Sentences with phrase «higher than previous estimates»

Studying a large sample and using a prospective longitudinal design, this study demonstrated that the sibling recurrence risk of autism spectrum disorder is substantially higher than previous estimates.

The team found that during exceptionally dry summers as much as 90 % of total annual carbon emitted from peatlands is likely lost from runoff — significantly higher than the previous estimates of 50 %.

New projections put sea level rise higher than previous estimates, researchers say.

EFFECT OF NATURAL IRON FERTILIZATION ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN Nature, Vol 446 26 April 2007 doi: 10.1038 / nature05700 The efficiency of fertilization, defined as the ratio of the carbon export to the amount of iron supplied, was at least ten times higher than previous estimates from short - term blooms induced by iron - addition experiments.

An international team of researchers now claims that tourism accounts for roughly 8 percent of all emissions, four times higher than previous estimates.

In September, a study found that recent methane emissions from livestock were 11 % higher than previous estimates suggested.

«Our data show that the total US population exposed to serious flooding is 2.6 — 3.1 times higher than previous estimates, and that nearly 41 million Americans live within the 1 % annual exceedance probability floodplain (compared to only 13 million when calculated using FEMA flood maps).»

Our analyses showed that biodiversity levels are higher than previous estimates.

Their new estimate of dryland forest is 40 to 47 % higher than previous estimates, corresponding to 467 million hectares (Mha) of forest that have never been reported before.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

This figure is four times higher than previous estimates, and rises to as much as 35 per cent in the most heavily fished areas.

The extinction rates were much higher than previous estimates based on more limited data sets.

And they discovered that the flow rates for unblocked holes were up to a thousand times higher than previous estimates (Faraday Transactions, vol 91, p 1407).

The research, published in Nature Communications, finds that mining - related forest loss caused roughly 10 percent of all Amazon deforestation between 2005 and 2015, much higher than previous estimates.

The figure is higher than previous estimates of around 600.

The new U.S. estimate of world shale gas resources at 7,299 trillion cubic feet is 10 percent higher than a previous estimate made in 2011.

The Labor Department now says the private sector added 607,000 jobs during Cuomo's first four years in office, 71,700 higher than the previous estimate.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

The new estimate is tens of millions higher than the previous estimate.

Not exact matches

The latest report departs from previous estimates pegging the company's value during an IPO at $ 25 to $ 35 billion, higher than the $ 20 billion valuation Snap received when it raised funding earlier this year.

For 2015, it saw inflation abating to 6.2 - 6.4 percent — still higher than previous 4.5 - 5.0 percent estimates.

The latter projection, though higher than Goldman's, is also notably weaker than a previous 7.8 percent estimate.

«PVG's updated resource estimate for Valley of the Kings was slightly larger than the previous resource estimate and confirmed the high - grade nature of the deposit.»

To his surprise, Baum found an average of 138 milligrams of ammonia per kilogram of exhaust — more than twice as high as previous estimates.

BEARS ON ICE A study that put camera collars on polar bears showed that the bears have higher springtime metabolic rates than previous estimates.

That's substantially higher than previous population estimates.

These results are significantly higher than the California Air Resources Board (CARB)'s previous estimate of about 4 percent (pdf), which was based on data from farms within 200 kilometers of Sacramento.

Previous estimates suggested that peak temperatures during the warmest interglacial periods — which occurred at around 125,000, 240,000 and 340,000 years ago — were about three degrees higher than they are today.

The density of humpback whales we observed was the highest point estimate ever reported, much greater than those derived from previous summer surveys in the adjacent Gerlache Strait [33], Western Antarctic Peninsula region [34], or the broader Antarctic [35].

Note that the old GISS model had a climate sensitivity that was a little higher (4.2 ºC for a doubling of CO2) than the best estimate (~ 3ºC) and as stated in previous years, the actual forcings that occurred are not the same as those used in the different scenarios.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

Figures seen by the BBC suggest asbestos is still present in nearly nine out of ten schools in the UK - higher than previous official estimates.

The estimate is much higher than previous ones: In January, Barclays estimated that Kindle sales would reach just $ 3.3 billion in 2011.

For the fiscal year 2017 budget, the U.S. Department of Education (Education) estimates that all federally issued Direct Loans in Income - Driven Repayment (IDR) plans will have government costs of $ 74 billion, higher than previous budget estimates.

By our own previous estimates at MoneySense, raising a child in Canada will set you back a whopping $ 243,660, or more than $ 12,825 a year, if you include everything from toddler - friendly Goldfish crackers to swishy shoes for high school graduation.

This figure was more than four times the high estimate and almost trebled the previous world auction record for the artist, set in November 2016.

It had a high estimate of $ 1.5 million, considerably more than the artist's previous auction record of $ 882,500 set at Christie's in June, 1998.

It sold for 3.1 million pounds, more than five times its high estimate and more than doubling the artist's previous auction record of 1.4 million pounds.

What's new is that several recent papers have offered best estimates for climate sensitivity that are below four degrees Fahrenheit, rather than the previous best estimate of just above five degrees, and they have also suggested that the highest estimates are pretty implausible.

However, I've revised the cost estimates and they are far higher than in my previous estimates.The inefficiencies in the cooling system mean that the cost per tonne CO2 removed would be around $ 5,000 / t CO2 (based on a simple factoring up of my previous estimate to allow for the energy inefficiencies).

Insured losses in the U.S. due to thunderstorms alone was the highest on record at an estimated $ 26 billion, more than double the previous thunderstorm record set in 2010.

This doesn't mean that there is not some global warming, but it likely means that temperature rises will be lower, not higher, than previous estimates.

A study published earlier this year found that methane emissions from the natural gas industry were likely 50 percent higher than previous government estimates, but that switching from coal to natural gas would still cut greenhouse gas emissions.

This annual global RS value is 20 — 30 % higher than previous 3,8,15 estimates.

If cost constraints aren't considered, the authors suggest that emissions savings could be as high as 23.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, 30 % more than previous estimates had projected.

Having derived efficacies for individual forcing agents, they then use them to re-estimate climate sensitivity from observed historical warming, using data for three previous studies and arriving at higher estimates than in those studies.

The paper concluded that worldwide temperatures could rise nearly 5 °C by the end of the century, 15 percent higher than the previous central estimate under the «business as usual» emissions scenario outlined by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The new data show generally higher temperature estimates than previous reconstructions based on Torneträsk tree - ring data.

Not only is this a substantial quantity of product vanishing into the air (natural gas is primarily methane), it is also significantly higher than most previous estimates — including from industry — and would reduce or eliminate any advantage natural gas has over coal from a climate standpoint.