Sentences with phrase «of ocean physics»

Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics, said that Seymour Laxon of University College London, Katherine Giles also at UCL and Tim Boyd of the Scottish Association for Marine Science had been murdered, after all three died within a few months of each other in 2013.

Professor Peter Wadhams, Cambridge professor of ocean physics, has complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) that his scientific reputation had been damaged by Times environment editor Ben Webster and that he had been inaccurately quoted.

Asked if he thought hitmen might have been behind the deaths, Prof Wadhams, who is Professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, told The Telegraph: «Yes.

But Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, called the study careful and persuasive, and said: «I think it shows clearly that the so - called «hiatus» does not exist and that global warming has continued over the past few years at the same rate as in earlier years.»

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, who was branded «alarmist» after he first detected «substantial thinning» of sea ice in 1990, said: «The entire ice cover is now on the point of collapse.»

I wasn't thinking about a basin - wide phenomenon, as that doesn't make sense from the standpoint of ocean physics (as several people have pointed out), but rather a localized effect.

Our study once again emphasizes the importance of a realistic representation of ocean physics, in particular vertical mixing, as a necessary foundation for ecosystem modeling and predictions.»

The ocean helps moderate climate change thanks to its considerable capacity to store CO2, through the combined actions of ocean physics, chemistry, and biology.

Speakers: Prof Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, University of Cambridge Prof Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science, University College London Prof David Vaughan, Glaciologist, British Antarctic Survey Dr Seymour Laxon, Reader in Climate Physics, University College London Prof Jonathan Bamber, Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol

That figure will rapidly increase each year as warmer temperatures thin permafrost, Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the economic impact study, wrote in an e-mail.

The team also identified similar patterns of ocean physics in the Yellow Sea of the Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Muifa, which also weakened.

Not exact matches

«If there's missing pieces to those forecasts based on unknown physics of the ocean, you can't make good decisions,» said Travis Miles, one of the researchers.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

The show includes reassortment of the H1N1 / 2009 influenza virus in swine, ocean noise, the physics of old violins, and more.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

Leinen easily ticks off a host of areas, from analyzing the complex mixtures of physical processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere and the ocean to characterizing earthquakes, in which geoscientists have made important contributions to physics and chemistry.

Starting in the 3rd year of his 5 - year degree at the University of Vigo, Ourense, in Spain, Añel spent 4 hours a week in Luis Gimeno's Group of Atmospheric and Ocean Physics at the university's Department of Applied Physics, computing climate change quantifiers using simple parameters such as precipitation and air temperature.

The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.

«There are still naysayers out there regarding Voyager 1 crossing through the heliopause — the edge of the heliosphere,» says astrophysicist Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and department of physics and lead author of the paper.

Far from being empty, modern physics assumes that a vacuum is full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves that can never be completely eliminated, like an ocean with waves that are always present and can never be stopped.

«This study confirmed that ocean circulation physics and K. brevis biology are equally important and that both immediate and short term prediction may be achieved using a combination of circulation models supported by in situ observations of physical, biological and chemical variables and satellite imagery,» concluded the researchers.

The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the ocean and its physics, chemistry, and biology, which may result in breakthrough in earth system science.

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Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

«Earth is losing a huge amount of ice to the ocean annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet's cold regions are responding to global change,» said University of Colorado Boulder physics professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how ocean chemistry affects biology or how the geology on the seafloor affects the physics of flowing water.

The new name also more accurately reflected the broad - based academic training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology as well as specialized curricular elements related to understanding the oceans as a unified dynamic system and the study of its living components and resources.

Marine sciences is an interdisciplinary field concerning the biology, physics and chemistry of the oceans.

Rahmstorf, Stefan Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans and department head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, a Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a member of the German government's Advisory Council on Global Change.

The computer models in use are not, by necessity, direct calculations of all basic physics but rely upon empirical approximations for many of the smaller scale processes of the oceans and atmosphere.

