Sentences with word «diurnal»

Another issue is urban heat island (UHI) effects: higher temperatures occur in urban areas than in outlying rural areas because of diurnal cycles of absorption and later re-radiation of solar energy and (to a much lesser extent) heat generation from built / paved physical structures.

To reduce these uncertainties, we have made enhancements to the currently operational TOMS surface UV irradiance algorithm (Version 1) by including the effects of diurnal variations of cloudiness, an improved treatment of snow / ice, and a preliminary aerosol correction.

Investigation of diurnal variation in sustained exercise performance.

Intervention effects on diurnal cortisol rhythms of CPS - referred infants persist into early childhood: Preschool follow - up results of a randomized clinical trial.

Wikipedia: John Harvey Kellogg Kumari M, Shipley M, Stafford M, Kivimaki M. Association of diurnal patterns in salivary cortisol with all - cause and cardiovascular mortality: findings from the Whitehall II study.

The authors mention the Po - Chedley paper on diurnal cycle contamination, and talked about how they went about improving the data, correcting for this.

Most studies have adopted incremental scenarios of constant changes throughout the year (e.g., Terjung et al., 1984; Rosenzweig et al., 1996), but some have introduced seasonal and spatial variations in the changes (e.g., Whetton et al., 1993; Rosenthal et al., 1995) and others have examined arbitrary changes in interannual, within - month and diurnal variability as well as changes in the mean (e.g., Williams et al., 1988; Mearns et al., 1992; Semenov and Porter, 1995; Mearns et al., 1996).

The Effect of Diurnal Correction on Satellite - Derived Lower Tropospheric Temperature.

This annual cycle and resulting divergence can not be explained by diurnal drift adjustments in the UAH or RSS data sets.

For psychological resource constructs, mastery and sense of coherence were related to lower cortisol level at baseline in standardized rest and high mastery was related to steeper diurnal slope in two studies.

The wintertime thermal mass benefits of leaving masonry uninsulated are negligible in heating - dominated climates, compared to locations with high diurnal swings around the interior setpoint (as found in milder climates).

Future research will investigate the causes of evolutionary transitions, such as diurnal activity, across Lepidoptera.

In most studies on pain, low morning cortisol, high evening cortisol, low cortisol awakening response and low diurnal deviation were associated with more pain.

When the cyclonic circulation of the QBW mode is located west of Taiwan, followed by an anticyclonic circulation to the east, Taiwan's diurnal convection activity tends to intensify and persists for about 4 - 7 days.

If generally rising temperatures, decreasing diurnal temperature differences, melting glacial and sea ice, smaller snow extent, stronger rainstorms, and warming oceans are not enough to persuade you -LSB-...]

And, to this day, UAH's Roy Spencer and John Christy have not released their code as far as I know (Mears and Wentz found the sign error in the UAH diurnal adjustment by emulating the steps).

The distribution of the warming trends were, however, not geographically uniform with many coastal locations and those near «large water bodies» indicating significant opposite trends, especially to the north of 5 degrees S. Locations north of 5 degrees S indicated more organized decreasing or increasing diurnal trend in the daytime / nighttime temperature patterns.»

These days of low diurnal temperature range occur naturally from time to time at individual locations.

If, as 2008 SST / SHA maps are showing, major ports around the Atlantic Basin are stemming their wastewater emissions, then surface waters will retain less diurnal heat.

For example, diurnal testing can be done where cortisol can be measured multiple times per day (morning, noon, afternoon, and evening) and sex hormones can be measured all month long.

Significant diurnal differences were also found for the daily swings in hunger and some serum markers (p < 0.05).

This microclimate experiences freezing temperatures most years, higher average summer temperatures, and greater diurnal temperature variation.

Moreover, few of the sondes are in the inner tropics, spatial coverage is spotty, and there are questions of instrumental and diurnal sampling errors that may have complicated detection of the trend in the past decade.

Ultraviolet B light (UVB) is often discussed in reference to providing light for diurnal reptiles.

Studies of ocean chemistry show huge diurnal variations in ph as relative aerobic and anaerobic activity varies from day to night.

Based upon this synoptic linkage, an empirical relationship between the precipitation diurnal amplitude and low - level circulation fields of the CFSv2 is derived.

One exception is the work of Beijers and colleagues [18] who found that higher evening cortisol levels and flattened diurnal cortisol rhythms in late pregnancy were related to increased infant respiratory infections.