Sentences with phrase «less abrupt»

ice core data which show a smaller, and less abrupt decline at the end of the 16th century.

Less abrupt changes would occur around the world as average temperatures increased.

The protracted cycle (consecutive 17 meetings) was gradual (25 bps / meeting), which meant less abrupt changes in price.

Couldn't tell much difference through the video, but the one on the left had less abrupt transitions, images seemed saturated, and the fonts were a bit blurry.

A couple more gears would have lead to less abrupt shifts and possibly greater fuel economy, really putting the Mazda3 on par with the luxury competition.

The manual gearbox, where you can make less abrupt gear changes than the optional DCT, allows you greater access to that control, too.

The adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist are less abrupt than systems I've tested in the past.

As these systems go, the X5's allows a little more slippage, which I appreciate, and is far less noticeable than many systems when it does activate — less abrupt and relatively quiet.

What is lost at the first transition may be more than gained at the second, which is presumably less abrupt for the middle - school child than for the one entering high school directly from an elementary - school environment.

I wanted something less abrupt to start with, but this game is a Normandy beach landing away from hitting the FPS singularity (not to be confused with the FPS titled Singularity).

Director Peter Berg introduces this animatic, which, less abrupt than the film's actual ending, features no dialogue, but bombastic score and sound effects.

Providing a better meditation atmosphere and alerting a person in a less abrupt and shrill manner.

He incorporated vacuum technology and a spring to make suction from the vacuum less abrupt and more comfortable.

In a sense, when you're writing, you're doing that too — in a much less abrupt way, of course, but you're doing it nonetheless.

Indeed the past history of human intelligence is full of «mutations» of this kind, more or less abrupt, indicating, in addition to the shift of human ideas, an evolution of the «space» in which the ideas took shape — which is clearly very much more suggestive and profound.

Not exact matches

It's a user - friendly approach that is less likely to keep visitor on your site, rather than scrambling for the «back» button while their business meeting comes to an abrupt halt.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.

Is an instantaneous conversion a miracle in which God is present as he is present in no change of heart less strikingly abrupt?

The decision comes just two days after Thompson's funeral, which governor spoke at, eight days after his abrupt death from cancer and less than two weeks after the borough's top law enforcement official announced he would take a leave of absence to combat the disease.

But, says Axel Timmermann, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, «None of these snapshots were able to capture abrupt climate change and transition,» thereby making them less useful for predicting coming sudden shifts.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

A new study shows Earth's oceanic conveyor belt, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, may be less stable than thought, posing a risk of abrupt climate change.

They follow any number of diets from SAD to vegan before making a relatively abrupt switch to a low carb (often less than 50 gm) diet.

The less - than - brisk bent of Shyamalan's execution does, however, ensure that the third act doesn't quite pack the visceral punch surely intended, which, when coupled with a somewhat abrupt conclusion, cements Unbreakable's place as a solid yet erratic endeavor from an unquestionably talented filmmaker.

Whether this directly contributed to an abrupt plot development that effectively cleaves the season in two, the truth is that «True Blood» weathers these personnel changes invisibly enough as to affirm it is either on autopilot by now or, to be less generous, was already something of a runaway train that had only ornamental use for a conductor.

The virtual world explored in eXistenZ — and, in turn, eXistenZ — is nothing particularly new or visually spectacular: more or less, it's a duplication of the actual world, except with seamless, if abrupt, shifts in time and place.

Following closely in traffic is a definite no - no, because the drum brakes take their sweet time before biting and deceleration is never abrupt enough to snug me up against the less - than - confidence - inspiring lap belt.

I didn't venture far but the combination of little steering lock, a very firm ride, the sheer noise of the engine and «box and the centrifugal clutch's quite abrupt take - up made it feel less resolved than, say, an Atom 3.5 R or Radical RXC Turbo would do.

Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.

Or you may even want to consider a senior, since they can be lower energy, which means they may require less of an abrupt lifestyle change on your part.

Also, and without trying to give any spoilers away, the ending is rather abrupt and features gameplay that maybe was less prevalent in other areas of the game.

Others speculate that Kirke's abrupt leave of the wildly popular HBO series may have more to do with the direction Lena Dunham is taking the show: mainly, it's becoming more «Girl» and less «Girls.»

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

The GIS differs from the WAIS, however, because the former is now largely land - based and the latter marine - based, which potentially makes the WAIS more vulnerable to an abrupt and much less predictable onset of retreat.

Clathrate melting: Potentially abrupt (scale less certain here, and would depend greatly on depth of melt), potentially very catastrophic.

It turned out things were far more nuanced (as he later said, «The Earth system may be less responsive in the warm times than it was in the cold times»), but in a field that had long mainly foreseen smooth curves for planetary change with rising greenhouse gas levels, the result was a vital focus on the risks of abrupt climate change.

To the extent that this abrupt cooling event can be identified with ocean dynamics, regardless of whether it involves the GSA or an abrupt change in the intensity of the AMOC, it provides a plausible explanation of why the NH warmed less rapidly from around the time of the end of WW II to 1980 than the SH.

«There is no «abrupt» increase in CO2 absorption, it is gradual as CO2 levels rise and plants become less stressed by low CO2 levels.

MSM misunderstands or misrepresents permafrost study U.S. labs to study abrupt climate change Scientists witness first massive Arctic methane release Oklahoma plants absorb less CO2 after a hot year Cleaner air, more -LSB-...]

Then I'll try to show what abrupt climate change adds to the story, which is a much less settled question, not yet in the textbooks.

The YD shows strongly up in GRIP but is much less pronounced in the Antarctic cores because interrupting the AMOC turns poleward ocean heat transport on and off causing abrupt NH climate change.

This period, known as the «last deglaciation,» included episodes of abrupt climate change, such as the Bølling warming [~ 14.7 — 14.5 ka], when Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased by 4 — 5 °C in just a few decades [Lea et al., 2003; Buizert et al., 2014], coinciding with a 12 — 22 m sea level rise in less than 340 years [5.3 meters per century](Meltwater Pulse 1a (MWP1a)-RRB-[Deschamps et al., 2012].»

Anything less than one lifetime is «abrupt» since habits and populations can be severely affected within living memories.

But «big changes in less than a decade» is how paleoclimatologists typically characterize all of the abrupt warmings and coolings in the best ice cores, though the full time course from one stable state to another may take a few decades.

The explanation for abrupt change in the last 10,000 years is that they hve been smaller and less persistent than paleoclimatic abrupt change.

Dansgaard et al. (1989); increasingly abrupt changes were seen on further study, Johnsen et al. (1992); Grootes et al. (1993); jumps of Greenland snow accumulation «possibly in one to three years» were reported by Alley et al. (1993); see Alley (2000); five - year Younger Dryas steps: Taylor et al. (1997); a Younger Dryas temperature step in less than a decade was found to be hemisphere - wide since methane gas changed as well, Severinghaus et al. (1998).

Near - simultaneous changes in ice - core paleoclimatic indicators of local, regional, and more - widespread climate conditions demonstrate that much of the Earth experienced abrupt climate changes synchronous with Greenland within thirty years or less.

BTW, on both mathematical and physical grounds, there is even less basis for expecting truly abrupt changes in global average temperatures than in local ones.

But the only mention of these words in the IPCC report are in the section «Anthropogenic warming could lead to some impacts that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change», which reveals a far less frightening and urgent picture than such accounts suggests: