Sentences with phrase «about seasonal cycles»
And some diseases that spread among people might turn out to be nearly impossible to predict using satellite and environmental data beyond what researchers already know about seasonal cycles, like that for the seasonal flu.
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Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.
The area has a predictable seasonal cycle, where the water rises and descends, with average changes of about 35 feet during the course of the year.
The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 shows that the lifetime of a CO2 molecule in the air before it is exchanged with another in the land biosphere is about 12 years.
Although the seasonal and circadian rhythms have been fairly well - described, little is known about the exact effects of the lunar cycle on the behavior and physiology of humans and animals.
Shadow walls — where suspended panels with cutout images cast shadows as the sun shines through the cutouts — teach students about the earth's rotation and seasonal cycles as shadows cast by the sun shift positions and lengths.
About «Tuning»: ``... It is important to note that these exercises are done with the mean climate (including the seasonal cycle and some internal variability)-- and once set they are kept fixed for any perturbation experiment..»
And, that just coincidently, the rate of the rise has consistently been (when averaged over a few year period to smooth out variability due to seasonal cycles and other factors) equal to about half of the emissions of CO2 that we are putting into the atmosphere?
A similar point could be made about short - term multi-annual phenomena such as ENSO: the annual seasonal cycle interacts with the evolution of whatever factors are involved with ENSO, with the precise determination of the outcome depending on exactly how the seasons line up with that evolution.
The RCP8.5 2090 Prediction ratio using the OLR seasonal cycle predictor is under half that using all predictors — it implies a 6 % uplift in projected warming, not «about 15 %».
frankclimate: Tsushima and Manabe (2013) shows that various AOGCMs disagree seriously with each other and with CERES about the change the seasonal cycle for: 1) OLR from cloudy skies, 2) OSR from cloudy skies, and 3) OSR from clear skies (seasonal change in surface albedo).
The global amplitude of the seasonal cycle globally is 3.5 K (which I think is a hemispheric average about 10 K of warming in the NH and -3 K of «warming» in the SH).
At present they are limited to guesses about ENSO but have nothing adequate about any other oceanic cycles and nothing about air circulation shifts apart from seasonal changes and a simple observation that warming moves them poleward.
Thus the ~ 5 years residence time of any CO2 molecule in the atmosphere says next to nothing about what happens at the end of the year (after a full seasonal cycle).
Thus while the accumulation in CO2 mass is only 2 % of the inflows, the seasonal inflow is a part of a cycle and the total natural cycle shows a net loss of about 3.5 GtC / yr.