Sentences with phrase «understanding atmospheric processes»

«Understanding what drives the meteorology on Saturn, and in general on gaseous planets, has been one of our cardinal goals since the inception of the Cassini mission,» said Carolyn Porco, imaging team lead, based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. «It is very gratifying to see that we're finally coming to understand those atmospheric processes that make Earth similar to, and also different from, other planets.»

Not exact matches

«Understanding the links between stratospheres and chemical compositions is critical to studying atmospheric processes in exoplanets,» said co-author Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

Field and laboratory studies provide the foundation for Stage 1, which focuses on improving scientific understanding of isolated atmospheric processes.

«Understanding the links between stratospheres and chemical compositions is critical to studying atmospheric processes in exoplanets,» co-author Nikku Madhusudhan from the University of Cambridge, said in the statement.

Accurately interpreting climate simulations and quantifying uncertainty is a key to understanding and accurately modeling atmospheric, land, ocean, and socio - economic phenomena and processes.

Abstract: Surface ocean wind datasets are required to be of high spatial and temporal resolution and high precision to accurately force or be assimilated into coupled atmosphere - ocean numerical models and understand ocean - atmospheric processes.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) ARM program is a multi-laboratory science collaboration that advances understanding of atmospheric processes that affect climate change.

The UAS and TBS measurements have supplemented data obtained by the third ARM Mobile Facility at Oliktok Point — part of ARM's North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory — to help improve understanding of atmospheric processes in the Arctic.

It is now widely recognized that improvements in understanding and predicting climate hinge largely on a better understanding of the processes controlling atmospheric water vapor.»

Well - understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large - scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as «chemtrails» or «covert geoengineering,» concludes a new...

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.

The US CLIVAR Greenland Ice Sheet - Ocean Interactions Working Group was formed to foster and promote interaction between the diverse oceanographic, glaciological, atmospheric and climate communities, including modelers and field and data scientists within each community, interested in glacier / ocean interactions around Greenland, to advance understanding of the process and ultimately improve its representation in climate models.

These data are used to research atmospheric radiation balance, cloud feedback processes, and to initialize and evaluate model performance, which are critical to the understanding of global climate change.

My research is in Dr. Gudrun Magnusdottir's Modeling Lab, where we are trying to understand the critical relationships between external processes and atmospheric / oceanic circulations on the global climate system.

If we (scientists) are honest, we understand that the study of atmospheric processes / dynamics is in its infancy.

Continued scientific advances in understanding processes and their simulation in atmospheric models are needed to understand how secondary influences will affect ozone.

Currently, the role of CH4 oxidation (a microbial process that consumes methane) in mediating atmospheric CH4 fluxes during lake turnover events is also not well understood.

The future monitoring of atmospheric processes involving water vapor will be critical to fully understand the feedbacks in the climate system leading to global climate change.

PNNL researchers are expanding knowledge of fundamental atmospheric processes, developing state - of - the - art modeling capabilities, and improving understanding of how human and natural systems interact.

Carbon Engineering's technology is based on a 100 - year - old industrial process made up of well - understood and existing technology, integrating an air contactor and a regeneration cycle for continuous capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide and production of pure carbon dioxide.

Unmanned aerial system and tethered balloon system measurements have supplemented ARM Mobile Facility data to help improve understanding of atmospheric processes in the Arctic.

In an attempt to deal with the problem, the US Atmospheric Science Program (ASP) ``... has as its long - term goal developing comprehensive understanding of the atmospheric processes that control the transport, transformation, and fate of energy related trace chemicals and particulate matter.

Throughout its life, the USGCRP has created and maintained a mix of atmospheric, oceanic, land, and space - based observing systems; gained new theoretical knowledge of Earth System processes; advanced understanding of the complexity of the Earth System through predictive modeling; promoted advances in computational capabilities, data management, and information sharing; and developed and harnessed an expert scientific workforce.

In that regard, atmospheric and terrestrial processes and their long - term interactions need to be understood to better support policies on water management.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

I was at an international conference on aerosol in September and I made a comment that we're getting to the stage with CLOUD where we will understand the processes extremely well, but we still won't be able to reduce the errors because we don't have good enough atmospheric observations of what the concentrations of these vapors are in the atmosphere versus altitude.

Based on the understanding of both the physical processes that control key climate feedbacks (see Section 8.6.3), and also the origin of inter-model differences in the simulation of feedbacks (see Section 8.6.2), the following climate characteristics appear to be particularly important: (i) for the water vapour and lapse rate feedbacks, the response of upper - tropospheric RH and lapse rate to interannual or decadal changes in climate; (ii) for cloud feedbacks, the response of boundary - layer clouds and anvil clouds to a change in surface or atmospheric conditions and the change in cloud radiative properties associated with a change in extratropical synoptic weather systems; (iii) for snow albedo feedbacks, the relationship between surface air temperature and snow melt over northern land areas during spring and (iv) for sea ice feedbacks, the simulation of sea ice thickness.

Predictions of sea ice changes will have large uncertainties without sustained observations; improved understanding of ice, ocean, land, and atmospheric processes; and advances in coupled and system models.

Understanding the biogeochemical processes regulating carbon cycling is central to mitigating atmospheric CO2 emissions.

Conversely, he has exaggerated the effect of plate tectonic processes on atmospheric CO2 well beyond what I understand to be the norm of understanding of this subject.

My immediate interest is to understand the scientific validity of the recent hypothesis, and more generally to understand the processes and interactions affecting NH atmospheric circulation, particularly the jet stream and polar vortex.

Collaboration in evaluation of the statistical results by VS (and others) and the evaluation of the potential physical possibilities by physicists represent an opportunity to add to our understanding of our atmospheric process.