Sentences with phrase «of climate observations»

Among the hundreds of thousands of climate observations recorded in the Bureau's database each day, it is unavoidable that some records contain errors.

Among the hundreds of thousands of climate observations recorded in the Bureau of Meteorology's database each day, it is unavoidable that some records will not necessarily be correct.

A comprehensive Climate Data Store (CDS) will eventually give access to a large range of climate observations, reanalyses, predictions and projections.

It would be useful to start in the USA where the density of climate observations is high, then extend to other well - measured countries.

Actual scientists have already done that, using years of climate observations that do not in any way, shape, or form match up with the climate models that cost the industrialized world billions of dollars over the past three decades.

Detailed information are available here, to navigate the universe of Climate Observations, Earth - System Modeling, Climate Services.

Over the course of the last few years a robust and formalised dialogue between the bodies with responsibility for the specification of climate observations and space agencies has led to a coherent set of requirement, agreed globally.

It is GCOS» task to make sure, that the totality of all climate observation networks is more than the sum of the individual networks, forming together the one Global Climate Observing System, providing the full picture of our climate.

We have learned that data access and archival of climate observation and modeling results needs to be better communicated and more transparent.

Not exact matches

A wintry sort of spirituality does not literally trace the cycles of the seasons and is not a weather report or an observation on the climate.

While many of the observations about where climate is at made me want to hide under the chair and cry, I really felt that there are brands out there that are doing the right thing, and we're on the right path.

The same University of Michigan study found that relying too much on «local weather observations» can be an impediment to understanding the worldwide reality of climate change.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

A large number of additional observations are broadly consistent with the observed warming and reflect a flow of heat from the atmosphere into other components of the climate system.

In the interest of our future world, scientists must seek to understand the complexities of linked natural events and field observations that are revealed in the geologic record of past warmer climates.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.

Simple observation confirms the basic science of climate change.

The researchers were able to test their hypothesis that stronger winds were driving the ocean heat uptake by putting the observations of wind behavior into climate models.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

The observations will be used to allow more precise reconstructions of historic climate shifts.

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

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).

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that continuity of ocean observations is vital to gain an accurate understanding of the climate, and calls for a decadal, national plan that is adequately resourced and implemented to ensure critical ocean information is available to understand and predict future changes.

Given that ocean observations for climate provide a wide range of benefits to the agricultural, shipping, fishing, insurance, and energy - supply industries, the committee that wrote the report suggested that efforts could be made to draw support for ocean observing from the commercial sector.

Funding mechanisms that rely on annual budget approval or short - term grants may result in discontinuity of ocean - climate measurements, reducing the value of the observations made to date and in the future.

Like OOI, EMSO will collect a wide range of data, integrating geologic, biological, and climate - change observations.

Truly comprehending the world's waters and how they react to climate change requires observations spanning decades, says Uwe Send, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a...

«Advances in global climate models and high quality ocean, atmospheric and land observations are helping us push the frontiers of snowpack prediction.»

«Prior analyses have found that climate models underestimate the observed rate of tropical widening, leading to questions on possible model deficiencies, possible errors in the observations, and lack of confidence in future projections,» said Robert J. Allen, an assistant professor of climatology in UC Riverside's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the study.

Although scientists hesitate to draw a direct relationship between weather and climate, observation of weather patterns shows a definite correlation between extreme weather events and a warming climate.

But Robeson said the observation aligns with theories about climate change, which hold that amplified warming in the Arctic region produces changes in the jet stream, which can result in extended periods of cold weather at some locations in the mid-northern latitudes.

Climate - change studies by Boston University biologists show leaf - out times of trees and shrubs at Walden Pond are an average of 18 days earlier than when Henry David Thoreau made his observations there in the 1850s.

In Enkelmann's observation, the climate - driven erosion can influence the tectonics and change the motion of the rocks in that area.

But observations like those at Stannard Rock are vaulting lakes into the vanguard of climate science.

The findings, published in the May 16 issue of Science, closely match observations in the atmosphere and can help make climate prediction models more accurate.

The first observations of human - induced climate change were published in 1938.

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

As a scientist, I value the observations, data and facts that have been collected in many years of climate science research.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

This observation is «the only significant one» in 2014 temperature data, writes climate scientist James Hansen of Columbia University in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

«The highly accurate and precise data from Glory, in combination with observations from the rest of the A-Train, will enable researchers to improve our understanding of the Earth system by improving our ability predict future climate,» she said.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

A more detailed investigation of the satellite observations and climate models helped the researchers finally reconcile what was happening globally versus locally.

The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region

Using published data from the circumpolar arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling, and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

Using global climate models and NASA satellite observations of Earth's energy budget from the last 15 years, the study finds that a warming Earth is able to restore its temperature equilibrium through complex and seemingly paradoxical changes in the atmosphere and the way radiative heat is transported.