Traditional methods rely on empirical relationships between yield and the individual climate variables. (ethanolproducer.com)
Predictions of an intensification of malaria in a warmer world, based on extrapolated empirical relationships or biological mechanisms, must be set against a context of a century of warming that has seen marked global declines in the disease and a substantial weakening of the global correlation between malaria endemicity and climate. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In a previous post, I described the concept of emergent constraints, which allow us to narrow uncertainties in climate change projections through empirical relationships that relate a model's climate response to observable metrics. (climate-dynamics.org)