Sentences with phrase «use climate computer models»

«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local impacts months or seasons ahead, but we can use our climate computer model to determine whether on average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.

Qian and his colleagues at PNNL used a climate computer model to zoom in on the Rocky Mountain, Cascade, and other western United States mountain ranges.

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One way to get an idea of how complex feedbacks play out in Earth's climate is to use computer models.

Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climodel, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cliModel, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climate.

To see whether this increase in crops has influenced the region's unusual weather, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year climate simulations, based on data from 1982 to 2011.

In the study, the researchers used a 3D computer model of the atmosphere to determine the impact of VSLS on ozone and climate.

Prior to the new research published in Nature Climate Change, computer models used to simulate future climate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decompositionClimate Change, computer models used to simulate future climate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decompositionclimate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decomposition rates.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

Using math and computer skills, he developed systems models showing 150 years of climate variability.

To predict which creatures are in danger of extinction, the teams used computer modeling and information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate climate change.

To weigh the net impacts of tropical storms, the scientists used a computer model predicting future climates and the possibilities of storms.

Erickson and his colleagues used a computer model of Earth's climate to simulate the effect of adding sulphate aerosol to the atmosphere above the industrialised regions of the globe (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 22, p 2017).

Matthew Huber, who uses computer models to examine climate dynamics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has his new students work on test projects to prove their skills before they move on to more advanced problems.

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a researcher based at Goddard, has been using crop - growth computer models to predict effects of carbon dioxide buildup and climate change on wheat, the most widely cultivated crop in the world.

Other researchers have used computer models to estimate what an event similar to a Maunder Minimum, if it were to occur in coming decades, might mean for our current climate, which is now rapidly warming.

«Being based on climate records, this approach avoids any biases that might affect the sophisticated computer models that are commonly used for understanding global warming.»

Their computer models included not just energy use and production, but also the broader economy and the climate system.

Although computer models used to project climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly observed.

The pair used data on winter rainfall collected during the 1980s and climate - predicting computer models to extrapolate future rain - on - snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.

Dr James Screen from the University of Exeter used a computer model to investigate how the dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice influences the European summer climate.

While his new study makes no use of the huge computer models commonly used by scientists to estimate the magnitude of future climate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hclimate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hClimate Change (IPCC), he says.

They used computer models to predict not only how climate change would lead to agricultural changes, but how these agricultural changes would impact water quality.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inclimate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inClimate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

But if powering down or unplugging the computer (the only way it uses zero power) is not an option, then perhaps the most environmentally friendly use of all those wasted computing cycles is in helping to model climate change.

To test his idea, Salzmann used a computer model of the Earth system to find out how the climate would react to a doubling of the atmospheric carbon - dioxide concentration.

The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.

Researchers use computer model outputs, such as this image from the Community Earth System Model, to study climate dynamodel outputs, such as this image from the Community Earth System Model, to study climate dynaModel, to study climate dynamics.

Schubert and his colleagues used a computer climate model to analyze conditions during the past 100 years.

Using the sophisticated UK Met Office climate model, Dr Screen conducted computer experiments to study the effects of Arctic sea - ice loss on the NAO and on Northern European winter temperatures.

International institutions such as CGIAR have developed computer models that use data on climate, crop types, and other factors to estimate current food production and forecast future trends.

However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its latest report that this could be an underestimate, because the computer models used may not be able to predict rapid changes in Antarctica's ice.

stories,» says Musselman, who used historical snowpack measurements and computer models to predict how the melting rate will change by the end of the century (Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038 / NCLIMATE3225).

Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

Computer models of climate are one tool for specialists but what we currently lack is not a better model but expertise on how to use them most appropriately.

Over that time, the climate model would've been superseded by new models running on faster computers at higher resolutions using better understood science.

Often it is also used to attribute the most extreme example of disbelief in climate change to a people that probably are just a little more critical of, for example, computer modelling results, as those crafting the models.

The scientists used standard climate computer models to come up with the extreme future weather conditions.

People who work in this field, called atmospheric scientists, use computers and math to model the properties of Earth's atmosphere that drive weather, climate and the movement of gases and pollutants through the air.

The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to climate change.

The researchers used computer models of the Earth's climate system and biosphere to simulate the effect of sunlight - reflecting particles on climate and ocean chemistry.

Second is the use of a computer model to compare the change between the LGM and the present, then extrapolate this comparison to assess the effect of 2x pre-industrial CO2 relative to our recent climate.

In a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, my co-author and I use a three - dimensional computer climate model to examine the role of geothermal heating on planets orbiting M - dwarfs.

Lambert examined how future greenhouse gas emissions will affect low pressure systems during the winter using nearly all of the most current computer climate models.

Prior to the new research published today in Nature Climate Change, computer models used to simulate future climate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decompositionClimate Change, computer models used to simulate future climate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decompositionclimate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decomposition rates.

They also say that their medium - term forecasting uses essentially the same computer models as those employed in predicting longer - term climate change.

Complex systems are studied using information theory and computer simulation models (e.g. global climate models.)

Back to science, please explain to me or provide a link where I can review the math used in climate science computer models to calculate the increased temperature rise due to increased CO2 levels.

The authors compared recently constructed temperature data sets from Antarctica, based on data from ice cores and ground weather stations, to 20th century simulations from computer models used by scientists to simulate global climate.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).