Sentences with phrase «ocean observations improve»

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According to the researchers, to better understand if Matthew's intensification was aided by the warm - water eddies and the residing barrier layer in the Caribbean Sea's upper ocean, more ambient and in - storm upper ocean observations in this basin are needed to improve forecast models for the region.

Technologies and processes for improving the management, accessibility, and dissemination of ocean observations.

How do we take advantage of new instruments and platforms that can significantly improve the efficiency, decrease the cost, or add new observations that were not previously possible without compromising the integrity and consistency of the long - term ocean observing record?

The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, which involves Climate Central staff and aims to track changes underway surrounding Antarctica, has developed improved pH sensors that could operate for five years or more on autonomous diving instruments.

Alternatively, more direct observations of that radiative imbalance would be nice, or better theoretical and observational understanding of the water vapor and cloud feedbacks, or more paleoclimate data which can give us constraints on historical feedbacks, but my guess is that ocean heat content measurements would be the best near term bet for improving our understanding of this issue.

The available tools are time - dependent model forecasts which incorporate the improved observations of changes in the ocean and simulate its likely influence on the short - to medium - term future.

eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate changes which took place in the past • to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system • to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of climate data

Improved ocean observation, instrumentation, theory, and funding has increased scientific reporting on regional and global issues related to heat.

These observations improve the forecasts of currents in the upper ocean.

One limitation for improving surface fluxes at all latitudes is that they have not yet been classified as essential climate variables (ECVs) or essential ocean variables (EOVs) for use by the United Nations or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meaning that specific measurement standards have not been established for minimum spatial and temporal density of observations, accuracy, and long - term stability.

«Our results demonstrate how synergistic use of satellite TOA radiation observations and recently improved ocean heat content measurements, with appropriate error estimates, provide critical data for quantifying short - term and longer - term changes in the Earth's net TOA radiation imbalance.

Predictions of sea ice changes will have large uncertainties without sustained observations; improved understanding of ice, ocean, land, and atmospheric processes; and advances in coupled and system models.

While the climate system is very complex, observations have shown that our formulation of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans is largely correct, and ever improving.