Sentences with phrase «better at a global scale»

Adding chlorofyll fluorescence to vegetation models provides means to understand photosynthesis better at a global scale and improve its modelling.

Adding chlorofyll fluorescence to vegetation models provides means to understand photosynthesis better at a global scale and improve its modelling.

Not exact matches

And, sure, on a global scale, this may not be quite the best way to go about engaging the issue of sexually themed clothing aimed at teenagers.

Which is wonderful because, in a year that's been a bit, well, not - at - all - good on a global scale, why shouldn't we celebrate the personal wins?

At its heart is the idea to make the most of the scale of the North, by better linking it together through transport improvement, creating one single economy that can compete on the global stage.

«Intergovernmental work is seductive to young scientists,» says Patricio Bernal, an assistant director - general at UNESCO, because it has the potential to change things for the better, on a global scale.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

The results of their study confirm that oceans are good at balancing the nitrogen cycle on a global scale.

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.

«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify fisheries impacts on sharks at a global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.

At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants» episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and motivation, and their score on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of adults.

«The study represents an important step towards a better understanding of the molecular - level processes controlling methyl mercury levels in boreal lakes at a global scale.

At the forefront of adtech innovation, MGID continuously strives to optimize their technology and marketing strategy to better serve companies on a global scale.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

With such resources at its disposal, Omega Force is well positioned to push for greater international success, but there's at least one major barrier to the Warriors games going global on a bigger scale: graphics.

Implementing a new piece of software can be tricky at the best of times, but how would you deal with it on a global scale?

There are 1.9 million more children in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, 9 out of 10 schools were given this rating at their last inspection and our recent rise up the international rankings for reading and literacy puts England's achievements on a global scale.

With large - scale projects such as the downtown City Square and the ongoing activity at the Global Transportation Hub — a one - million - sq - ft logistics facility for trucks to drop off goods — Regina is well on its way to becoming a new Asia - Pacific gateway for trade.

Well when we look at Sports in a global scale, we can easily see that soccer (or football, for the purists) is by far the most popular sport around, and one that is regarded as life in some parts of the world.

GBTN combines the best of open beta, private network, and facility - based testing to provide structured testing in a true retail environment at global scale

You can also account for possible errors in the amplitudes of the external forcing and the model response by scaling the signal patterns to best match the observations without influencing the attribution from fingerprinting methods, and this provides a more robust framework for attributing signals than simply looking at the time history of global temperature in models and obs and seeing if they match up or not.

Of course, the absolute temperature does matter in many situations (the freezing point of ice, emitted radiation, convection, health and ecosystem impacts, etc.) and so it's worth calculating as well — even at the global scale.

Well, it is unfortunate, though probably not coincidental, that the modern record starts at the same time that significant modifications of atmopsheric composition (greenhouse gases, aerosols etc.) were occuring on a global scale.

This also appears to be true on a global scale... the places ranked the best to live year after year tend to be at high latitudes.

FWIW, my best guess is that the difference between weather (which can not be predicted reliably for more than a few days no matter how much computing power you throw at it, and due to the data quantity / quality problem, it may well be technically impossible entirely under real - world conditions) and climate (which can be much better predicted on a global scale for a longer period of time with a higher degree of accuracy — still, a few years are the technical limit) is a difference of scale.

As species and ecosystem boundaries shift to keep pace with climate change, improved and better - integrated research, monitoring, and assessment efforts will be needed at national and global scales.

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

y and exhibited the main known spatial and temporal characteristics at global as well as at local scales.

Seeking to better understand historical changes in flooding, Do et al. (2017) analyzed records of maximum daily streamflow from 3558 locations to develop «the most comprehensive observation - based record of... streamflow at the global scale currently available.»

This paper reviews advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

We have been told, well screamed at really, that CO2 is causing unprecedented rise of temperature on a global scale.

Such experiments should be judged on their scientific merit, as well as the broader governance and ethics concerns around solar geoengineering, which should include potential biodiversity responses when the intention is to inform solar geoengineering deployment at the global scale.

We're looking at how to scale the local to the global to protect the natural environment, enhance the health and well - being of individuals and whole communities, improve energy security and resource efficiency, and create green growth and jobs.

The issue is the time of the year, latitude and type.The Krakatoa problem is well known eg Stenchikov 2006 ie that the models over estimate the global forcing.Hansen suggested that the observations were incorrect, however the Giss model gets the AO sign incorrect and arctic central temps incorrect in scale and time so.This is due to the incorrect heteregenous chemistry at high latitudes eg chapter3 WMO 2003, Ozone assessment 2011.

Exactly, but using good numbers not a «hotchpotch assembly» for which it is claimed to be global temperature (there is no such thing, there is global energy content, but that is totally different story) So calculate correlation CET - GT from 1880 using 5 year bin averaging http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net//CETGNH.htm P.S. your statement on natural variability on decadal scale is grossly misleading, you got about 130 years of good records so you need to look at multi-decadal picture.

However, there is not yet consensus on the best approach to estimate the drift correction at global and at regional scales.

So I do not think that ensemble outputs of climate models would perform better at any local scale than at the global scale.

This means that even if spatial averaging were to reduce the error further, the best predictability would still occur for the global behaviour at the monthly scale.

One of the new reports found that such an ambitious warming goal would require a global energy transition with such speed and scale as has never before been achieved, as well as an emphasis on «negative emissions» that have not been tested at the necessary magnitude that would be required.

Basically, BEST has gotten very different results than the previous temperature constructions at scales other than global.

Resolving this dilemma must include a serious look at potential «winners and losers» of a marginally warmer world, as well as at the best available cost / benefit analyses of the specific proposals being made to» reshape our common future on a global scale» and their total costs including the impacts of all unintended consequences.

Recognise best practice, policies and innovations that reduce short - lived climate pollutants at the local, national, regional or global scale

The importance and imminence of sustainability problems at local and global scales, the dominant role that the Human System plays in the Earth System, and the key functions and services the Earth System provides for the Human System (as well as for other species), all call for strong collaboration of earth scientists, social scientists, and engineers in multidisciplinary research, modeling, technology development, and policymaking.

The challenge is to establish better process understanding at local scales and appropriately incorporate this understanding into global models.

Based on our published results and as well as those of other modeling groups, we conclude that at the global scale: a future increase in tropical cyclone precipitation rates is likely; an increase in tropical cyclone intensity is likely; an increase in very intense (category 4 and 5) tropical cyclones is more likely than not; and there is medium confidence in a decrease in the frequency of weaker tropical cyclones.

For decadal scale variations a 60 year cycle, which seems to correlate temperatures and the PDO, is well established see the post» Global Cooling - Methods and Testable Decadal Predictions» at http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com.