Sentences with phrase «understand weather systems»

Scientists can use that data to better track and understand weather systems.

Not exact matches

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

The US and global transportation systems rely on a deep understanding of atmospheric conditions and long - term weather patterns.

The Callahan - Pederson regime had only two problems — «the style of management and the system» — says Dr. Jack Stark, the team psychologist for 16 years, until 2003, adding, «You've got to understand your state and the culture — the weather, recruiting, everything.»

Earth - Sun System ($ 2.21 billion) funds efforts to understand Earth's weather and its changing climate.

Hillis: But I think, you know, tying it to back to the whole computer thing, the idea of having conceptual systems that really are well thought out, so they're simple and easy to understand, so you don't have all these configurational problems that happen when you start combining them all together; because then it all of a sudden becomes more like a weather pattern: very unpredictable.

Smartphone - collected Big Data has the potential to transform the way we can understand and predict weather systems.

«If breakdown weathering occurs on the moon, then it has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system, especially in extremely cold regions that are exposed to harsh radiation from space,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

«We will be using these two missions together to understand how dynamic weather systems are reflected in the upper atmosphere, and how these changes impact the ionosphere,» said England.

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

«Action is urgently needed to understand risks better, improve the resilience of the global food system to weather - related shocks and to mitigate their impact on people,» said Tim Benton, a population ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, who heads the GFS program, in a statement.

Perhaps the most well - known complex dynamic system is the weather and, similar to weather forecasting, researchers in the Integrated Mathematical Oncology Department at the Moffitt Cancer Center are using mathematical methods to account for many variables in the search for new ways to understand and control cancer.

Climate scientists study extremes in order to better understand the climate system, with the ultimate goal of generating more accurate weather forecasts, he said.

Machine learning algorithms are widely used in applications like biometric identification systems and weather trend data, and allow researchers to understand and compare complex sets of data through simple visual representations.

For now, only Hubble can provide the data we need to understand how common or rare these fascinating neptunian weather systems may be,» said Wong.

Such a result indeed indicates that planetary space weather could be far more intense in environments other than our Solar System hence understanding its features and processes could also be of help when investigating the characteristics of other Solar Systems as well as the exoplanet physics.

Since this anomaly is hazardous to satellites and spacecraft, and it is dynamic, South Georgia is an ideal location to observe changes in the Earth's magnetic field and monitor and even predict space weather, while also providing key insights into understanding the Earth system.

As research leaders in developing and using models to provide scientific insights into weather and climate change, Qian and others are striving to understand uncertainty in systems and modeling to improve projections and help prepare vulnerable regions for potential climate change impact.

Employs the use of climate models to better understand the dynamics of climate systems and weather and to predict future climate.

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.

Using a global network of observations as input and our physical understanding of the atmosphere, weather simulations do a good job at estimating how fast these systems will travel and how they interact.

But some ocean patterns in the climate system can persist much longer, and understanding them can help make useful predictions for regional and global averages that don't depend so much on specific weather patterns.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

The purpose of NASA's Earth science program is to develop a scientific understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human - induced changes and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.

(1) In this case even if they were correct and the models failed to predict or match reality (which, acc to this post has not been adequately established, bec we're still in overlapping data and model confidence intervals), it could just as well mean that AGW stands and the modelers have failed to include some less well understood or unquantifiable earth system variable into the models, or there are other unknowns within our weather / climate / earth systems, or some noise or choas or catastrophe (whose equation has not been found yet) thing.

IF I understand the slow thermal inertia of the climate system correctly, the California fires, this hurricane season, and other extreme weather we have seen in the past few years, all those things that have been exacerbated by climate change are the result of GHG put into the air 30 - 50 years ago.

Improvements in the capacity to monitor direct and indirect changes on weather, climate, or larger Earth systems and to detect unilateral or uncoordinated deployment could help further understanding of albedo modification and climate science generally.

Related The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which runs one of the critical hubs for climate analysis, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has just published «guidance for the next U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the importance of better understanding and predicting weather, water, climate, and other aspects of the Earth system.»

Sure we understand the basics of weather and climate, just as we understand the basics of nutrition, the human immune system, and how the brain works.

The 2nd Pan-GASS meeting sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science is focused on «Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes» (UMAP) and aims to bring together NWP and climate scientists, observationalists and modellers to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science and to coordinate efforts to improve weather and climate models.

Requires the Climate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakeholders.

I understand that because of persistency of weather systems and Markov probability the chances of tomorrow being the same as today are 63 percent.

Nice article Rob and in particular highlighting a better understanding of the how's and why's involved with our many natural weather systems oscillations.

How the UK's recent weather fits in with what we understand about the climate system and how it's changing are important questions for scientists like me.

By doing so you might learn along the way the real valid physics of heat transfer in fluid dynamics which is how we get out great wind and weather systems from the equator to the poles, because you would then understand that the atmosphere around us is a heavy voluminous fluid and the dynamics of heat transfer in this is by convection which is what wind is, created out of differential heating of volumes of this fluid.

Session speakers guided audience members through current research efforts to understand the Arctic's role in the global weather system, to predict changing sea ice patterns, and to perceive both the global and local implications of thawing permafrost and shifting hydrology patterns in the Arctic's terrestrial cryosphere.

From that we can understand our winds, our weather systems.

GCMs are currently the best means of creating a climate forecast, but because of the complexity of the weather systems they calculate can be difficult to analyse and understand.

The intensity of our desire to find the driver of earth's weather and climate seems to pull us away from appreciating dynamic or chaotic systems and disenables us from the pleasure of understanding fundamental conditions.

How about: the weather systems of Planet Earth are far too complex for anyone to properly understand, let alone model in a computer.

Improved understanding of regional weather systems and better predictions have obvious benefits.

It might also help us to better understand why high pressure and low pressure weather systems (Figure 23) develop and dissipate.

Until the rest of natural climate variability is understood and incorporated into the process of understanding how the weather works, and the climate is affected by the rest of the solar system, and its interactions with the rest of the galaxy, the background senseless chatter will fall on deaf ears.

When one understands the huge number of cell towers, NEXRAD, and such devices as SBX1 and the use of microwave energy to manipulate entire weather systems, satellites, and others nations doing same, it stands to reason the atmosphere and all life on earth is run through and through with a technology that is slowly killing life.

Computer models are helpful for improving our understanding of how weather and climate systems work and change over time.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

The effect of that temperature change on the Indian monsoon is still poorly understood, but it seems to be pushing the weather system to the extremes.

I have never understood why we ever thought we could use system set up to measure local weather to measure global climate.

The presentation explored ways to help planners, practitioners and policymakers working in agriculture and forestry understand options available for making different landscapes and food systems more climate - smart — important for smallholder farmers and pastoralists in developing countries who are coping with a degraded natural resource base and are being especially hard hit by changes in weather patterns.

Using a global network of observations as input and our physical understanding of the atmosphere, weather simulations do a good job at estimating how fast these systems will travel and how they interact.