Sentences with phrase «against past observations»

The model had to be validated against past observations.

These studies also find that the impacts are highly conditional on assumptions made in the assessment, for example, with respect to weightings of global climate models (GCMs)-- according to some criteria, such as performance against past observations — or to the combination of GCMs used.

Not exact matches

And so, with Lot's wife as a warning against dwelling on the past, here are some observations....

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.

In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent collapse of financial stock valuations I made a few key observations that went against the trend of the past few years.

There are important implications in this observation not least the possibility of biased regression coefficients in attempts to reconstruct past low - frequency temperature change based on long density series calibrated against recent temperatures.

Previous hemispheric - scale, temperature reconstructions over the past millennium, with one notable exception (Mann et al., 2009), have focused on reconstructing tem - peratures in the time domain only, an understandable consequence resulting from few 20 and sparsely distributed high - resolution proxies that can be calibrated directly against instrumental observations.

Regrettably we never see the test of the skill of the Hansen model against the latter (it clearly has greater skill than either Hansen or the prediction based on the latest observation) because in the past this model hasn't been a good predictor of the future.