Sentences with phrase «understand climate variability»

This specialist group carries out scientific research to understand climate variability and predictability, and develops projections based on the Unified Model used across many timescales for Met Office forecasting.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.

GCM's, while a useful tool in attempting to understand climate variability, rely on many theoretical feedbacks which in the main such results are scientifically unproven and based on indefinite probabilities, or should we say, educated guesswork.

Cross Cutting Priority 1: (Integrated Global Environmental Observation and Data Management System) focuses on developing a global - to - local environmental observation and data management systems for the comprehensive, continuous monitoring of coupled ocean / atmospheric / land systems that enhance NOAA's ability to protect lives, property, expand economic opportunities, understand climate variability, and promote healthy ecosystems.

Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate variability seen in palaeo - observations: Similar variation of Iceland - Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

Two of NOAA's four mission goals are to «protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management,» and to «understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond.»

The retreat sequence along the eastern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet is especially relevant for understanding climate variability.

«Understanding this positive feedback loop has provocative implications for understanding climate variability in Earth's past,» said Jellinek.

The conclusion was that understanding climate variability within cities could be important for predicting and containing future cholera outbreaks.

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The causes and mechanisms of natural climate variability, however, are poorly understood.

Pohl hopes that studies such as this one «will enhance our general understanding of historical and future extreme climate variability, allowing policy - makers to make better - informed decisions for coastal communities.»

Faith - based organizations have helped community members to better understand what causes climate variability in their area.

The two studies will help scientists to understand the natural variability of past climate and to predict tropical glaciers» response to future global warming.

Strategies to adapt to climate change will dovetail with the current policies and practices that deal with variability and will be understood as more of the same, rather than something alien.

Gentine and his team are now exploring ways to model how biosphere - atmosphere interactions may change with a shifting climate, as well as learning more about the drivers of photosynthesis, in order to better understand atmospheric variability.

Saba, who has conducted modeling studies on the impacts of climate change on endangered leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean, says the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead study offers a new approach in understanding how climate variability affects sea turtle populations.

Only by understanding the geologic record of diversity, adaptation and climate variability can we hope to face the challenges ahead.

Without a clear understanding of what caused past changes in ENSO variability, predicting the climate phenomenon's future is a difficult task.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

These predictions are limited by a poor understanding of the recent changes observed in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a lack of knowledge about the variability of ice sheet behaviour under a warming climate.

LTER Climate Committee reviews research and understanding of climate variability and ecosystem responses of the LTER sites (Greenland and SwifClimate Committee reviews research and understanding of climate variability and ecosystem responses of the LTER sites (Greenland and Swifclimate variability and ecosystem responses of the LTER sites (Greenland and Swift 1990)

Monitoring, understanding, and predicting oceanic variations associated with natural climate variability and human - induced changes, and assessing the related roles of the ocean on multiple spatial - temporal scales.

Rescuing this data would undoubtedly help to improve understanding of historical climate variability and change.

Understanding the exchange of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere is vital to understanding global climate and its past, present and futureUnderstanding the exchange of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere is vital to understanding global climate and its past, present and futureunderstanding global climate and its past, present and future variability.

In addition, climate models and observations suggest that there may be modes of variability which act on multi-decadal timescales, although understanding of such modes is currently limited3.

So our interest is to understand — first the natural variability of climate — and then take it from there.

Methods: While a few studies in the past investigated the influence of climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Madden - Julian Oscillation on the inter-annual variability of tropical cyclones in the post-monsoon Bay of Bengal, changes in long - term cyclone activity are less well understood.

SPARC, together with others in the WCRP community, focuses on understanding atmospheric dynamics and climate variability to provide better climate predictions on scales from seasonal all the way to centennial.

Therefore, it is very important to understand the origin of space climate by analyzing the different proxies of solar magnetic variability.

Exploiting temporal variability to understand tree recruitment response to climate change.

Understanding the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate requires knowledge of solar variability, solar interactions, and the mechanisms explain the response of the Earth's climate system.

In fact, scientists have long recognized the importance of solar variability as one of the factors governing climate (see the very scholarly review of the subject by Bard and Frank, available here at EPSL or here as pdf) An understanding of solar variability needs to be (and is) taken into account in attribution of climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variations.

His main research interest lies in understanding the variability of the climate, both its internal variability and the response to external forcing.

«From this [study] we can better understand the effects of natural and man - made variability to the climate system,» said co-author Tim Boyer of NOAA's Ocean Climate Laboclimate system,» said co-author Tim Boyer of NOAA's Ocean Climate LaboClimate Laboratory.

His research concerns understanding global climate and its variations using observations and covers the quasi biennial oscillation, Pacific decadal oscillation and the annular modes of the Arctic oscillation and the Antarctic oscillation, and the dominant spatial patterns in month - to - month and year - to - year climate variability, including the one through which El Niño phenomenon in the tropical Pacific influences climate over North America.

From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand hydrologic variability, and the likely impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.

Despite your insistence otherwise, you evince at best a shallow understanding of basic principles of climate science (hint: while radiative forcing is known to be at least partially controlled by atmospheric CO2, no «natural», i.e. internal source of variability has been demonstrated that could drive a global temperature trend for half a century), as well as an inability to recognize genuine expertise.

Our «interest is to understand — first the natural variability of climate — and then take it from there.

Despite the difficulties of calibration that makes an absolute radiative imbalance measurement impossible — the anomalies data contains essential information on climate variability that can be used to understand and close out the global energy budget — changes in which are largely OHC.

For this reason, a European project was estaqblished in 2011, COST - action TOSCA (Towards a more complete assessment of the impact of solar variability on the Earth's climate), whose objective is to provide a better understanding of the «hotly debated role of the Sun in climate change» (not really in the scientific fora, but more in the general public discourse).

In general, I heartily agree — other forcings are important, even essential, for understanding observed climate variability and, as a community, we are only just starting to get to grips with some of the more complicated effects.

My understanding of most of the (lets call it) skeptical positions from people like Roy Spencer is that they essentially claim exactly that: the absence of a large signal compared to noise (or natural variability) and the entire debate is essentially about the question, whether noise is a measurement / statistical problem or the very nature of climate itself?

I think it's worth understanding that the author is assessing climate variability from an entirely regional perspective, a scale at which the global warming signal is much harder to detect.

I'm not up on recent work in the area but I'm sure they are working on coaxing out the climate signal as natural variability is becoming better understood.

A vigorous spectrum of interdecadal internal variability presents numerous challenges to our current understanding of the climate.

Impacts of this dry decade are wide - ranging, so a major research effort is being directed to better understand the region's recent climate, its variability and climate change.

Around the 13th minute in the recording, we shift to discussing how studies of past climate help build understanding of human - driven climate change and the built - in variability in the climate system that can occasionally produce extraordinarily potent droughts and floods.

The study demonstrates the importance of understanding how climate variability on a regional scale may at least temporarily obscure larger forces acting on the global climate system.

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

# 15 John P. Reisman says: vukcevic you basically don't understand the difference between climate, natural variability, weather, and of course human influenced climate forcing.