Sentences with phrase «decade time scale»

(3) Natural as well as human - induced changes should be taken into account in climate model simulations of atmospheric temperature variability on the decade - to - decade time scale.

One finds on the secular time scale that both of the X - and Y - component temporal, annual - means profiles of the Earth's Orientation mimic exactly the Global Temperature Anomaly (GTA) annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual Means].

The Dipole Field, the GTA and the ELOD all have a 60 year period on the decade time scale.

PA: I have never seen risk velocity plotted against decade time scales.

Not exact matches

Those controls reduced the scale of projects from gigawatts to megawatts and development times from decades to years.

With over a decade of operations under its belt, the store has scaled to a considerable size reaching a c. 26 % CAGR for the period 2013 to 2017, grossing c. $ 42M in that time, and generating c. $ 13M in revenue over the past year alone.

Just on the time - scale for historical documents — decades is an incredibly short period of time for * secondary * documents.

What we're now seeing in certain sectors is that entire classes of jobs become obsolete on short time scales (say a decade), making the retraining needed more like going back to school for several years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo came with a marching band, a Corvette and a message: It's past time to invest in large - scale infrastructure projects after decades of neglect.

«This is the first evidence ever offered for sea - level rise on a time scale ranging from decades to one century, and our colleagues expected ironclad evidence to back that claim.»

Predictions of weather and climate for months, seasons and decades ahead lie between normal weather forecasts and climate projections for the coming century — concerning both what influences the climate on these time - scales, and the methods required to make such predictions.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

If we ignore a few bumps with time scales of a decade or so, the curve is surprisingly well fit by a pure exponential.

On time - scales of a few decades, the current observed rate of warming can be used to constrain the projected response to a given emissions scenario despite uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

Results: Over time scales spanning at least a decade, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface has varied.

Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

1) the atmosphere (which can also be subdivided into northern and southern hemispheres, and even into Hadley Cells) all with fairly short time constants 2) the upper ocean — time constant on the order of years to decades 2a) the biosphere — time scale from 1 year to decades and even centuries and millennia for some processes 3) abyssal ocean (timescale of many decades to ~ a century or more) 5) the geosphere — timescale of millennia to eons.

We're also learning that natural variability is really important when we're looking over time scales of anywhere from the next year or two to even a couple of decades in the future.

Deep steric changes occur over time scales of decades or longer and aren't expected to explain the discrepancy over the last 5 years (Antonov 2005).

Such clean energy schemes and improved agricultural and forestry practices are likely to be more economic than direct air capture of CO2, but they must be carefully designed to minimize undesirable impacts and the amount of CO2 that can be extracted on the time scale of decades will be limited, thus emphasizing the need to limit the magnitude of the cleanup task.

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

After painting large - scale, acrylic pieces for a couple of decades, the inspiration, time, and effort required to show up to this particular flavor of creative expression has felt increasingly harder to access lately.

I don't know if we'll ever see another series quite like this, produced on such a lavish scale over a decade's time.

In order for revenge to be orchestrated on this scale, it has to be a full - time obsession, employing bottomless resources, a staff of dedicated minions, and a few decades of patience.

At the very high end of the ability scale, the six members of the US team that won the 2015 International Math Olympiad — for the first time in over two decades — collectively enrolled in over 40 AoPS classes.

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

We've essentially traveled full circle back to the halcyon days of global government price controls / fixing — except this time» round we've achieved it on a far grander scale, in effect compressing decades into mere years.

The silver lining i see here is invaluable experience creating and managing projects of the size and scale o XcX... The evolution of a long long long overdue open world design that finally does nt rely on «potato world» land / space / time compression (the hardware technology has been capable for over a decade...) This experience seems to have paid off in spades with monolithsofts work on the new Zelda being a clear show stopper.

By the end of the decade, further expansion was also in the works — this time on an international scale.

Although Hilma af Klint's (1862 — 1944) works were completed in the first decades of the 20th century, they still manage to appear surprisingly radical, abstract, large - scale and mysterious, with an unusual colour palette for their time.

His interpretation of African identity on a national and global scale bears equally empowering and vulnerable works that at the same time deliver a vivid perspective on sculpture genre in the United States for the last five decades.

The MCA is proud to present a major retrospective of his paintings, featuring fifty works that span three decades of his career, from the artist's earliest mature works — many of which are being shown in North America for the first time — to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings.

The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.

Still, the blue field of Notre Dame, the few black lines, and the vertical just short of human scale make me think decades ahead to a painting with a similar title but more than five times as wide.

Updated, 7:48 p.m. On time scales from decades to months, fluctuations in ocean conditions present persistent challenges to climate scientists (see the «pause» in warming) and weather forecasters.

Does Spencer really think that a subsystem with such a quick intrinsic time scale can just up and decide to lock into some new configuration and stay there for decades, forcing the ocean to be dragged along into some compatible state?

Comparisons of climatic trends from GCMs and historical station series show that one GCM integration can not give a reliable reproduction of the past climatic change on time scales of several decades (Benestad 2001, 2002, 2003).

I just go to the section where they get into discussing Arctic seabed methane in more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.»

The Arctic sea ice is rapidly disappearing with a time scale of years rather than decades, and it is becoming increasingly likely that the with the Greenland ice sheet will also collapse rapidly.

Thus response times in the North Atlantic have many time scales that interconnect the wind - driven and themohaline circulations ranging from decades to potentially centuries.

Markets are similar — even if people make systematic errors in valuation, cash flow ultimately reveals the truth and errors are selected out within a time scale of at worst a decade or so.

Because the drains out of the various bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance of the surface and oceans, ice sheet accumulations, and thermal expansion of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that, on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.

Because the biggest problems in this are things that will happen on the time scale of decades or centuries, and we can't say how rapid that's going to be although it looks more and more rapid as we see what's happening around Antarctica.

Back in 2001, Peter Doran and colleagues wrote a paper about the Dry Valleys long term ecosystem responses to climate change, in which they had a section discussing temperature trends over the previous couple of decades (not the 50 years time scale being discussed this week).

Both the NAO and the AMOC have a dominant influence on regional variations over Europe on time scales of a decade [1].

Although (1) the effects of a pH change have been demonstrated in the lab, and (2) it's a longer - term change than ozone depletion, which fixes itself on a time scale of decades after freon emission is stopped.

But there remains far too much natural variability in the frequency and potency of rare and powerful storms — on time scales from decades to centuries — to go beyond pointing to this event being consistent with what's projected on a human - heated planet.

«Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).