2007/04/24: Eureka: Satellites offer sunny outlook on
understanding polar climate, with help of cloudy skies
Not exact matches
New robots undergoing field tests could expand scientists» access to
polar regions and improve
understanding of
climate change
As a warming
climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to
understand how
polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.
At odds with the low levels of factual knowledge, most respondents reported that they had a «moderate amount» or a «great deal» of
understanding about
climate change, where
polar change has been a major area of interest.
Knowing that is key to
understanding how
climate change is affecting methane releases in the
polar region, said Shakhova.
Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to
understand the ocean's influence on global
climate and the melting of ice in
polar regions.
«The past behavior and dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheets are among the most important open questions in the scientific
understanding of how the
polar regions help to regulate global
climate,» said Jennifer Burns, director of the NSF Antarctic Integrated Science System Program.
«The more we study the different components of the environment of the Third Pole, the better we
understand climate change and its linkages among Earth's three
polar regions,» Yao said.
We create and manage projects that focus on research in the
polar regions as means to
understand fundamental
climate mechanisms, and to drive change towards a more sustainable society.
Her current work focuses on
understanding past
climate change during both greenhouse and icehouse periods, particularly in the
polar regions, the areas of Earth that are most sensitive to
climate change.
The program goals include:
understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the
polar environment;
understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as
climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.
Tiny creatures on
polar seabeds may be uniquely positioned to increase this service, and we are set to explore this new and exciting area of research to
understand the role they have in slowing global
climate change.
An international team of researchers has identified the genetic mutations which allowed microalgae (phytoplankton) from the Southern Ocean to adapt to extreme and highly variable
climates — a step towards
understanding how
polar organisms are impacted by
climate change.
By facilitating the real - time, synoptic monitoring of tDOM and freshwater runoff in surface
polar waters, this novel approach will help
understand the manifestations of
climate change in this remote region.
The overall decline in wind power potential in the northern hemisphere can be explained by
understanding how
climate change is expected to affect «
polar amplification».
To really
understand the
climate cycles, you must
understand the
polar ice cycles.
His research focusses on
understanding and predicting
climate variability and change in the
polar regions, including the response of Arctic extreme weather to
climate change.
Gaps in our
understanding of
climate response in the tropics and
polar regions limit our ability to predict future
climate change impacts in all areas.
Defining how the terrestrial diet might have changed since the onset of rapid
climate change is an important step in
understanding how
polar bears may be reacting to
climate change.
Sea ice extent over
polar oceans is a major critical parameter for
understanding and forecasting oceanic circulation and earth
climate...
US CLIVAR is engaging the
polar and cryosphere science community to jointly develop strategies to better
understand and improve model performance in simulating
climate in the
polar regions and its global impacts.
The survey, published in
Polar Geography, shows that Tea Partiers — who call for minimal government intervention and are known for their
climate scepticism — exhibit a high level of self - assessed
understanding of
climate science, combined with a low level of knowledge on
polar facts.
This scarcity has hampered our ability to
understand, model, and predict the influence of
polar climate change on the overall Earth system.
This is one of the few robust findings in
climate models beyond temperature rise and
polar amplification, the latter is not well
understood.