Sentences with phrase «global data sets»

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Zhang, Y. - C., W.B. Rossow, P.W. Stackhouse, A. Romanou, and B.A. Wielicki, 2007: Decadal variations of global energy and ocean heat budget and meridional energy transports inferred from recent global data sets.

Accordingly, advanced interpolation and averaging techniques have been applied when creating global data sets and hemispheric and global averages (Smith and Reynolds, 2005), and advanced techniques have also been used in the estimation of errors (Brohan et al., 2006), both locally and on a global basis (see Appendix 3.

The origins and the magnitude of these rate variations were examined by German (GFZ) and New Zealand (University of Canterbury) scientists using a global data set of 282 uplifted paleoshorelines from eight subduction margins globally (Italy, Greece, New Zealand, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Iran - Pakistan, Chile) and 2D numerical models.

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

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).

Modeling: State - of - the - art in biogeochemical - ecosystem modeling, including primer on use of global data sets and synthesis products and laboratory data in models

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A global data set of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870 — 2002: relationship with soil moisture and effects of surface warming.

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