News tagged with computer climate model

Study ups plant CO2 intake estimates

Plants may be able to limit the impact of our CO2 emissions even more than we previously thought, an innovative new experiment suggests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Predicting the microbial 'weather'

New computer models are letting scientists forecast changes in the population of microbes in the English Channel up to a week in advance.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Better models needed to track atmospheric pollution's impact on health, climate

The past decade has witnessed a significant growth in Asian air pollution, causing a great concern for air quality and climate. If government policy makers hope to contain the problem, they will need increased research and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A better picture of clouds

Some of us look at clouds and see animal shapes. Scientists are looking beyond. For the first time, a team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used actual measurements of clouds and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

2C warming goal now 'optimistic' - French scientists

French scientists unveiling new estimates for global warming said on Thursday the 2 C (3.6 F) goal enshrined by the United Nations was "the most optimistic" scenario left for greenhouse-gas emissions.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Archaeologists find clues to Neanderthal extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Separating signal and noise in climate warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Archeologists investigate Ice Age hominins' adaptability to climate change

Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biodiversity can promote survival on a warming planet

Whether a species can evolve to survive climate change may depend on the biodiversity of its ecological community, according to a new mathematical model that simulates the effect of climate change on plants ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Clear link between solar activity and winter weather revealed

Scientists have demonstrated a clear link between the 11-year sun cycle and winter weather over the northern hemisphere for the first time.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Scientists probe Indian Ocean for clues to worldwide weather patterns

An international team of researchers will begin gathering in the Indian Ocean next month to study how tropical weather brews there and then moves eastward along the equator with reverberating effects around ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swift action can help protect rice farmers in Sahel from climate change

Rice farmers in the Sahel region will be able to successfully grow rice in a sustainable way despite climate change if they amend their irrigation in the short term and rice varieties are developed able to cope with higher ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Arctic ice melt could pause for several years, then resume again

Although Arctic sea ice appears fated to melt as the climate continues to warm, the ice may temporarily stabilize or somewhat expand at times over the next few decades, new research indicates.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Skeptic's small cloud study renews climate rancor

(AP) -- A study on how much heat in Earth's atmosphere is caused by cloud cover has heated up the climate change blogosphere even as it is dismissed by many scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 92

Rising oceans - too late to turn the tide?

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 45 | with audio podcast