Sentences with phrase «average climate over»

With climate forecasting we are looking at average climate over a period of time.

GCMs are intended to project (not predict) average climate over the long term, and there has never been a claim that they could accurately predict short term variations that cancel out over several decades.

So for example a forecast of average climate over 2029 - 2031 would be less believable than one over 2020 - 2040, because 20 - year averaging would remove many of the kinds of unpredictable phenomena such as volcanoes that could have a much bigger influence on the 2029 - 2031 average than on 2020 - 2040.

Example 4 (strawman argument): (4) I was referring to your quote: «For one thing long - term predictions of the average climate over much less than ten - year periods are less plausible than over longer periods.»

Not exact matches

First in revenue and loan growth (adjusted for significant acquisitions) when averaged over the one -, three -, and five - year periods, reflecting the fact that the Company continued to provide credit to consumers, small businesses, and commercial companies in the current credit climate; and

It's more accurate to say that each week we have a small, statistically insignificant and wholly unreliable forecast for the coming week's market direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically significant.

The measures of valuation and market action that define each «Market Climate» are factors that can be tested in decades of historical data, are objective, observable, and have strongly affected the average profile of return and risk in the markets over time.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

Conrad New York offers a new standard of luxury, featuring spacious guestrooms that average over 430 square feet, each outfitted with integrated technology, flat - screen televisions and individual climate control, as well other unparalleled in - room amenities.

Home to over 400 sweet potato growers, the state's hot, moist climate and rich, fertile soil are ideal for cultivating sweet potatoes, averaging at nearly 60 % of the U.S. supply.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Climate velocity was first established in 2009 in a study estimating that species would have to move about a quarter - mile a year on average over the next 85 years.

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.

«This becomes even more critical when predicting climate change over a specific region like Alaska instead of the whole globe averaged together.»

Conservative climate models predict that average temperatures in the US Midwest will rise by 4 °C over the next century.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

Looking at the locations of 1.5 billion lightning strokes from 2005 to 2016, the team found nearly twice as many lightning strokes on average over major routes ships take across the northern Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climates.

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

But the questionnaire, which asks for averages based on weather conditions over the past 10 years, does not require cities to anticipate how climate may change in the seven to eight years between bidding and hosting the games.

Climate, however, is the bigger picture of a region's weather: the average, over 30 years (according to the World Meteorological Association's definition), of the weather pattern in a region.

«Over the next few decades, the majority of birds currently found across the National Park System are expected to experience changes in climate conditions, which on average may lead to turnover of nearly a quarter of the bird community per park,» says Gregor Schuurman, co-author on the study.

«Many studies have looked at average snowfall over a season in climate models, but there's less known about these very heavy snowfalls,» says study author Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Over this 100 - year period, O'Gorman found that average snowfall decreased substantially in many Northern Hemisphere regions in warm - climate scenarios compared with the milder control climates, but that snowfall amounts in the largest snowstorms did not decrease to the same extent.

The findings show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Scientists at the Alaska Climate Research Center have found that average temperatures there have increased by 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 degrees Celsius) over the last five decades and by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit (3.5 degrees Celsius) over the winters.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend LINK WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.

Also, for those interested, on page 41 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Synthesis Report, is found a description of their Key Finding # 2 which includes the statement «Climate models indicate that the local warming over Greenland is likely to be one to three times the global average.»

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

Climate trends are weather, averaged out over time - usually 30 years.

«Weather is what's happening over a very short period of time, whereas climate is what happens, on average, over a longer period.»

Similarly, all climate models used in this assessment agree that the average annual temperature in Montana will increase over the next century.

In contrast, the balance shifts in a warming climate, and on average more new records highs than new record lows are set over any time period.

Buildings across both regions were built for the historical climate, which didn't require air conditioning, yet Colorado has seen average temperatures rise 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years.

Climate change shifts the curve to the hotter side, moving the average over.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

In recent times, climate skeptics have been peddling a lot of nonsense about average temperatures actually cooling over the last decade.

If we average the incoming solar radiation that is absorbed by the earth's climate over the surface of the earth we get around 239 W / m2.

, it amazes me how excitable PIs will bid up & eliminate any likely premium when a takeover is still only a possibility... In general, I would peg the average deal premium at around 33 - 40 %, but this average does expand and contract over time depending on sector & the general investment «climate `.

Given the coffee's brewed from extra-bold beans and served in a climate where the last thing you crave while you're sweating through your shirt is a hot drink, the average cup there is served over ice and mixed with a healthy dose of condensed milk to make it a little more palpable.

For the most part, I've not seen much evidence to suggest that internal variations alone can bring the climate to a new state on decadal timescales, even if the internal fluctuations do not completely average out over decades (e.g.,, the PDO being in a positive phase more than a negative phase during the timescale of consideration).

Your contention on noise doesn't make sense, it is only by averaging over short - term variations that the long - term trend (climate) emerges.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

This is an attempt to average over the «weather» to understand the climate.

A climate statement would be that the average temperature of the boiling water is 100ºC at normal pressure» What if your pot has a lid that has certain weight and might melt down over the time?

A climate statement would be that the average temperature of the boiling water is 100ºC at normal pressure» What if your pot has a lid that has certain weight and might melt down over the time?

By climate, we mean the statistics of weather, averaged over suitable time and perhaps space scales (more on this below).

In global average, the number of unprecedented heat records over the past ten years is five times higher than in a stationary climate, based on 150,000 temperature time series starting in the year 1880.