additional datasets are now available in the Ecosystem Vulnerability theme.

Irish climate scientist Peter Thorne, who worked on the landmark 2015 study, also penned a rebuttal to the newspaper article, noting that at least seven key aspects of the story are a «misrepresentation of the processes that actually occurred.»

Further, key processes associated with the interactions between aerosols and clouds are either neglected or treated with simple parameterizations in climate model simulations evaluated in the AR4.

Explain in detail your work for and on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... including the process for review of studies and other information, including the dates of key meetings... the steps taken by you, reviewers, and lead authors to ensure the data underlying the studies forming the basis for key findings of the report were sound and accurate... the requests you received for revisions to your written contribution... and... the identity of the people who wrote and reviewed... portions of the report.

But the key point is that we still have several steps in the process before we should start talking about implementing actions to «mitigate» against human - induced climate change, as some are already proposing, invoking the «precautionary principle».