Sentences with phrase «effect of ambient temperature»

Firstly, we used historical annual data in New Zealand spanning 1876 — 2009 to test for a positive effect of ambient temperature on the proportion of male births.

Most articles simply reference or assume to be true the claims of IPCC and then go on to address a different topic, such as the effect of ambient temperature on the life - cycle of frogs, say, or correlations between temperature and outbreaks of influenza.

Not exact matches

(4) Utilizing the natural photosynthetic and transpiration process of trees to lower ambient temperatures and absorb carbon dioxide, thus mitigating the effects of climate change.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

When anyone says that urban heat island has no meaning I laugh you can not have that much absorption of radiation not effect ambient temperatures.

A major concern among scientists has been the environmental effect of pumping pollutants directly into the Arctic region, where exhaust impurities released by the burning of ships» bunker fuel are known to elevate ambient air and ice temperatures.

Further, there is no published research that investigates the effect of unusually hot temperatures on SSR in hot climates, in contrast to the known positive relationship between high ambient temperature and mortality [8].

Consequently, we tested for effects of mean annual ambient temperature on the proportion of males born from 1961 — 2009.

Thus, we think that our failure to find a positive effect of mean annual ambient temperature on the proportion of male births is not an artefact of modern housing in NZ.

It could be argued that with the advent of better housing and central heating in modern homes, ambient temperature may have exerted a different effect on population health in the late 1800 s than in more recent years.

Nevertheless, our use of a composite measure of annual ambient temperature may hide or mask any possible seasonal effects of climate on sex allocation.

For our analysis on the possible effects of seasonal changes in ambient temperature, six of the seven NIWA sites were used to calculate monthly ambient temperature for New Zealand for the period 1980 — 2009.