Sentences with phrase «annual model changes»

The company explicitly rejected planned obsolescence and annual model changes, stating its expectation that you would keep your handsome but not flashy Volvo wagon a long time.

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CHANGE THE WORLD: Today, Fortune published its third annual Change The World List, featuring 56 companies that are making measurable progress addressing important social problems as part of their business CHANGE THE WORLD: Today, Fortune published its third annual Change The World List, featuring 56 companies that are making measurable progress addressing important social problems as part of their business Change The World List, featuring 56 companies that are making measurable progress addressing important social problems as part of their business model.

The stock market model distinguishes between: (1) investment return, defined as initial dividend yield plus expected annual earnings growth rate; and, (2) speculative return, defined as annual percentage change in price - to - earnings ratio (P / E).

Mr Pelle pointed to The Coca - Cola Company annual report for 2012, which states that if requirements like «beverage container deposits, recycling, eco tax and / or product stewardship» are adopted in any major markets in which Coca - Cola operates, «they could affect our costs or require changes in our distribution model, which could reduce our net operating revenues or profitability».

Climate models agreed even less on how the conflicting daily changes affect annual mean rainfall.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

In a study set to come out in Nature tomorrow, an international group of scientists reports that they simulated atmospheric behavior using several different models and used them to forecast anthropogenically driven changes in average annual rainfall at different latitudes from 1925 to 1999.

For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake)(2)

(Top left) Global annual mean radiative influences (W m — 2) of LGM climate change agents, generally feedbacks in glacial - interglacial cycles, but also specified in most Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations for the LGM.

To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these changes we compile various environmental records (and model - based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes on Earth's radiative budget and, thus, on global annual mean surface temperature over the last 800,000 years.

The robust design model enabled us to test the hypothesis that the population remained constant, while the Pradel's model allowed us to assess the rate of change in abundance (λ) over the four annual intervals (2009 — 2012).

It's clear that waning sales were a sign Acitivision had to change its business model regarding Skylanders (no more annual releases), as the popularity of the Netflix series proves the series itself is still quite popular.

The annual model count, compiled by Automotive News, emphasizes the diversity and the ever - changing nature of the U.S. auto market.

O'Reilly's annual Tools of Change conference is all about pushing the boundaries of publishing and applying innovation to tired paradigms and business models.

When I update the performance of my model portfolios, the returns I use are based on the annual change in each fund's net asset value (NAV).

PIMCO has completed its annual glide path update, incorporating changes to its long - term capital market assumptions and modeling refinements.

Rate of percentage annual growth for carbon dioxide has certainly increased since the beginning of the 21st century, but this should result in a significant change in the rate of warming any more quickly than the differences between emission scenarios would, and there (according to the models) the differences aren't significant for the first thirty - some years but progressively become more pronounced from then on — given the cummulative effects of accumulated carbon dioxide.

If you can't keep up with annual - decadal changes in the TOA radiative imbalance or ocean heat content (because of failure to correctly model changes in the atmosphere and ocean due to natural variability), then your climate model lacks fidelity to the real world system it is tasked to represent.

They show a very similar pattern — see the right globe in Figure 1 — and the annual cycle of change — more cooling in winter — also corresponds to that of the model simulation.

No changes are planned for PV, experts point out, because existing policy mechanisms contain a volume - responsive degression model designed to keep annual PV installations within a target «corridor» of 2.5 GW to 3.5 GW.

By comparing modelled and observed changes in such indices, which include the global mean surface temperature, the land - ocean temperature contrast, the temperature contrast between the NH and SH, the mean magnitude of the annual cycle in temperature over land and the mean meridional temperature gradient in the NH mid-latitudes, Braganza et al. (2004) estimate that anthropogenic forcing accounts for almost all of the warming observed between 1946 and 1995 whereas warming between 1896 and 1945 is explained by a combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing and internal variability.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

And what happens if you estimate the time series of annual rates of change of temp and model that?

Models disagree on annual mean precipitation changes in the NA monsoon region.

Abstract The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California Climate model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change...Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California Climate model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change...model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change........

Over the last decade or so, the models have not shown an ability to predict the lack (or very muted) change in the annual average global surface temperature trend.

