Sentences with phrase «averages over a region»

Modern researchers have combined the fragmentary, overlapping records they left behind into a series of annual temperatures averaged over the region, which stretches from England's south coast 175 miles north to Manchester.
Although the regions largely coincide with the continents rather than climatological criteria, the annual mean temperature averaged over these regions explains 90 % of the global mean annual temperature variability in the instrumental record»
2: Our Changing Climate, Key Messages 5 and 6).4, 10 A range of model projections for the end of this century under a higher emissions scenario (A2), averaged over the region, suggests about 5 % to 20 % (25th to 75th percentile of model projections) increases in winter precipitation.
However, another source of uncertainty in the monthly mean zonal cloud radiative effects comes from the low frequency of clear - sky occurrence, when averaging over regions that correspond to the spatial resolution of general circulation models.
Then in any month, you average over a region (globe, NH etc) the anomalies in your current dataset.
The process for calculating temperature averages over a region starts with calculating, at each location, the difference in each time period (day, month, year) between the temperature at a location and that location's climatological average for a standard 1961 — 1990 reference period.

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This growing interest in India is not surprising; with average real annual growth of 8.75 per cent over the 2003 to 2007 period, India is emerging as an economic heavyweight in the region.
Event - driven and long short equity managers, for instance, have overall seen rosier average gains over the past 12 — 18 months on the back of investors» growing focus on company - specific events, earnings growth, balance sheets and valuations of individual securities across different sectors and regions.
If we stay on our current emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end of the century.
These regions saw an average drop in startup funding of $ 56.7 million over the same period.
The average house price in the region is # 198,000, well below the national average, which is also stoking demand and prices are expected to increase 17 % over the next four years as demand races ahead of supply, according to data from agency, Knight Frank.
The average home or condo sold for 12.4 per cent less year over year in April with all types of resale houses and condos averaging $ 804,584 across the region.
The farm-gate milk price is a weighted average price for milk over a financial year that Murray Goulburn pays to farmers in the dairy regions of Victoria, South Australia and southern NSW.
Bringing together a small community of 2,600 winegrowers, the region has an average annual production of 22,454,623 gallons (120 million bottles)-- including 7,925,161 gallons (40 million bottles) of Beaujolais Crus, 7,925,161 gallons (40 million bottles) of Beaujolais and 6,604,301 gallons (33 million bottles) of Beaujolais - Villages — of which 40 % is sold to export to over 110 countries.
«After voting to raise taxes on the average Central New York family by more than $ 5500 over the last two years, spending State money so recklessly that New York almost went bankrupt, and approving an increase for people on welfare even if they refuse to work, David Valesky should be spending his time apologizing to Central New Yorkers, not arranging for payoffs, which secure his ability to further damage our region and state.
Most upstate regions saw wage growth that outpaced inflation during the period, and the Finger Lakes had the highest average annual wages among the upstate regions, at just over $ 63,000.
Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.
«This becomes even more critical when predicting climate change over a specific region like Alaska instead of the whole globe averaged together.»
Peak tornado activity, which occurs in the region from early May to early July, has moved an average of seven days earlier in the year over the past six decades.
Agriculture in the region was impacted such that the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared more than 1,000 counties in 26 states natural disaster areas as rainfall dropped an average of roughly 26 inches down to just over 13.
The national average peak is June 12, but the peak in particular regions can be anywhere from early May to early July, when warm, moist air from over the Gulf of Mexico can venture northward and clash with other air masses, creating an unstable atmospheric environment.
Averaging over some 350 high - galactic - latitude patches of sky similar in size to the region observed by BICEP2, Puget reported that polarization from interstellar dust grains plays a significant role and might account for much of the BICEP2 signal that had been attributed to inflation - generated gravitational waves.
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.
In this region, the average temperature has risen 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years and the average precipitation has risen by 2.1 inches per year over the past 25 years.
Over the 62 - year period, the researchers found that the number of ponds in the region had decreased by about 17 percent, while pond size had shrunk by an average of one - third.
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.
In Germany, where the rains fell over a shorter period, they examined the one - day maximum precipitation for the hardest hit region, while for France, where rains were longer - lasting and more widespread, they looked at the three - day averaged precipitation for the Seine and Loire river valleys.
Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.
Over the past 30 years, the average resident of this region has experienced about 9 days per year at 95 °F or above.
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.
This winter, that warmth reached astounding levels, with air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean ranging from 4 °F to 11 °F (2 °C to 6 °C) above average in nearly every region.
Analysing surface temperature data for 1979 - 2015, they link a warm Arctic during March to colder - than - average temperatures over northern regions of North America and dry conditions in central southern areas between March and May.
5500xl SOLiD shows slight improvement over SOLiD 4, except for extremely small regions of 1 — 2 bp, where this slight difference increases to a drastic difference of a factor of 1.5 in the number of regions not covered (on average 384,304 for SOLiD 4 and 260,252 for 5500xl SOLiD).
Admitting that students with a 3.2 grade point average were not in the top half of their class at the high school — and that more than 140 students in the school had over a 4.0 average — a superintendent in our region recently advocated dropping class rank.
Much of that increase can be attributed to the spike in commodity prices over that 10 - year period, helping resource - rich regions like Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador post increases twice or three times the national average.
«If one hypothesized that momentum has similar predictive power around the world, equal to the historical average of value and momentum over each of our four regions, then the ex post «failure» of Japanese momentum is not at all statistically impressive (a p - value of about 26 %).
Hover over the map below, which highlights by region the average house deposit, wedding loan amount, and proportion of people who take out a wedding loan but don't own a home.
Rather than beat yourself over the head & constantly second - guess yourself, long - term averaging in (& out) of individual markets / regions — ideally, via funds — is a great approach to take & definitely removes some of the fear, greed & pain from the equation.
And sub-Saharan Africa's still set to be one of the fastest - growing regions in the world, with the IMF expecting it to expand 4.4 % in 2015, not much lower than its 5.4 % pa average over the last decade... a powerful tail - wind for MTN.
According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian household spends just over $ 500 a month at the grocery store — depending on which city or region you live in, however, that number could be a lot higher.
Since leaving the Sakhalin Island region, «Flex» has been tracked 7546 kilometers over 55 days with an average speed of 5.73 km per hour during his migration.
Overall, the region expects to receive an average of 70 mm of precipitation over a period of 21 days.
Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.
If it is correct that you can only attribute changes in mean temperature to heat waves it ought to be the change in the local mean, for example the anomaly in a particular region for a particular month averaged over, say, the last decade.
El Niño: A phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean characterized by a positive sea surface temperature departure from normal (for the 1971 - 2000 base period) in the Niño 3.4 region greater than or equal in magnitude to 0.5 degrees C (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit), averaged over three consecutive months.
Thus, small changes of global average air temperature are associated with very large changes in some regions, particularly over land, at mid - to high latitudes, in mountain regions.
Of these, two models showed insignificant trends in the region in which Pam developed, and the rest showed positive trends averaging around 0.5 m / s per decade, considerably less than the observed trend over the last 30 years.
An arithmetic average for temperatures defined over some region of the atmosphere, or any homogeneous system, is not an arbitrary choice.
Is there a discernible point, maybe in a model, that includes reduced albedo in the summer, that might show an acceleration of melting above the average temperature increase curve for the region so that ocean warmth has an increasing role over atmospheric??
Climate — the weather patterns of a particular region averaged over a long.
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