Sentences with phrase «modelling environmental systems»
An excellent discussion of simplicity versus complexity in modelling environmental systems is provided by Paola and Leeder (2011).
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His proposed solution is to have the U.S. government create an independent Federal Energy Resources System, modelled after the Federal Reserve Bank system and empowered to make real - time (not «political time») regulatory decisions about the energy supply, technology and infrastructure choices, and environmental proteSystem, modelled after the Federal Reserve Bank system and empowered to make real - time (not «political time») regulatory decisions about the energy supply, technology and infrastructure choices, and environmental protesystem and empowered to make real - time (not «political time») regulatory decisions about the energy supply, technology and infrastructure choices, and environmental protection.
This CSWA project will field test, evaluate and implement a climate protection incentive system incorporating the DeNitrification DeComposition (DNDC) model and practices that improve air quality, reduce emissions, improve carbon sequestration potential, and promote other environmental benefits.
Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.
Highlights include establishment of a trail system that is mostly wheelchair accessible; programs reaching out to 40 schools and 230,000 residents within a two - mile radius; and, in partnership with the city of Boston, creation of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center, which models environmentally sound building practices.
The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»
In a study supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Atmospheric System Research program, scientists used the Community Atmosphere Model version 4 to examine the relative importance of heating at different altitudes to the MJO.
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.
Cubicworld specialises in the fields of environmental information processing and modelling, with an emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, these being core fields in the environmental sciences.
The paper, «Simulated Effects of Winter Wheat Cover Crops on Cotton Production Systems of the Texas Rolling Plains,» is part of the «Crop Modeling and Decision Support for Optimizing Use of Limited Water» collection by the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community of ASABE at http://bit.ly/2izRZBY.
The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.
The researchers now want to continue developing a more advanced regional earth system model to improve the regional environmental impact assessment, and apply this not only to the Amazon region but also to other parts of the world.
According to Minchao Wu, regional earth system models are an important tool for assessing the impact of regional environmental changes.
His team seeks to address a critical problem in modeling: coupling, or bringing together disparate models to create a more complete picture of an environmental system.
They modelled relationships between environmental factors in the forest and where possums occurred to assign habitat suitability values, expressed as a percentage of the optimal habitat for the species, to both the current reserve system and possible expanded systems.
The three species, which have varying larval dispersal strategies, were simulated in a dynamic natural marine system over time to determine whether dispersal was driven by environmental or biological factors for the modeled species.
«Models such as this allow us to study the focal system with almost no constraint of time or space, and explore a wide range of environmental conditions with a level of detail that can not be attained in the field.»
«We designed ASTM E3012 - 16 to let manufacturers virtually characterize their production processes as computer models, and then, using a standardized method, «plug and play» the environmental data for each process step to visualize impacts and identify areas for improving overall sustainability of the system,» Lyons said.
Investigators Di Liang, PhD candidate, and Victor E. Cabrera, PhD, from the Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, used the Integrated Farm System Model (IFSM), available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to simulate the performance of a representative Wisconsin dairy farm and predict both financial and environmental outputs over a 25 - year period.
«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.
Through the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge program, Thornton's team was awarded 85 million compute hours to improve the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) effort, a project sponsored by Earth System Modeling program within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.
Computer models play a significant role in environmental policy, but offer only a partial picture of the industrial system Whether it's electric automobiles, renewable energy, carbon tax or sustainable consumption: Sustainable development requires strategies that meet people's needs without harming the environment.
The CCP is engaged in numerous multidisciplinary projects in other model systems (e.g. fly, zebrafish, yeast) that aim to determine how complex molecular circuits function and evolve in response to genetic and environmental changes, cellular differentiation, evolution and disease.
Sponsor: The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research for the Earth System Modeling program.
Sponsor: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Earth System Modeling program, and used data from the ARM Climate Research Facility.
Resource and environmental economics; models of linked economic and ecological systems; fisheries and aquaculture; offshore oil and gas exploration and production; marine transportation; marine pollution.
The current model of IBD is based on a combination of increased genetic risk and an immune system that overreacts to environmental and microbial stresses.
Besseling et al. (2016): «Fate of nano - and microplastic in freshwater systems: A modeling study» in Environmental Pollution, 2016.
Atmospheric initial conditions were from the operational NAVy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) using the Naval Research Laboratory Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation System (NAVDAS - AR).
Developing zebrafish methodology to model genetic and environmental modifiers of the vertebrate stress response system (SRS).
Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.
We provide leadership and expertise to major programs within the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, the Atmospheric System Research program, and DOE's climate modeling programs.
Scientists worldwide use the agency's field data, together with satellite observations and computer models, to tackle environmental challenges and advance our knowledge of how the Earth works as a complex, integrated system.
The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.
The system allows for some truly incredible physics modelling, which allows for extreme environmental destruction of the city around you as you bound about the futuristic sandbox.
Tesla told Consumer Reports the company has improved the software for the Model 3's anti-lock braking system to adapt to variations in how the brakes might be used and to respond to different environmental conditions.
The later 1.5 liter American - market CRX HF (high fuel economy) model (chassis codes EC1 and AF) could also reliably achieve very good gas mileage, more than a decade before gas - electric hybrids appeared on the market, and at no price premium over the base model; the 1.5 liter is rated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(under the new rating system) at 42 miles per U.S. gallon (5.6 l / 100 km; 50 mpg ‑ imp) city and 51 miles per U.S. gallon (4.6 l / 100 km; 61 mpg ‑ imp) highway.
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The model explores short - term scenarios of policy decisions by simulating social - economical - environmental systems, including the impact of climate - induced drought on crop failures and food prices.
As an environmental scientist myself, with more than 10 years experience working with hydrological computer models, I am very wary of policy formulated on the output of models, especially with respect to a system as complex and poorly understood as the Earth's climate system.
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Improving representation of convective systems in models requires characterization of their predictability as a function of environmental conditions, and this characterization depends on observing many cases of convective initiation, non-initiation, organization, and non-organization.
Priority will be given to proposals that make comprehensive use of ARM facilities, focus on strategic goals of the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and have the ability to improve regional or global earth system models.
The distinctive Help Build ™ model at NativeEnergy provides upfront funding for the separator, composter and related system equipment in exchange for the environmental attributes in the form of certified carbon offsets.
Boucher, O., Halloran, P.R., Burke, E.J., Doutriaux - Boucher, M., Jones, C.D., Lowe, J., Ringer, M.A., Robertson, E. and P. Wu (2012), Reversibility in an Earth System Model in response to CO2 concentration changes, Environmental Research Letters, 7, doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/7 / 2 / 024013 link
Synapse performs operational and planning modeling analyses of electric power systems using industry - standard models such as Strategist, EnCompass, Market Analytics, PROMOD, and PLEXOS to evaluate long - term energy plans, assess the environmental and economic impacts of policy initiatives, and review utility system modeling.
Research and development of Earth observing systems, models and field experiments comprise an intrinsic part of WCRP activities and contribute to the continuation and expansion of global environmental monitoring.
(v) Assessments of predictability using quantitative models of the Earth system to simulate global and regional environmental processes and trends.
Models used to design an engineered system have different requirements and challenges from predictive models used in environmental regulation and resource managModels used to design an engineered system have different requirements and challenges from predictive models used in environmental regulation and resource managmodels used in environmental regulation and resource management.