Sentences with phrase «by variations»

The evaluation will examine the efficacy of MIECHV, the efficacy of MIECHV by variations in programs and populations, and the potential for MIECHV to reduce health care costs and create health care efficiencies.

This could be explained by variations in length of treatment (ranging from an average of 10 weeks to 18 weeks), number of group psychotherapists (1 vs 2 group therapists) and their training (experts vs beginners).

Changes in self - reported offending and in female juvenile arrest rates suggest that girls are becoming more violent, although interpretation of arrest data is complicated by variations in policy.

The first is meant to look for irregularities caused by variations or reflections inside the display panel in color intensity.

Dimples are caused by variations in the structure of the facial muscle zygomaticus major and are found in a higher frequency among children as the muscle typically lengthens slightly with age.

Competition for corporate, business and individual clients will cause traditional hourly billing rates to be replaced by variations of hourly billing arrangements, contingency and fixed fee and combination of these alternatives.

Specifically, if the intrusion on the person's privacy and body would be so disproportionate to society's interest in the proper administration of justice, to the extent that any concerns can not be ameliorated by variations of the order, the court is not required to make a DNA order.

Researchers also knew that global circulation patterns in the oceans — patterns caused mostly by variations in water temperature and saltiness — affect global climate.

Before stating them, I point out that some people are trying to assess how carbon dioxide moves in and out of the atmosphere — which is a small part of the carbon cycle — by assuming the carbon dioxide content of that small part is not dominated by the variations in flows in and out of it from the much, much bigger other parts.

During the glacial cycles of the past 800,000 years both CO2 and methane have acted as important amplifiers of the climate changes triggered by variations in Earth's orbit around the Sun.

The warm period was caused by variations in Earth's orbit and axis of rotation.

It is common knowledge that the ice ages in the past were caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

Evidence for control of mercury accumulation rates in Canadian High Arctic lake sediments by variations of aquatic primary productivity

The other more obvious and likely one is natural climate cycles, largely caused by variations in the Earth's orbit.

For the Holocene (the past approx 11,500 years), it has been shown that fluctuations in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations have been caused mostly by variations in the solar magnetic field 1, 2, 3 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6772/full/403877a0.html ================

Guys — did you see the report last week about the British scientific team that had «disproved» the «maverick» theory that global warming is caused by variations in the sun's activity?

This is buried in the noise of wind induced fluctuations in evaporation and changes in LWIR flux caused by variations in aerosols, clouds and near surface humidity.

There is no direct correlation or coincidence over observed time to indicate that it is «most likely caused by variations in the solar wind and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on the earth's atmosphere»

An alternative recorder for past geomagnetic field changes are cosmogenic radionuclide production rates, which are modulated by variations of both the solar magnetic field strength and the geomagnetic field intensity.

They are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on the earth's atmosphere.

The recent, marked increase in ice discharge from many of Greenland» slarge outlet glaciers has upended the conventional view that variations in ice - sheet mass balance are dominated on short time scales by variations in surface balance, rather than ice dynamics.

Let me add that one of the most pernicious assumptions of the modelers is that the actual climate parameter space is adequately both explored and mapped by the variations in both the models and the parameters used in the model runs...

Nevertheless, there is some evidence that the AMO, i.e. in fact NA SSTs, might be influenced by variations in the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) of the ocean (Delworth and Mann 2000, Vellinga and Wu 2004, Knight et al. 2005, Latif et al. 2004).

Earth's surface temperature are largely driven by variations in solar activity, which may have contributed as much as 66 % of the observed 20th century warming.

Climate change at those higher latitudes is dominated by variations in the transport of surplus tropical heat.

