Sentences with phrase «term environmental data»

Consistent with the goal of the NSF Program for Long - Term Observations in the Arctic, NPEO increases the availability of long - term environmental data in the Arctic by providing data and infrastructure for other polar science and climate investigations.

RV Polarstern sails annually to the Fram Strait, where the long term environmental data are collected from deep - sea observatory Hausgarten.

NIVAs broad scope of scientific competence, research expertise and long - term environmental data series are important to Norwegian business and industry, public administration on municipal, regional and national levels; and our initiatives help promote Norway's interests in international fora.

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«This is one of the best examples we have of linking long - term research data with management to show how important that is in restoring this critical habitat,» says Karen McGlathery, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who wasn't involved in the research.»

For more than 3 decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had been compiling information about water quality violations across the country — but no one had published a national assessment looking at long - term trends in those data.

For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.

It is measurable in terms of oxygen and carbon isotope ratios and was compared to «environmental archive» data from other parts of the earth.

The goal was to use data collected from the spill to map out possible long - term environmental and economic consequences of the disaster, determine where research still needed to be done and determine how to allocate money for response and recovery efforts.

In a new paper just out in the open - access journal Environmental Research Letters, sociologist Mary Collins of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and two colleagues from the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center and the University of Maryland examined what they term «hyper - polluters»: Industrial facilities that, based on EPA data, generate disproportionately large amounts of air pollution.

The Environmental Working Group acknowledges that data from long - term studies aren't available but warns consumers of the potential dangers.

Using new population - level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long - term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particuenvironmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particuEnvironmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

... A new report by the environmental data company CDP has found that at least 29 companies, some with close ties to Republicans, including ExxonMobil, Walmart and American Electric Power, are incorporating a price on carbon into their long - term financial plans...

In particular, the paper assesses 18 selected approaches, methods and tools in terms of their data and information requirements, strengths, weaknesses, lessons learned, gaps at different levels and relevance for social and environmental impacts, as well as discussing capacity needs for applying risk assessment methods in developing countries.

The scientists at Palmer Station see changes like these up close every year, and they have collected data through the Long - Term Ecological Research program for the past two decades to track ecological and environmental changes and how those shifts cascade through the ecosystem.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

Interest in integrated ocean observing systems, ecosystem approaches to management, and assessment of regional environmental change have sparked renewed interest in existing long - term datasets and spurred new partnerships to collect and integrate marine data.

The hail database is much worse in terms of quality than the tropical cyclone data base, but it is good enough to build fairly good relationships between necessary environmental conditions and events.

Participants considered each NPOESS - measured parameter, starting with ones in jeopardy of not meeting Integrated Operational Requirements Document (IORD) specifications, commenting on the relevance of the parameter to climate science and / or long - term climate records, the importance of maintaining the IORD - level value (and potential consequences if it is not met), and noting any additional considerations required to make the NPOESS program's environmental data records (EDRs) more relevant to GCOS ECV climate parameters and to the climate community as a whole (e.g., additional instrument characterization, calibration, overlap requirements).