Sentences with phrase «extreme scale shifts»

Not exact matches

«[The Nature study is] heavily smoothing the data so as to look only at centennial - scale shifts, not what we usually think of as droughts or rainfall extremes, which would be scales of days to at most a decade or two.»

The researchers then shifted the scale to the other extreme.

In the paintings that comprise Extremes and In - betweens, all completed in 2016, Ruscha sets in motion a dynamic interplay of words and their meanings in ascending and descending shifts of scale and tone.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

Climate shifts unpredictably at multi-decadal scales producing extreme variability at centennial to millennial scales.

As shown by Coumou et al. (5) and Comou and Robinson (6), the observed long - term increase in frequency of extreme heat events can, on a global scale, be explained purely thermodynamically as a response to a shift in the mean surface temperatures to warmer values.