Sentences with phrase «new global observation»
Secretary of Commerce Don Evans also announced a $ 103 million two - year federal initiative to accelerate the deployment of new global observation technologies, focused on oceans and atmospheric aerosols and carbon.
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For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.
The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.
A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.
The report calls on the new president to reverse «the deterioration of the U.S. Earth observation infrastructure» and take the lead internationally in monitoring global climate.
«Leveraging a digital control mechanism means we can give value to the millions of observations collected by volunteers» and «it allows a new kind of science where citizens can directly contribute to the analysis of global challenges like climate change» say Hamed Mehdipoor and Dr. Raul Zurita - Milla, who work at the Geo - Information Processing department of ITC.
«With these new observations we can determine which models reproduce the most accurate response to changes in the global climate.
A new study combines the latest observations with an ice sheet model to estimate that melting ice on the Antarctic ice sheet is likely to add 10 cm to global sea levels by 2100, but it could be as much as 30 cm.
«New observations from many different sources confirm that ice - sheet loss is accelerating,» the United States Global Change Research Program said in its comprehensive special report on climate science.
Obtaining reliable estimates of photosynthesis at global scale has been challenging and these new observations thus provide a new, valuable data source.
Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Côte d'Azur Observatory and elsewhere used observations made by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's (SOHO) Global Oscillations at Low Frequency (GOLF) instrument to measure solar oscillations, then used a new technique to determine the speed at which the solar core was spinning.
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In a brief mention of the work in a recent piece on the World Bank's new behavioral approaches to global development, The Economist took note of how such small policy tweaks — rooted in observation of how people actually behave, rather than in an expectation that they'll behave rationally — may change the way development policy is implemented and assessed.
After Gabriel's keynote presentation, a talk between Shanghai Gallery owner Leo Xu and New York - based writer Lee Ambrozy - who's essay GABRIEL LESTER»S «GLOBAL» AS CLASSICAL IDEAL is featured in the book - will focus on the suggestions and observations mentioned in the book Forced Perspectives.
From his observations of the global art scene, he draws four notable trends that emerge from the «net effects» of complex communication within the art world: an East - West cultural retrenchment, Asian growth, the resurgence of the super-wealthy and the lingering incubation of new technologies.
Strengthened support for observing systems, particularly in developing countries, including the new observations needed to support decision - making for global sustainability.
Drawing on improved paleoclimate records and current global observations has prompted the authors to reach new conclusions about what constitutes a safe level of CO2.
New tools from data assimilation and machine learning make it possible to integrate global observations and local high - resolution simulations in an Earth system model (ESM) that systematically learns from both.
The most basic is that there are more real - world observations, including global emissions of CO2 and aerosols and readings at temperature stations and SST buoys, leading to new values for stats like globally averaged temperature anomaly, and the like.
Originally posted on Open Mind: A new paper by Hansen et al., Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming is highly dangerous is currently under review...
LOCA downscaling estimates finer - scale climate detail from a coarse - resolution global model using a new high - resolution historical observation dataset developed by researchers at the University of Colorado.
So I asked Mr. Knappenberger to test the models» agreement with long - term observations using a new «third» scenario in which internal variability once again «enhances» the «externally forced trend» and global warming resumes at the 1984 - 1998 rate of 0.265 ºC / decade.
«NASA's examination of ocean observations has provided its own unique contribution to our knowledge of decadal climate trends and global warming,» said Veronica Nieves, a researcher at JPL and the University of California, Los Angeles and co-author of the new study.
How to Lie With Data (or, «Melting Away Global Warming») New Observations Confirm Greenland, Antarctica Losing Land Ice Rapidly The Top of the World Sinks Ever Lower New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault Slaying the Zombie Ideas of Climate Change Denial
The new study said that almost all of 19 global climate models underestimated rainfall in the world's biggest tropical forest after the scientists compared the models with observations of 20th century climate.
NCDC is transitioning from its traditional climate divisional dataset to a new divisional dataset, known as nClimDiv, which is based on Global Historical Climatology Network — Daily (GHCN - D) observations using a 5 - km gridded approach.
These new, spectral, simultaneous remote and in situ observations suggest that the single scattering albedo (ωo) of pure dust at a wavelength of 0.67 µm is predominantly in the range 0.90 to 0.99, with a central global estimate of 0.96.
Obtaining reliable estimates of photosynthesis at global scale has been challenging and these new observations thus provide a new, valuable data source.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50382/full Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content Here we present the time evolution of the global ocean heat content for 1958 through 2009 from a new observation - based reanalysis of the ocean.
See also Keeling, C. D., 1993, Global observations of atmospheric CO2, in Heimann, M., ed., The Global Carbon Cycle, New York, Springer - Verlag, p. 1 - 31.
O'Dell, C. W., Wentz, F. J. & Bennartz, R. Cloud liquid water path from satellite - based passive microwave observations: a new climatology over the global oceans.
The new position statement is equivocal, beginning with the observation that «the AAPG membership is divided on the degree of influence that anthropogenic CO2 has on recent and potential global temperature increases», and going on to say «Certain climate simulation models predict that the warming trend will continue, as reported through NAS, AGU, AAAS, and AMS.
Differences were minimal after 1893 (by which time Stevenson screens were in widespread use for observations except in New South Wales and Victoria, a small area in the context of a global dataset), and before 1878 (when there were limited Australian observations of any kind and most of the continent was considered to be missing data in the HadCRUT4 dataset).
In the canonical statement of the Anthropocene, the proposed new division in the geological timescale is defined by the observation that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system» (W. Steffen et al..
T - 5: S. Wofsy (Harvard) HIAPER Pole to Pole Observations (HIPPO) of climatically important gases and aerosols 10:35 - 10:55 T - 6: R. Muller (UC Berkeley) The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Land Results 10:55 - 11:15 T - 7: R. Rohde (Berkeley Temp Project) A new estimate of the Earth land surface temperature 11:15 - 11:35 T - 8: F. Singer (SEPP) Is the reported global surface warming of 1979 to 1997 real?
Over the past week, at least four high - profile papers largely funded by the U.S. government have contributed new evidence, observations, and insight into the role of soil and forests in the global carbon cycle — the flow of material in and out of land, air, life, and sea that's currently broken and getting worse.
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