Sentences with phrase «excellent proxies for»

As always with brown dwarfs, the results are much more far - reaching than people often realize: brown dwarfs are excellent proxies for giant exoplanets: often what we can not learn from giant exoplanets we learn from brown dwarfs.

Age is an excellent proxy for thickness and inverse salt content.

For instance, here's the data for delta - oxygen - 18 from a stack of 57 ocean sediment cores, which is considered an excellent proxy for global ice volume, known as the «LR04 stack» (from Lisiecki, L.E., & Raymo, M.E. 2005.

In particular, the degree of cyclization and methylation among branched tetraethers is highly dependent upon pH and temperature, making fossil tetraether lipids an excellent proxy for reconstructing TSTs (Weijers et al., 2007)(see Appendix).

When bitcoin came, they were an excellent proxy for what a server could do in terms of emulating heat, and whether we could use that heat for agricultural purposes.

«When bitcoin came, they were an excellent proxy for what a server could do in terms of emulating heat, and whether we could use that heat for agricultural purposes,» said Mr. Hardy.

Not exact matches

The ion chamber measurements utilizing geomagnetic aa index as proxy for the years between 1868 and 1936 produced excellent correlation to the global temperature changes for the period of 1868 to 2009.

But I think Mr. Mosher is making an excellent case for rejecting proxies in general as a basis for making drastic policy decisions with respect to climate.

GaryM June 26, 2013 at 5:20 pm But I think Mr. Mosher is making an excellent case for rejecting proxies in general as a basis for making drastic policy decisions with respect to climate.

The study showed that the current warming is unprecedented for 11500 years, but it really did not because of it's proxies» low resolution, but it did not have to because we know that the spikes did not exist (as there is no mechanism for that) in the past and the current warming, the spike, though a product of dubious procedures and «not robust» in the study (but this does not matter because we know from instrumental records that there's a spike), is unprecedented, because we know it is (and we know why and we already know that it's gonna continue)... So what exactly did this «excellent study» add to the knowledge when all that it was supposed to add, it did not but we already know all of this without the study.

For example, ice cores taken in various locations around the world (Greenland and Antarctica, for example) are excellent proxies; gas bubbles containing CO2 trapped in ancient ice can be measured, and the age can be determined very accurately (by counting the seasonal ice layers, or measuring the isotope levels of oxygeFor example, ice cores taken in various locations around the world (Greenland and Antarctica, for example) are excellent proxies; gas bubbles containing CO2 trapped in ancient ice can be measured, and the age can be determined very accurately (by counting the seasonal ice layers, or measuring the isotope levels of oxygefor example) are excellent proxies; gas bubbles containing CO2 trapped in ancient ice can be measured, and the age can be determined very accurately (by counting the seasonal ice layers, or measuring the isotope levels of oxygen).