Sentences with phrase «excellent proxy»

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.

Still, the fund is an excellent proxy for the global stock market.

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.

It often is an excellent proxy for the Arctic Oscillation, since the AO is characterized by a one sign anomaly around the polar cap.

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 oxygen).

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.

Performance reviews signed by your manager serve as an excellent proxy as a de facto professional reference.