Sentences with phrase «accumulation rate»

The cash value accumulation rate of investment is generally much lower than rates provided through other investment vehicles.

The premiums, death benefit and cash value accumulation rate are fixed.

I reckoned the accumulation rate as 299 ± 23 m / yr.

The apparent accumulation rate of CO2 in the atmosphere (1.5 ppmv / year which corresponds to 3 GtC / year) is equal to almost half the human emission (6.5 GtC / year).

The result is a net accumulation rate of 337 mm / yr of water equivalent, roughly the same as the annual precipitation in Wyoming or Andalusia.

In equilibrium the vertical ice velocity at the surface would be the same as the net accumulation rate (generally a few tens of centimenters per year), so AGW effects will not have had time to penetrate beyond maybe 10 or twenty meters depth.

We set temperature and accumulation rate to their present - day values [respectively, 241 ° K (20) and 224 kg m − 2 year − 1 (22)-RSB- and assumed these rates were constant throughout the model run.

Stomata data are in no way «better» than ice core CO2 data, they are proxy's of local CO2 levels, not like ice cores which are direct measurements of CO2 in the ancient bulk (95 %) of the atmosphere, be it averaged over several years to several centuries, depending of the snow accumulation rate of the ice core.

Thus the combination of the surface slope and the accumulation rate drive faster flow in these regions.

«The GRIP borehole inversion is therefore the only data set suggesting significantly higher temperatures during the MCA than during the 1950s, lending further support to the speculation that the quite low accumulation rate at the GRIP drill site did hamper the inversion of this recent short - lived climatic warming.»

Because of the high accumulation rate (1.2 m ice equivalent per year), they could make a detailed history of gas behaviour in firn and ice.

correction, taking the first order derivative of the polynomial function directly above yeilds the instantaneous accumulation rate at the end of each decade.

By taking the difference in heat accumulated per decade and dividing by the seconds per decade and square meters of the earth, this total heat accumulation rate value can be converted to a W / m ^ 2 / decade.

The Siple site has a resolution of 22 years because the accumulation rate is high.

What you've said is encapulated in my short statement that there is uncertainty in the lag / lead precisely because of uncertainty in the trapping time, which does (as you say) vary with conditions (notably, temperature and snow accumulation rate).

In particular methane accumulation rate matters.

Also there are two different datasets that may be reported — concentration (atoms / g) and flux (atoms / cm ^ 2 / yr) and these are not directly comparable, you have to be careful comparing low and high accumulation rate sites.

Changing this profile — even with major melting at the surface — will take on order of the characteristic response time, of about 3000 m / 0.25 m / year (height over accumulation rate) = 12,000 years.

Most of the low latitudes glaciers are necessarily at very high altitudes, and many have both high accumulation rate and very cold temperatures.

Subsequently, you can determine the needed redemption value or accumulation rate if you wanted nothing but profit using the equation.

Dental cleaning may be needed every six months or yearly depending on your pet's tartar accumulation rate.

The major advantage the Select + card has over its Visa counterpart is in the point accumulation rate.

While it doesn't offer any sign up or spending bonuses like some of its peers do, such as the Barclays Arrival ™ World MasterCard ®, Discover it ® Miles» flat 1.5 x miles accumulation rate makes up for this deficit in the long - run.

Impact of physical properties and accumulation rate on pore close - off in layered firn.

These data are the accumulation rate history for the WAIS Divide ice core in central West Antarctica.

One slide was removed and examined under the light microscope every few days to monitor biofilm accumulation rate.

They showed last year that the mass accumulation rate (MAR), a measurement of the rate at which the cells gain mass, can reveal drug susceptibility.

Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study, explains: «Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions on the persistency of plastic pollution in the GPGP yet, this plastic accumulation rate inside the GPGP, which was greater than in the surrounding waters, indicates that the inflow of plastic into the patch continues to exceed the outflow.»

«If we extrapolate current dust accumulation rates out to the next winter six months away, it does look troubling,» Callas says.

Researchers show that future carbon accumulation rates are highly sensitive to future land use changes.

These disturbances reduced carbon accumulation rates but the losses were compensated by subsequent regrowth and storage of dead material on the site.

«Future land transitions are uncertain but relatively small changes in afforestation from agriculture resulted in substantial decrease in accumulation rates,» said Coulston.

The aging of forests in the region was also a significant force behind potential slowing accumulation rates as growth rates are typically lower for older forest.

The data are in two parts: 1) the annual accumulation rates for the past ~ 31ka and 2) the firn gas - based accumulation rates from 31 - 67ka.

Below is a table showing the JAL accumulation rates on international flights from Japan.

Find accumulation rates for other international and domestic fares here.

And based upon late Quaternary stratigraphic data from peninsular Florida's shelf and coastal zone, historic wetland accumulation rates, and residence time of coastal construction projects (i.e. beach «nourishment», dune «restoration»), by mid-century the rate of predicted sea level rise will result in erosional shoreface retreat and ultimately overstep of both the natural and built environment.

the values of this funciton shows the expected increase in TOA watts / meter squared based on the previous 3 decades of data going forward the decadel rate of TOA based on accumulation rates are (will be): 0.090848 1978 - 1988 0.137779 1988 - 1998 0.346731 1998 - 2008 (0.872576 2008 - 2018)(2.195904 2018 - 2028)(5.526165 2028 - 2038)(13.90702 2038 - 2048)

That the ice core CO2 levels are reasonable for CO2 measurements can be seen as different ice cores at very different snow / ice temperatures, inclusions (coastal salts vs. inland salts content), accumulation rates, ice age — gas age differences,... show the same CO2 levels (within 5 ppmv) for overlapping periods of gas age.

Three ice cores with very high accumulation rates (1.5 m ice equivalent / year) for two of them, drilled with three different techniques (wet and dry), without clathrates or cracks in the ice, were compared.

However, a second order polynomial function fits the data with an R ^ 2 value of 1.0 the equation for this function is y =.1243 * x ^ 2 -.2485 * x +.2175 the values of this funciton shows the expected increase in TOA watts / meter squared based on the previous 3 decades of data going forward the decadel rate of TOA based on accumulation rates are (will be):

We will continue our 3D higher - order flow modeling of the glacier, specifically to help us constrain a depth - age relationship for the core to help assess snow accumulation rates.

d Numbers of total dinoflagellate cysts per gram sediment (green circles), concentration of sea - ice related dinoflagellate species Impagidinium pallidum in percent of total dinoflagellate cyst taxa (blue circles) and accumulation rates of Operculodinium centrocarpum (olive - colored graph) indicative of warm Atlantic Water inflow42.

Don't infer the snow accumulation history from NOAA's climate change models, because that history doesn't correlate with NOAA's own published data on timing of snow accumulation rates near the poles.

Figure 1: Comparison of macrocharcoal, BC, char, and soot mass accumulation rates (MARs) with local pollen and molecular compound data during the last glacial - interglacial transition at Linsley Pond.

In our study, we determined BC, char, soot, and charcoal concentrations using a thermal / optical method along with the mass accumulation rates (MARs) for these species in the pond sediments.

There are a few sites, such as the Santa Barbara Basin, with high accumulation rates (and anoxic bottoms to discourage the worms) that have resolutions that occasionally achieve fifty year discriminations.

This northern area has low accumulation rates, and a shorter less intense melt season.

The difference is the result of higher accumulation rates.

Observation of a precipitation map (focused not on the outer margin, but on the accumulation zone of the ice sheet) indicates that highest accumulation rates, over 40 cm per year, extend along the western side of the ice sheet to the southeast quadrant of the ice sheet.