Sentences with phrase «effect on a local scale»

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

Not exact matches

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

That question is central to understanding the effects of ice sheet melting on ocean water properties, circulation, and biological systems, on scales from local to basinwide.

He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»

What we've done is average out the local effects to pull out what's happening on a very large scale, and it looks like there are benefits to paying farmers to be kinder to the environment,» said Tanentzap.

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

General relativity follows from Einstein's principle of equivalence: on a local scale it is impossible to distinguish between physical effects due to gravity and those due to acceleration.

We believe in passionate individuals and projects that can effect change on a local or global scale.

Starting your own organization to help outdoor cats is a demanding, but rewarding way to effect change at the local level on a greater scale.

Small - scale solar, which can essentially be done anywhere at mid and lower latitudes, has fairly limited effects on ecological habitats (though I'd like to see better resource extraction for silicon, copper, etc), concentrates resource needs to a local level, harnesses an «unlimited» resource, is a great compliment to other renewables, and once operational has no emission footprint.

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

While the local nature of ABCs around polluted cities has been known since the early 1900s, the widespread transoceanic and transcontinental nature of ABCs as well as their large - scale effects on climate, hydrological cycle, and agriculture were discovered inadvertently by The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international experiment conducted in the 1990s over the Indian Ocean.

(C) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor the effects of climate change on fish and wildlife at national, regional, and local scales; and

My bottom line is that while the global climate models, when run with added CO2 and other greenhouse gases, show that this is a warming effect, they are inadequate tools to assess the consequences of these human climate forcings on the regional and local scale.

Better understanding of the thermal processes and effects that OTEC operations has on ocean temperatures and vice versa is important to predict energy yield potential on both local (site - specific) and global scales.

Thus it's applicable to global climate on timescales that are long compared to the time scales needed to spread the influence of a strong local effect to global dimensions.

Drivers of the land climate system have larger effects at regional and local scales than on global climate, which is controlled primarily by processes of global radiation balance.

Second, nearly every impact of importance is driven by what is liable to happen to the climate on the regional to local scale, but it is well known that current global - scale models have limited ability to simulate climate effects as this degree of spatial resolution.

Arun develops models and visualizations of energy trends on global, national and local scales, using data analytics to study the levers and effects of climate mitigation and energy policy.

Elevated temperatures can have direct, local effects on drought as well as impacts on circulation features that promote large - scale droughts.

But the math (according to many more qualified folk than I) doesn't support that; though waste heat can be detectable in some UHI measurements, the effect is too small to have a real impact on any but local scales.

An important question regarding the adequacy of resolution is deciding whether the information produced at finer scales at higher resolution feeds back on the larger scales or do the finer scales simply add to local effects (Williamson, 1999).