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans and a Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

You've got the radiative physics, the measurements of ocean temperature and land temperature, the changes in ocean heat content (Hint — upwards, whereas if if was just a matter of circulation moving heat around you might expect something more simple) and of course observed predictions such as stratospheric cooling which you don't get when warming occurs from oceanic circulation.

In addition, both internal variability and aerosol forcing are likely to affect tropical storms in large part though changes in ocean temperature gradients (thereby changing ITCZ position and vertical shear), while greenhouse gases likely exert their influence by more uniformly changing ocean and tropospheric temperatures, so the physics of the problem may suggest this decomposition as more natural as well.

The film works — and just barely — only because the narrative flies at warp speed; there's no time to think about gaping holes in the plot and gross violations of the fundamental laws of physics, not to mention credibility, when you finish hurtling in the course of two hours across the Atlantic Ocean and back only to find yourself hurtling through the Chunnel with no chance to catch your breath.

But luckily for the members of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, gathering the data means lots of exciting field work in the Arctic!

and the water and ocean is something i have yet to see even in nexgen games... not to mention vegetation physics and face rendering... so please stop discussing over stuff u have no idea of untill u see it with ur own eyes... and just for ur info i have a core2duo and a 9600gt..

The physics part is that to first order, you expect the rate of continental ice melt to increase with temperature, and also the rate at which heat penetrates into the ocean below the mixed layer (for the mixed layer indeed we use a term relating temperature to sea level, not its rate of rise).

The problem with the paleoclimate ice sheet models is that they do not generally contain the physics of ice streams, effects of surface melt descending through crevasses and lubricating basal flow, or realistic interactions with the ocean.

For example, how much confidence can we really have in results from ice sheet models, which very likely miss important mechanisms (e.g., due to limited understanding of ocean - ice shelf interactions, calving physics and influence of small - scale topography)?

I would claim that the surface temperature — which is a comparatively easy thing to measure — is a relevant test of climate physics because a lot of the ocean response is indeed determined by the relatively shallow mixed layer.

There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature of climate change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis of the sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea level, frequency of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..

What do you KNOW about physics, chemistry and biology of Oceans?

There's also a number of interesting applications in the evolution of Earth's atmosphere that branch off from the runaway greenhouse physics, for example how fast a magma - ocean covered early Earth ends up cooling — you can't lose heat to space of more than about 310 W / m2 or so for an Earth - sized planet with an efficient water vapor feedback, so it takes much longer for an atmosphere - cloaked Earth to cool off from impact events than a body just radiating at sigmaT ^ 4.

«GCM — General Circulation Model (sometimes Global Climate Model) which includes the physics of the atmosphere and often the ocean, sea ice and land surface as well.»

These models consist of connected sub-modules that deal with radiative transfer, the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans, the physics of moist convection and cloud formation, sea ice, soil moisture and the like.

Setting aside the effects of the deep ocean, etc, — ie just using a single unified reservoir's heat capacity — and using only fast feedbacks (I didn't introduce any slow feedbacks anywhere in this particular series of comments), the expectation based on physics is that each delayed response T curve (each of which must correspond to a different value of heat capacity, for the same ECS) must have a maximum or minimum when it intersects the instantaneous response curve (my Teq value)-- maximum if it was below Teq before, minimum if it was above — because it is always going toward Teq.

This is very encouraging for the future application of measurements from sea - going spectral radiometers, as instruments not only for the validation of satellite - derived SST but also for studying the physics of the ocean skin temperature layer.

There is a potential for both positive and negative feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere, including changes in both the physics (e.g., circulation, stratification) and biology (e.g., export production, calcification) of the ocean.

If you want to explain the hiatus on the basis of heat flow from the atmosphere to the ocean within a period of one or two years, you have to explain how the laws of physics are cancelled at the same time.

But there is this much physics behind it: both the melting of glaciers and the warming of ocean water is driven by the imbalance between incoming and outgoing heat energy.