Sentences with phrase «on terrestrial»

I started because we were writing a book on the subject, but I genuinely like the service: Its custom - curated playlists are excellent, and even though it relies too much on drum - and - bass tracks, I often turn on Beats 1 in the car before I even consider flipping on terrestrial radio.

They needed access to a recording studio, and they had to be played on terrestrial radio to achieve success,» Ek writes.

I would prefer an evening programme on a terrestrial channel.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.

«At mid - latitudes the ozone decrease would be up to 40 percent, which could have huge effects on human health and on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.»

The more certain way would be to implement the climate protection objectives of the Paris Agreement and thus reduce the negative effects on terrestrial droughts in Europe.

But peering through the narrow lens of landscape ecology, others have interpreted the new geological epoch as another name for the continued impact of people on the terrestrial biosphere.

In her paper Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate on Terrestrial Biota2 Parmesan wrote, «Here, evidence is brought forward that extreme weather events can be implicated as mechanistic drivers of broad ecological responses to climatic trends.

Pesticides Linked to Declining Bee Populations Also Threaten Birds and Small Mammals http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42959-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-populations-also-threaten-birds-and-small-mammals Though the scientific community is sounding the alarm about the die - off (at least in the case of the bees), they are even now completely in denial or oblivious to the highly toxic climate engineering and its effects on terrestrial life forms.

The single most important lesson from assessing changes in land use across the Holocene is that changes in the productivity of land - use systems, and especially productivity per area of land, has likely been the main long - term driver of change in human impact on the terrestrial biosphere.

If we regress the annual rate of CO2 change against temperature, we are likely to see a significant short term temperature effect as warming reduces the solubility of CO2 in the surface ocean layers (with effects on terrestrial sinks as well).

... According to a review by Lovich and Ennen (2013), the construction and operation of wind farms have both potential and known impacts on terrestrial vertebrates, such as: (i) increase in direct mortality due to traffic collisions; (ii) destruction and modification of the habitat, including road development, habitat fragmentation and barriers to gene flow; (iii) noise effects, visual impacts, vibration and shadow flicker effects from turbines; (iv) electromagnetic field generation; (v) macro and microclimate change; (vi) predator attraction; and (vii) increase in fire risks.

I have in the past (1970s) had a small part in reviving the field of sun - weather - climate research, see e.g. — Solar Magnetic Sector Structure: Relation to Circulation of the Earth's Atmosphere Wilcox, John M.; Scherrer, Philip H.; Svalgaard, Leif; Roberts, Walter Orr; Olson, Roger H. Science, Volume 180, Issue 4082, pp. 185 - 186 — Influence of Solar Magnetic Sector Structure on Terrestrial Atmospheric Vorticity.

This microwave radiation virtually freely penetrates into the lower atmosphere, providing channels for the influence of solar variability on terrestrial phenomena.

On terrestrial ice sheets, it says the total committed sea level rise today is ultimately about 1 metre, mainly from existing glacier melt and the thermal expansion of seawater.

We mapped distribution of 292 dams (under construction and proposed) and projected effects of these dams on terrestrial ecosystems under different scenarios of land - cover loss.

Quantifying and specifying the solar influence on terrestrial surface temperature (PDF), C. de Jager, S. Duhau, B. van Geel, 08/2010, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics, Volume 72, Issue 13, pp. 926 - 937

Indian Himalayan basins are earmarked for widespread dam building, but aggregate effects of these dams on terrestrial ecosystems are unknown.

This is because any net additions of CO2 to the atmosphere resulting from biomass combustion should be captured by analyzing land - use, land - use change activities and their associated effects on terrestrial biomass carbon stocks.

A range of impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has been suggested under climate change (see, for example, Leemans and Eickhout, 2004), some of which are summarised in Table 9.1 (for further details see Chapter 4; Nkomo et al., 2006; Warren et al., 2006).