It is characterized by variations in the temperature of the surface of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean — warming or cooling known as El Niño and La Niña respectively

Here's Merriam Webster's version: Main Entry: carbon dioxide Function: noun: a heavy colorless gas CO 2 that does not support combustion, dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, is formed especially in animal respiration and in the decay or combustion of animal and vegetable matter, is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis, and is used in the carbonation of beverages I know you'll all correct me if i'm wrong in stating if CO2 has no scientific facts supporting global warming based upon a factor of greenhouse gases (as opposed to solar radiation in another post, which would be defined by variations in earth, space, or similar factors), then where does science determine that CO2 «disolves in water to form carbonic acid» and is «absorbed from the air by plants in photosythesis»?

Human health impacts have been exacerbated by variations and changes in climate extremes.

It has been proposed that Earth's climate could be affected by changes in cloudiness caused by variations in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays in the atmosphere.

We speculate that the dust is mainly eolian in origin and that the availability and transport of dust are influenced by variations in the vegetation cover on the Maastrichtian - Paleocene African or Asian zone, which were respectively located at tropical to subtropical latitudes to the south or far to the east of the western Tethyan Umbria - Marche Basin, and were characterized by monsoonal circulation.

Without a doubt, Temperature drives some of the CO2 level, but we can see by the variations due PDO in the global temperature curtailment in CO2 due temperature drops is not very large compared the overall CO2 curve, however large the short - term drop in temperature.

These hydrates are likely in a sensitive equilibrium that could be disrupted by small changes in pressure, caused by variations in the thickness of the overlying ice sheets.

Second, radiative balances, to the extent that can be measured in the tropics, show VERY LARGE decadal variability, caused by variations in cloudiness, it is presumed.

I am not really impressed by your variations on y - axis; why start from zero?

My thinking continues to be that the relative strengths must indeed be altered by variations in solar insolation to the oceans given that the oceans have such a profound effect on the temperature of the air masses above them.

The pattern can persist longer than (or shorter than) ENSO events or can vary month - to - month because it is also impacted by variations in sea level pressure.

Variation in the solar energy flux is caused by variations in solar activity cycle.

southern oscillation a large - scale atmospheric and hydrospheric fluctuation centered in the equatorial Pacific Ocean; exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding areas

The temperature of the troposphere is constantly being affected by variations in the rate of energy flow from the oceans driven by internal ocean variability, possibly caused by temperature fluctuations along the horizontal route of the thermohaline circulation and by variations in energy flow from the sun that affect the size (and thus density) of the atmosphere and the rate of energy loss to space.

A third example would be the research on how incoming solar irradiance influences China's thermometer temperature records, showing that over periods of many decades the variations in total solar irradiance in the upper atmosphere are matched by variations at the surface.

Can you point to a calculation of the forces caused by the variations in magnetic fields that you discuss?

The ice ages appear to relate to a change in that ice sheet driven by variations in the earth's orbit.

I ran 16 different scenarios (a number dictated by the variations in the parameters available to me).

Storminess is indicated by variations in the minerogenic content as well as bromine deposited from sea spray.

Recognition has grown in the scientific community that droughts, heat - waves and other catastrophic weather and climate events are not random in occurrence, nor are they caused only by variations in remote ocean temperatures altering large - scale atmospheric circulation.

So, as I wrote below, it is quite possible that CO2 can play a role within the GHE, but that its role is overwhelmed by variations in natural agents (cloud cover, water vapor).

• There is strong evidence that the multidecadal SAT variability in the Atlantic (and globally) is driven (at least partly) by variations in the MOC • A stochastic scenario is most plausible, in which the ocean is driven by the low - frequency portion of the atmospheric variability (NAO).

Year - to - year variations in area and depth are caused by variations in stratospheric temperature and circulation.

Aaron Lewis @ 24 — «What I noted was that the ocean skin equilibrium referenced in RC 5 Sept 06 could be influenced by variations in ocean currents and the cryosphere to affect atmospheric temperature on the scale of decades»

re inline comment on 24, What I noted was that the ocean skin equilibrium referenced in RC 5 Sept 06 could be influenced by variations in ocean currents and the cryosphere to affect atmospheric temperature on the scale of decades.