Sentences with phrase «simulate sea»

Scientists use models to simulate sea ice processes.

Three recent journal articles examine the rate of sea level rise and the ability of models to accurately simulate sea level rise at a global and regional scale.

So, they didn't actually simulate sea level changes, but instead estimated how much sea level rise they would expect from man - made global warming, and then used computer model predictions of temperature changes, to predict that sea levels will have risen by 0.8 - 2 metres by 2100.

Researchers use models that combined observed temperatures with simulated sea surface temperatures and surface air temperatures to determine temperatures from 1401 to 1800.

Klaus Bittermann of Tufts University in Massachusetts and his colleagues simulated sea level rise under different levels of warming.

«This uncertainty is illustrated by Pollard et al. (2015), who found that addition of hydro - fracturing and cliff failure into their ice sheet model increased simulated sea level rise from 2 m to 17 m, in response to only 2 °C ocean warming and accelerated the time for substantial change from several centuries to several decades.»

One possible explanation is that the CMIP5 models underestimate the strength of the feedback as did the CMIP3 models based upon the systematic errors in simulated sea ice coverage decline relative to observed rates (Boe et al., 2009b).

In particular, they are hoping for some perspective on why their climate model is having difficulty with simulating sea ice.

Because the model - simulated sea surface temperatures are too warm globally, this shortcut helps to better align the data with the models.

From the reference: «After simulating the sea surface, the signals received by two antennas are simulated.»

The simulated sea surface temperature variability from two global coupled climate models for the second half of the 20th century is dominated by natural internal variability associated with the Antarctic Oscillation, suggesting that the models» internal variability is too strong, leading to a response to anthropogenic forcing that is too weak.

agreement that the warming to date would have reduced Arctic sea ice, there is no such consensus for the Antarctic, with at least some models having simulated sea ice growth in response to moderate warming before switching to sea ice shrinkage from additional warming (e.g., Manabe et al., 1992; see also Liu and Curry, 2010).

# # # The climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive are supposed to be simulations of Earth's climate, but the simulated sea surface temperatures of the models used by the...

Not exact matches

The team simulated 3600 voyages taken during the spring equinox, the presumed start of the open seas travel season, and the summer solstice, the longest day of the northern year.

The researchers first calibrated their sea - level models to simulate the rates of historic sea - level rise.

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

The results were encouraging: The new «sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.

While climate models also simulate the observed linear relationship between sea ice area and CO2 emissions, they usually have a much lower sensitivity of the ice cover than has been observed.

Much as NASA used simulators to test dogs and monkeys before launching them into space to gauge the physiological effects of g - forces and weightlessness, Bond sealed animals, and eventually human volunteers, in pressurized tanks to simulate a deep - sea habitat.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

This beast can simulate the mind - boggling conditions on the surface of Venus: it is able to create pressures of 1,350 pounds per square inch — 90 times Earth's air pressure at sea level — and temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Kim Binsted at the University of Hawaii works on HI - SEAS, another project that simulates long trips to space.

«This is true for both types of models — those driven with observed sea surface temperatures, and the coupled climate models that simulate evolution of both the atmosphere and ocean and are thus not expected to yield the real - world evolution of the PDO.

The researchers can already simulate the complex interactions of sea waves that can lead to an anomalously high freak wave, but adding the motion of ships into the equation complicates matters significantly.

During testing we were able to absorb energy in each of these modes, and we were able to simulate the operating conditions of a device at sea much more accurately.»

In a remote Norwegian fjord, scientists are finding out by simulating the corrosive seas of the future.

The global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.

Climate models are not yet able to include full models of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and to dynamically simulate how ice sheet changes influence sea level.

«We simulate tsunami generation by introducing earthquake - generated displacements at either the sea bed or the surface,» explains Samaras.

A fake lake simulating conditions there hints that the moon may host ethane pools saturated with benzene, just as the Dead Sea is packed with salt.

The model simulates melting at the base of the Amundsen Sea ice shelves at current rates over several decades.

They used the model first to simulate existing, observed subsurface melting within the Amundsen Sea, a region of West Antarctica that includes two vulnerable glaciers, Thwaites and the Pine Island Glacier.

Robots will soon be releasing simulated sewage into the sea around Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an experiment designed to show whether pollution from sewage and fertiliser is damaging the reef's coral.

The researchers then used a computer model of Earth that simulated growth in the Antarctic ice sheet to see what geophysical impacts this would have aside from generally lowering the sea level.

«This experiment was designed to simulate the time of ground transport (from California) to Mexico and sea transport from California to Asia,» the scientists explained.

They also used simulated shark bites on hagfish and their closest relatives, the sea lamprey.

He and his fellow researchers used a computational fluid dynamics model to simulate microstructure of the air - sea interface under hurricane force winds.

The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.

On Jan. 19, «astronauts» once again started populating the isolated HI - SEAS Habitat in Hawaii, where they are simulating aspects of a human mission to Mars for eight months.

The remote impacts of Arctic sea - ice loss can only be properly represented using models that simulate interactions among the ocean, sea ice, land and atmosphere.

Computational models that simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea ice loss.

Brandon Southall, SEA Inc. and University of California Santa Cruz, will be presenting «Marine Mammal Responses to Simulated Military Sonar: Southern California Behavioral Response Study» on Tuesday, March 12 at noon (4 pm GMT) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Despite these caveats, we have shown that the model realistically simulates meridional changes of sea level pressure in response to climate forcings (Sect. 3.8.5).

The results show 27 alternative historical scenarios simulating a world without human - caused climate change and global sea level rise.

Freshwater flux has little effect on simulated Northern Hemisphere sea ice until the 7th decade of freshwater growth (Fig. 13d), but Southern Hemisphere sea ice is more sensitive, with substantial response in the 5th decade and large response in the 6th decade.

That option is currently being tested by Thorne and UCLA researchers at Orange County's Seal Beach, where sea level rise is simulated because the ground has experienced subsidence, or sinking.

The simulated ocean should yield insights into a series of possible geochemical reactions that are likely happening near the moon's core, where water - rock interaction is coupled to the thermal cycling of sea water, said team member Kosuke Fujishima, of the Earth - Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Arzel, O., T. Fichefet, and H. Goosse, 2006: Sea ice evolution over the 20th and 21st centuries as simulated by the current AOGCMs.

Goosse, H., F.M. Selten, R.J. Haarsma, and J.D. Opsteegh, 2003: Large sea - ice volume anomalies simulated in a coupled climate model.

This study assesses the effect of a DIC - solution injection by using a simple two end - member model to simulate the variation of pH, DIC, total alkalinity (TA) and pCO2 between the river and sea mixing process for the Danshuei River estuary and Hoping River in Taiwan.