Sentences with phrase «role of clouds in»

He and his collaborators employed both simple and complex computer models in early studies of the role of clouds in climate change, and in research on the climatic effects of massive volcanic eruptions.

Enormous uncertainties persist with respect to the role of clouds in climate change.

(The role of clouds in reflecting the thermal (infrared) radiation back to Earth's surface has generally been neglected.)

• Determine the role of clouds in modifying the evolution of the SIZ in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas from spring through fall.

Now, a new study released last week in the journal Nature yields more bad news about the role of clouds in global warming.

I was wondering what findings or research prospects led to your tone of optimism [on clarifying the role of clouds in greenhouse - driven climate change]?

The paper directly challenges conclusions of Spencer and Braswell and an earlier paper positing a role of clouds in driving climate change.

They presented the range, they described the concept of the ensemble, they emphasised (in response to a very perceptive question from some star BBC journalist) the role of clouds in the uncertainty, they mentioned 6 main reasons for uncertainty.

The role of clouds in this equation is one of the big unknowns in climate change science.

In the March 22 SN: Native Americans» genetic legacy, a new class of convex polyhedra, the unpredictable role of clouds in global warming and a look at how drug users escape addiction's grip.

She writes about eLearning, education technology and the role of cloud in education.

by Robert Ellison (Chief Hydrologist) • The theory and estimation of the role of cloud in changing Earth's dynamic energy balance is an area of fundamental weakness in climate science.

Not exact matches

«There won't be any one device that controls us,» Nadella says of the future of technology, when I ask him what role the cloud plays in the company's overall strategy.

Because the CIO and the IT team are the gatekeepers of and experts on key workplace technology (more specifically, smart devices, the Internet of Things and personal clouds) they play a major role in whether the employee experience is positive or negative.

Microsoft extended its streak of wins in the latest quarter as it moves into an era where its Windows franchise plays a supporting role to its burgeoning cloud - computing operations.

In some cases the roles are reversed, which clouds the issue of redress.

The duo have played key roles in our new 3 -4-2-1 formation since the successful switch, and should be kept at all costs, but until new contracts are signed, the cloud of doubt remains over the pair.

She knew she had something interesting on her hands when her experimental results didn't match the models that existed at the time, which suggested that previously unknown processes occurring at the droplets» surface played an important role in the cloud - forming potential of organics.

She decided to study the role that organic particles play in cloud droplet formation, because a large proportion of marine aerosols — which have a significant climate impact — are organics.

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

It has been known for several years that sulfuric acid contributes to the formation of tiny aerosol particles, which play an important role in the formation of clouds.

«One reason that we haven't appreciated the role of aerosols in the climate system is that many — most — models don't include aerosol - cloud interactions,» including only a handful of those used in IPCC's fifth assessment report, released in 2014.

Researchers are beginning to turn a corner in accurately simulating the large role of clouds and fine particles in setting Earth's temperature

Just as individual computers are networked to create concentrated processing and storage capacity in the field of Cloud Computing, links in the complex cognitive processes that take place in the prefrontal cortex play a key role.

Dusty air blowing across the Pacific from Asia and Africa plays a critical role in precipitation patterns throughout the drought - stricken western U.S. Today, a scientist will present new research suggesting that the exact chemical make - up of that dust, including microbes found in it, is the key to how much rain and snow falls from clouds throughout the region.

The best explanation is that collisions between small ice particles and heavier gobs of slush called graupel tend to transfer electrical charge, but the role of this process in real clouds is not proven.

Keeling of IBM said that technology — such as South Bend's use of the computing cloud — definitely can play an important role in water conservation.

«Mapping the link between solar surface radiation and air pollution is significant since the relationship is heavily masked by clouds which play a major role in affecting solar surface radiation,» says Deliang Chen, Professor of Physical Meteorology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg and co-author of the research article.

Experience of working in IT and an understanding of cloud computing would come in useful for roles at such companies.

J. Alan Pounds, a biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and one of the researchers who originally put forward the argument that global warming played a role in the extinction of the golden toad, disagrees with the paper's conclusions.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

The key to this narrower but much higher estimate can be found in the real world observations around the role of water vapour in cloud formation.

Bacteria in clouds may play a role in the growth of ice crystals that lead to snow and other precipitation.

Aircraft emissions probably play a crucial role in ozone destruction by fuelling the formation of polar stratospheric clouds.

PNNL researchers play a key role in reducing uncertainty through improved process understanding and modeling of climate processes such as clouds and aerosols.

Since individual clouds have a life time of hours, and the CRF - interpretation involves changes in the reflected light as well as ionisation, a climatic response from change in CRF is hypothetically almost instantaneous, and it is a challenge to explain why the night side (where there is no sunlight and hence reflection can not play a role) warms more strongly than the dayside, if the CRF were to drive the recent warming trend.

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

The team's results demonstrate the importance of including a realistic irrigation parameterization in climate studies to improve the process - level understanding on the role of human activities in modulating land - air - cloud interactions and regional climate.

What's Next: PNNL scientists are using a regional model at a much finer scale than conventional climate models to understand the processes that determine the time - scales of MJO and the roles of various types of clouds in its energy cycle.

«Southern Ocean clouds play a large role in the global climate, and hopefully this will help us get a better sense of how sensitive the Earth is to greenhouse gases,» said Burrows.

He is particularly interested in the role of aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, and has worked on the processes that describe these components of the atmosphere, the computational details that are needed to describe them in computer models, and on their impact on climate.

For example, the authors acknowledge the role of aerosols in stimulating clouds to form and the darkening of snow and ice by black carbon, adding that there is still too much uncertainty to include fully in their calculations.

He has had a central role in PNNL's global aerosol, chemistry, and climate modeling, and in modeling studies of aerosols and cloud - aerosol interactions at local and regional scales.

Bony, S., and K.A. Emanuel, 2005: On the role of moist processes in tropical intraseasonal variability: cloud - radiation and moisture - convection feedbacks.

Their role in warming the surface is determined primarily by humidity, temperature and the properties of the clouds.

Along his way, he meets a nice slum girl, Aeris, who ends up being one of the Ancients who hold an important role in the world, and Cloud is to protect her.

In effect reprising his role from Peter Weir's 2003 swashbuckler «Master and Commander», the ever - reliable Bettany plays Darwin as a kindly fusspot who discovers that his austere view of death as an essential cog in the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneratioIn effect reprising his role from Peter Weir's 2003 swashbuckler «Master and Commander», the ever - reliable Bettany plays Darwin as a kindly fusspot who discovers that his austere view of death as an essential cog in the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneratioin the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneratioin an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneration.

If there is a silver lining to this cloud, it is in the bittersweet fact that Grimsby finds supporting roles for not one but two dark - skinned recent Oscar nominees (Barkhad Abdi of Captain Phillips and Gabourey Sidibe of Precious) that Hollywood hasn't had any significant work for.

Additionally, even with the gender roles reversed from the 1987 original, it seems like an odd comedy to be remade, especially in 2018; this has been a year of discussions around consent and rape culture and other weighty topics that it's hard not to notice this icky cloud hanging over everything as the film progresses.

With so much information easily accessible from multiple sources in the cloud, learners will take more and more control of their own learning, changing the role of learning professionals, departments and software.