Sentences with phrase «compared weather records»

Presuming that we want to be able to compare weather records over time without having to adjust or note for changes in exposure and land use and ground cover, it is best to locate weather stations over natural ground cover, and in an area not likely to experience significant changes in ground cover in the foreseeable future.

Not exact matches

The diversity of native species hinted that the island's ecosystem had weathered the mammal introduction, but there were no detailed historical records to compare with, says Ostendorf, who presented the work at the Natural Resource Management Science Conference in Adelaide earlier this month.

The researchers compared 100 years of weather records from the Arctic and 50 - plus years of those kept on Antarctica with the results of four computer models.

The researchers compared this long fire record with weather patterns: the well - known El Nino and La Nina cycles that occur every two to seven years, as well as longer cycles called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

By counting the number of those feeding events and comparing them with weather records, biologists might also learn whether feeding increases when it's rainy or hot.

With 70 years of weather records across the U.S. they were able to establish weather variability patterns and compare them to economic indicators for various sectors of the economy.

Then they compared them to Arctic weather records and found that when the Arctic was warm, cold snaps happened more often in the East — and the higher that Arctic warming reached into the atmosphere in mid to late winter, the more severe winter storms hit.

Betty Kistler's sixth grade students used the Internet to obtain weather in a country they were studying in - depth over a period of time; they then used Excel to record and compare the weather in that country to their own.

Weather Use the chart to record the weather for 6 weeks in your local area, or use the 2nd chart to compare 2 places or countries.

In 2009, even though weather in the US was slightly cooler compared to the previous two years, the ratio of record highs to records lows was still «more than three to two».

They compared historical weather records, an 1,800 - year - long simulation of the climate pre-Industrial-Revolution, and 40 simulations of climate change from 1920 to 2100 (assuming high future greenhouse gas emissions).

The report included an analysis of weather records that showed Glacier was 2 degrees hotter on average from 2000 to 2009, compared with 1950 to 1979.

MONITOR PRODUCTION With weather records, model simulation, and data collection, authorities can accurately project production levels, compare them with the number of products that actually end up in the market chain, and see whether supplies exceed the expected totals.

Based on temperature records from 1864 to 2002, the odds of such a heatwave occurring are about 1 in 10 million.4 An event like the 2003 heatwave becomes much more likely after factoring in the observed warming of 2 °F over Europe and increased weather variability.5 In addition, comparing computer models of climate with and without human contribution shows that human influence has roughly quadrupled the odds of a European summer as hot as or hotter than the summer of 2003.6

Students may also compare their Student Cloud Observations On - Line (S'COOL) observation record of clouds with their findings regarding the validity of the weather proverb, «The higher the clouds, the better the weather,» to determine if the days high clouds were observed were days of fair weather.

UPDATE 29 April 2010: Mark Richardson informs me of a blog post by Roy Spencer that compares the GCHN record to his own temperature record that uses a much broader range of weather stations combined with the satellite record and finds pretty much an identical warming trend.

This possibly explains the greater incidence of extreme weather events of all types noted in the historic records compared to today, especially the prolonged periods of heavy rain leading to flooding.

Comparing summer population counts of these reindeer both before and after the January 2012 event, the researchers found that the extreme weather caused one of the highest incidents of deer deaths on record.

I don't watch a lot of TV weather these days, but back - in - the - day, they seemed to love talking about record highs here - and - there, how wet / dry we were compared to usual, how cold / warm we were, etc..

The German scientist then randomly selected 120 weather stations around the world and manually compared the archived data to GISS» 2012 temperature records.

Just like last month, I'll analyse the melt pond situation by comparing this year's weather conditions with those of previous years that generated records (2007, 2011 and 2012) as well as rebounds (2013 and 2014).

But nothing in the record books can compare to what has recently occurred in Thailand: a large country with over 120 meteorological sites that has seen half of its official weather stations break their all - time heat records