Sentences with phrase «spcz over longer timescales»

Indeed there is evidence that over a longer timescale, sexual activity among young adults has increased.

The same appears to be true over longer timescales.

«Additionally, over a longer timescale, by keeping close connection between astrophysicists and climate researchers, this programme will aid in the understanding of our own changing climate.»

Darwinian selection works over long timescales, not just from one generation to the next.

When they compared levels over a longer timescale, the results were shocking.

This allowed us not only to map the cloud distribution, but also how it changes from rotation to rotation and also over longer timescales: our observations were following the brown dwarfs for more than a year.

In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt.

It has been happening since the last deglaciation, and its rate changes over longer timescales than the ones we focused on here.

He also pointed out that it is «unlikely that significant progress will be evident» in national social mobility data, and believes officials should also plan to monitor progress at that level «over a longer timescale».

But over a longer timescale, differences in leading tendency remained consistent; thus decision - making during the collective motion was not based on an egalitarian system in our sample.

It's not necessarily the case that relative trajectories of OHC and surface temperature have to be congruent over these long timescales.

I'm a skeptic, but you've convinced me that the «pause» is insignificant over longer timescales.

Our results support the use of short - term manipulative experiments spanning weeks as proxies to understand the potential effects of global change forcing on diatom community structure over longer timescales such as years.

That is equivalent to saying that temperatures aren't rising over longer timescales.

The release of carbon dioxide and methane from the Arctic will provide a positive feedback to climate change which will be more important over longer timescales — millennia and longer.

Over longer timescales, the number of households using natural gas for space heating has increased — for example, in the Northeast, households are switching their heating fuel from heating oil to natural gas.

However, there do also seem to be lunar and solar cycles which take place over longer timescales, e.g., the 18.6 year lunar cycle.

Determining the position of the SPCZ over longer timescales in the past (pre-20th century) has been studied using coral records of the southwest Pacific.

In addition, there are numerous uncertainties in the climate models themselves, due to the challenge of numerically simulating all relevant aspects of the climate system over long timescales of decades to centuries.

The few long droughts that have occurred in Australia over the past ∼ 100 years seem exceptional, but this may not be true over longer timescales.

Excellent work as usual, Bob, but you won't be surprised that I'm still trying to see how your ENSO material can be worked into the climate cycling from MWP to LIA to date without some other force altering the relative strengths of El Nino and La Nina over longer timescales than the multidecadal.

Conversely, rural people in many parts of the world have, over long timescales, adapted to climate variability, or at least learned to cope with it.

The notion that over the longer timescales, forced responses dominated (at least for the second half of the past century) is reinforced by data on Ocean Heat Uptake since 1955.

I know of no reason why the apparent averaging out of short term fluctuations over longer timescales dominated by forcing was an inevitable result that could have been derived without reference to the actual data.

In particular, anomalously high convection in ENSO and ENSO - related regional cloud changes can lead to negative feedbacks not seen with persistent forcings that operate over longer timescales on a more global basis.

The potential change in the radiative restoration strength over longer timescales is also considered, resulting in a likely (67 %) range of 1.5 — 2.9 K for equilibrium climate sensitivity, and a 90 % confidence interval of 1.2 — 5.1 K

To measure how the system has shifted over long timescales, researchers collected long cores of sediment from the sea floor.

«The only way to predict the day - to - day weather and changes to the climate over longer timescales is to use computer models.»

Furthermore, although not in direct relation to the solar - cloud studies, Brest et al. (1997) state that the ISCCP data are not sensitive enough to detect small changes in cloud cover over long timescales.

This problem is also exacerbated by climate oscillations which operate over long timescales, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which influences long - term global cloud cover and may interfere with solar - climate analysis studies (Kuang et al. 1998; Farrar 2000; Roy & Haigh 2010; Laken et al. 2012a).

Components of the Earth's climate system that vary over long timescales, such as ice sheets and vegetation, could have an important effect on this temperature sensitivity, but have often been neglected.

When in balance, primary production and respiration processes result in large diel variability (Table 2), but are essentially CO2 - neutral; however, over longer timescales, spatial and / or temporal decoupling of these processes can change pH drastically (Borges and Gypens 2010; Provoost et al. 2010; Cai et al. 2011).

Another point he makes regards the speed of the change in CO2 levels and that somehow overwhelming negative feedbacks that would otherwise occur if the change in CO2 levels happened over a longer timescale.

Climate is not the «variation» of weather over longer timescales.

Because climate is the variation of weather over longer timescales.

I think you're right that subtle differences will be distinguishable to some extent over longer timescales, but van Oldenborgh et al. 2013 suggests all models show too little natural spatial variability.

Anonymous said: «Climate is not the «variation» of weather over longer timescales.

In other words, it is a measure for how the «average» weather changes over longer timescales.

Calculating a «running average» over these longer timescales allows one to more easily see long - term trends.

Not exact matches

Bonds and cash were always a lousy long - term investment versus equities over many decades, but over shorter timescales the apparent return differences didn't seem so vast as they do today.

Our distinctive contribution was to look at government costs and performance over a much longer timescale than had been attempted before and we believe our own study will contribute to transparency and accountability through our unique publicly - available compilation of consistent long - term time - series of official data.

Some Labour MPs and the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, dismissed the offer as unacceptable, saying it represented only 12 refugees a day over the course of this parliament, adding that 20,000 sounded less impressive given the long timescale.

Until now, changes in the relative proportion of rare mutations, that could be both detrimental and adaptive, had only been shown over relatively long timescales, by comparing African and European populations.

But over very long timescales, it can enable evolution.

Michel Bouchon of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, is also monitoring the Earth's movement, but over a much longer timescale.

They demonstrated that species showing faster rates of genetic differentiation between populations are more likely to produce greater numbers of species over long evolutionary timescales.

Collisions take place over very long timescales compared to the length of our lifetime — several tens of millions of years.

Though typical galaxy collisions take place over what to us seems a long timescale, they are short compared to the lifetimes of galaxies.

«Our results indicate that [Proxima Centauri b] and similar exoplanets are generally not capable of supporting an atmosphere over sufficiently long timescales when the stellar wind pressure is high,» Dong said.

«It is surprising, but Earth's atmosphere is about 50 trillion metric tons in mass, and so over long enough timescales — hundreds, thousands, even millions of years — all of that mass, and its drag across the surface of the planet, can have an effect,» said study author Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology at Columbia University in New York.