Sentences with phrase «oceanic sciences»

My subfield of atmospheric and oceanic sciences is large - scale atmospheric dynamics — basically the fluid mechanics of atmospheric flows with horizontal scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometers (on Earth and Mars, at least).

There is an overwhelming consensus in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of people working in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

«There are many natural cycles that rely on severe weather and the precipitation it brings,» said Qinghong Zhang, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Peking University, lead author of the study, who conducted this research while on sabbatical at Penn State.

The report's authors include Salvatore Pascale, an associate research scholar in atmospheric and oceanic sciences (AOS); Tom Delworth, a lecturer in geosciences and AOS and research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL); Sarah Kapnick, a 2004 Princeton alumna and former AOS postdoc who is currently a research physical scientist at GFDL; AOS associate research scholar Hiroyuki Murakami; and Gabriel Vecchi, a professor of geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

... «As the rocket launch market grows, so will ozone - destroying rocket emissions,» said Professor Darin Toohey of CU - Boulder's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.

«The tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Defining those linkages, however, is an obviously complex task, according to Ross Salawitch, a University of Maryland, College Park, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and another principal investigator.

The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.

He has been a pioneer in transitioning atmospheric / oceanic sciences from a descriptive study to one using more quantitative methods.

Jonathan Foley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, likes to think that he's on a hot streak.

Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

«Our study reports the first global, long - term trends of atmospheric ammonia from space,» said Juying Warner, as associate research scientist in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD.

«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.

But our paper is unique, in that we use these trends to infer changes in the desert expanse on the century timescale,» said Natalie Thomas, a graduate student in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD and lead author of the research paper.

«Our results are specific to the Sahara, but they likely have implications for the world's other deserts,» said Sumant Nigam, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD and the senior author of the study.

The center, which sits in a research park developed by the University of Maryland, will also oversee a partnership with the school that will pair undergraduates studying atmospheric and oceanic science with federal researchers, and enable the students to become government - certified meteorologists and oceanographers.

The exception is finding reliable data from the past that clearly violates the basics of current atmospheric or oceanic science.

Delworth is a researcher at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and a professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University.

This study, which was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is the first to analyze long - term trends in rainfall and surface air temperature over a timescale of nearly an entire century, the study's lead author, Natalie Thomas, a doctoral candidate in atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of Maryland, told Live Science.

[48] YAN Chang - Xiang, ZHU Jiang The Impact of «Bad» Argo Profiles on Ocean Data Assimilation Atmospheric and oceanic science letters, 2010, VOL.

Not exact matches

In fact, many of Princeton's graduate students in the field have little experience in oceanic and atmospheric sciences; most come from physics, mathematics, and engineering backgrounds, according to Philander.

Perhaps, but the oceanic and atmospheric sciences are at least as fortunate.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»

Another video of the fireball streaking through the sky was captured by a camera on the roof of the University of Wisconsin - Madison's atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences building.

Lead author of the study, Dr Caroline Eakin, Research Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, said: «The process of consuming old seafloor at subduction zones, where great slabs of oceanic material are swallowed up, drives circulation in the Earth's interior and keeps the planet going strong.

A lot of the infrastructure is likely contributing,» said Eric Kort, assistant professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences at the U-M College of Engineering.

Fleshing out a near - future feast with fascinating marine science and modern cryptozoology, Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep is a delicious dive for readers with an appetite for original oceanic horror.

Richard C. Murphy Ph.D, Director of Science and Education for Jean - Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society, discusses his passion for sharing oceanic experiences with people, and gives us tips on when it's best to visit the coral reef.

Science Daily — During the past ninety thousand years there were alternating hot and cold periods lasting several thousand years each which resulted in a modification of global oceanic circulation.

As the 70 - year - old tells it: «Climate science always been a small backwater field, mostly [composed of scientists who] considered themselves atmospheric or oceanic scientists....

Then after all the hand waving and «baffle me with science» bit you end up «proving» CO2 is the main driver and attribute the bit that does not fit to unspecified «oceanic oscillations».

2) D'Aleo, J. and Easterbrook, D.J., 2011, Relationship of multidecadal global temperatures to multidecadal oceanic oscillations: in Easterbrook, D.J., ed., Evidence - Based Climate Science, Elsevier Inc., p. 161 - 184.

Now that remarkable headway has been made into understanding the physical science of climate change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest fires.

-- The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a leading sponsor of oceanic and atmospheric research and is one of the key sponsors of climate science capabilities in the Federal government.

Never mind that oceanic forcing attribution was established prior to 2006, climate science is still cranking out lightweight papers that try to peg the blame on fossil fuel emissions.

US CLIVAR is collaborating with the ocean carbon and biogeochemistry science community to increase observations and understanding of the coupled physical / biogeochemical processes that maintain the marine ecosystem and oceanic sources and sinks of carbon and predict how they will evolve in response to climate variability and change.

Science Deliverable III From Deliverables I - II, predictions of (1) accelerating oceanic heating, (2) accelerating ice - mass loss, (3) accelerating incidence of extraordinary heat and drought, (4) accelerating sea - level rise - rate.

And, say scientists from Australia's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, one of these is a slow - moving oceanic and atmospheric cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), which blows hot and cold and then hot again, every decade or so.

The event aims to honor Anna's scientific contributions and her impact on the atmospheric, oceanic and climate sciences.

The American Meteorological Society is the nation's leading professional society for scientists in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences.

Other sources of lag could be the time required for the ocean to mix vertically, for sea - ice to melt, for oceanic biological productivity to change, and / or for the concentrations of atmospheric dust to change («Timing of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature Changes Across Termination III», Science Magazine # 299).

But these sinks, critical in the effort to soak up some of our greenhouse gas emissions, may be stopping up, thanks to deforestation, and human - induced weather changes that are causing the oceanic carbon dioxide «sponge» to weaken, a new study led by Fraser and detailed in the May 18 issue of the journal Science found.

He also has a Master of Science in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he concentrated his research and study in environmental fate and transport, oceanic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and the ecological effects of pollutants.

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