Sentences with phrase «upper air observations»

We know what the current state of the atmosphere is more or less, from piecing together a series of surface and upper air observations that may come from ground - based weather stations, balloons, aircraft, and satellites.

Not exact matches

Study of upper ocean dynamics and air - sea interaction; investigation of the ocean's role in climate; sustained climate - quality observations in and at the surface of the ocean; innovative ocean observations.

Forest et al. 2006 compares observations of multiple surface, upper air and deep - ocean temperature changes with simulations thereof by the MIT 2D climate model run at many climate parameter settings.

There are three likelihood functions involved, one for each of the three «diagnostics» — surface, upper - air, and deep - ocean, which involve respectively 20, 218 and 1 observation (s).

I have long maintained that upper - air runs, even before computers took over, were far more accurate that any other readily available weather observations.

Develop and validate retrieval algorithms for ocean and sea ice parameters from various satellite Earth observation data, which in are used in studies of upper layer mesoscale ocean processes, air - sea - ice interaction, climate change studies and in operational oceanography.

We put together an analysis using upper - air observations, or wind observations, in the lowest 12 km (7.5 miles) of the atmosphere.

Thus, I think we all should be able to agree, that unless the upper - air observations are wrong, the observed trend in atmospheric stability over the tropical Atlantic is in a sense opposite to direction that models suggest it will be, at least into the future.

In addition to weather observations we monitor e.g. air quality, radioactivity and properties of the upper atmosphere.

The atmosphere ECV breakout group was asked to consider 10 ECVs related to observations of the atmosphere: Earth radiation budget (including solar irradiance); aerosol properties; ozone; carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases; cloud properties; precipitation; water vapor; surface wind speed and direction; upper - air wind; and upper - air temperature.