Sentences with phrase «of atmospheric scientists»

The conference will bring together a diverse group of atmospheric scientists and mathematicians.

Of the dozens of atmospheric scientists in our state at Texas A&M, University of Texas, Rice, Texas Tech, University of Houston, etc., approximately zero of them are skeptical of this mainstream view of climate science.

Ok — lets generalize then - one group is saying that there is a significant amount of damage being done to the biosphere through human activity to warrant concern - this group is made up of atmospheric scientists, biologists, physicists, oceanographers, Nasa climate scientists, National Science Academies, WMO etc

You know the IPCC as a group of atmospheric scientists and physicists, but we all know (including you) that it is a transnatioanal organization devoted to providing evidence for the UNFCCC's mission objectives.

For the past several years, a pair of atmospheric scientists — Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin - Madison — have pushed the hypothesis that connects diminishing sea ice up north with increasingly erratic weather across the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.

We need to find out if geoengineering works, and soon, say a group of atmospheric scientists.

New research from an international team of atmospheric scientists published by Geophysical Research Letters investigates for the first time the possibility of using a «cocktail» of geoengineering tools to reduce changes in both temperature and precipitation caused by atmospheric greenhouse gases.

No assumption we know all the answers because 97 percent of atmospheric scientists have faith that CO2 regulates climate and any dissent owes to corrupt motives.

We only need to take a consensus of atmospheric scientists in the first place because the science is so nascent that pretty much no inarguable conclusions are at all apparent.

If you were at a BBQ with a group of atmospheric scientists, and wanted to raise some hackles, there are several subjects that are notoriously easy to get people riled up...... Talk of Hockey Sticks, Inhofe, Crichton, Coulter, and you're...

by Lynn Margulis Drama: A tale of atmospheric scientists from the founder of the endosymbiosis theory, via an ultimately unsatisfying symbiosis of fiction and autobiography.

This definition builds on recent developments in defining atmospheric heatwaves52 and was developed further and adapted for the marine environment by a cross-disciplinary team consisting of atmospheric scientists, oceanographers and marine ecologists1.

And because she is a geophysicist, her rise next year would mark a break for NAS, which by tradition would have selected a new leader from the biological sciences after the two - term presidency of atmospheric scientist Ralph J. Cicerone.

For example, he gives Bill Gray credit (and rightly so) for the important contributions he has made to our current understanding of hurricane genesis, and shows a somewhat bemused admiration for Gray as a sympathetic relic of a dying breed of atmospheric scientist.

«Satellite imagery of cloud fields over the eastern edges of the oceanic basins exhibits both closed and open cellular cloud patterns that have captured the imagination of the atmospheric scientist and the layperson alike.

This graph, courtesy of atmospheric scientist John Christy, shows how climate models and reality diverge.

Not exact matches

A group of scientists claim that they were able to find a way that can help convert atmospheric CO2 into carbon nanofibers.

In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atoms.

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

«I'm pleased [the new] results show that what we'd previously theorized,» says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new work.

On Sunday, February 18 at 5:15 p.m., atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, will discuss «When Facts Are Not Enough.»

«With this simulator, we can explain in great detail to the operational weather community [weather forecasters] the tornadic echo from polarimetric radar,» says Robert Palmer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and co-author of the paper.

GREENHOUSE GASSED In a long - running field experiment in Minnesota, scientists are studying the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on plots of grassland.

«Minerals from Papua New Guinea hold secret for recycling of noble gases: Scientists find atmospheric gases trapped in minerals that are crystallized in Earth's mantle.»

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

In an upcoming paper, Max Bothwell, a scientist at Environment Canada, proposed that climate change is one of four factors — along with atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from fossil fuel burning — boosting the blooms.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

It helps lay a foundation that scientists can apply to make predictions about what would allow life to alter exoplanets» atmospheres, and may inspire deeper studies, here on Earth, of how oceanic - atmospheric chemistry drives climate instability and influences the rise and fall of life through the ages.

Even as the importance of biological ice nucleation was being recognized by agricultural scientists, it still wasn't embraced by atmospheric scientists, who stuck by the traditional view that soot, or sea salt, or some as - yet - unidentified mineral in dust was seeding ice in clouds.

The timing of such uplift is important in helping scientists to understand how mountains form, how they erode and what impact this may have on global atmospheric circulation patterns and climate.

It is more than half a world of circumnavigation away,» said Ryan Spackman, a NOAA atmospheric scientist familiar with the study.

Then three years ago Stanford University atmospheric scientists Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson did a detailed calculation based on known patterns of air motion.

There they are kept until atmospheric scientists, astrophysicists, biologists, and other researchers request samples to help answer many unknowns in the history of our planet.

Previously, scientists had relied on these sorts of soil sample measurements primarily to study plant types and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

The team's analyses «are quite important,» says Björn - Martin Sinnhuber, an atmospheric scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

For example, the tiny particles known as aerosols are far better understood, says atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England andalso a lead author.

All this means that scientists now reviewing the Montreal Protocol should consider expanding the agreement to also regulate substances like CH2Cl2 that have atmospheric lifetimes of less than 6 months, Schofield says.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

«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.

«The unique advantage of satellite data is spatial coverage,» said Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at Goddard.

Freshwater such as lakes, though, receive various sources of carbon dioxide from decomposing organic and inorganic matter swept into them, which makes it hard for scientists to distinguish between the direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2 and these other elements.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

What a group of physicists think about climate change matters greatly because climate science is, after all, a branch of physics, and most atmospheric scientists are based in physics departments.

«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

«I think it's safe to say we're on the threshold of recovery,» says Michelle Santee, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«The debris pile acted like a chemical factory,» atmospheric scientist Thomas Cahill of the University of California - Davis explained to the American Chemical Society in 2003, after analyzing many of those air samples.

«If these trends continue for the next few years,» says atmospheric scientist Bryan Johnson of NOAA in Boulder, Colo., «we'll have confidence things are improving.»

Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).