Sentences with phrase «gradual change between»

A sentence in Chapter 13 of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability states: «Up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.»

It seems clear to me that the sentence is about responses to a shift from one climate regime, the recent past and present day, to another, with less precipitation, in the future (it is the IPCC climate change impacts report after all, and they do say `... not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation»).

«Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»

The contested IPCC statement reads: «Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»

Not exact matches

Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.

There have been continuing tensions between workers and intellectuals, the role and power of the unions and - at least in the early period - whether to work within the political system and seek gradual change.

The shifts in partisan balance in the state Senate were gradual between 1992 and 2016, with three major changes to control of the chamber in that time.

The difference between Paleoamerican and modern Native American facial features is likely a combination of additional waves of migration from Siberia, via Beringia, and genetic drift, a gradual change in appearance and other traits as populations divide, migrate and adapt, says Jim Chatters, a Seattle - area anthropologist who led the multinational study of Naia.

The experiment shows the impressive ability of a simple system to exhibit complex behavior in the form of chaos and nearly chaotic phenomena: Despite the gradual changes of air pressure the transitions between the different vibratory phenomena are abrupt.

Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, in a phenomenal portrayal of gradual but unstoppable transformation), an Irish immigrant who comes to New York City to seek a job and a more fulfilling life, changes from a shy, unassertive woman who is torn between two worlds into one who is confident, able and willing to speak her mind, and more certain about what she wants from life.

Weight loss should be gradual, so don't expect to see big changes between weigh - ins.

While before this year the standard speeds were 30, 50, 70, and 110km / h, the areas between these speed changes had even - interval halfway km / h signs added to encourage a more gradual change in speed.

Gradual, insolation - driven millennial - scale temperature trends in the study area were punctuated by several abrupt climate changes, including a major transient event recorded in all five lakes between 4.3 and 3.2 ka, which overlaps in timing with abrupt climate changes previously documented around the North Atlantic region and farther afield at w4.2 ka.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

By distinguishing between uninsulated buckets and insulated buckets and providing for a changeover from uninsulated buckets (pre-WW2) to insulated buckets by the 1970s, most of the effect of a gradual changeover is allocated prior to 1975, thus limiting changes after the 1970s, where there is also a satellite record that would need to be reconciled.

However, «the data suggests that the divergence between well and poorly sited stations is gradual, not a result of spurious step change due to poor metadata,» they concluded.