Sentences with phrase «global average basis»

That's lapse rate feedback, it's a negative feedback, and is hasn't really been measured very well on a global average basis to determine how much GHG forcing at the surface is negated by it.

The atmosphere on a global average basis is not saturated so it should have the capacity to take up additional water, and instead of precipitating out immediately it should increase the RH.

CO2 levels reached the 400 ppm barrier for certain months during 2015 and in certain places, but they have never done so on a global average basis for the entire year.

These numbers are not only comparable to coal and natural gas (which average $ 100 per megawhatt hour, but in fact more attractive, on a global average basis.

The work is an estimate of the global average based on a single - column, time - average model of the atmosphere and surface (with some approximations — e.g. the surface is not truly a perfect blackbody in the LW (long - wave) portion of the spectrum (the wavelengths dominated by terrestrial / atmospheric emission, as opposed to SW radiation, dominated by solar radiation), but it can give you a pretty good idea of things (fig 1 shows a spectrum of radiation to space); there is also some comparison to actual measurements.

Increased equatorial insolation due to reduced Easterly Wave SC cloud mass, promoting increased northern hemisphere evaporation and precipitation resulting in a hiatus on a global averaging basis, but regional specific cause - and - effect variability?

Not exact matches

«Prior to the recent [rally], valuation had converged with the global average on a price - to - earnings basis.

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

If we assume a 2 - year average upgrade cycle for smartphones and growth trends remain the same, the global smartphone installed base will grow from 2.2 billion in 2014 to about 4.2 billion by the end of 2017, according to our estimates.

On average, mobile advances like these could help generate an average global expense ratio improvement of about 500 basis points, from 58 % to 53 % as banks reduce the costs of the branch network and the costs of shipping and storing cash and checks.

At the time of writing, Seoul - based cryptocurrency exchanges Upbit and Bithumb each priced Bitcoin at about $ 9,100, which represented a roughly five percent premium over the coin's global average, although these platforms accounted for just a combined four percent of total Bitcoin trading volume.

Daily sales on Puritan Pride's store on Tmall Global average about 200,000 yuan ($ 30,421) versus 50,000 yuan ($ 7,600) at the same time in last year,» according to Sara Han, vice president of Ecmoho, a Shanghai - based company that manages the Tmall Global store for Puritan's Pride.

Through an economic policy of global price averaging, Intelsat has ensured affordable communications on a worldwide basis.

Last week Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, estimated that the average global temperature in 2016 could range from about 1.1 °C above preindustrial to only slightly below 1.5 °C, based on GISS's temperature record and its definition of pre-industrial (other records and definitions vary).

His figures from 147 weather stations around the world showed that average global temperatures increased by 0.59 F from 1880 to 1935 — double what he had predicted based on increasing carbon dioxide.

Climate Central scientists and statisticians made these calculations based on an average of global temperature data reported by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

Of course, while short - term changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average global surface temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation, in the system.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

The available timeseries of global - scale temperature anomalies are calculated with respect to the 20th century average, while the mapping tool displays global - scale temperature anomalies with respect to the 1981 - 2010 base period.

The study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

Global DNA methylation is calculated as the average DNA methylation based on all CpG sites in each annotated region on the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip and is shown as the mean ± SD.

To evaluate the global human methylome in adipose tissue, we calculated the average level of methylation for all sites divided into groups based on either their location in relation to the nearest gene (Fig. 2A) or the location in relation to CpG islands (Fig. 2B)(24).

«For reusable cloth nappies the study states «The baseline scenario based on average washer and drier use produced a global warming impact of approximately 570 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents.»

The new analysis on education's impact on poverty by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team is based on the average effects of education on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries from 1965 to 2010.

According to the eLearning Guild's 2015 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report, the average global base salary for eLearning professionals is about $ 78,310, which is a 2.5 % increase from 201Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report, the average global base salary for eLearning professionals is about $ 78,310, which is a 2.5 % increase from 201global base salary for eLearning professionals is about $ 78,310, which is a 2.5 % increase from 2013 [1].

On a daily basis they are getting 25,271,874 global reads on average.

U.S. - based energy, materials and industrial stocks - all which have above average global sales exposure - are some of the best performing groups this year.

