Sentences with phrase «even centennial scale»

Likewise, a statistician will not automatically be aware of the difference between proxies of low resolution (which may be good at estimating average temperature on a decadal or even centennial scale) and proxies of high resolution that are good at estimating temperature at a yearly level.

Not exact matches

«The influence of rising oceans is even greater than the overall amount of sea level rise because of storm surge, erosion and inundation,» said Carlson, who studies the interaction of ice sheets, oceans and the climate system on centennial time scales.

It's quite difficult to judge on Wikipedia plot, but Esper and Moberg reconstructions seem to have the same trends at centennial scale (even if Esper's one have globally more amplitude than all others).

I think the analysis that best captures this effect is the one done by Larry Cathles (see here and here), which concludes that even with 1 percent leakage, on the centennial time scale switching to natural gas gives you 40 percent of the benefit of switching to entirely carbon - free energy.