Sentences with phrase «setting for climate research»

Not exact matches

8 USDA «climate hubs» spread the word In addition to increasing funding for climate change research, USDA recently set up eight regional climate hubs.

They would also «set the stage for economy - boosting innovations,» including advanced manufacturing, clean - energy technology, and climate - change research, Knapp and Holt wrote.

Tippett and his Columbia colleagues John Allen and Adam Sobel took part and focused their research into how the cyclical climate patterns known as El Niño and La Niña influence the larger atmospheric environment that sets the stage for tornado activity.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Millero and others, including the mathematician and physicist Rainer Feistel and Trevor McDougall at the Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research, set to work developing standard guidelines that would allow for more accurate assessment of salinity.

Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst's Climate System Research Center, is set to embark on the trip of a lifetime this month as part of an experiment for NASA, spending 45 days away from Earth as he knows it, without ever leaving the ground.

Methods: The research team set out to incorporate a detailed physical and chemical mechanism for organic aerosols, called the «volatility basis set framework,» in a familiar community climate model.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

That doesn't mean every year will set a record, but «it seems to me quite likely that we have taken the next step up to a new level,» National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central lastclimate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central lastClimate Central last month.

This parallel evidence from research in similar settings confirms that reference bias stemming from differences in school climate is the most likely explanation for these paradoxical findings.

As I went onto the Internet to find out the latest research on global warming, I came upon a call for help: Gore had set up a nonprofit organization, the Climate Project, to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action to combat global warming.

«I was blown away by the Bowdoin students» enthusiasm and passion for this show — and the launch of Fifty Years Later represents a very exciting moment as their critical research into the original exhibition's complex «set of players» and political and social climates will be shared with an audience far beyond our campus,» said Byrd.

«Research by NOAA scientists Gerry Bell and Muthuvel Chelliah, currently in press with the Journal of Climate, describes the tropical multi-decadal signal and shows that it accounts for the entire inter-related set of conditions that controls hurricane activity for decades at a time.

The declining signal over India shown by the GPCP decadal mode is broadly consistent with gauge measurements since the 1950s — that several research groups including my own are trying to understand, perhaps relating to emissions of anthropogenic aerosol — although there are discrepancies between these gauge - based data sets themselves (see our recent review in Nature Climate Change, for example).

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

Not only are emissions from agriculture much larger than previously estimated, but with weather records being set every month as regional climates adjust and reset, there is an urgent need for research that helps smallholder farmers adapt to the new normal,» said Frank Rijsberman, the CEO of the CGIAR consortium.

The Carbon Dioxide Research Program of the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established a network of 1219 stations in the contiguous United States for the specific purpose of compiling a data set suitable for detecting and monitoring climate change over the past two centuries.

Also weather extremes, like the Syrian drought of 2006 - 2010 to mention just one, are set to increase globally as a result of anthropogenic climate change [please click any of those links for further reading — there is a lot of research into & proof of the extreme weather increase!].

Judging by the above shown forecast of Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) these extremes are set to continue throughout the last three months of 2015.

WMO - «Because the data with respect to in - situ surface air temperature across Africa is sparse, a oneyear regional assessment for Africa could not be based on any of the three standard global surface air temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination of the Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was used to estimate s

Our research activity is thus part of a national and international effort to provide the scientific community with new data sets usefull for ocean circulation modeling, climate studies, bio-optics and bio-chemistry of the ocean.

Since then, raw images from an international network of operational geostationary and polar - orbiting meteorological satellites have been routinely processed to develop a global data set of calibrated radiances and derived cloud parameters for climate research.

Lyman and colleagues combined different ocean monitoring groups» data sets, taking into account different sources of bias and uncertainty — due to researchers using different instruments, the lack of instrument coverage in the ocean, and different ways of analyzing data used among research groups — and put forth a warming rate estimate for the upper ocean that it is more useful in climate models.

The government needs to create a set of standards for climate research the government would consider when creating policy.

Bangalore: India's environment and forest ministry and its space agency will jointly set up an institute in Bangalore for climate research and build homegrown capabilities and data on climate change to counter Western claims on on the impact of India's greenhouse gas emissions.

