Sentences with phrase «at observation data»

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Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»

We looked at more than 40 years of data and found that roughly 80 % of historical observations showed business as usual in the bond market.

And so, his observation, and this is looking at real data about retirees, is that the early retiree years, so just after you retire at 65 or whenever that might be, tend to be the higher spending years in many retirees» plans; and that is because maybe they have pent up demand to do stuff with their money — whether it's travel or other leisure activities.

The chief techniques for gathering such data include mail questionnaires, interviews, retail store shelf audits, use of electronic scanners at retail checkout counters, and direct observation in stores.

Looking at the entire data series from July last year to March this year, an observation that's worth noting is the modest 2 % increase in total gold holdings equivalent to around 166 tonnes.

The modernist, whether scientist, philosopher, or theologian, was content to confine observation and inquiry to the immediate data at hand and to offer judgment based upon experimentation within these limits.

After determining that the 2 groups were similar on all measured sociodemographic variables using χ2 tests, data obtained at the 12 - week follow - up observation point were analyzed.

At the Nature Museum, we use two methods to collect data on exhibit usage - observation and interviews.

The town supervisor shared data and observations he gathered last summer at a Spotlight on Keene presentation to Adirondack Park Agency commissioners last week.

Once the flowers bloomed, the idea went, the gardeners would spend a few minutes at certain times making observations about bee visits and inputting the data about what they saw into a form on a Web site LeBuhn set up.

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

Moni Bidin's team did it by combining historical survey data and new observations from telescopes at the La Silla Observatory and the Las Campanas Observatory, both in Chile.

OSSOS is based on observations obtained with MegaPrime / MegaCam, a joint project of the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and CEA / DAPNIA, and on data produced and hosted at the Canadian Astronomy Data Cendata produced and hosted at the Canadian Astronomy Data CenData Centre.

Now Thayne Currie at the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues have reanalysed Hubble data and made fresh observations with a telescope in Hawaii.

For many aspects of the simulation, researchers can start their calculations at a fundamental, or ab initio, level with no need for preconceived input data, but processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes — need to be informed by observation and by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculations.

Instruments are now so precise that radar observations can spot a single bee at about 30 miles away, and scientists can combine thermal imaging cameras, acoustic monitoring devices and small portable radars with weather radar data to get a complete picture of a region's ecology.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

Now, a team at the University of California Irvine has used observations from NASA's Fermi space telescope, along with data from all - sky surveys, and applied updated calculations to observe our galaxy's centre — where there is thought to be a cluster of dark matter.

Together they will allow researchers to make observations over a wider energy range, capture detailed snapshots of rapid processes, probe delicate samples that are beyond the reach of other light sources and gather more data in less time, thus greatly increasing the number of experiments that can be performed at this pioneering facility.

Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter has carried out a day - by - day assessment of Arctic ice - cover data collected since satellite observation began in 1979.

A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets.

The launch next week comes at a time when the future of the world's longest - running set of Earth - observations data is at stake

Using satellite observations of meteoric «flares» in the atmosphere («shooting stars») and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts.

More exoplanet discoveries are expected to be announced next week in Moran, Wyoming, at a conference on extreme solar systems, and a new batch of Kepler data, based on 674 million observations recorded from September to December 2009, is scheduled for public release on 23 September.

Colin Price and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University studied data from 26 observation stations worldwide, comparing lightning activity to tropical storm formation during the 2005 and 2006 hurricane seasons.

The paper is one of six appearing in the journal that reports results from the analysis of data and observations obtained during Curiosity's exploration at Yellowknife Bay — an expanse of bare bedrock in Gale Crater about 500 meters from the rover's landing site.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

Even when there doesn't happen to be an overpass at surge time, the statistics of sea level that we got from more than 20 years of repeated altimetric observations in the area can still be combined with data from nearby tide gauges to improve the forecasts of the expected surge.»

Pablo Pérez - González, an astrophysics professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and one of several co-investigators on Nørgaard - Nielsen's proposed observation, said they will use Webb to observe about 40 percent of the HUDF area with MIRI, in roughly the same location that ground - based telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) obtained ultra-deep field data.

«By mixing [the data from] these instruments, we'll get information about the current star formation rate, but we'll also get information about the star formation history,» explained Hans Ulrik Nørgaard - Nielsen, an astronomer at the Danish Space Research Institute in Denmark and the principal investigator for the proposed observations.

Working at the IRAM Plateau De Bure interferometer in the French Alps, the researchers gathered data in the millimetre band, which allows observation of the emission from the cold gas which is the primary fuel for star formation and main ingredient of galaxies, but is almost invisible at other wavelengths.

In particular, there are growing demands for Earth observation data and communications, which can be met through the use of CubeSats at relatively low cost.

Eri Saikawa, who studies air pollution and its health impacts at Emory University, and wasn't involved in the new study, plans to use Wiedinmyer's data in a model to see how it matches observations in China and Southeast Asia, and to see how trash burning might be contributing to the substantial amounts of air pollution there.

We know from very precise supernova observations that the universe is accelerating, but at the same time we rely on coarse approximations to Einstein's equations which may introduce serious side - effects, such as the need for dark energy, in the models designed to fit the observational data.»

Andrew Shepherd, a professor of Earth observation and Greenland expert at the University of Leeds, said the new data are «robust and will be trusted by the wider scientific community.»

Data - quality issues, including the reanalysis and reprocessing of past observations, have become a topic in its own right in climate research, says Adrian Simmons, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, and chairman of the GCOS steering committee.

The researchers looked at data and observations of the lake going back 43 years.

Earth - observation programs will fail to provide the data continuity required for climate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., last week.

The history of these observations is quite long (volunteers started to collect this data in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scadata in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scaData publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scales.

Data comes from various sources, including observations, weather stations at airports, Doppler radar and satellite imagery, National Weather Service bulletins, and even tidal gages.

WFIRST's data should complement the observations of several other dark - energy explorers set to come online in the early 2020s, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid probe, says Rachel Mandelbaum, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Following a detailed study on Android device users, and comparing observations with a large dataset of almost 400 UK and Ireland mobile devices, computer scientists at Lancaster University and the University of Cambridge identified four categories of data - hungry services — watching video, social networking, communications and listening.

By monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Earth.

(2) a description of current research, observation, and monitoring activities at the Federal, State, tribal, and local level related to the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources, as well as identification of research and data needs and priorities;

The day after their observation, the students gathered at the NRAO Array Operations Center in Socorro to process their data and make their images.

«We built several models of equal quality from the photometric data, but we favored a model made of two lobes since some of the best adaptive optics observations suggest that the Trojan asteroid has a dual structure,» said Josef Durech, co-author and researcher at the Charles University in Prague.

For global observations since the late 1950s, the most recent versions of all available data sets show that the troposphere has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere has cooled markedly since 1979.

In addition to revealing the composition of these high altitude clouds, the in - cloud observations will be used to refine the methodologies used to infer cloud microphysical properties from the long - term data collected at the ARM Climate Research Facility sites in the Tropical Western Pacific.

The historical observations from Hadley Centre & Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) datasets are at the bottom.

However, the POLENET umbrella also includes data acquired at magnetic observatories for earth applications, gravity and absolute gravity stations, tide - gauge sites, and other types of geodetic observations.