Sentences with phrase «changes during the recent decades»

«The Southern Ocean featured some remarkable changes during the recent decades.

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Healthcare coverage for early retirees has changed significantly in recent decades, especially in recent years with the roll - out of ACA, and I'd expect additional changes to come about during the Trump administration.

Welling's practice, which reflects fundamental changes in photography during recent decades, shuffles the elemental components of the medium to produce distinctly uncompromising work.

The speed of this change in recent years has stoked a nostalgia for earlier periods in New York — notably the 1970s and 1980s, and the experimental practices and attitudes that flourished in the city during those decades.

«Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial - military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In addition to surveying actual temperatures in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of global climate to determine how record high and low temperatures are likely to change during the course of this century.

(B) Changes in NPP in recent decades that resulted from multiple environmental factors including climate, leaf area index (LAI), fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (fPAR), and CO2, and the relative contribution rate (%) of each factor during the study period.

That situation changed during recent weeks when two scientific papers broke the news that some of West Antarctica's glaciers had lost upwards of a half a kilometer of ice thickness due to contact with warm ocean waters over the past decade.

However, the Prudent Path authors fail to reference a recent paper (Kaufmann et al. 2009) which analyzed Arctic temperature changes over a 2000 year period (0 to 1999 AD) and concluded that «the most recent 10 - year interval (1999 - 2008) was the warmest of the past 200 decades» and that «4/5 of the warmest decades occurred during the last century».

Monaghan et al. further note «recent literature suggests there has been little overall change in Antarctic near - surface temperature during the past 5 decades» and «the absence of widespread Antarctic temperature increases is consistent with studies showing little overall change in other Antarctic climate indicators during the past 50 years such as sea ice area and snowfall.»

Published assessments of historic changes in drought during recent decades have suggested that the frequency and area of droughts have been increasing.

They are perhaps the largest uncertainty in our understanding of climate change, owing to disagreement among climate models and observational datasets over what cloud changes have occurred during recent decades and will occur in response to global warming2, 3.