Sentences with phrase «with modelling climate»

A major theme of Climatopolis is that as climate scientists continue to make progress with modelling climate change and as we individually learn about the day - to - day challenges climate change poses for different cities, their residents will take pro-active steps to adapt to changing circumstances.

Written with grace and understatement for general readers, by someone deeply involved with modeling the climate, it covers much of a Princeton introductory course in the earth sciences.

I wonder if the method gives consistent results with the model climate sensitivities.

Not exact matches

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

He gave a speech in Paris last December in connection with the UN Climate Summit in which he laid out a plan to accelerate humanity's departure from the the fossil - fuel era, and he has revisited that speech's specifics when he unveiled the Tesla Model 3 earlier this year and revealed Tesla's Solar Roof last month.

Even James Hansen regards climate models only as reliable as their inputs, which are exceedingly complex with respect to climate variables.

We contracted Navius Research to model what the policies in the climate plan would achieve when combined with a federal carbon price.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

«Through our work with The Climate Group, our industry is proud to have supported comprehensive recycling programs that address all recyclables in these model cities,» Neely said.

We hope this project will serve as a model for future national initiatives that can be scaled with funds from programs such as the Green Climate Fund.»

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

And now Variety comes out of nowhere with this report where the numbers just don't seem to make sense in the current climate, especially for ESPN for reasons already mentioned including the existing Fight Pass business model.

With your support, we will create a wildlife sanctuary for exploration and education, which will become a national model for protecting restored lands and showcasing promising response to climate change.

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

But in the current climate adaptation is key, and politicians have yet to acknowledge the need to reform and / or to accept being overtaken by other socio - economic models more in tune with reality.

Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2 C every decade — a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.

«It would repeal a national model to fight climate change and replace it with more expensive, dirty fuel and fracked gas.»

Not only was Prisle successful, but running simulations with her model made a big difference in climate predictions.

So Jones and his colleagues combined data from 11 standard climate change models with their own models on projected population patterns.

Statisticians can analyze these climate models along with direct observations to learn about Earth's climate.

Troublingly, said Evans, when the team compared their data with various modern climate models under Eocene conditions, most models underestimated polar amplification by about 50 percent.

Meanwhile, the new study suggests the effect will intensify in the future with continued climate change, based on computer models that attempt to project how rising temperatures would affect the Arctic's chemical reservoirs.

The researchers started with a state - of - the - art climate model for Mars — one that assumes an ancient atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide (as it is today).

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

Nelson and his colleagues, working with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, estimated global agricultural impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic models for crop yields with climate models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

Scientists sometimes struggle to match the tangible evidence of today with the theoretical climate models for the next 50 or 100 years.

Whether it can be relied upon by government and if the details of collecting and processing it are disclosed «and documented with enough detail» to reliably capture new science for weather and climate models will be important.

With global climate models projecting further drying over the Amazon in the future, the potential loss of vegetation and the associated loss of carbon storage may speed up global climate change.

Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.

When scientists use climate models for attribution studies, they first run simulations with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.

Climate models, which are central to attribution studies, have also improved and are able to represent the current climate and that of the recent past with considerable fiClimate models, which are central to attribution studies, have also improved and are able to represent the current climate and that of the recent past with considerable ficlimate and that of the recent past with considerable fidelity.

Considering that existing climate models typically do not consider northeast Greenland with future sea - level projections, the findings suggest that sea - level rise estimates may err on the high side, close to 3 feet or higher, said Khan.

The results are based on a number of independent climate archives, as well as instrumental records, and hold up whilst applying a wide range of correction methods, which leads Laepple to believe that the problem lies more with the models.

With this new, aggregate climate map in hand, they turned to a technique used primarily by ecologists and biologists, called species distribution modeling, to identify fire - prone regions of the globe.

A. David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey senior scientist and climate system modeling expert with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, is lead author of the paper.

All of this data — and its conformance with predictions from computer - generated models — provide key evidence of climate change.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

With PNNL's climate model, Smith created more than 1,400 potential scenarios to reflect the many possibilities surrounding aerosols, tiny particles including soot that float in the atmosphere.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, we have been running experiments with very complex and increasingly reliable global climate models.

Researchers Rebecca Dew and Michael Schwarz from the Flinders University of South Australia teamed up with Sandra Rehan, the University of New Hampshire, USA, to model its past responses to climate change with the help of DNA sequences.

So far, though, it has been difficult to measure this important indicator, with current climate models relying on rough carbon estimates.

Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.

When they corrected the error, Wentz and Schabel derived a warming trend of about 0.07 °C per decade, more in line with surface thermometers and climate models.

Landerer and his colleagues modelled the changes that would occur if the most realistic estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by 2100 compared with 2000 — were to become reality.

Dirk Notz and Julienne Stroeve have now compared corresponding model calculations with data from satellite measurements, and discovered that the climate models underestimate the loss of Arctic sea ice.

Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.

«Once these models can predict past changes, they can more accurately predict what will happen with future climate changes.»

The researchers report online today in Nature Geoscience that the findings from that climate model were supported with data from 18 other models.