Widely published and a frequent presenter at professional forums, Dr. Spector is a Red List Authority on terrestrial invertebrates for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Given the impacts those kinds of seasons currently have on terrestrial forests, agriculture and human health, we'll likely see substantial stress from severely hot conditions.»

If they actually know how to derive aggregate constraints on terrestrial circulatory morphology, they will realize these observations are bulletproof.

The overall outcome is a summary of the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts on terrestrial vegetation of future policy decisions that aim to influence anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis.

All in all we can imagine the Earth's climate took a pounding, with temperatures rising multiple degrees *, precipitation patterns changing over an already large [thus dry] continent, acidification and anoxia increasing in the oceans — and that this must have had large effects on the terrestrial biosphere too.

(12) other State - based strategies that comprehensively implement adaptation activities to remediate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on terrestrial, marine, and freshwater fish, wildlife, plants, and other natural resources.

Wordsworth R and Pierrehumbert RT 2014: Abiotic Oxygen - dominated Atmospheres on Terrestrial Habitable Zone Planetst Ap.

Let's look briefly at some of the underlying socio - economic assumptions behind RCP8.5, then we'll examine how the latest research on the terrestrial carbon cycle makes the GHG concentrations in the RCP8.5 model easier to reach.

In both polar regions, there is strong evidence of the ongoing impacts of climate change on terrestrial and freshwater species, communities and ecosystems (very high confidence).

H: «Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise» I: «Model estimates of sea - level change due to anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial water storage» J: «Is anthropogenic sea level fingerprint already detectable in the Pacific Ocean?»

Hellmann, J. J., K. J. Nadelhoffer, L. R. Iverson, L. H. Ziska, S. N. Matthews, P. Myers, A. M. Prasad, and M. P. Peters, 2010: Climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in the Chicago region.

Its mission is to facilitate access to reliable information on terrestrial ecosystems so that researchers and policy - makers can detect and manage global and regional environmental change.

«Oxygen - 18 of O2 Records the Impact of Abrupt Climate Change on the Terrestrial Biosphere.»

«He's seriously confused,» said Oliver Phillips, a professor of geography at the University of Leeds in Britain and an expert on terrestrial carbon storage.

imho focusing on terrestrial ghg forcings be it stop destroying forests / veg / soils and go «natural» w PermaC RegAg SOC NETs etc are all «no - brainers».

Earth Formations and the impact of human economic activity on the terrestrial landscape are at the heart Michele Mathison's new exhibition States of Emergence.

Further information on terrestrial wildlife is given by Somerville (1995), who provides up dated species lists for birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates recorded or likely to occur.

Current research focusing on terrestrial animals includes several studies on the island fox, one on the role of deer mice in affecting vegetation community recovery, and one on the response of lizards to the removal of rats on Anacapa.

Their presence in large numbers can have significant impacts on terrestrial systems.

And now there's solid hints that there's water - rock interactions going on that terrestrial microbes living at Earth's ocean vents like to munch on.

However, placing a value on terrestrial carbon emissions led to increased forest cover, while bioenergy use still increased considerably compared to today.

Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.

Joos, F., et al., 2001: Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the IPCC emission scenarios.

Stephen obtained his B.Sc in marine biology and biotechnology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, an Advanced Technical Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and a Master's degree in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, where his research focused on terrestrial and oceanographic predictors of Steller sea lion habitat in the north Pacific.

Researchers theorized the presence of an «azotosome» — a cell membrane made of nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen molecules — as opposed to the phospholipid membrane found on terrestrial cells.

As a result, further understanding of the processes that drive volatile cycling on terrestrial planets is needed to determine the water fraction at which they are likely to become waterworlds.

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing on hot Jupiters now are testbeds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies on terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» comments lead researcher Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University.

Among the most serious threats to ocean wildlife is climate change, which according to the scientists is degrading marine wildlife habitats and has a greater impact on these animals than it does on terrestrial fauna.