Sentences with phrase «university atmospheric scientists»

Then three years ago Stanford University atmospheric scientists Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson did a detailed calculation based on known patterns of air motion.

Colorado State University atmospheric scientists, led by professors Libby Barnes and Eric Maloney, are hard at work to address these longer - term forecasting challenges.

By analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

A new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson has revealed that worsening air pollution and higher carbon dioxide emissions go hand - in - hand - the results suggest intensifying global warming will increase the number of smog - related deaths.

Widespread burning of ethanol as fuel may increase the number of respiratory - related deaths and hospitalizations relative to gasoline, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson.

Not exact matches

On all the measures, 2017 is trending near the top, explains Philip Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist and hurricane expert at Colorado State University.

«I'm pleased [the new] results show that what we'd previously theorized,» says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new work.

On Sunday, February 18 at 5:15 p.m., atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, will discuss «When Facts Are Not Enough.»

Commercial technology also aided atmospheric scientist Berk Knighton, a faculty member in chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University (MSU), Bozeman.

«With this simulator, we can explain in great detail to the operational weather community [weather forecasters] the tornadic echo from polarimetric radar,» says Robert Palmer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and co-author of the paper.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

For example, the tiny particles known as aerosols are far better understood, says atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England andalso a lead author.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«The debris pile acted like a chemical factory,» atmospheric scientist Thomas Cahill of the University of California - Davis explained to the American Chemical Society in 2003, after analyzing many of those air samples.

But in the big picture, hurricane models adeptly forecasted Irma's ultimate path to the Florida Keys nearly a week before it arrived there, says Brian Tang, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany in New York.

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

Using a 3D model to tease out the underlying trend is a «much more sophisticated way to do the attribution,» says Ross Salawitch, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«The magnitude of the event really surprised me,» said lead author Stephen Conley, president of Boulder - based Scientific Aviation and an atmospheric scientist at University of California, Davis.

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Despite the drawbacks, the proposal «is incredibly important and definitely worth taking seriously and looking into further,» says atmospheric scientist Richard Anthes, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

The net result is a greater chance for unusually cold winters, or at times unusually warm ones, in the northeastern U.S. and Europe, according to an article by Cornell University Earth and atmospheric scientist Charles Greene in Scientific American's December 2012 issue.

Wondering how that cold spell compares to recent times, atmospheric scientists Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and Chuck Stearns of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tracked the average monthly temperatures over the last 15 years at a series of four automated weather stations located, by coincidence, along Scott's return route.

Computer models suggest that deploying aerosols can have «an appreciable impact on tropical cyclone intensity,» writes William Cotton, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University.

Ronald Cohen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who was not part of the research, calls the new study «provocative,» and says it shows agricultural fertilizer contributes a significant fraction of total NOx emissions in California.

The cooler - than - usual temperatures are represented by the big blue blob on the world map below (that's Florida peeking out at the lower right of the blob), provided by atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, using NOAA data.

The sound waves aren't coming from the meteor itself, atmospheric scientists Michael Kelley of Cornell University and Colin...

Putkonen and his University of Washington colleague Gerard Roe, an atmospheric scientist, set out to test how the frequency of rain - on - snow events might be affected by global warming.

«This is not the first scientific paper on Inuit knowledge,» said lead author Elizabeth Weatherhead, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado.

«But no one has had a comprehensive set of observations of what really happens after you seed a cloud,» says Jeff French, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wyoming (UW) and SNOWIE principal investigator.

And atmospheric scientist James Screen of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom warns that the «link between blocking and Arctic amplification is still very much open to debate.»

You can't repeat the experiment because you'll never have the same atmospheric conditions again,» says Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

«We're trying to figure out how to deal with the greenhouse gas problem» says Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and co-author of the study.

NASA's new OCO - 2 satellite mission has recently taken the most detailed snapshot of atmospheric CO2 to date, in the hopes of learning exactly where CO2 sources and sinks are, said mission scientist Christopher O'Dell, of Colorado State University.

«The recommendation is great,» says Joyce Penner, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Karen Shell, an atmospheric scientist at Oregon State University, called the new findings «one piece of the climate sensitivity puzzle.»

Along the East Coast, where the «green wave» of spring leaves sprouting from maples, oaks and poplars historically has rolled from Miami to Maine in 75 days, atmospheric scientists with Princeton University predict the wave could take just 59 days by the end of the century.

The study makes a good case for paying more attention to soot, says atmospheric scientist Donald Wuebbles of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champagne.

But a 2001 study led by atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson of Stanford University in California suggested that if soot is coated with other pollutants, such as sulfuric acid, its effect could be drastically greater.

The researchers present a «good case» for the new theory, says atmospheric scientist James Kasting of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

New research from a Florida State University scientist has revealed a surprising relationship between surging atmospheric carbon dioxide and flower blooms in a remote tropical forest.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Those data, along with the new work, will help scientists devise more accurate climate models, says atmospheric chemist Mattias Hallquist of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

... It's very intriguing,» says Robert Oglesby, an earth and atmospheric scientist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The finding was provocative but there had been «lots of debates about whether it is genuine or merely an observational artifact,» says William Lau, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who was not involved in the study.

«This is an important paper,» says Brian Toon, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

University of Washington atmospheric scientist Qiang Fu and his colleagues used a second channel, sensitive almost exclusively to the stratosphere, to quantify this layers exact contribution to channel 2 readings.