Sentences with phrase «ocean and atmosphere division»

The Australian government has announced that it plans to cut 90 or more jobs from CSIRO's ocean and atmosphere division, leaving as few as 30 staff remaining, though few details have been finalized or announced.

«While the detection of greening is based on data, the attribution to various drivers is based on models,» said co-author Josep Canadell of the Oceans and Atmosphere Division in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra, Australia.

Particularly revealing were those discussing the oceans and atmosphere division, which employs most CSIRO climate scientists.

In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.

Not exact matches

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

«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.

With stellar co-investigators, from about 1986 to 2005, I have tried and tried to get cross-disciplinary proposals (either ocean - atmosphere or land - atmosphere) funded from more than one division at NSF.

The project is part of the Australian Antarctic Division's Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate programme and the Sea Level Rise programme within the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

Enting, I., Wigley, T. & Heimann, M. Future Emissions and Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide; Key Ocean / Atmosphere / Land Analyses (Technical Paper 31, Division of Atmospheric Research, CSIRO, Melbourne, 1994).

I'll say the division of atmosphere -, ocean - and land - centric models is an important one as ocean holds the most heat, atmosphere is the modifier of absorbed energy, and land is the most complex (in carbon cycle) and important wrt agriculture, maybe equal amounts of code / computing time should be assigned to all of these?