Sentences with phrase «model of a climate model»

These interannual leaf variations are typically represented within the dynamic global vegetation model of a climate model.

Not exact matches

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

To figure out the economic cost of a decade of extreme methane release — say from 2015 to 2025 — the researchers added the extra methane and temperature increases to the climate models through to 2200 — that's how they got the $ 60 trillion cost globally from just the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.

He said that if he had to rely on the European Space Agency's limited, difficult - to - access data for his work checking climate model predictions against reality, he'd be «more or less blind» — particularly in the vast, uninhabited stretches of the globe like the Pacific, which are vital for understanding the world climate.

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Spencer analyzed 90 climate models against surface temperature and satellite temperature data, and found that more than 95 percent of the models «have over-forecast the warming trend since 1979, whether we use their own surface temperature dataset (HadCRUT4), or our satellite dataset of lower tropospheric temperatures (UAH).»

Report Modelling the Impact of the Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price on British Columbia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)

Scientists will run a model of the storm but adjust for climate change — derived changes in CO2.

It would be like trying to model 1000 years of global climate change on a TRS - 80 computer when it takes a modern 16,000 processor supercomputer a week to process the data.

True believers in the dominant model tell us that the solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.

Computer models being investigated both in the US and in the Soviet Union were demonstrating that a nuclear war involving the exchange of a small fraction of the total American and Russian bombs could change the climate of the entire Northern Hemisphere, shifting it abruptly from its present seasonal state to a long, sunless, frozen night.

The Nexus Linking IBM, California Wine, and Climate Modeling This month, IBM announced the creation of a cloud - based geospatial information and analytics service.

While tomatoes have been regularly used as a model organism to study the effect of climate in fruit ripening, its commercial history is a chequered one.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

CA Department of Food and Agriculture awards CSWA a $ 450,000 grant for a four - year project to drive climate protection and innovation through field testing a carbon offset and greenhouse gas emissions model for California wine grape growers (2010)

This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

And now Variety comes out of nowhere with this report where the numbers just don't seem to make sense in the current climate, especially for ESPN for reasons already mentioned including the existing Fight Pass business model.

On another note, for summer wearing in warm climates, Baby K'Tan also offers an even more flexible model called the «Breeze», where half of the loop is made of a cool easy - breathing mesh fabric, and the other half is made of cotton, allowing you to turn the loops depending on the weather conditions!

By conserving land, protecting forests for carbon storage and absorption of green house gas emissions, and actively managing our lands for climate resiliency we can act as a model for statewide organizations and land trusts.

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

«This document presents science - driven predictions, based on sophisticated climate - change models, regarding how we think bird distributions in Massachusetts might change during the next 30 years,» said Jon Atwood, Mass Audubon Director of Bird Conservation and a report author

We really like the 4 - panel canopy of this model that's so useful for warm climates.

You are saying, the model says that we could run the risk at two degrees of climate change and these are reasons why we might do that, or you could run it at 1 % and these are the political implications.

Councils and local government, in particular, have to determine how best to maintain effective services in a climate of austerity, accepting that rising demands and tighter budgets require new delivery tools and new models of provision.

But the critical thing is to know what this algorithm is predicting; how to justify it; what is the model of climate change built into the algorithm; what risks of error are built into the algorithm that is predicting climate change?

Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, served on IPCC: ««One of the things the scientific community is pretty agreed on is those things will have virtually no impact on climate no matter what the models say.

The main efforts of governments continues to focus too on a top - down structure of climate governance, guided by a «targets and timetables» approach that mirrors the Montreal model.

The East River Blueway Plan is a model for resiliency as it provides a vision of an accessible and dynamic waterfront that also addresses the urgency of climate change and its effects.

Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2 C every decade — a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.

Roger Helmer MEP (TP, December) lists a series of «facts» on climate change which apparently shows that «reality defies computer models».

Even Adair Turner, who on all other topics is a model of objectivity, ignores recent developments when discussing climate change, in the section of his letter to the Treasury summarising recent developments.

However, the recent period of cooling does suggest that either manmade global warming may be smaller or that the impact of other factors may be greater than climate models have so far assumed.

It's going to be one of the major topics at a regional Climate Solutions Summit in Syracuse this weekend, as the city hopes to take the lead on an energy supply model that uses renewable energy.

Without green taxes to shift our cars to lower emission models, and to limit the growth of aircraft greenhouse gas emissions, no climate change policy is worth the name.

If the effects of climate change weren't included in the model, the trends toward bigger seasonal variations in CO2 at Arctic latitudes disappeared, researchers report online today in Science.

The model has novel implications both for when people choose to obtain or avoid information, and it sheds light on phenomena, such as political polarization and emotionally charged beliefs relating to topics like the cause of autism and the reality of climate change.

Reducing uncertainties in the models could lead to better long - term assessments of climate, Esposito says.

«Models are used to predict how soil processes change, for example, in response to climate change,» said Steve Allison, coauthor from the University of California, Irvine.

Regardless of what climate models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving risk prediction and forecasts.

The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.

The study concludes that incorporating this new insight into soil models will improve our understanding of how soils influence atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global climate.

Some of the largest uncertainties in current climate models stem from their wide - ranging estimates of the size and number of dust particles in the atmosphere.

Climate models predict that as global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.

«We have to think of religious identity as the central mental model and framework and belief system by which many Americans, if not a majority of Americans, are going to come to understand climate change,» he said.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Climate models are complex numerical models based on physics that amount to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lines of computer code to model Earth's past, present and future.

Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.

One way to get an idea of how complex feedbacks play out in Earth's climate is to use computer models.