Sentences with phrase «for observation and model»

This will increase the spatial degrees of freedom beyond that of the PAGES 2k Consortium [2013] synthesis and provide clear targets for observation and model comparisons while honoring limitations imposed by current data availability.

In fact, Dana endorses Tamino's really truly dumb rebaselining method — a method that could only be endorsed by someone who had just been painted with a stupid stick and who has forgotten that when comparing anomaly values, you must use the same baseline for your observations and models.

Not exact matches

Trend Hunter, he explains, is more than a website: It's a market research firm for the digital age, with a data - driven model that contrasts with more traditional «cool gurus,» who identify trends and dispense insightful pronouncements based solely on observation and «gut instinct.»

This observation is based on our analysis of each of the fund's holdings for which we model the earnings quality and the future cash flow expectations embedded in the prices of each of the holdings.

It is not surprising that the positivist finds in quantum physics support for his conviction that we should discard all model; and treat theories as mere calculational devices for correlating observations.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

The programs that were identified as having promise for implementation were kangaroo care, infant message, guided observation of child behaviour with modelling and parent - child interaction time along with parent group discussion / support.

They tested high - performance computational models against known geological and geophysical observations of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and demonstrated that a drip of lithospheric material below the surface can account for the measured elevation changes across the region.

Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new computer simulations to model the flow of plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become powerful enough to burst free and erupt on the sun's surface.

Medvigy and Jeong found that prediction modeling for the entire United States indeed improves dramatically when the analyses include data from macro-scale observations, meaning from multiple sites spread over a large area.

Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

The meters produce data for the estimation and development of calculated flow models, and the observations are also part of the Gulf of Finland 2014 research,» points out the tour leader, Riikka Hietala, Head of Group from the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The CRaTER observations have validated the models and the ground - based measurements, meaning that lightweight shielding materials could safely be used for long missions, provided their structural properties can be made adequate to withstand the rigors of spaceflight.

Two of the major projects for this IPY will be the creation of permanent permafrost observations and an expansion of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), a model experiment that uses easily constructed greenhouses to artificially warm portions of the tundra.

Mission leaders were relieved and eager to begin their studies of cloud and haze effects, which «constitute the largest uncertainties in our models of future climate — that's no exaggeration,» says Jens Redemann, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and the principal investigator for ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS (ORACLES).

These observations and others have convinced the researchers that their CRISPR / Cas9 and hPSC system produces a stable, biologically accurate human model for a common genetic disease where new understanding and new therapies are desperately needed.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

The team compiled data from many studies and for the first time synthesized observations and numerical model output to develop a cohesive view of the carbon cycle in a large coastal region.

The high - resolution model produced stronger storms and more of them, which was closer to the actual observations for most seasons.

«We gradually increased the physical complexity of numerical models based on high - resolution observations, and it is really a success story for the approach we've taken with IRIS.»

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

«Its existence was predicted by the standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual models of the way the world or the universe works and test those models against the observations and see the extent to which they can predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the models.

This observation required a revision of common theoretical models describing the photoemission from solids, i.e. this initial intra-atomic interaction had to be taken into account and sets a new cornerstone for future improved models of the photoemission process from solids.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

Zebrafish have emerged as an important vertebrate model for cardiovascular research for a number of reasons, including the ability to regenerate its heart if damaged, and because the transparency of the embryos allows easy observation of internal processes like blood vessel development.

According to the researchers, to better understand if Matthew's intensification was aided by the warm - water eddies and the residing barrier layer in the Caribbean Sea's upper ocean, more ambient and in - storm upper ocean observations in this basin are needed to improve forecast models for the region.

«The dog is an invaluable model for exploring hereditary copper - storage diseases, and observations made in this study will benefit both canine and human patient populations.»

The UM Rosenstiel School researchers used historical observations of cloud cover as a proxy for wind velocity in climate models to analyze the Walker circulation, the atmospheric air flow and heat distribution in the tropic Pacific region that affects patterns of tropical rainfall.

For the study, Mahony and co-author Alex Cannon from Environment and Climate Change Canada looked at historical observations going back to 1901 and global climate model projections to the year 2100.

«One of the big achievements of the project was a demonstration of how models and field observations are able to work together for mutual benefit,» Simmons said.

The study is a «painstaking analysis» of the fragmented satellite record and shows some consistency between models and observations of clouds, says meteorologist Bjorn Stevens of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.

For his part, Mörner maintains that the true fate of the Maldives should be deduced from direct observation and not just from models or historical records.

With so much disagreement between the experiments, and with revisions in solar models bringing theory closer to the broad range of experimental observations, Morrison says «there is no compelling evidence for a solar neutrino problem nor for a need for new physics.»

Using NASA satellite observations in tandem with supercomputer processing power for modeling systems, scientists have a comprehensive suite of tools to analyze El Niño events and their global impacts as never before.

«It integrates all processes responsible for organism success and requires a systems science approach to understand it, complete with observations and coordinated models.

The models need to be tested against observations, to make way for new and improved models.

What is provided to the community are galaxy catalogues based upon three distinct models that all include the physical processes relevant for galaxy formation and evolution, conforming to and reproducing specific empirical observations.

At this school, we will review physical models for cloud formation in Solar System planets, exoplanet observations, and laboratory studies.

Figure 1: Annual average TOA shortwave cloud forcing for present - day conditions from 16 IPCC AR4 models and iRAM (bottom center) compared with CERES satellite observations (bottom right)

Ongoing radio observations (SMA, JCMT, VLA) of Sirius A are being used to set an observationally determined standard for stellar atmosphere modeling and debris disk studies around A stars, as well as to take the first step toward characterizing potential intrinsic uncertainty in stellar emission at these wavelengths.

After a general trashing of various things including surface observations and climate models, he admitted that his prediction for the globally - averaged warming (of ~ 1.5 C by 2100) is within the IPCC range... albeit at the low end.

From 1966 to 2003 the modeled mean world ocean temperature in the upper 700 m increased 0.097 Â °C and by 0.137 Â °C according to observations (Levitus et al., 2005); the modeled mean temperature adjusted for sea ice in the corresponding layer of the Arctic Ocean increased 0.203 Â °C.

This paper proposes a more «all - around» lightweight ontology for CH materials in relation to CC, which greatly facilitates decision support and merges several pertinent aspects: CH Assets, Stakeholders and Roles, Climate Effects, Risk Management, conservation actions, materials, models, sensors and observations.

We are especially looking for expertise in modelling of the solar corona, experimental solar wind research, observations and modelling of the inner magnetospheric waves and wave - particle interactions.

The discovery was that Procyon, one of the most studied stars, shows no pulsations at all, which contradicts 20 years of ideas and observations, and forced astronomers to rethink their models for stars.

Schimel's research team is assimilating new observational tools using satellites, networked surface observation stations, and aircraft sampling with the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Community Land Model.

For the earlier generation of models, results are based on the archived output from control runs (specifically, the first 30 years, in the case of temperature, and the first 20 years for the other fields), and for the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observatioFor the earlier generation of models, results are based on the archived output from control runs (specifically, the first 30 years, in the case of temperature, and the first 20 years for the other fields), and for the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observatiofor the other fields), and for the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observatiofor the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observations.

To account for changes in observation times, the RSS group used a number of different approaches and models to try and estimate what the temperature would have been if the measurement time remained constant.

Phytoplankton ecology, photophysiology, bio-optical oceanography, modeling of marine primary production, physical forcing and regulation of phytoplankton biomass and production, flow cytometry, instrument development for autonomous phytoplankton observation, and remote sensing of phytoplankton.