Sentences with phrase «decades of observations»

Little more could be said without further decades of observations — and a theory to explain why there should be any connection at all between the sunspot cycle and weather.

Rignot's study looked at more than four decades of observations of the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica, which Rignot said has «passed the point of no return.»

«So we are very reluctant,» she said, «to make projections into the future» based on only two or three decades of observations.

Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades02 May 2017 Over two decades of observations by five radar satellites show the acceleration of ice loss of 30 glaciers in Western Palmer Land in the southwest Antarctic Peninsula.

So, Thoman says, the sea - ice uptick is more of a statistical hiccup than a departure from this winter's consistently below - average Arctic sea - ice cover, based on more than three decades of observations.

In the 1960s, scientists used their decades of observations to report that smoking, elevated cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and family members with early heart disease could predict the development of heart problems.

We have another two decades of observations from space.

The space agency is launching these missions at a time when decades of observations from the ground, air, and space have revealed signs of change in Earth's ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, snow cover and permafrost.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — An international team of researchers analyzing decades of observations from many facilities — including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakala and NASA's Swift satellite — has discovered what appears to be a black hole booted from its host galaxy.

Nearly four decades of observations of Tanzanian chimpanzees has revealed that the mothers of sons are about 25 percent more social than the mothers of daughters.

Although the impact of SAM events over the short term was an interesting finding, it was the long - term trend over multiple decades of observations that gave a crucial indication of the changes occurring in the Southern Ocean.

In my own four decades of observation of families who have slept in a wide variety of ways, I started out convinced that one particular sleep choice would give children the strongest boost in the area of emotional security and sound judgment.

During more than a decade of observation, grapevines in Napa, Calif., and Bordeaux, France, never reached lethal levels of dehydration from seasonal drought, researchers report online January 31 in Science Advances.

This is a significant step toward the science team's planned goal of a decade of observations, ending in 2018.

In a follow - up email, he meant to say «several more years» and perhaps even another decade of observations.

Decades of observation and analysis reveal significant trends of change.

Cabot's market timing indicators have the validity that comes with decades of observation and analysis of stock markets.

A new paper by Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University bolsters the established view of clouds» role as a feedback mechanism — but not driver — in climate dynamics through a decade of observation and analysis of El Nino and La Nina events (periodic warm and cool phases of the Pacific Ocean).

«Although our technique has been very good at reproducing the Atlantic overturning circulation so far, more than a decade of observations would be required for a thorough validation.

For the most part, the somewhat speculative nature of the results are in the nature of the data itself, and will only be resolved by another decade of observations.

Third, climate change and its variation, as represented by global temperatures in Chart # 4, is evident since the first decade of observations.

Models are often tuned by running them backwards against several decades of observation, this is much too short a period to correlate outputs with observation when the controlling natural quasi-periodicities of most interest are in the centennial and especially in the key millennial range.

For a complete discussion of this see Essex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvhipLNeda4 Models are often tuned by running them backwards against several decades of observation, this is much too short a period to correlate outputs with observation when the controlling natural quasi-periodicities of most interest are in the centennial and especially in the key millennial range.

Any serious student of human nature with numerous decades of observation of the ever wavering compass needle of some of our specie's moral and ethical rectitude, or sustained lack thereof, will realize that some of us are, for the most part, fair - weather honesty sailors.

Not exact matches

Based on my own observations from more than two decades in the field of business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions, many small businesses that survived the economic downtown are now seeing renewed strength in their top - line revenues, and solid or growing bottom - lines.

It was theory decades ago, but has since been proven, in part by the existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but also by astronomical observations and by particle accelerator experiments.

My observation is that the church in general is quite often a couple of decades behind everyone else.

This piece brought into perspective a lot of this last decade, as well as my observations of many families from the time I spent in nursing homes.

The explosion of charismatic, Pentecostal, and indigenous communities, especially in Africa, poses all kinds of problems, but here, too, the observation applies that «the most significant — and most gratifying — result of ecumenism over the past few decades is not the various documents [of agreements and convergences] but the recovery of fraternity, the fact that we have rediscovered that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.»

These general observations on the universal dilemma is not a wonder or thunder of a day but a simmering trend slowly hotting up, with lucent forces of life and darker forces of death clashing over the decades.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

A decade after Professor May's observations had been made Professors Hartshorne and Froyd undertook to study the ministry of the Northern (now American) Baptist Convention.

I suggest you read «Biological Exuberance» by Bruce Bahgemihl which compiles decades of studies and observations.

They refuse to be persuaded of facts despite decades of meticulous data / observation and scientific consensus.

Brilliant panelists with decades of experience across the industry and ground - breaking trailblazers, offering observations and insights into analytics, integration, consumer trends, big data developments, and more

Founded in 1996, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center is rooted in and builds upon the work of T. Berry Brazelton, MD, internationally renowned pediatrician, whose scientific research and clinical observations of babies and young children, beginning in the 1950s and spanning six decades, radically reshaped the field of early child development and the practice of pediatrics.

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

This observation has puzzled scientists for decades: How could the complex cell types from eukaryotes have emerged from the simple cells of Archaea?

When the ban on human dissections was lifted for a few decades, a doctor named Herophilus opened up hundreds of bodies and made detailed observations, all of which were lost when fire destroyed the famed Library of Alexandria.

But until recently, those observations had not been matched with the underlying causes of change over the decades.

Construction is expected to begin as soon as 2016 and first observations could be made by the end of the decade.

Jaroslav Flegr, a professor of biology at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic who was not involved in the study, said this was a confirmation of observations made by his research team over the last two decades.

Truly comprehending the world's waters and how they react to climate change requires observations spanning decades, says Uwe Send, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

«Direct and regular observation of plasma by satellites started after the late 1960s — almost a decade after the first human - made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957,» explains Masahito Nosé, an author of the study.

This new research confirmed those observations, with average warming rates of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.72 degrees Celsius) per decade at high latitudes.

The results will help them understand how particles are ionized in Saturn's upper atmosphere and will help them put a decade of ground - based telescope observations of Saturn in perspective, because they can see what disturbance in the data comes from Earth's atmosphere.

Dr. Arcadio Rodaniche, one of the paper's co-authors, was the first to record the species» striking appearance and describe its uncharacteristic behaviors both in the field and in captivity during the 1970s, but his unprecedented observations were so unique that they were largely ignored at the time, leaving the octopus's fascinating behavior unstudied for decades.