Sentences with phrase «global data set»

This is particularly true of the global data set, even though «urbanization has caused regional increases in temperature that exceed those measured on a global scale, leading to urban heat islands as much as 12 °C hotter than their surroundings».

I'm an engineer — spent a LOT of time with instrumentation, l so telling me that the present global data set is «accurate» is laughable.

This data is again from the global data set maintained by Munich Re, and the GDP data comes from the United Nations.

Now we have more urban effect in those numbers reflecting — that show up in that enhanced or exaggerated warming in the global data set.

We use USA data because it is more trustworthy than the global data set.

Arc calculates a performance score out of 100, based on a global data set and action - oriented strategies across five categories.

Since then, raw images from an international network of operational geostationary and polar - orbiting meteorological satellites have been routinely processed to develop a global data set of calibrated radiances and derived cloud parameters for climate research.

This has been discussed on this very site, with a humorous example of its flaws being that applying it to a global data set (GHCN) instead of just one for the United States reverses the results, finding that adjustments reduce global warming by a significant amount.

This is a global data set, and it's a worldwide average so its shows vastly less noise than individual tide gauge records.

Joe cites to a very recent article that re-estimates global mean temperature in two ways that might offset some of the bias for under - sampling the arctic in one existing global data set.

Dai, A., K.E. Trenberth, and T. Qian, 2004: A global data set of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870 - 2002: Relationship with soil moisture and effects of surface warming.

«My ultimate goal is to build a global data set of traditional sleep,» he said.

We provide the first global data set to say that.»

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

To project that trend forward, the team then used models recently developed to analyze Antarctic ice sheet collapse, plus large global data sets to tailor specific Atlantic tropical cyclone data and create «synthetic» storms to simulate future weather patterns.

Despite these restrictions: the global data sets (presented in Fig. 5), which may be subject to artefacts from having values in regions with no observations, and HadSST3 provided consistent global trends in MHW properties (Supplementary Fig. 10).

As far as I could see Hansen used many of the global data sets that Callendar had used in his 1938 paper on Co2.

Even as late as 1987, global data sets depicted a 0.5 °C warming between 1880 and 1950.

In a recent CNN interview discussed at RC here, Joe D'Aleo said: Those global data sets are contaminated by the fact that two - thirds of the globe's stations dropped out in 1990.

At a minimum it would necessarily include the miserable state the 4 global data sets are in, the various methods and means of which this record consists, loss of ~ 70 % of reporting stations (predominately high latitude, high altitude and rural) post 1990, and what resides in my mind at least as pure horror at the state of the surface stations Anthony et al have and are documenting.

These improvements must be paralleled by the acquisition of global data sets for validation of these treatments.

jim2, the global data sets would be at least the proper basis for claims about global warming indeed.

«The IGBP places high priority on establishment, maintenance, validation, description, accessibility, and distribution of high - quality, long - term global data sets, including the synthesis or generation of new global data sets,» and, «Full and open sharing of the full suite of global data sets, and other data sets needed for global change studies, is the primary objective of the IGBP - DIS» (IGBP Report No. 12).

We have seen that they have prevented anyone from having access to key global data sets being used to set policy.

Aqua was launched on May 4, 2002, and has six Earth - observing instruments on board, collecting a variety of global data sets.

An alternative explanation is that the reconstructions and instrumental global data sets in fig 15a together with those city ones mentioned in (37) do in fact accurately represent the prevailing climates of the time, and therefore it is «the hockey stick» that is not a reliable representation.

We use spatially explicit methods and publicly available global data sets to assess (i) the land area and population distribution in the LECZ and (ii) people living in the 100 - year flood plain for three points in time: For a baseline year (2000) and for the years 2030 and 2060.

Not exact matches

Global stocks have pushed to new highs, outdoing previous records set in 2015, driven by strong economic data in the U.S. and comments by the Federal Reserve on the future path of interest rates.

Cloudmark Sender Intelligence (CSI) uses real - time data from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network to create accurate, comprehensive sender profiles enabling communications service providers to set informed policies against good, bad and suspect senders.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

They likely have room to up allocations: $ 71 billion has left Asia ex-Japan bonds and stocks since the mid-2013 «taper tantrum» set off by the Federal Reserve (Fed) signaling an end to bond purchases, according to EPFR Global data.

There is a global movement to liberate government - «owned» data sets, such as census data, environmental data, and data generated by government - funded research projects.

Does fourth quarter global economic data set the stage for asset class returns the next year?

The largest Bitcoin miner outside of China has set up 58 megawatts of data centers there, a third of its global capacity, according to an investor presentation.

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TORONTO, May 11, 2017 - Canada's innovators and technology startups are set to play an increasingly important role in the future of Canada's economic prosperity as emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data transform the global economy.

A recent report from data analyst Research and Markets predicted that the global gluten - free beer market is set to grow at a CAGR of more than 40 % between now and 2021.

Since then the Data Bank has undergone several revisions to accommodate new sets of definitions and indicators and integrate all operational targets of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, changing as a result the name to «WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding».

The Scorecard compiles data from countries all over the world on the status of seven priorities set by the Global Breastfeeding Collective to increase the rate of breastfeeding.

Sagarin hopes that the results, appearing in the 26 October issue of Science, will encourage others to look for environmental responses to global warming in data sets collected informally by individuals or communities, like a bird - watcher's records.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

«Using very large data sets, we have teased out valuable information that will help researchers identify global trends and learn about individual corals,» said co-author Backman, the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Meanwhile, a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, a consulting firm, says that businesses spanning virtually all sectors — from technology and social networking to pharmaceuticals and health care — are using information gleaned from large data sets to help them operate more smoothly or to provide better products or services.

Rapid communication, handling large data sets, language translation, and labor division — historical barriers to global scientific collaboration — have advanced thanks to software and social media.

After he obtained his B.A. degree, Bromley was offered an assistant position at AAAS to help compile scientific facts on climate change and other global environmental issues for the public, analyzing large numerical data sets and making maps using computational tools.

«If the energy - transport increase is confirmed from other data sets, and it continues to increase over the next years, it will be more and more likely that it is coupled to global warming,» says Graversen.

Compelling infographics round out this robust examination, illustrating data sets on the costs of developing drugs, the major shifts in global demographics and patient needs, the explosions of data that must be mined for future therapeutic development, and the health spending of a wide variety of nations.

Using the now - complete Cassini data set, Cornell astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain.