Sentences with phrase «provided global observations»

Satellite altimetry has provided global observations of rising sea levels since the early 1990s [Cazenave et al., 2014].

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The EU is a leading global actor in providing and financing electoral assistance complementary to election observation.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants NASA to divert more money to Earth observation in order to provide data on global climate change.

For example, previous global initiatives include satellite - based chlorophyll measurements, the Census of Marine Life, long - term observation sites, and arrays of remote sensors on floats that provide physical, chemical, and biological data [15].

Despite these restrictions: the global data sets (presented in Fig. 5), which may be subject to artefacts from having values in regions with no observations, and HadSST3 provided consistent global trends in MHW properties (Supplementary Fig. 10).

The GMVA Technical Group (GTG) provide service to Global Millimetre VLBI Array (GMVA), which combines European and US telescopes, and ALMA in ultra-high resolution observations at mm - wavelength.

Obtaining reliable estimates of photosynthesis at global scale has been challenging and these new observations thus provide a new, valuable data source.

Complementary ground - based observations can probe atmospheric global region remotely and can provide long - term coverage.

You can also account for possible errors in the amplitudes of the external forcing and the model response by scaling the signal patterns to best match the observations without influencing the attribution from fingerprinting methods, and this provides a more robust framework for attributing signals than simply looking at the time history of global temperature in models and obs and seeing if they match up or not.

We acknowledged at the time our paper was published that the historical dataset we used is under - sampled, as only satellites can provide a seamless global grid of observations.

Satellite observations available since the early 1990s provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage.

The focus is placed on the ESA and Member States missions providing near daily global surface reflectance observation at moderate spatial resolution (MERIS FR & RR, SPOT VEGETATION) but the contribution of ESA SAR sensors will also be investigated to tackle specific land cover discrimination issue.

Christy said his approach, which relies on observations from satellites and balloons, is more systematic and global than the estimates provided in the surface - temperature studies.

On the global mean sea level rise during the last interglacial period (129,000 to 116,000 years ago), the UK, Austria, US, Germany and others supported providing a policy relevant context and linking paleoclimatic observations on sea level rise to temperature.

It also provides an overview of the global observing systems co-sponsored by several United Nations organizations and the International Council for Science that coordinate Earth observations on behalf of United Nations Member States.

I'm puzzled by your assignment of only a 30 percent probability to the proposition that «Global climate model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and pollution aerosol) provide better agreement with historical observations in the second half of the 20th century than do simulations with only natural forcing (solar and volcanoes).»

Global climate model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and pollution aerosol) provide better agreement with historical observations in the second half of the 20th century than do simulations with only natural forcing (solar and volcanoes).

This paper provides the first comprehensive global review of tropical storm surge data sources, observations, and impacts while archiving data in SURGEDAT, a global database.

«NASA's examination of ocean observations has provided its own unique contribution to our knowledge of decadal climate trends and global warming,» said Veronica Nieves, a researcher at JPL and the University of California, Los Angeles and co-author of the new study.

Part I provided a context for examining observations and causes of global sea level rise.

Van Haren et al (2012) also nicely illustrate the dependence of regional skill on lateral boundary conditions: simulations of (historic) precipitation trends for Europe failed to match the observed trends when lateral boundary conditions were provided from an ensemble of CMIP3 global climate model simulations, while a much better correspondence with observations was obtained when reanalyses were used as boundary condition.

The perspective provided by space observations is crucial for monitoring global change and for providing data needed to develop an understanding of the Earth system.

It was the fourth in a series of conferences with the stated purpose of bringing together researchers «with varied interpretations of current and past global and regional climate change, to present the latest research results (observations, modeling and analysis), and to provide speaking and listening opportunities to top climate experts and students.»

A component of the NASA Earth Exchange, OpenNEX provides users a large collection of climate and Earth science satellite data sets, including global land surface images, vegetation conditions, climate observations and climate projections.

The observations and model evidence cited above provide grounds for concern that aquatic production, including fisheries production, will suffer regional and possibly global decline and that this has already begun.

It is GCOS» task to make sure, that the totality of all climate observation networks is more than the sum of the individual networks, forming together the one Global Climate Observing System, providing the full picture of our climate.

Compared to previous HadEX / CMIP3 - based results, which identified human contributions to the observed warming of extreme temperatures on global and regional scales, the current results provide better agreement with observations, particularly for the intensification of warm extremes.

Designed as a distributed system, providing improved access to existing datasets through a unified web interface, the CDS will include, but is not limited to, observations, global and regional climate reanalyses, global and regional climate projections and seasonal forecasts.

Since the late 1970s, other data from Earth - observation satellites have been used to provide a wide range of global observations of various components of the climate system.

To discard observations (like the «pause» of the global mean temperatures since 1997 shown on the appended figure 1 - A) the IPCC folks put forward a hypothesis («the greenhouse effect well understood since more than hundred years «-RRB- but do not provide any definition of their «greenhouse effect ``.

Obtaining reliable estimates of photosynthesis at global scale has been challenging and these new observations thus provide a new, valuable data source.

ECMWF as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is building a Climate Data Store (CDS) that will provide open and free access to quality - assured climate observations, global and regional Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products derived from observations, global and regional climate reanalyses, seasonal forecast data and model - generated future climate change scenarios.

Our second essential source of information is provided by global observations today, especially satellite observations.

Satellite observations provide near - global coverage and thus represent an important source of information over the oceans, where radiosonde observations are scarce, and in the upper troposphere, where radiosonde sensors are often unreliable.

The climate information provided for this purpose is derived from observations, global and regional reanalyses, seasonal forecast data, climate model simulations, and other data needed to estimate or project sectoral impacts.

Observations of recent global warming, short - term cooling after major volcanic eruptions, cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum and other periods in the historical record, and the seasonal variation in climate, all provide some information which helps to determine the value of climate sensitivity.

The agreement between 20th century global surface temperature observations and simulations with natural plus anthropogenic forcing provides the primary evidence to support this conclusion.

Whilst bearing in mind that ~ 70 % of global insolation strikes ocean surface and ocean «thermal capacity» (Cp) is greater than land Cp, ocean Cp can be seen to provide energy to land Cp where land surface temperatures are low (as can be seen from diurnal atmospheric observations between land and ocean surfaces).

Satellite altimetry observations, available since the early 1990s, provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage and indicate that since 1993 sea level has been rising at a rate of about 3 millimeters per year.

Southern hemisphere observations of a long - term decrease in F region altitude and thermospheric wind providing possible evidence for global thermospheric cooling

The sea - surface height measurements begun by TOPEX / POSEIDON satellite in 1992 and now carried on by Jason provide an unprecedented 13 - year - long record of consistent, continuous global observations of Earth's oceans.