Sentences with phrase «many climate studies»

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

Funding for climate studies is second only to funding for biological sciences.

In this climate a study apparatus of unprecedented scope for the examination of congregations was established by the World Council of Churches and its national counterparts.

For a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for example.

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For this reason, annual rings are very easy to count, making Douglas - fir a widely used species for dendrochronology and historical climate studies in western North America.

But those same mountains also spur innovative engineering and provide exciting research opportunities in snow and climate studies.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Given such uncertainties, Bush, much like his father a decade earlier, pledged additional funding for climate studies.

Muller launched his own climate study at the University of California, Berkeley — the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project — in order to better study temperature measurements, taking into account much of the concerns expressed by skeptics.

University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years.

The international research initiative IceGeoHeat led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences establishes in the current online issue of Nature Geoscience that this effect can not be neglected when modeling the ice sheet as part of a climate study.

There is an urgent need for such climate study projects in temperate regions across the world, says Eric Rignot, principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Radar Science and Engineering Section.

That's more convincing to local officials than a U.N. climate study or a Nature article.»

From climate studies to understanding the dynamics of particular types of air pollution to identifying trends in noise or increases in pedestrian traffic — the Waggle system can effectively move the city towards data - driven policy.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

«They beat out billions of dollars spent in climate studies,» said Lackner.

At NPL, we are proposing a low - cost, small satellite mission to help set benchmarks for climate studies and to achieve tenfold improvement over previous measurements.

«Every peer - reviewed climate study goes through that red - team / blue - team treatment,» he said.

The argument that Wegman was incapable of putting together the comments on proxies is wishful thinking... Wegman had been involved in organizing climate studies before and this is hardly high level stuff.

Though there are many caves, only a small number have the best conditions for climate study, including 100 percent relative humidity, constant temperatures, no cave winds, and the actual stalagmites — free of holes and decay — forming in the cave.

The team's results demonstrate the importance of including a realistic irrigation parameterization in climate studies to improve the process - level understanding on the role of human activities in modulating land - air - cloud interactions and regional climate.

Because climate studies using multi-model ensembles are generally superior to single model approaches43, all nine fire weather season lengths for each location were averaged into an ensemble mean fire weather season length, hereafter referred to as «Fire Weather Season Length» (See Supplementary Methods).

John replies: But the costs resulting from mistakes in climate studies, could measured in billions of dollars.

And he said it can be difficult to factor the effects of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) into any climate studies, given that «high quality data» exists for fewer than two of its complete oscillations.

Dr. Samson Hagos, atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, led a regional climate study that was included in the international report «State of the Climate» in 2014.

None of the assertions are based on rigorous statistical associations, oceanographic observations or physically based simulations; it is all seat - of - the - pants stuff of a sort that was common in the early days of climate studies, but which is difficult to evaluate when viewed as a scientific hypothesis.

Branstetter, M.L., 2001: Development of a Parallel River Transport Algorithm and Application to Climate Studies.

PNNL's atmospheric scientists and other researchers contributed to several USGCRP climate studies cited in the report.

Hovine, S., and T. Fichefet, 1994: A zonally averaged, three - basin ocean circulation model for climate studies.

What we will learn from OCO - 2 will improve our understanding of carbon dioxide and its role in climate studies.

Although WIRES Comp Stat itself is completely unrelated to climate studies, the original trio of editors — Wegman, Said and Rice University statistician David Scott — had collaborated earlier on the highly controversial congressional report on paleoclimatology known as the Wegman Report.

The SAGE III on ISS Education and Public Outreach program shares the excitement of the SAGE III on ISS mission (planned launch 2014) highlighting its pathfinder qualities, its legacy and role in climate study continuity, and its partnerships with the ISS, other NASA centers, and international collaborators.

Cold War concerns support 1957 - 58 International Geophysical Year, bringing new funding and coordination to climate studies.

It is a wise idea to indulge in your curiosity and delve into a number of subjects from social psychology and behavioral economics to climate study and seismology.

One way that school leaders can integrate the youth in schooling is to conduct climate studies in schools and make those results public.

A recent report from Berkowitz et al (2016) reviewed 78 school climate studies going back to the year 2000.

Today's New York Times (Monday, July 18, 2005, page 14) has a short, very incomplete and misleading article on this entitled «Two G.O.P. Lawmakers Spar over Climate Study»: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/politics/18mann-final.html?oref=login

In general I find it difficult to research the literature in climate studies.

I sent a host of climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate policy.

Excerpts from: Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming, Santa Cruz CA (SPX), Feb 16, 2006

The new research is a regional climate study of historical sea level pressures, winds and temperatures over the eastern Pacific Ocean and draws no conclusions about climate change on a global scale.

The most extreme risk envisioned in all climate studies is surely a runaway greenhouse effect, in which human activities cause a buildup of CO2 to a level (ca. 1400 ppm).

Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming by Staff Writers Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2006

Over the weekend, a pair of very different climate studies — one physical, one social — illustrated two uncomfortable, and related, realities confronting society as it grapples with possible responses to human - driven global warming.

It gives the impression that we're getting rich collecting grant money for climate studies (or any other research, for that matter).

I have stopped following climate studies closely and focused more on communicating the urgency of stopping the burning of fossil fuels as soon as possible.

Over the short term relevant to climate studies are their great swings in biomass abundance for reasons I mentioned before.

It is also a common error to think that these paleo climate studies are the basis for the conclusions of conventional climate science with respect to drivers of climate in the present.