Sentences with phrase «said atmospheric scientist»
«If we can project the future — how much water we'll be getting from the rivers and when — then we can better plan for its many uses,» said atmospheric scientist Yun Qian.
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«And even if they become less frequent globally, hurricanes could still become more frequent in some particular areas,» said atmospheric scientist Adam Sobel, author of «Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future» (HarperWave, 2014).
«This is the most comprehensive report ever on climate change,» said atmospheric scientist Ralph J. Cicerone, the president of the academy.
«Irene did about what was expected from the forecasts,» said atmospheric scientist Eugene McCaul, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. «The rainfall was probably the biggest threat, partly because most ofthe East and New England have had a very wet August even before Irene's onslaught.»
«Although Irene never reached the highest category levels of intensity, it did cause enough havoc to at least merit consideration,» said atmospheric scientist Eugene McCaul of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
That relationship is getting stronger,» said atmospheric scientist Dr. Jin - Ho Yoon at PNNL.
«The Montreal Protocol has been a huge success,» said atmospheric scientist Qing Liang at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and first author of the perspective.
For example, the tiny particles known as aerosols are far better understood, says atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England andalso a lead author.
Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.
«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
«If these trends continue for the next few years,» says atmospheric scientist Bryan Johnson of NOAA in Boulder, Colo., «we'll have confidence things are improving.»
Despite the drawbacks, the proposal «is incredibly important and definitely worth taking seriously and looking into further,» says atmospheric scientist Richard Anthes, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
«The key is to account for large year - to - year fluctuations that have obscured a gradual increase in the long - term evolution of ozone,» says atmospheric scientist Murry Sal
The study makes a good case for paying more attention to soot, says atmospheric scientist Donald Wuebbles of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champagne.
The researchers present a «good case» for the new theory, says atmospheric scientist James Kasting of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
«It's a provocative paper,» says atmospheric scientist Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
«People think of the Greenland Ice Sheet as pretty pristine,» says atmospheric scientist Jim McQuaid of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Not exact matches
«As it makes these five dips into Saturn, followed by its final plunge, Cassini will become the first Saturn atmospheric probe,» Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, said in a press release.
That information can then be plugged into atmospheric models to calculate cumulative emissions across larger areas, says Steve Wofsy, an atmospheric scientist at Harvard who is working on the project.
«I'm pleased [the new] results show that what we'd previously theorized,» says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new work.
«With this simulator, we can explain in great detail to the operational weather community [weather forecasters] the tornadic echo from polarimetric radar,» says Robert Palmer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and co-author of the paper.
A switch to natural gas won't do Kenneth Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said EPA's actions have to be the first step, and the agency needs to take similar steps every two years or so.
Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
It is more than half a world of circumnavigation away,» said Ryan Spackman, a NOAA atmospheric scientist familiar with the study.
The team's analyses «are quite important,» says Björn - Martin Sinnhuber, an atmospheric scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
All this means that scientists now reviewing the Montreal Protocol should consider expanding the agreement to also regulate substances like CH2Cl2 that have atmospheric lifetimes of less than 6 months, Schofield says.
«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.
«Quantifying the sulfur dioxide bull's - eyes is a two - step process that would not have been possible without two innovations in working with the satellite data,» said co-author Nickolay Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«If you just stop emitting cold turkey, the temperature drops a little, but it doesn't drop too much,» says MIT atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon.
«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.
«Our study reports the first global, long - term trends of atmospheric ammonia from space,» said Juying Warner, as associate research scientist in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD.
«The unique advantage of satellite data is spatial coverage,» said Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at Goddard.
Kadri says the results may help scientists connect interactions between not only surface and deep ocean waters, but also with the atmospheric forces that affect surface waves.
«I think it's safe to say we're on the threshold of recovery,» says Michelle Santee, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.
Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).
Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.
«I don't think many studies have realized this yet: Black carbon impacts global warming in at least four different ways,» said V. Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
There are signs, however, that the ocean's capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide has been decreasing over the past few decades, says climate scientist Samuel Jaccard of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Using a 3D model to tease out the underlying trend is a «much more sophisticated way to do the attribution,» says Ross Salawitch, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
«The magnitude of the event really surprised me,» said lead author Stephen Conley, president of Boulder - based Scientific Aviation and an atmospheric scientist at University of California, Davis.
«We're trying to find out exactly what is coming from the rings and what is due to the atmosphere,» Hunter Waite, Cassini team lead for the mass spectrometer instrument and an atmospheric scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said at the Sept. 13 news conference.
«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.
«The partnership that we have had with the Japanese has been exceptional,» says Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.