Sentences with phrase «ocean and atmosphere dynamics»

Thermodynamics affect ocean and atmosphere dynamics!

«Your problem dear boy is that you have to work how thermodynamics eventually affects ocean and atmosphere dynamics.»

A very consistent understanding is thus emerging of the coupled ocean and atmosphere dynamics that have caused the recent decadal - scale departure from the longer - term global warming trend.

Not exact matches

The new method makes it possible to quantify six types of particles that are key to understanding ocean dynamics and ocean - atmosphere interactions.

The soot from these fires and from automobiles and buses in the ever more crowded cities rises into the atmosphere and drifts out over the Indian Ocean, changing the atmospheric dynamics upon which the monsoons depend.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

Marine planktonic ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemical cycling and ocean - atmosphere - land carbon system, ocean acidification, climate change and ocean circulation, satellite ocean color, air - sea gas exchange, numerical modeling, data analysis, and data assimilation

The school will be based on lectures on theoretical aspects of atmosphere, ocean and climate dynamics, with a focus on the present state of established knowledge and relevant mechanisms.

1) global climate model - driven projections of thermal expansion, atmosphere / ocean dynamics, and glacier melt,

The latter is almost linearly related to changes in ice sheet volume; the former, however, is influenced by a range of factors, including atmosphere / ocean dynamics and changes in Earth's gravitational field, rotation, and crustal and the mantle deformation associated with the redistribution of mass between land ice and the ocean.

The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans.

Notably, issues such as why a given hurricane stalled or took a particular track (problems in dynamics) could not reliably be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, unlike intensity (which is clearly related to the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere and oceans).

Coverage includes original paleoclimatic, diagnostic, analytical and numerical modeling research on the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biomass and land surface as interacting components of the dynamics of global climate.

GFDL's research encompasses the predictability and sensitivity of global and regional climate; the structure, variability, dynamics and interaction of the atmosphere and the ocean; and he ways that the atmosphere and oceans influence, and are influenced by various trace constituents.

Climate models are like weather models for the atmosphere and land, except they have to additionally predict the ocean currents, sea - ice changes, include seasonal vegetation effects, possibly even predict vegetation changes, include aerosols and possibly atmospheric chemistry, so they are not like weather models after all, except for the atmospheric dynamics, land surface, and cloud / precipitation component.

A rough approximation to the meta - scale dynamics in both the atmosphere and oceans will simply fall out of the approach if these limitations don't completely annihilate the underlying physics captured by the model equations.

Patterns of ocean and atmosphere circulation shift in response to internal climate dynamics and at a rapid pace determined by the dynamics of the system rather than any external factor.

«Ocean dynamics are directly connected to global climate through interactions with the atmosphere,» says John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and senior author of the paper in Nature.

Until we understand natural variations in clouds, percipatation, oceans, the sun, ocean / atmosphere interface, the Artic atmospheric dynamics, and all feedbacks + / - enough to quantify them, projections are meaningless.

The large variability of top of atmosphere energy dynamics that is related — neglecting solar variability — to emergent properties of ocean and atmospheric circulation in the climate system as a whole.

The problem emerges from the fact that sea surface temperature (SST) change is dominated by ENSO ocean dynamics and not by atmosphere / ocean coupling.

I would like to see the real solid dynamics behind less net latent and sensible heat flow from ocean to atmosphere with increasing GH gases well represented in the models.

Surface temperature forcing occurs firstly as a result of ocean / atmosphere energy dynamics — flow to a cool ocean in a La Nina and from a warm ocean in an El Nino.

The fractal properties of the ice cover and its extreme variability strongly influence the atmosphere - ocean interactions and the dynamics of the Arctic marine ecosystems.

These and other observations can be integrated into a model with feedbacks and having two unstable end ‐ points that is consistent both with classical studies of past climate states, and also with recent analysis of ice dynamics in the Arctic basin by Zhakarov, whose oscillatory model identifies feedback mechanisms in atmosphere and ocean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate socean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate sOcean to proceed to an ultimate state.

Which suggests the internal dynamics of the system (ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere) is still beyond our understanding.

Steve, the effects that you refer to are not due to the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans, areas where chaos is applicable.

Unresolved issues that will be addressed in a series of forthcoming studies include the effects of ocean dynamics on the predictability of low - frequency atmosphere and land variability and the feedback of soil moisture variations on atmospheric temperatures and circulation (e.g., Rowntree and Bolton 1983; Atlas et al. 1993; Koster et al. 2000).

Global or hemispheric warming may also strongly impact Southwest drought indirectly through influences on global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and ocean / atmosphere dynamics.

The simulations show Pacific deep - ocean and high - latitude surface warming of ∼ 10 °C but little change in the tropical thermocline structure, atmosphere - ocean dynamics, and ENSO, in agreement with proxies.

You are just as clueless as Bob Tisdale about climate modeling, and about the chaotic character of the atmosphere - ocean dynamics and about the implications for climate modeling from the chaotic character of the atmosphere - ocean dynamics.

Atmosphere and ocean dynamics are calculated on 3 ° × 4 ° Arakawa C - grids.

It is this change in cloud that dominates ENSO modulated global energy dynamics — everything else merely redistributes energy between atmosphere and oceans.

Again, I am not a proponent of the theory (and looking for excuses / hope to hang on to it), just an objective operational meteorologist of 35 years that understands most of the dynamics / physics of the atmosphere / oceans.

Everything else, movement of water with different temperature up and down and back and forth is ocean dynamics and has got nothing to do with the assumed increased downward radiative flux from the atmosphere.

«Among the biggest challenges in current climate research are also the complexity and dynamics of the climate as well as the enormous amount of data that has to be calculated and processed in order to incorporate the various interactions between the atmosphere, land surface, sea ice and the oceans,» says Professor Thomas Ludwig, CEO of DKRZ.

To see that this is the case, we consider annual mean surface temperature fields extracted from 10 multicentury preindustrial control climate simulations, each derived from independently constructed models containing coupled ocean - atmosphere dynamics and advanced physical parameterizations.

I have broad training in both atmospheric science and oceanography, and I am particularly interested in coupled atmosphere - ocean climate dynamics over long time scales.

Ocean dynamics play a major role in moving heat around, and atmosphere - ocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cOcean dynamics play a major role in moving heat around, and atmosphere - ocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cycle.