Sentences with phrase «on carbon cycling»

On the face of it, it seems preposterous that the army of scientists that have worked on carbon cycling over the years could have missed something so glaringly obvious.

The paper fits into a body of research on carbon cycling in melting permafrost.

This is an important positive feedback on the carbon cycle (the exchange of carbon compounds throughout the climate system).

Field measurements of tree death since last year's drought are also needed to refine the estimate of the weather event's impact on the carbon cycle.

Related sites La Selva biological station Background on the carbon cycle The International Center for Tropical Ecology, with links to the Clarks» Web sites

Schimel presented his work to forecast and understand land - ecosystem impacts on the carbon cycle at the global scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, June 21.

Armed with this information, scientists will be able to do a much better job forecasting atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in the future, he said, and in understanding the role of human activities on the carbon cycle.

Investigations of this event suggested that climate extreme events have a much stronger effect on the carbon cycle than previously assumed.

Consequently, an international team of researchers led by Markus Reichstein, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, investigated the influence of extreme climate events on the carbon cycle of land ecosystems and if the resulting additional CO2 emissions feedback on climate change.

High school chemistry teacher Angela Harding used this formula for the first time during a recent instructional unit on the carbon cycle.

Instead, why not post an article on the carbon cycle, and how it relates to schemes to capture carbon from fossil fuels?

And that includes its impact on the carbon cycle.

And I recommend a few good introductory ecology textbooks to candidate so that he can read up on the carbon cycle in more detail.

He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor, at present, in the past, and in the future.

Just a quick note to let folks know about a nice source of easily - accessible information on the carbon cycle:

Trees are actually near net zero on the carbon cycle.

In turn, the heating has effects on the carbon cycle.

There's more on the carbon cycle from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA's Earth Observatory and a Skeptical Science post by Doug Mackie addressing claims that «CO2 has a short residence time.»

[Response: You could start with virtually any basic undergraduate textbook on the carbon cycle.

See the IPCC report for details, or better still, David Archers excellent primer on the carbon cycle.

The effects of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increasing temperature do not necessarily have the same impact on the carbon cycle.

Similarly there is no direct scientific research on the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, but there is research on carbon cycle, i.e. on all important processes that determine the changes in CO2 concentration.

Although much of the work in this area has focused on the carbon cycle, expanding our focus to other elements, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, can make a positive contribution.

There's a lot of research that has produced more detailed knowledge on the carbon cycle of oceans and land areas.

The CCS&T Group aims to increase understanding of the effects of global change on the carbon cycle and is part of the Environmental Research & Technology Division of the Environmental Sciences Department.

Now that researchers are illuminating the mechanisms of drought damage, Anderegg believes these legacy effects could be incorporated into climate models within a year or two — an important step if climate models are to truly capture the effect of drought on the carbon cycle.

Where is the research on this central issue, when the USA is spending many millions a year on carbon cycle research instead?

Let's briefly look at the latest research on carbon cycle effects and see what difference they will make.

No one knows, and until a satisfactory explanation is offered here, and to the scientific community in general, I would suggest that those of you who are certain of their «position» on the carbon cycle consider the possibility that, as Oliver Cromwell appealed during his time, «ye might be mistaken».

The problem is that we don't know enough about effects on the carbon cycle via positive feedbacks e.g. melting permafrost, rainforest deforestation, peat forest destruction, etc..

Going on the carbon cycle the natural processes are in rough balance, or if anything, absorb more than they emit.

Notice I provided links to information on the carbon cycle and calculations of the carbon balance (unlike you with your unsupported claims.

Far from anything like a start - up, Dave Schimel, the chief adviser on carbon cycle science at NASA's jet propulsion lab in California, has described the CSIRO as «a national treasure».

His 4 Part post on the carbon cycle is incredibly well documented and well balanced.

However, our analyses highlight the need for increased research efforts on the carbon cycle in nearshore environments (Table 3), including δ13C and DIC sampling, and attention to biological and circulation changes in nearshore environments.

«Although these events played out over hundreds or thousands of years, the magnitude of the changes, in carbon dioxide levels for example, are similar to those of the last 150 years resulting from human influence on the carbon cycle.

The scientists believe that nitrogen's relatively small impact on the carbon cycle is due to the fact that deeper layers of permafrost won't thaw until the fall or even early winter, when summer's warmth finally reaches more than one meter below ground.

And we found the rate of permafrost thaw and its effect on the decomposition of deep carbon will have a much bigger impact on the carbon cycle than the availability of deep nitrogen and its ability to spark plant growth,» says Charles Koven of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division.

No studies have yet determined just how much of an affect these tidal pumps have on the carbon cycle.

Previous IPCC reports have used simplified or «reduced - form» models to estimate the impact of climate change on the carbon cycle.

For each basic model we assume the anthropogenic emission (a) is having insignificant effect on the carbon cycle, and (b) is affecting the carbon cycle to induce the observed rise in the Mauna Loa data.

The rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration is induced by a variation in the unquantified undersea volcanic sulphur emission which causes a known effect on the carbon cycle.

Read up on the carbon cycle.

A new study (doi: 10.1038 / nature12350) published in nature, explores the impacts of extreme weather events on the carbon cycle.

Studies also suggest there could be impacts on the carbon cycle (Zickfeld et al, 2008) and on soil moisture and primary productivity of the terrestrial vegetation (Vellinga and Wood, 2002).»

ATTP has been beating a bit on the carbon cycle, something Eli has talked about before.

However, there is a wide range of response to CO2, even in the absence of climate change effects on the carbon cycle.

Example research papers on the impact of fossil fuel emissions on tropical cyclones, on sea level rise, and on the carbon cycle demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by researchers about their anthropogenic cause derive from circular reasoning.

The SAR, under Bert Bolin (IPCC Chair) and John Houghton and Gylvan Meira Filho (WGI Co-chairs), was planned with and coupled to a preliminary Special Report (IPCC, 1995) that contained intensive chapters on the carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols and radiative forcing.

She is particularly interested in the role of marine plankton and nutrients on the carbon cycle looking at modern and paleoclimate cases.