Sentences with phrase «used ocean data»

Scientists use ocean data to more accurately predict a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall
Rather, their analysis shows that if you compare the LGM land cooling with the model land cooling, then the model that fits the land best has much higher GLOBAL climate sensitivity than you get for best fit if you use ocean data.

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So although scientists have an estimate of the plane's flight path via its satellite data, they still have to trace any remains they find using the data they have on ocean currents and wind.
However, the Facebook data was then used to generate sophisticated models of each of their personalities using the so - called «big five» personality traits and characteristics — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (known as the OCEAN scale).
According to Nix, the success of Cambridge Analytica's marketing is based on a combination of three elements: behavioral science using the OCEAN Model, Big Data analysis, and ad targeting.
In addition to temperature, wind, and solar radiation data, the Pacific saildrones are measuring how the ocean and air exchange gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen, and they are using Doppler instruments to gauge currents coursing up to 100 meters below the surface.
Using these data, researchers fine - tuned estimates from previous foram studies that captured polar conditions to show tropical oceans warmed substantially in the Eocene, but not as much as polar oceans.
The study uses data from two NASA missions — Operation IceBridge, which measures ice thickness and gravity from aircraft, and Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, which uses sonar and gravity instruments to map the shape and depth of the seafloor close to the ice front.
Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.
The military uses the microwave information to detect ocean wind speeds to feed into weather models, among other uses, but the data happen to be nearly perfect for sensing sea ice, says Walt Meier, a sea - ice specialist with the NSIDC.
«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.
To make their predictions even better, Deutsch would like to see broader use of ocean oxygen monitoring through close to 4,000 Argo floats, autonomous ocean robots that collect data and send information to satellites.
Balch and his co-authors used data from 19 cruises, gathered from more than 1,300 locations in all of the world's oceans.
Doug Smith at the UK Met Office fed key data such as ocean temperatures, air pressure and wind speeds for every year from 1960 to 1995 into DePreSys, a model already used to predict weather a decade ahead.
Weimerskirch's team tracked the migrations of 49 frigatebirds native to Europa Island in the Mozambique Channel throughout the Indian Ocean using tiny data loggers.
The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.
One day, oceanographers hope Spray and other gliders will be able to roam the oceans at will, providing an almost limitless supply of data that could be used to build more sophisticated climate models and develop better weather forecasts.
Chesters created the animations using data from each of the two GOES satellites to create water vapor movies of the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans.
The other ocean temperature study, also published Sunday in Climate Nature Change, used Argo and other data to tentatively conclude that all of the ocean warming from 2005 to 2013 had occurred above depths of 6,500 feet.
Based on simulations using real weather data in the Atlantic Ocean, the work was focused specifically on the transport of water from the tropics of the Caribbean to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, but it suggests a more general way to study the transport of tropical water vapor globally.
To track ocean storms and dangerous waves, the Navy uses radar data from satellites that estimate wind speed and wave height.
The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.
Radar satellites supply the data used to map sea level and ocean currents.
The project, called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December 2007.
The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.
For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.
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.
Scientists use sea level as a means to calculate ocean circulation because satellites circle Earth daily, acquiring sea level data frequently and accurately.
The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according to a new study that uses data from instruments that fly aboard several NASA satellites.
Today in Science he and his colleagues report that they've used their technique in conjunction with metagenome sequencing, in which researchers sequence vast swaths of genome data from unknown organisms in the ocean and soil.
The scientists used data from the Argo floats to figure out by how much the upper oceans have warmed and expanded.
Now, a geological survey of the moon conducted using data collected by the recently retired Kaguya spacecraft supports this magma - ocean hypothesis, finding that the upper layer of the moon's crust is indeed rich in low - density rock of exceptional purity.
They used synthesized data on oceanographic parameters like ocean depth and temperature and the biological needs of 180 species of finfish and bivalve mollusks, such as oysters and mussels.
Dr Maria Paola Clarizia, a visiting scientist at NOC from University of Michigan, and the lead author of the paper, stressed that «the UK has been a pioneer in using GNSS reflectometry to measure ocean features, and the NOC has led the field in analysing the data
Using data generated from more than 3,000 skin samples from individual whales ranging from the South Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, the research team has uncovered previously unknown degrees of relatedness between different whale populations.
The researchers used a climate model, a so - called coupled ocean - atmosphere model, which they forced with the observed wind data of the last decades.
In situations where objects enter Earth's atmosphere in more remote locations — over the ocean far from land, for example — satellites may be the only sources of data that could be used to determine an object's orbit.
Using data from both models, Nienhuis determined the ratio of river - to - ocean wave strength for each delta, and found that those deltas with a ratio greater than or equal to 1 were more likely to have multiple river channels, with deltas that project out from the shoreline.
Using float data, scientists recalibrated sparse historical measurements and estimates of ocean warming, concluding that the upper 2,700 feet of the world's oceans had warmed by between a quarter and a half more than had previously been realized.
Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Scanlon found pillow lava formations, similar to those that form on Earth when lava erupts at the bottom of an ocean.
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.
Actinobacterial community structure in the Polar Frontal waters of the Southern Ocean of the Antarctica using Geographic Information System (GIS): A novel approach to study Ocean Microbiome — P. Sivasankar — Data in Brief
Gill used real elevation data to plot out Mars» oceans, mountains, valleys, and other geological features — but then he used his own judgment to paint in the deserts, forests, and so on, using textures from NASA's Blue Marble imagery.
1400 Laura Francis, Education Coordinator, NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Engaging teachers and students with ocean acidification science using real data on pH variability in marine ecosystems
The ETOPO1 Global Relief Model from the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/) was used for the global ocean depth.
The data may also be used to forecast how changing ocean conditions may affect weather and climate systems worldwide.
After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).
Plankton and larval ecology, bio-physical interactions, development and use of optical imaging tools for plankton and benthic habitat mapping, development of data products for ecosystems approaches to management, ocean observing systems in polar, temperate and tropical environments, chair ORION - OOI sensors advisory committee
Rather than use a model - based estimate, as did Hansen (2005) and Trenberth (2009), the authors achieve this by calculating it from observations of ocean heat content (down to 1800 metres) from the PMEL / JPL / JIMAR data sets over the period July 2005 to June 2010 - a time period dominated by the superior ARGO - based system.
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