Does your model fit not only Mauna Loa but Law Dome as well using as input only total annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel, cement production and land use changes?

Previous climate models have shown that there didn't appear to be much change in annual average precipitation in California or changes were unknown, even under aggressive warming scenarios.

The climate model predicted annual temperature changes would follow the bright green curve if greenhouse gases (GHGs) were not curtailed.

Change in average annual runoff by the 2050s under the SRES A2 emissions scenario and different climate models (Arnell, 2003a).

Model studies show that land - use changes have a small effect on annual runoff as compared to climate change in the Rhine basin (Pfister et al., 2004), south - east Michigan (Barlage et al., 2002), Pennsylvania (Chang, 2003), and central Ethiopia (Legesse et al., 2003).

(A — C) Change in annual global mean vegetation carbon (A), NPP (B), and residence time of carbon in vegetation (C) under the HadGEM2 - ES RCP 8.5 climate and CO2 scenario for seven global vegetation models.

Top: The change in annual temperature projected for the late 21st century using simulations from 27 global climate models.

Global solar irradiance reconstruction [48 — 50] and ice - core based sulfate (SO4) influx in the Northern Hemisphere [51] from volcanic activity (a); mean annual temperature (MAT) reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere [52], North America [29], and the American Southwest * expressed as anomalies based on 1961 — 1990 temperature averages (b); changes in ENSO - related variability based on El Junco diatom record [41], oxygen isotopes records from Palmyra [42], and the unified ENSO proxy [UEP; 23](c); changes in PDSI variability for the American Southwest (d), and changes in winter precipitation variability as simulated by CESM model ensembles 2 to 5 [43].

Simulations where the magnitude of solar irradiance changes is increased yield a mismatch between model results and CO2 data, providing evidence for modest changes in solar irradiance and global mean temperatures over the past millennium and arguing against a significant amplification of the response of global or hemispheric annual mean temperature to solar forcing.

A slight change of ocean temperature (after a delay caused by the high specific heat of water, the annual mixing of thermocline waters with deeper waters in storms) ensures that rising CO2 reduces infrared absorbing H2O vapour while slightly increasing cloud cover (thus Earth's albedo), as evidenced by the fact that the NOAA data from 1948 - 2008 shows a fall in global humidity (not the positive feedback rise presumed by NASA's models!)

(167) Dr.Blaine has a go at modeling the annual δ (O2 / N2) cycle due to land biology, to the air - sea heat flux, and to changes in ocean biology.

To develop an understanding of how the CSI affects the climate will require the development of new models (evolved from the present GCM efforts) incorporating gradual changes in insolation and ice and snow coverage and following the various influences on the climate over many annual cycles.

These tiny changes cause large changes of the annual temperatures between runs due to the chaotic weather processes simulated in the model.

We are beginning to sound like a broken record here, but again, it is impossible to present reliable future projections for precipitations changes across the U.S. (seasonal or annual) from a collection of climate models which largely can not even get the sign (much less the magnitude) of the observed changes correct.

Global - annual mean adjusted radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere is, in general, a reliable metric relating the effects of various climate perturbations to global mean surface temperature change as computed in general circulation models (GCMs).

a recent study of annual precipitation changes in California using 25 [climate] model projections indicates that «12 projections show drier annual conditions by the 2060s and 13 show wetter.»

For example, seasons change on an annual timescale but would you have any faith in a climate model that was unable to reproduce such «irrelevant» fine - grained behavior?

From the SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY and the «department of robusted models» comes this Today, at the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference in Liverpool, scientists will reveal how Arctic microbes are increasing the rate at which glaciers melt, in a process not accounted for in current climate change models.

For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake) evident in the zonal mean for the CMIP2 models (Figure 9.8) and the geographical patterns for all categories of models (Figure 9.10).

The Surface Book i7, on the other hand, continues with the innovative design, like the last year's model, but an annual upgrade doesn't necessarily warrant a design change this fast.

Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis — Global Sales & Marketing 2009 — Present Spearheaded the development and execution of annual and strategic financial plans, focused on underlying business drivers and sensitivity analysis by modeling and quantifying the potential effects of changes in business drivers.