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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.
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.
«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.
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.
«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.
«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.»
Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data
on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite
observations began.
The report calls
on the new president to reverse «the deterioration of the U.S. Earth
observation infrastructure» and take the lead internationally in monitoring global
climate.
The method is based
on Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), which is a machine learning method that has been developed to infer very complex models from
observations, with uses in
climate sciences and epidemiology among others.
Based
on past
observations, Held, who was not involved with the study, said the
climate sensitivity of 5 °C or more shown by the new research may be implausible.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants NASA to divert more money to Earth
observation in order to provide data
on global
climate change.
On October 28, NASA launched the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, a prototype of the new generation of satellites, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), that will be the backbone of U.S. space - based weather and
climate observations.
Trenberth says that the
climate monitoring principles set by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellit
climate monitoring principles set by the Global
Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellit
Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic
climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellit
climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising»
climate - change results based on satellit
climate - change results based
on satellite data.
«I would expect to see restrictions
on the parts of the budget of the agencies that collect that sort of data... and proposed cuts to the divisions of those agencies that deal with Earth
observations and
climate prediction.»
Titanic international projects that are just kicking off, including the National Science Foundation - funded Ocean Observatories Initiative and Southern Ocean Carbon and
Climate Observations and Modeling project, promise to pile
on reams of new data and knowledge in the coming years — not all of it expected to be postcard pretty.
This shows that identifying inconsistent
observations is a pre-requisite for studying and interpreting the impact of
climate change
on the timing of life cycle events.
With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based
climate observations, ARM relies heavily
on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.
Then they will compare those
observations with their field and laboratory results regarding the impacts of
climate variability
on sap flow and quality, Ahmed said.
(I) a Subcommittee
on Science and Technology to advise the
Climate Service Program
on needed research, technology development, and additional
observations, and
on any other scientific or technical issues as appropriate; and
(2) a description of current research,
observation, and monitoring activities at the Federal, State, tribal, and local level related to the impacts of
climate change and ocean acidification
on natural resources, as well as identification of research and data needs and priorities;
Corbyn & Trenberth are similar in wasting our time
on hyperpartisan political rants, rather than sticking to succinctly informing us about
observation - based natural
climate variations.
Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based
on recent
observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent
climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?
All these
observations will be combined to improve
climate models, which will provide an estimate of present - day and future surface melt
on the East Antarctic ice shelves.
In addition,
climate models and
observations suggest that there may be modes of variability which act
on multi-decadal timescales, although understanding of such modes is currently limited3.
Climate change effects
on Arctic fjord and coastal macrobenthic diversity —
observations and predictions.
Beckwith replies it's almost a battle between
climate modelers, like David Archer, and researchers with
observations on the ground, like Shakhova and here Russian counterparts.
The estimates of ice loss also helped them calculate the amount of sea level rise contributed by the ice sheet prior to 1990 — a number missing from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report because of the lack of direct
observations.
So, what was predicted is not consistent with the
on - going
observations of global
climate.
Previous attempts to estimate this planetary imbalance relied
on climate models rather than
observations because sufficiently detailed
observations were not available then.
Observations from old forests underestimate
climate change effects
on tree mortality.
Since the temperature changes since 1979 are
on the order of 0.6 C or so, it is relatively easy for bias, due to changing
observation times, to swamp the underlying
climate signal.
Highlights of the annual meeting included a session focusing
on the role of
observations in
climate change research and breakout sessions with topics ranging from current field campaigns to new instruments.
None of the assertions are based
on rigorous statistical associations, oceanographic
observations or physically based simulations; it is all seat - of - the - pants stuff of a sort that was common in the early days of
climate studies, but which is difficult to evaluate when viewed as a scientific hypothesis.
Knutti, R., T.F. Stocker, F. Joos, and G.K. Plattner, 2002: Constraints
on radiative forcing and future
climate change from
observations and
climate model ensembles.
Previous proofs have relied
on complex
climate models, but this proof doesn't need such models — just careful
observations of the land, ocean and atmospheric gases.»
Earth Science Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment AirMOSS Aqua Aura Aquarius CALIPSO CARVE Center for Earth and
Climate Science Education CloudSat DISCOVER - AQ Earth to Sky - Building
Climate Literacy for Informal Educators: Expanding the Earth to Sky Partnership (EPOESS NNH09CF00C) Girl Scouts Earth Science Patch Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) The GLOBE Program GLOBE at Langley GRACE ICESat - 2 Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) MY NASA DATA NASA
Climate Day / Earth Ambassadors NASA Know Your Earth Campaign NOVA Labs Ocean Surface Topography Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 SAGE III
on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Ter
on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud
Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Ter
On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and
Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Terra
Looking farther, into the outer solar system, Webb's
observations will give us a better picture of the seasonal weather and
climate on our giant planets and their moons.
«New
observations from many different sources confirm that ice - sheet loss is accelerating,» the United States Global Change Research Program said in its comprehensive special report
on climate science.
In particular, we should make sure of our discoveries
on life in various environments
on Earth, our knowledge of how our planet and its life have affected each other over Earth history, and our satellite
observations of Earth's
climate.
The workshop, building
on the knowledge and practical skills acquired during the school, aims to bring together expertise
on large - scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, small scale cloud and precipitation processes, hierarchical
climate modeling and
observation.
The analysis of processes contributing to
climate feedbacks in models and recent studies based
on large ensembles of models suggest that in the future it may be possible to use
observations to narrow the current spread in model projections of
climate change.
Observations of Aerosol / Trace Gases, Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation from DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
Climate Research Facility (Joint with the 19th Conference
on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 9th Symposium
on Aerosol - Cloud -
Climate interactions to host)
However, satellite
observations are notably cooler in the lower troposphere than predicted by
climate models, and the research team in their paper acknowledge this, remarking: «One area of concern is that
on average... simulations underestimate the observed lower stratospheric cooling and overestimate tropospheric warming... These differences must be due to some combination of errors in model forcings, model response errors, residual observational inhomogeneities, and an unusual manifestation of natural internal variability in the
observations.»