On February 17, 2008, Mike De Souza of CanWest News Service reported that the U of C had shut down the» «Research on Climate Change» account fund», set up and controlled by Professor Barry Cooper for the benefit of the Friends of Science.

The purpose of the program is to provide training and professional enrichment by providing opportunities for interaction between participants and climate scientists in a research and operational setting to --

-- that James Hansen's research strategy for verifying and validating climate change science, as set forth in his Earth's Energy Imbalance and Implications so strikingly embody the same NASA V&V principles that are associated to successful spacecraft design... particularly in emphasizing the absolute necessity for multiple, high - quality, redundant, cross-checked, climate measurements of global span!

The paper discusses four different sets of data on satellite atmospheric monitoring (all producing slightly different end products), two radiosonde data sets (from UK Hadley Centre and University of Vienna, both adjusted for inhomogeneities — and that opens another can of worms), four different surface temperature data sets (based on reconstructed sea surface temperature data sets from Hadley Centre, again, and Climate Research Unit).

For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small.

Ethon has a new one, a certain tasty senior fellow of the Breakthrough Institute, you know, the delayers who current strategy is faith based research to combat future climate change, telling the new Japanese government off for setting goals in their first couple of weeks in power but not immediately having concrete plans for reducing greenhouse gases.

The 40 - 70 % reduction on 2010 levels by 2050 is the range for 2C set out by research organisation Climate Analytics earlier this year.

«Because the data with respect to in - situ surface air temperature across Africa is sparse, a oneyear regional assessment for Africa could not be based on any of the three standard global surface air temperature data sets from NOAANCDC, NASA - GISS or HadCRUT4 Instead, the combination of the Global Historical Climatology Network and the Climate Anomaly Monitoring System (CAMS GHCN) by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was used to estimate surface air temperature patterns»

The group of scientists − led by Carlos Nobre, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-ordinator of the Centre for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies at Brazil's Space Research Institute (INPE) − set out their vision in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

She did more than talk about climate change: she set up the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, now with a worldwide reputation for itclimate change: she set up the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, now with a worldwide reputation for itClimate Prediction and Research, now with a worldwide reputation for its work.

This and other meetings eventually led to the setting up of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, within the Met Office.

«In this impressively researched manifesto for change, Brown bluntly sets out the challenges and offers an achievable road map for solving the climate change crisis.»

Schiffer, R.A., and W.B. Rossow, 1985: ISCCP global radiance data set: A new resource for climate research.

He said Modi would press Obama to set up a global clean energy research consortium or make funds available for licences for clean energy technologies, perhaps from international climate finance.

I hope the «Russian server» will turn out to be some trap set for the hackers; but when I see the brazen disinformation called an FBI white paper, I feel scared.The FBI should consult scientists and historians of science who have researched the history of nuclear winter research; instead, their expert is a KGB defector who makes up a vague conspiracy theory about climate scientists and the history of nuclear winter when many facts are known and published.

A report by the Sussex Energy Group and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research entitled China's Energy Transition: Pathways for Low Carbon Development set out four different scenarios for low - carbon development in China in an attempt to demonstrate how China's economic development can be decoupled from carbon emissions growth — allowing its economy to expand by some 8 to 13 times while presumably stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

In our piece, Charter Set to Expire for Interagency Subcommittee Overseeing Federal Climate Research (October 20th, 2017), we noted that there were several possible scenarios going forward.

''... real scientists engaged in real research have used sound statistical methods to investigate this topic; and what they typically find does not bode well for climate alarmists... performed a series of statistical analyses on these data, seeking to determine «whether the data set can reveal the degree to which islands in the Pacific are already seeing the impact of global climate change on the risk of severe flooding.»

«There is a lack of consensus,» said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005 according to one U.S. analysis.

This Perspective reviews the literature on climate change and mental health, and advocates for a systems approach, which considers the complex set of interacting distal, intermediate and proximate factors that influence mental health risk, in future research.

«Our results suggest that stratospheric ozone is important for the Southern Hemisphere climate change, and ought to be more carefully considered in the next set of IPCC model integrations,» said Seok - Woo Son, lead - author of the study and a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

As a result, he said, he had not accepted any funding for his latest research on the composition and manipulation of climate data sets.

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