Sentences with phrase «on emissions modelling»

Based on the most up - to - date, peer - reviewed literature on emissions modelling, economics, policies and technologies, today's report reveals how governments, industry and the general public could together reduce the energy and carbon intensity of the global economy despite growing incomes and population levels.

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Fitzgerald's business model is primarily designed to circumvent Environmental Protection Agency regulations on diesel emissions.

Andrew Weaver, who holds the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis, says when it comes to saving energy and cutting carbon emissions, it's not enough to provide people subsidies on retrofits or other upgrades.

Singapore authorities slap a fine of about $ 11,000 on a Tesla Model S electric car owner over high CO2 emissions.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Report Modelling the Impact of the Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price on British Columbia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)

«More than 1,400 researchers and stakeholders worldwide use the DNDC Model on over 40 agricultural crops to assess the effects of various management practices on greenhouse gas emissions,» said Allison Jordan, CSWA executive director.

DNDC Greenhouse Gas Modeling for California Vineyards - A short description of a new online tool to help calculate GHG emissions from your vineyard soil through a computer model based on DNDC (DeNitrification - DeComposition).

The conclusions, in a report by the UK Energy Research Centre, are based on modelling the likely shape of the energy sector in 2050 when greenhouse emissions will need to have fallen by 80 % on 1990's level.

It is based on NO2 emissions modelling carried out by Kings College London, not on actual readings.

That information can then be plugged into atmospheric models to calculate cumulative emissions across larger areas, says Steve Wofsy, an atmospheric scientist at Harvard who is working on the project.

Through modeling carried out by Dr. Sean Brittain, a Clemson University astrophysicist and the lead author on the paper, and with additional data gathered by the team to confirm their initial hypothesis, they were able to investigate the extra emission as it orbited the star.

I developed a generic model for emissions prediction based on thermodynamic principles (fundamental research), but using empirical constants so as to ensure its valid application to different engines (applied research).

This critical question is addressed using simulations from climate models based on projections of future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climodel, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cliModel, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climate.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

About 80 percent of the 23 climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict some degree of drought in the Amazon if greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing, he said.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

The new estimates, which are based on an integrated modeling framework that combines information about population, economics, and land use and land productivity, show that Europe could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use by more than 60 % by 2050.

«When we first detected this signal in our data, we relied on models for Galactic dust emission that were available at the time,» says John Kovac, a principal investigator of BICEP2 at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the ESA press release.

«Regional changes are mostly due to natural variability but on top of that we see this pronounced overall weakening in summer storm activity,» says co-author Dim Coumou, «This is also something projected by climate models under future emission scenarios.

The new modeling, conducted by the Washington, D.C. — based nonprofit group Climate Interactive, assumes annual emissions will remain flat for the remainder of the century after 2025 to 2030; nations will neither do more to clamp down on annual emissions, nor allow them to rise.

If only modest action is taken to reign in greenhouse gas emissions, the model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent of sites by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending on the global climate model used).

Then they plugged that into simulations that took into account climate models and two different carbon emissions scenarios identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The inset map is a computer model of Asian mercury emissions across the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of 20,000 feet in April 2004, while atmospheric chemist Dan Jaffe was picking up significant mercury readings on Mount Bachelor (the highest concentrations are in red).

«If China's CO2 trading program is perceived as a successful program, I think it could provide the other nations the confidence to adopt the emissions trading model and take on a climate commitment or a more stringent climate commitment.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.

In using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.

REDD + is included among technologies for negative emissions, which stand for a large share of the emission reductions in the climate models internationally agreed on to keep global warming below 2 °C.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

Understanding the role rivers play in the carbon cycle can help researchers model non-natural (or human - caused) carbon emissions and more accurately assess the impact these emissions have on the atmosphere, he said.

That's according to Wenju Cai at the CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia, whose team ran 21 climate models with data on past and future carbon emissions to see what would happen.

It centres on a computer model they developed to compare the carbon emissions that would be saved by converting the world's available supplies of plant waste into either biofuel or biochar.

The researchers» methodical approach — to model the prediction of API emissions based on consumption patterns — is new.

Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.

Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Dr. Jodi Sherman, and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

They then used an integrated climate - economic model and calculated the optimal price that we should put on emissions now in order to minimize the costs associated with meeting such a temperature target.

Total anthropogenic carbon emissions modeled for in the scenarios selected by the IPCC, based on data from Table All 2.

Hansen provided 3 emissions scenarios to bracket what was likely, based on models that are now 20 years old.

Global climate modeling: While global climate models generally agree on historic emissions, current results vary widely under future climate change conditions.

The resulting model would therefore minimize the effect AGHG emissions on future global temperatures and the need to limit these emissions.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).

The emission model is continuously being developed, as research on emissions to air regularly is evaluated.