Sentences with phrase «on the carbon cycle»

Whichever side wins will have a big impact on the carbon cycle and the planet's climate.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[Response: You could start with virtually any basic undergraduate textbook 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.

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

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

GHGs change in response to climate change, but it is common to include these feedbacks as part of the climate forcing by using observed GHG changes for the past and calculated GHGs for the future, with calculated amounts based on carbon cycle and atmospheric chemistry models.

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.

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.

He fears dangerous climate change; but he told BBC News that basic science on the carbon cycle is too poorly understood to make a meaningful contribution to models.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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..

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».

«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.

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

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.

Mengis, N., Partanen, A. - I., Jalbert, J., Matthews, H. D.: 1.5 °C carbon budget dependent on carbon cycle uncertainty and future non-CO2 forcing, Sci.

Most of the climate projections are based on the carbon cycle, which accumulates carbon in proportion to the emissions, but if that doesn't continue, all the projections are conservative and underestimate how climate would change.

It is just one example of a climate plague, that acts as a feedback on the carbon cycle, releasing megatonnes of CO2, and on biodiversity loss.

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