Sentences with phrase «of weather scientists»

Basically three fourths of weather scientists choose NOT to get entangled in a political, non-scientific debate.

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One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Climate scientists have long warned that rising emissions of greenhouse gases by humanity may cause weather extremes, and not just heat waves.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

Senior Scientist Liz Specht took her whole life on the move: she lives in an RV with her husband and two dogs, roaming the country in search of good weather and beautiful scenery.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

Pluto's weather is more active than we thought With each batch of images that rolls in from New Horizons, scientists learn more about Pluto's characteristics.

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

The modeling helps scientists deduce important pieces of information for space weather forecasting — in this case, for the first time, the density of the plasma around the shock, in addition to the speed and strength of the energized particles.

Scientists have an opportunity to inform administration officials and members of Congress about the importance of weather information to the economic wellbeing of agricultural industry to ensure they can communicate the ramifications of limiting the collection and use of such weather data.

Ruling out natural variability, scientists say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without human - caused climate change.

With the weather serving as the prod for some to put on their running shoes or keep others at home, the scientists got a good idea of who socially infected who with the running bug.

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

«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.

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.

Scientists aren't sure why the blob formed, though many blame a ridge of high pressure that brought sunnier weather and less mixing of surface water with colder, deeper water.

These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system.

Prather, a 49 - year - old professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one of a growing number of scientists who suspect this largely unexplored microbial ecosystem might hold the answer to one of the great mysteries of the weather: Why do clouds produce precipitation when they do?

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

«Patchy weather in the center of Earth: The temperature 3,000 kilometers below surface of Earth is much more varied than previously thought, scientists have found.»

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

The best scientists can do right now is watch the sun for signs of trouble and monitor space weather — the flow of particles and fields — between the sun and Earth.

Scientists in northern Spain tracking populations of Drosophila subobscura, a type of fly, observed reversible changes in the frequency of genetic mutations, or «chromosomal inversions» in the flies» genomes — essentially, parts of the chromosome get flipped around with the seasons, as the weather changes from hot to cold.

Many early CubeSats tackled problems in space weather, but other areas of science are opening up, and some scientists think CubeSats can play a role far beyond low - Earth orbit.

In their paper, published in Nature Communications, Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon, the University of Exeter scientists explain how organic material — the dead bodies of simple lifeforms — accumulated in the earth's sedimentary rocks.

Dartmouth scientists examined the variability of soil phosphorus in the McMurdo Dry Valleys by evaluating two forms of phosphorus in surface soil samples: labile phosphorus, which is immediately available to organisms, and mineral phosphorus, which needs to be broken down by weathering before organisms can use it.

These mobile, radar - equipped weather stations — along with weighted probes bearing anemometers, thermometers, and cameras that can be placed in a tornado's path — allow scientist chasers to gather valuable data on the formation and internal structure of twisters.

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

Instruments are now so precise that radar observations can spot a single bee at about 30 miles away, and scientists can combine thermal imaging cameras, acoustic monitoring devices and small portable radars with weather radar data to get a complete picture of a region's ecology.

When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.

«The timing of snowmelt and length of the snow - free season significantly impacts weather, the permafrost, and wildlife — in short, the Arctic terrestrial system as a whole,» said Christopher Cox, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, Colorado.

But the scientist said it's not clear whether the droughts are the product of a random shift in weather patterns or whether they are driven, at least in part, by climate change.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

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.

A group of spider monkeys and their scientist observers confront extreme weather and its fiery aftermath in a Central American rainforest

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

Every day, NOAA scientists employ an array of technology to predict and prepare for extreme weather

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

3 Last year a team of scientists led by Kurt Zenz House, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, proposed something they call engineered weathering, inspired by a natural process in which slightly acidic freshwater is neutralized by exposure to alkalizing minerals.

Wondering how that cold spell compares to recent times, atmospheric scientists Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and Chuck Stearns of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tracked the average monthly temperatures over the last 15 years at a series of four automated weather stations located, by coincidence, along Scott's return route.

What's more, scientists have been seeing evidence of seasonal weather — in the form of dark zones that may be lakes filling with methane rain — ever since Cassini arrived in 2004.

A 110 - kilometer - wide blob that weather scientists observed this week above Denver and neighboring counties were not birds or clouds but a bunch of migrating lady butterflies, Associated Press reports.

A third scientist discussed two upcoming NASA missions that will provide key observations of this region, helping us better understand how the ionosphere reacts both to space weather and to terrestrial weather.

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

Scientists looked at modeled predictions of climate change and reproductive data from lesser prairie - chickens from 2001 - 2011 to determine how weather conditions affect reproductive success in the Southern High Plains.

In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in space.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

Climate scientists believe that the frequency and severity of extreme - weather events will increase as temperatures continue to rise.