Sentences with phrase «previous climate studies»

Not exact matches

By studying the rings of semifossilized trees, researchers constructed a climate history for the semiarid Asian nation spanning the last 2,060 years — going 1,000 years further back than previous studies.

Previous studies established that especially in cooler mountain regions, carbon bound in soil organic matter reacts very sensitively to warmer weather caused by climate warming, and is increasingly released by microorganisms.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Only a handful of previous studies have looked at the humidity issue in relation to climate change.

Previous studies have found that belief in climate change is linked to more support for climate change actions.

While many previous studies predicted a future increase in humus levels as a result of climate change, based on their current findings, the TUM scientists are critical of this assumption: If the input of organic matter stagnates, soil will lose some of its humus in the long term.

Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

The new study reinforces previous research showing the power of climate change over small glaciers worldwide.

The researchers defined the risk categories based on guidelines established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and previous independent studies.

«Previous studies have shown a correlation between temperature and insect damage diversity in the fossil record, possibly caused by evolutionary radiations or range shifts in response to a warmer climate,» said Donovan.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

Building on a previous limited study of climate warming on three Arctic lakes (Science, 21 October 1994, 416), ecologist John Smol of Queens University, Kingston, Canada, and colleagues extracted sediment cores from 46 lakes in Canada, Finland, Norway, and Russia.

It complements previous research that already linked such phenomena to climate change, but did not yet identify a mechanism behind it,» says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK and co-author of the study.

In a detailed study of more than 200 years» worth of temperature data, results backed previous findings that short - term pauses in climate change are simply the result of natural variation.

The researchers» results were comparable to previous studies that have analysed air pollution and mortality; however, there was some variation depending on which climate model was used.

While previous studies had examined the impact of climate change - induced weather patterns on violence and the increased danger of violence in weak or failing states, this is the first study to demonstrate that the combination of the two risk factors is even more dangerous than they would be separately.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

Previous studies by others have advanced the idea that climate swings can change history.

Previous studies have usually only included fast climate feedbacks (snow cover, clouds, etc.).

«Previous scientific studies have shown that extreme weather events are becoming more common, more intense, and longer lasting in response to our changing climate.

Previous studies based on global climate models indicated that the overturning circulation in the North Pacific and North Atlantic responded in opposite ways to major shifts in global climate.

And for another, the previous studies estimate that Earth's climate will rapidly respond to the changes.

The team's projection is almost certainly too pessimistic, counters Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City who was involved in both previous studies critiqued by Smith and MStudies in New York City who was involved in both previous studies critiqued by Smith and Mstudies critiqued by Smith and Mizrahi.

Previous studies of temperature alone have highlighted the tropics as a hotspot of emerging unfamiliar climates.

New field studies, presented here this week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, quantify the amount of soil carbon at 1.9 trillion metric tons, suggesting that previous estimates underestimated the climate risk if this carbon is liberated.

«Our previous research used field studies to understand the history of climate change in the Western US,» said study coauthor Kate Maher, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University.»

A previous study by the researchers showed that reduced summer water availability and higher water temperatures associated with climate change could result in significant reductions in thermoelectric power supply in Europe and the United States.

«Most of the previous research of the past climate in this region is based on detailed studies of specific sites,» said the lead author Jessica Oster, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University.

Previous studies have found that climate change will likely turn the United Kingdom into a refuge for many butterflies, as warming temperatures open up previously inhospitable habitats.

At NPL, we are proposing a low - cost, small satellite mission to help set benchmarks for climate studies and to achieve tenfold improvement over previous measurements.

Peter Stott, the head of climate monitoring at the U.K. Met Office, agreed, noting in an email that, «The slowdown hasn't gone away, however, the results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.

Previous studies suggest the climate in the region during this time was relatively warm and wet, so the moisture needed to seep through the overlying rocks to create the stalagmites would have been abundant, Verheyden says.

When understood in the context of climate change, this biological rule reinforces the prediction that fish will shrink and will be even smaller than thought in previous studies.

Previous studies have estimated the effect of climate change and population growth on wildfire patterns and the risk of damage to buildings and homes in California.

Previous studies have shown that glaciers in the European Alps and Greenland are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The research was «based on some extrapolation» from previous climate pledges, Massimo Tavoni, the Politecnico di Milano and Stanford University researcher who led the study, which was published in Nature Climate Change in Decemberclimate pledges, Massimo Tavoni, the Politecnico di Milano and Stanford University researcher who led the study, which was published in Nature Climate Change in DecemberClimate Change in December, said.

It is different from previous studies that use climate proxies because it uses a brand new temperature reconstruction for the tropical oceans.

Previous studies suggested that stratospheric water vapor might contribute significantly to climate change.

Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction; with previous books such as Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.»

The recent paper by Kate Marvel and others (including me) in Nature Climate Change looks at the different forcings and their climate responses over the historical period in more detail than any previous modelingClimate Change looks at the different forcings and their climate responses over the historical period in more detail than any previous modelingclimate responses over the historical period in more detail than any previous modeling study.

Actually Olson et al's abstract states «Our results are consistent with most previous studies» and «The mode of the climate sensitivity estimate is 2.8 °C, with the corresponding 95 % credible interval ranging from 1.8 to 4.9 °C» (which supports the first quote).

A new paper in press in Journal of Climate by Jason Smerdon et al from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory documents errors in some previous pseudo-proxy studies by Mann and et al..

Maybe the Tett and Thorne criticisms were taken into account and Fu improved on the previous study (which would make the J. of Climate article's findings even more solid).

Our findings support a previous study suggesting that the impact of anthropogenic climate warming on Arctic sea ice became detectable from the early 1990s onwards (19).

For example, Saunders quotes William Gray's off - the - cuff criticism of a study by Naomi Oreskes that demonstrated the existence of an overwhelming consensus in the peer - reviewed scientific literature on the reality of anthropogenic climate change (see our previous discussion of that study).

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureClimate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).