> Value: We value Honors points at about 0.4 cents each based on an average global room rate of around $ 100 and 20 - 30,000 points for a Category 4 award night.

Based on current positioning, we expect the All Asset strategies to benefit from the following return tailwinds: a stable to rising breakeven inflation rate, appreciating EM currencies, convergence of EM - to - U.S. cyclically adjusted price / earnings (CAPE) ratios toward longer - term averages, and appreciation of global value stocks from today's elevated discounts toward longer - term norms.

Over the 14 — year period ending Feb. 28, 2017, the S&P Global Natural Resources Index, which is designed to provide market participants with an equity - based approach to natural resource investments through its three commodity - related sectors (agribusiness, energy, and metals & mining), has outperformed the S&P Global BMI by a monthly average of 36 bps in high - inflation months.

In December 2017, Morningstar analyzed the global performance of the Morningstar Analyst Rating for funds, finding that the analyst ratings effectively sorted funds based on their average future risk - adjusted returns; the report is available for download here.

Beginning May 1, 2016, Southeastern has agreed to waive fees and / or reimburse expenses so that Global Fund Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage commissions and extraordinary expenses) do not exceed 1.2 % of average net assets on an annualized basis.

** Average Canadian equity fund MER is based on Morningstar Global Fund Investor Experience Study, June, 2015.

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's (WSAVA) Global Nutrition Committee has put together a table that shows how much calories an average dog would need based on their size.

These lists are based on global average unique users per day connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Indie Games, full versions purchased during 2012.

Since the GCMs have clearly overpredicted the overall trend in global average mean temperature, and since there are other epochs where there fit to the overall trend is poor, I think that you confidence in an estimate of natural variability based on them is misplaced.

Narrowly scoped, the present situation is either strictly caused by solar variations (in which case I believe the «solar variation» crowd will inappropriately gain credibility over the next 10 to 20 years as we work through the next below average solar cycle or two), or strictly caused by CO2 concentrations (in which case I believe the «CO2 concentrations» crowd will inappropriately lose credibility as the non-linear relationship (sensitivity is based on doublings, not linear increases) between increased CO2 concentrations, and forecasts for below average solar cycles reduces the longer term upward trend in global temperatures).

As far as this historic period is concerned, the reconstruction of past temperatures based on deep boreholes in deep permafrost is one of the best past temperature proxies we have (for the global regions with permafrost — polar regions and mountainous regions)-- as a signal of average temperatures it's even more accurate than historic direct measurements of the air temperature, since the earth's upper crust acts as a near perfect conservator of past temperatures — given that no water circulation takes place, which is precisely the case in permafrost where by definition the water is frozen.

Before anyone gets too excited though, they should take note that the basis for this argument is that the correlation between the global average temperature and a time series that represents the AMO is higher than for one that represents ENSO.

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per - mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold.

There is no modelling of any orbital variations in incoming energy, either daily, yearly or long term Milankovitch variations, based on the assumption that a global yearly average value has a net zero change over the year which is imposed on the energy forcing at the TOA and the QFlux boundary etc..

3 Variations in the CO2 forcing function (& presumably all the GHGs) are also based on a yearly global average value, so that there is also no daily or seasonal variation included in the models, let alone north - south variations.

In global average, the number of unprecedented heat records over the past ten years is five times higher than in a stationary climate, based on 150,000 temperature time series starting in the year 1880.

NEW DELHI — India released an analysis on Wednesday projecting that its emissions of greenhouse gases in 2031 will be triple today's, although well below the global average on a per - capita basis.

Orbital forcing causes ice ages or ends them by redistributing incoming solar radiation over seasons and latitudes so that ice sheet growth or decay is more or less favorable on a regional basis, with a resulting global average albedo feedback.)

«The average global temperature anomaly for combined land and ocean surfaces for July (based on preliminary data) was 1.1 degrees F (0.6 degrees C) above the 1880 - 2004 long - term mean.

If one takes the MBH98 / 99 reconstruction as base, the variation in the pre-industrial period was ~ 0.2 K, of which less than 0.1 K (in average) from volcanic eruptions, the rest mostly from solar (I doubt that land use changes had much influence on global temperatures).