Sentences with phrase «envelope calculations»

As a Raleigh resident, I've been thinking about the impact it would have here and, while my back - of - the - envelope calculations are VERY simplistic, I think the effect would be material.

I'm a fan of back - of - the - envelope calculations to get a grip on the dimensions of a problem.

Here are a few back - of - the - envelope calculations to try to convey just how unrealistic it is for lawyers to focus only on legal aid / public funding and pro bono as a solution to the access to justice crisis.

However, these back - of - the envelope calculations suggest that New York should demonstrate how they anticipate their energy vision will address this particular issue.

It seems to be derived from elementary radiative convective models and back of the envelope calculations.

One of my post included some back of the envelope calculations on the effect of adding trees has on system yields.

Not to mention that CO2 and N2O also covary with methane, so even if the entire temperature change was based on GHG changes and not orbital changes, CH4 would contribute less than half... My back of the envelope calculations suggests a forcing change of less than 0.2 W / m2 from a drop of 245 ppb — even at the upper end of the CS range this would contribute only about half a degree C to cooling...

Real science occasionally uses back - of - the - envelope calculations to identify interesting questions or to double check answers, but the real results come from much more complex calculations that take into account many more factors... but apparently you have trouble realizing that your Excel - based chicken - scratchings aren't the be-all and end - all of climate science.

After much reading and research and my own back of the envelope calculations, the answer came out «insignificant».

The back - of - the - envelope calculations above fall in the middle of IPCC projections for future CO2 concentrations, some of which are as high as 1,000 ppm.

The whole idea of dealing with global mean temperatures and averaged - out energy budgets is by itself crude, and one commenter at least has noted that when an observed global warming of the order of 1C is small compared to the coarseness and sensitivity of such back of an envelope calculations, we need to look elsewhere to resolve disputes.

If not, and «skeptics» go back to long - debunked arguments of climate sensitivity below 1 C / doubling, then why would any scientist even want to look at Lewis» unpublished back - of - the - envelope calculations?

Looking forward to notes of significant errors in the back of the envelope calculations below.

My own back - of - the - envelope calculations put it at between mid-century and 2075.

This done by commissioning someone with the appropriate letters after their name to do back - of - an - envelope calculations using the figures which have already been «established» by other players in the game.

The Antarctic sea ice melts from below — I will need to think on it and not make insulting comment and idiotic back of the envelope calculations..

Here are the key assumptions and data to do your own back - of - the - envelope calculations: 1.

Your back of an envelope calculations are a joke.

My back of the envelope calculations tell me that the annual compound growth rate of (evil) carbon in the atmosphere since 1960 is approximately 0.421 % p.a. Projecting the present 390ppm @ the 0.421 % p.a historical growth rate over the next 40 years gives us approximately 461ppm of carbon in the atmosphere by 2050.

Back of envelope calculations are of huge importance.

Sorry it doesn't pass the back of the envelope calculations especially when Dr Spencer's global average temperature at near surface have recently fallen to 2008 levels.

Furthermore ECS is useless for back - of - the - envelope calculations of temperature in 2100, since temperature will be nowhere near equilibrium given the big step - up in CO2 over the previous 150 years.

You almost need brain damage not to see these facts, easily found in EIA statistics, back of the envelope calculations, or the overwhelming market evidence.

It's consistent with back - of - the - envelope calculations as to how it should respond.

Some back of the envelope calculations... the paper says that a small amount of diving discovered 72 «groups of chimneys», with each chimney venting from «one to several» litres per second.

The point I should have made in # 41 is that back - of - the - envelope calculations that imply 1st order models of the type dCO2 = a * E --(CO2 - CO2 (0)-RRB- / tau are not well constrained by the Mauna Loa atmospheric CO2 data.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations show that the latent heat absorbed by melting of ice after surges (e.g., the melting of > 1500 years of ice accumulation during Dansgaard - Oeschger events — which seem to have happened in unison across the northern hemisphere, or the longer > 5ky Bond cycles) can significantly contribute to the global energy balance.

Pfeffer et al looked at the exit glaciers for Greenland and West Antarctica and made some back of the envelope calculations of how quickly the ice sheets could dynamically drain.

Now just sort of doing some of back of the envelope calculations based on the midpoint of your net bookings guidance you're looking about $ 136 million of revenue.

According to my back - of - the - envelope calculations, the distributions estimated by management seem slightly high, but my estimate is sensitive to the quantum of the cash burn and professional fees.

My next step was to do a couple of back - of - the - envelope calculations as to what might be worst case scenarios.

My back of the envelope calculations for Telstra's estimated intrinsic value is between $ 3.30 and 3.50.

I know you do not want to be stock - specific but it would be great if you could provide examples of some back - of - the - envelope calculations using fictional companies.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations suggest that Berkshire could comfortably exceed the $ 2.5 bn net loss it picked up from Hurricane Katrina if a sufficiently devastating storm hit Australia and possibly even from another New Zealand earthquake.

In normal situations, you may not find the need to calculate total equity from debt to equity ratio, but this is good to know for back of the envelope calculations or accuracy checking your analysis.

Just be warned, as I walk through a few back - of - the - envelope calculations, the pickings are slim for risk - averse investors.

I did some back - of - the - envelope calculations and to me, it was worth paying about 0.5 % extra in fees.

I did a few back - of - the - envelope calculations a couple of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.

Our back - of - envelope calculations suggest the number of vehicles in Australia recalled for Takata airbags is now approaching 1.6 million cars.

Districts wouldn't even have to foot the bill; I did some back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the 2011 Annual Report and found that with the savings picked up by the decreased recruitment pool and corps size (going with Wendy Kopp's «applicant pool fell in half» and your 3000 number, respectively), TFA could afford to pay each first - year CM a ~ $ 23,000 stipend (modulo one - time costs related to changing the structure of the organization so dramatically).

Using back - of - the - envelope calculations, the authors estimate that school districts saved $ 550.5 million by replacing older, more expensive teachers with younger, cheaper ones.

My back - of - the - envelope calculations indicate that the expected wage benefits of higher curriculum standards due to their positive effect on employment exceed the expected wage costs due to their adverse effect on graduation rates by a factor of six.

So, my back of the envelope calculations definitely = boots!

My back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the amount of target space (6.3 Mbp), the de novo mutation rate (1e - 08), and the number of trios sequenced here (1,409) suggest that we'd expect ~ 89 de novo mutations.

Would any of your findings put these made on the back of an envelope calculations for Antarctica's contribution to SLR in doubt?

Previous studies of how such a scheme would lower Earth's temperature used back - of - the - envelope calculations.

But the astronomers» initial back - of - the - envelope calculations were not encouraging.

Using back - of - the - envelope calculations of how air and heat flow through structures, he argues that fires with those proportions produce the hottest flames for their volume of fuel.

Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center who has studied the Amazon, said that fleshing out what are «essentially back - of - the - envelope calculations» of the 2010 drought's impact will require additional field measurements and a closer examination of satellite observations of the Amazon's tree canopy.

Griffin won't put a price tag on going to Mars, but NASA has released enough information over the years to permit some back - of - the - envelope calculations.