Sentences with phrase «comparable magnitude»
"comparable magnitude" means something that is similar in size, importance, or scale to something else. It refers to two or more things that are at a similar level or have a similar degree of impact or significance. Full definition
Could yet another step of comparable magnitude be awaiting us?
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This research shows how extreme weather events in a single year could bring about price spikes of comparable magnitude to two decades of long - run price rises.
That suggests that in the last 110 years, there have only been three floods of comparable magnitude on the Indus — one in 1901, one in 1929, and the current flood.
However, there will not be another solar eclipse of comparable magnitude in the UK until 2026, so it is vital to take advantage of these relatively rare chances.»
A socialist revolution is anticipated as bringing an end to the massive oppression of present society without introducing new evils of comparable magnitude.
But the impact of a study is of comparable magnitude, ranging from 6 percentage points (in the case of merit pay) to 10 percentage points (in the case of vouchers) to 14 percentage points (in the case of charters).
One has to be careful to distinguish the extreme drop in Greenland with the more moderated drop over Europe, but still, it is far from clear at present that any real GCM, with the ocean - atmosphere dynamics properly represented, yields a temperature change of comparable magnitude to the YD.
We know that the one spill in the Gulf of comparable magnitude, from the Ixtoc well, resulted in a severe depression in marine populations, particularly shrimp.
Therefore, it is exceptionally unlikely that natural RFs could have contributed a positive RF of comparable magnitude to the combined anthropogenic RF term over the period 1950 to 2005 [Figure 2.23][WG1]
While the magnitude of these effects is highly uncertain, their combined impact on Arctic surface temperatures and snow / ice melting could be of a comparable magnitude as that of the current long - lived greenhouse gas forcing.
As an Aussie with only a passing acquaintance with snow, I'd be grateful if US readers from places like Minneapolis, and Canadians and Europeans can tell us what happens in their cities when snowstorms of comparable magnitude are forecast.
In consequence, an imbalance in these exchanges could easily lead to an anomaly of comparable magnitude to the direct anthropogenic perturbation.
«This is a very valuable step forward,» says meteorologist Rowan Sutton of the University of Reading, U.K. «It's precisely on the decadal time scale and on regional scales that natural variability and anthropogenic effects have comparable magnitudes.»
Neither was the effect of anthropogenic sulphate aerosols, except to note in the FAR that «it is conceivable that this radiative forcing has been of a comparable magnitude, but of opposite sign, to the greenhouse forcing earlier in the century».