For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in
average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.
Not exact matches
For low risk women without complicating
conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (
representing, on
average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).
For graphs, bars
represent the
average of (n = 6 to 8) mice in the indicated
conditions, and hashtags denote the effect of genotype following 2 × 3 ANOVA with statistical significance at P < 0.05.
We used a 5 - d
average for food intake for each
condition to most accurately
represent global changes in food intake that occurred during each
condition.
Schaeffer's voice
represents the
Average Joe in a bar who thinks he has all the answers about the human
condition but has nothing interesting to say.
The data shown here
represent average operating energy consumption between Vancouver and Toronto climatic
conditions, assuming conventional levels of envelope and equipment energy efficiency.
Though there can be significant differences in regional surface impacts between one SSW event and another, the typical pattern includes changes in sea level pressure resembling the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) / Arctic Oscillation (AO), (
representing a southward shift in the Atlantic storm track), wetter than
average conditions for much of Europe, cold air outbreaks throughout the mid-latitudes, and warmer than
average conditions in eastern Canada and subtropical Asia (see figure below, left panel).
That has also led to increased wave heights during extreme weather
conditions, with levels off the Irish coast increasing 25 millimeters (1 inch) per year during the past 70 years,
representing an
average increase of 1.7 meters (5.6 feet).
of 4 stations to
represent the regional
average over time (typically 30 years), the change in the trendlines are likely to be very closely representative of the regional
conditions.
Thus, even the best global warming predictions
represent a stripped - down version of the Earth's real climate, capable of approximating
average conditions over entire countries a long time from now, but too crude to reliably forecast
conditions within localized regions of the countries.
The ranges
represent average conditions over a period of time (usually 12 hours) and the actual
conditions may be lower or higher than the forecast range.