Sentences with phrase «as calibration points»

Most attempts to date early molecular phylogenetic trees used the emergence of eukaryotes (around 2.0 billion years B.P.) as a calibration point.

Not exact matches

Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.
As an example of the instruments» cleverness, the analogue - look speedometer in the Atenza grade marks off the prevailing speed - limit zone with a red calibration point.
As a starting point, though, calibrations from Ford Performance for items such as its cold - air and supercharger kits are done by Ford engineers who, in many cases, worked on the actual production vehicleAs a starting point, though, calibrations from Ford Performance for items such as its cold - air and supercharger kits are done by Ford engineers who, in many cases, worked on the actual production vehicleas its cold - air and supercharger kits are done by Ford engineers who, in many cases, worked on the actual production vehicles.
Apple has been a leader in accurate display calibration, but all of the iPads and iPhones that we have tested have White Points that are slightly too blue, which can impart a cold or bluish caste to some images — such as in shifting the complexions of faces slightly.
This model is a simple and intuitive valuation - dependent model, as illustrated by the log - linear line of best fit in Figure 1.3 At each point in time, we calibrate the model only to the historically observed data available at that time; no look - ahead information is in the model calibration.
[Response: The satellite altimeter data point is shown in our Vermeer & Rahmstorf 2009 paper as an independent validation point that was not used for calibration, and it fits the relationship perfectly.
As I said above, there was no discussion or even recognition of this point in the M&M papers or Wegman et al. (And, yes, I do recognize that centering on the calibration period has been denigrated by statisticians, but clearly using conventional centering has little effect on the final result).
As in wild, emotional, and not objective, but rather subject to the passions of an unbroken horse — just the opposite of the careful collection, calibration, and verification of billions of data points, which last I checked, don't have feelings, unbridled or otherwise.
@GG: What I am questioning is his taking just two points out of 648, producing a model that enters MLO period with lower growth, systematically deviates and leaves with a higher growth rate and then extrapolating this function way beyond the calibration period and directly claiming that this represents «business as usual», That is a false claim.
What I am questioning is his taking just two points out of 648, producing a model that enters MLO period with lower growth, systematically deviates and leaves with a higher growth rate and then extrapolating this function way beyond the calibration period and directly claiming that this represents «business as usual», That is a false claim.
Anomalies simply take the average of the observed temperatures (daily, monthly, annual, max, min, or what have you), and convert them to a scale with a different zero point — a zero defined as the mean observed temperature over some accepted calibration period.
And as a single instrumental calibration point they give Salekhard daily temperature measurements (I didn't catch any mentions of any gridcell temp in that Thesis «abstract»).
But there are (at least) two other problems — Keith Briffa points out that the very strong trend in the 20th century calibration period accounts for much of the success of our calibration and makes it unlikely that we would be able be able to reconstruct such an extraordinary period as the 1990s with much success (I may be mis - quoting him somewhat, but that is the general thrust of his criticism).
I'm not sure there's much point asking for comments about the general discrepancy between UAH and RSS trends, as this has been known for some time and appears to be largely related to inter-satellite calibration issues.
This isotope signal needs careful calibration and Louise Sime and colleagues make the point that under warm climate conditions such as the Eemian the calibration developed for cold climate conditions might be different — in fact isotopes during warm periods might be less sensitive to temperature, and so applying the cold - climate calibration might underestimate actual temperatures.
It sounds though like you're agreeing with me that after a certain point, things like contrast, saturation, calibration, viewing angles, etc start to matter more as opposed to having the highest ppi count.
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