Sentences with phrase «change in pattern observed»

The time scale has been calculated on the basis of change in pattern observed among those in the supply chain who have now started to deliver the components required for the making of the next gen iPad to OEM contractors.

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Ammerman observes that some congregations experiencing serious declines in membership actively resist change or continue with existing patterns of ministry apparently unable to envision how things might be different.

By observing the religious ecology of congregations through these categories, Ammerman draws out certain patterns and tendencies in how congregations have adapted to their changing environments.

In a separate study, instructors changed the curriculum in three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performancIn a separate study, instructors changed the curriculum in three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performancin three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performancin performance.

«We were very curious to see what would happen if we were to change the expression pattern of Pax6 in developing mouse brain to mimic that observed in large - brained animals,» says Fong Kuan Wong, a PhD student in the lab of Wieland Huttner and first author of the study.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurIn particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin different regions of the world over the past century.

Furthermore, changes in coflowering patterns were observed, which indicates that even small changes in timing could alter alpine plant communities.

The fast fMRI was able to detect the subtle and very rapid oscillations in cerebral blood flow in the brain's visual cortex as the volunteers observed the changing pattern.

«By prescribing the effects of human - made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»

Changes in rainfall patterns that are already being observed in the tropics — a result of forest clearing and climate change — will likely remake Panama's tropical forests.

However, the simulations indicate that the sea - ice driven precipitation changes resemble the global rainfall patterns observed during that drought, leaving the possibility that Arctic sea - ice loss could have played a role in the recent drought.

«Observing rainfall in an El Niño year is especially interesting because the prevailing precipitation patterns change, often in extreme ways.

However, it says the observed changes in fire activity are in line with long - term, global fire patterns that climate models have projected will occur as temperatures increase and droughts become more severe in the coming decades due to global warming.

«In addition to the new impact craters and starburst debris patterns, we observed a surprising number of small surface changes which we call splotches,» Speyerer said.

«A lot of advantages have come from observing it over a long period of time and seeing the patterns of changes in the atmosphere.»

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

Investigating the cause of 20th Century warming is properly done in detection and attribution studies, which analyze the various forcings (e.g., solar variations, greenhouse gases or volcanic activity) and the observed time and space patterns of climate change in detail.

Therefore, in this chapter we discuss observed and expected patterns of change for each of the major types of agricultural production rather than applying the climate trends equivalently across agricultural topics.

This is addressed by evaluating change in global or large - scale patterns in the frequency or intensity of extremes (e.g., observed widespread intensification of precipitation extremes attributed to human influence, increase in frequency and intensity of hot extremes) and by event attribution methods.

If we can get climate models to more credibly simulate current cloud patterns and observed cloud changes, this might reduce the uncertainty in future projections

A recent study published in the journal JAMA observed people with chronic lower back pain who received either MBSR, cognitive behavioral therapy (a talk therapy designed to change negative thinking patterns), or whatever standard care they were using before.

In more advanced classes, students are encouraged to observe how different postures change their breathing patterns and what feelings arise with these changes.

From the entry of the refined carbs to the first observed cases of heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. took 20 to 30 years which obscured the connection, but he found no exceptions to the pattern in hundreds of areas regardless of other changes going on.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

These themes were formed through observing the changing patterns of nature over a two to three - year period in a series of locations, created in some way, by being still.

Investigating the cause of 20th Century warming is properly done in detection and attribution studies, which analyze the various forcings (e.g., solar variations, greenhouse gases or volcanic activity) and the observed time and space patterns of climate change in detail.

Modelers now are comparing not just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

Investigating the cause of 20th Century warming is done in so - called detection and attribution studies, which analyze the various forcings (e.g., solar variations, greenhouse gases or volcanic activity) and the observed time and space patterns of climate change in detail.

Modelers of course do not compare just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

Therefore, in order to come up with an alternative explanation, one has to simultaneously show why GHGs are not causing the warming they would be expected to based on physical principles, and at the same time come up with a natural source of temperature change that can match the magnitude and patterns of the observed change.

All climate models tell us that it is the Arctic sea ice cover that declines first, and that Antarctic ice extent falls only later, and may even (as observed) temporarily increase in response to changing patterns of atmospheric circulation.

Visible changes in hydrological cycle have been observed in the form of changing precipitation patterns, cropping patterns, droughts, water availability periods, frequency and intensity of heatwaves, precipitation events and weather - induced natural disasters.

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

Attribution analyses normally directly account for errors in the magnitude of the model's pattern of response to different forcings by the inclusion of factors that scale the model responses up or down to best match observed climate changes.

The observed regional changes are consistent in pattern and amount with the changes in SST and the assumption of a near - constant relative humidity increase in water vapour mixing ratio.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Geographical patterns in climate changes are expected to remain similar to those observed over the past several decades.

«By prescribing the effects of man - made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»

Spectral radiance emitted to space consistent with Tyndall gas concentrations (confirms ability to calculate radiative forcing); magnitude of Tyndall gas radiative forcing larger than that of all other known forcing agents; observed temperature changes similar in magnitude to those estimated from forcings (confirms ballpark estimates of climate sensitivity); observed pattern of temperature changes match Tyndall gas pattern better than that of all other known forcing agents.

«In my decade - long career in mountaineering so far, I have observed noticeable changes in weather patterns of the high Himalayan region,» said Pasang Lhamu, a 30 - year - old mountaineer from Solukhumbu districIn my decade - long career in mountaineering so far, I have observed noticeable changes in weather patterns of the high Himalayan region,» said Pasang Lhamu, a 30 - year - old mountaineer from Solukhumbu districin mountaineering so far, I have observed noticeable changes in weather patterns of the high Himalayan region,» said Pasang Lhamu, a 30 - year - old mountaineer from Solukhumbu districin weather patterns of the high Himalayan region,» said Pasang Lhamu, a 30 - year - old mountaineer from Solukhumbu district.

An example of the power of such grids is > provided by the observed changes during the fourteenth century AD... When permed (random groups of five from seven chronologies) to > show common responses, the overall pattern exhibits reduced growth in the > 1340s, the decade of the arrival of the Black Death in Europe, see Figure.

When I found that changes in observed precipitation were largest in autumn, and did not find the same patterns of precipitation in climate models outputs, I really became skeptical about the use of climate models.

Both are observed fluctuations in mid-ocean temperatures in the Pacific that are the signal for changes in the climate pattern: both are natural, both occur as part of a cycle, and both can be traced back through human history.

However, the spatial pattern of the PDO includes warming in some places and cooling in others; in fact, changes consistent with the PDO can be seen in the geographic pattern of observed ocean heat content changes.

The observed changes in salinity are of global scale, with similar patterns in different ocean basins (Figure 5.6).

The pattern of warming that we have observed, in which warming has occurred in the lower portions of the atmosphere (the troposphere) and cooling has occurred at higher levels (the stratosphere), is consistent with how greenhouse gases work — and inconsistent with other factors that can affect the global temperature over many decades, like changes in the sun's energy.

Even while identifying some of the observed change in climatic behaviour, such as a 0.4 C increase in surface temperature over the past century, or about 1 mm per year sea level rise in Northern Indian Ocean, or wider variation in rainfall patterns, the document notes that no firm link between the do...

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

That would change the air circulation patterns resulting in the observed wind effect on the ocean surfaces but would itself have been caused by changes in the rate of release or absorption of energy from the ocean surfaces.

«The solar fingerprint shows a vertical pattern of free atmosphere temperature changes that has warming throughout the atmosphere unlike the observed pattern of warming in the troposphere and cooling in the stratosphere -LSB-...]» http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00191.1