Sentences with phrase «of atmospheric science»

The assistant professor of atmospheric science works at the interface of weather and climate.

The assistant professor of atmospheric science works at the interface of weather and climate.

However, Prof Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, who wasn't involved in the study, says the researchers may have got their conclusion the wrong way around.

He was known for his «disagreements» with Professor Gray regarding the efficacy of computer models in the field of atmospheric science in general, and hurricane development, in particular.

«Drought - busting rainfall this month, which also compromised the U.S.'s tallest dam, has been associated with these atmospheric rivers or what some call the Pineapple Express,» said J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of the atmospheric sciences program at UGA.

Here's Shepherd, who's the director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia (and wrote a great Forbes post on why the media were late to this emergency):

Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, says the new research provides an independent validation of the earlier results, using a completely different approach.

Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied.

«In stark contrast to Lindzen's letter, ours was signed only by those who know something about the climate system,» said Kerry Emanuel, an MIT professor of atmospheric sciences who signed the letter opposing Lindzen.

This edition focuses on how PNNL's research is helping improve understanding of atmospheric science and climate change.

Meteorology is primarily concerned with the concepts of atmospheric sciences which is a combination of the subjects of atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with an equal focus on the aspects of weather forecasting.

John Michael Wallace, a professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, offered these thoughts:

Sobel AH, Nilsson J, Polvani LM 2001: The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 58 (23): 3650 - 3665.

I'm a chemist, not a physicist or atmospheric scientist, so my interest was mainly in the thermodynamics of atmospheric science.

Panelist and Colorado State University professor of atmospheric science William M. Gray, a hurricane authority, announced that he thinks that the biggest contributor to global warming is the fact that «we're coming out of a little ice age,» and that the warming trend will end in six to eight years.

The 2nd Pan-GASS meeting sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science is focused on «Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes» (UMAP) and aims to bring together NWP and climate scientists, observationalists and modellers to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science and to coordinate efforts to improve weather and climate models.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of atmospheric sciences Richard Lindzen is also a former advisor to the Exxon - backed Annapolis Center and has published research for the Cato Institute, a free - market think tank that opposes government efforts to restrict carbon dioxide emissions.

DARGAN M. W. FRIERSON DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES DAY 4: 04/08/2010 ATM S 111, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast.

0s of 1000s of atmospheric science, and perhaps many other students, have been taught incorrectly.

From my point of view as a mathematician on the fringe of the atmospheric sciences community, the battle is being won, and mostly by an overwhelming popular surge of interest in environmental issues.

«At the time I was an undergraduate student, there was no major in geophysics at the University of Washington, so I chose the related field of atmospheric science,» said Rasch.

I was working on the history of oceanography, he was working on the history of atmospheric science.

As for the dangers posed by rare, but inevitable, floods of the sort swamping Texas, they have been more discounted than other storm threats like wind, said J. Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia and a past president of the American Meteorological Society.

Or as J. Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia, sarcastically described the record - low temperatures, «What we are seeing right now in the United States is just,... well... wait for it... «winter.

Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University, estimates that the U.S. has as many as 2,000 scientists who study global warming and its effects on the atmosphere, oceans, ecology, and other scientific fields.

According to John Nielsen - Gammon, regents professor at Texas A&M's department of atmospheric sciences, Harvey was beyond the scope of what anyone could have imagined in terms of rainfall and severity.

The trouble here, as Joe Romm and William Connolley have already detailed on their respective blogs, is that Levitt and Dubner clearly have virtually no understanding of atmospheric science.

«The climate has been changing,» said Peter Snyder, an associate professor of atmospheric science at the University of Minnesota.

«The jet stream changes character every 10 to 12 days, and we use this pattern to predict the weather,» said Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science in MU's School of Natural Resources, which is located in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

These findings illustrate one way geoengineering could be «potentially hazardous,» said Jim Haywood, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Exeter and a lead author on the study.

«To some extent, science messed this one up the first time around,» said co-author Dargan Frierson, a UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences.

He and co-author John (Michael) Wallace, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences, spent two years tracking down the phenomenon.

«People have thought about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't thought about how that interacts with the global climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of biology.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.