Sentences with phrase «global patterns of»

A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial conditions that disrupted global patterns of ocean and atmospheric circulation.

Anthropogenic global patterns of plant species richness, species loss, invasions, crops and ornamental species, anthromes, and terrestrial biomes

Well, the answer to the first question is we haven't signficantly slowed our global patterns of purchasing cars and driving them.

The mean state of ENSO, its global patterns of influence, amplitude of interannual variability, and frequency of extreme events show considerable multidecadal and century - scale variability over the past several centuries.»

Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.

Climate is a major factor in controlling global patterns of vegetation structure and productivity, as well as plant and animal species composition.

Global patterns of impacts in recent decades attributed to climate change (natural and anthropogenic).

Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked «planetary - scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict».

Ocean primary production of the phytoplankton at the base of the marine food chain is expected to change but the global patterns of these changes are difficult to project.

Global patterns of fire weather season length changes from 1979 to 2013.

Mann et al. (1998) reconstructed global patterns of annual surface temperature several centuries back in time.

Schwalm, C. R. et al. (2017) Global patterns of drought recovery, Nature, doi: 10.1038 / nature23021 Seneviratne, S. I. and Ciais, P. (2017) Trends in ecosystem recovery from drought, Nature

Rehfeld, K. et al. (2018) Global patterns of declining temperature variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25454

Although some earlier work along similar lines had been done by other paleoclimate researchers (Ed Cook, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Ray Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, and Henry Diaz being just a few examples), before Mike, no one had seriously attempted to use all the available paleoclimate data together, to try to reconstruct the global patterns of climate back in time before the start of direct instrumental observations of climate, or to estimate the underlying statistical uncertainties in reconstructing past temperature changes.

And despite widespread skepticism, concern and even mistrust, I am certain the art market is deep and not under threat due to fundamental shifts in global patterns of consumption.

This page introduces global patterns of food and land availability as well as consumption through a number of well chosen graphics and maps.

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Early Edition, vol.

Global patterns of genetic differentiation.

Dr. Cole's project, «Mechanistic Derivation of Germ Line Mutation by Genome - Wide Mouse Tetrad Analysis,» will help define the global patterns of de novo germ line mutations and the frequencies at which such mutations occur in mice, with the long term goal of understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying germ line mutagenesis and developing strategies to prevent or treat disorders caused by such mutations.

-LSB-...] Back in December, I wrote about two studies that compared global patterns of gene expression between germ cells and somatic cells in Volvox carteri, one by Benjamin Klein, Daniel Wibberg and Armin Hallmann from the University of Bielefeld in Germany and one by Gavriel Matt and Jim Umen from Washington University in St. Louis and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, respectively.

We used three independent and complementary sources of SST data to reveal global patterns of change in MHW frequency, intensity and duration over the past century.

Before joining the Center she was a scientific researcher investigating global patterns of amphibian disease and the impacts of wildlife trade.

Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades initiated by multiple spontaneous adopters arriving at a constant rate, amplified by a large number of adoptions induced by social influence, and controlled by individuals who are immune to the actual adoption.

«Our observations and model help to understand the underlying structural differences between emergent global patterns of adoption spreading.

At least over the oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

By next year, the Argo project will have installed 3,000 floating sensors across all the oceans, offering a daily snapshot of global patterns of water temperature and salinity — crucial for predicting the nature and pace of climate change.

«We analyzed, for the first time at such a large scale, global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions in relation to different types of invasive mammals and physical island conditions,» McCreless said.

The global patterns of the Holocene have receded and their return is no longer possible, sustainable or even desirable.

In the most thorough study of its kind, scientists have now analyzed global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions and developed predictive models to help identify places where conservation interventions will provide the greatest benefits to threatened island biodiversity.

«The global patterns of the Holocene have receded and their return is not possible or even desirable»

Co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland says global patterns of species richness will change significantly, with considerable regional variability.

Mills et al. mapped global patterns of seasonal coat color change across eight species including hares, weasels, and foxes.

Current account imbalances (1) provide a misleading picture of the global pattern of financing flows and intermediation and (2) do little to inform about potential risks to financial stability.

However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

«This global pattern of finger - like structures that we're seeing, which has not been documented before, appears to reflect interactions between the upwelling plumes and the motion of the overlying plates,» Lekic said.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are moving closer to understanding how the global pattern of the skeleton of mammals is formed during development.

Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate.

Also, the term «global pattern of warming» implies regional temperature change, which pushes the climate system response discussion to a much higher level of complexity than when simply talking about changes in global - mean climate.

It is extremely unlikely (< 5 %) that the global pattern of warming during the past half century can be explained without external forcing, and very unlikely that it is due to known natural external causes alone.

Prof Adam Scaife, Head of Long Range Prediction at the Met Office and member of the RMetS» Climate Science Communication Group, commented: «These predictions show that 1.5 °C events are now looming over the horizon, but the global pattern of heat would be different to a more sustained exceeding of the Paris 1.5 °C threshold.

The changing phases of Atlantic hurricane activity are not completely understood; but there appears to be a link to fluctuations in the thermohaline circulation, the global pattern of ocean currents which in western Europe appears as the Gulf Stream.

Just as they can take one cold day and say it contradicts the decades - long, global pattern of climate change, climate deniers are constantly prioritizing the here - and - now over the future.

Wills et al. (2016) present an analysis of how circulation changes influence the global pattern of change in net precipitation (precipitation minus evaporation, P — E).

MOC stands for Meridional Overturning Circulation, and although it refers to the same global pattern of ocean currents («conveyor belt») as the thermohaline circulation, this story shows why actually MOC is the more accurate name, as it is not just... Continue reading →

And anthropogenic greenhouse gases may in future perturb the climate system flow sufficiently to cause some or major change in the global pattern of coupled quasi standing waves.

Gradually, European sailors deciphered the global pattern of winds and currents and took full advantage of them to establish new sea routes all over the world.

The global pattern of atmospheric circulation on Mars shows many superficial similarities to that of Earth, but the root causes are very different.

In general the global pattern of cooler temperatures around the time of the LIA is well established — albeit with regional variability.

The sun, currents and energy transfer processes affect the global pattern of sea surface temperatures.