Sentences with phrase «how much variability»

The purpose of the study is to identify and compare how much variability exists in the attitudes of prominent people in Australia and the United States who publicly identify as climate sceptics.

«We want to see how much variability there is in this phenomenon in the healthy human population, to evaluate if there is a correlation between retrotransposition frequency and brain tumor formation, and to see whether it is increased or reduced in Alzheimer's disease.»

Of course, you need to check with your advisor on how much variability is acceptable in your specific field.

Not exact matches

Even if we eliminate the «intangible» benefits of breastfeeding (better health, etc.), there is still the variability of how much an ounce of formula actually costs, plus exactly how much a baby eats in an average day.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

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For example, he says, although the new study found no overall change in the rate of melting at Totten Glacier over the last couple of decades, the large variability in melting rate within those decades warrants a much closer look at the region's complex topography, among other factors, in order to anticipate how the system could actually change in the future.

«But how we get there are those swirls... we are now starting to realize that variability is still strong on timescales of decades and we don't have as much ability as we would like to predict it.»

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

In the Emory study, there was some variability in how much individual patients responded to GM - CSF.

After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).

The continued swings in the Arctic Oscillation can make it difficult for climate scientists to determine how sea ice loss is altering winter weather, since there is so much natural variability in the system in the first place.

But in plain speak, glycemic variability basically refers to how much your blood sugar bounces around at any given point in your life.

For an even better and more variable soundtrack, there's an available performance exhaust upgrade that brings the flap number to three, allowing for more variability in how much and what type of noise the V - 8 exhales.

As per our statistics assignment writing team, it measures the variability of distribution and expresses how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group.

This variability makes it difficult to predict how much income a portfolio can generate, and might require additional strategies for securing income in retirement.

However instead he suggests that «by simply creating or taking advantage of forward knowledge of how much money you need, when you need it and where to source it on a year by year basis you can put pension - like disciplines in place to protect against the variability» described in Vettese's strategy.

While JetBlue awards points strictly based on how much you paid for your flights, there's some variability on how much points are worth when you go to redeem them.

In the course of my judging and lecturing all over the globe, I naturally see variability in how much emphasis breeders and buyers place on orthopedically sound hips.

In the course of my judging and lecturing all over the globe, I naturally see variability in how much emphasis is placed, by breeders and buyers, on orthopedically sound hips.

Firstly, we know that there is a great deal of decadal variability in how much and where deep convection takes place.

Because it was declining from the start and people did not know how much local variability was reasonable?

So to find out how much diet affects adult heights, you can't take one person from each dietary group and correlate because inherent variability swamps the individual effect of diet.

captdallas2 — 24 Jan 2011 @ 12:34 PM «That would of course lead into a question of how over the period 1913 to 1940, though you could pick virtually any 27 year period, natural variability could create similar changes, but not so much now?»

So the question to ask here is: why is the Gulf of Mexico so hot at present — how much of this could be attributed to global warming, and how much to natural variability?

There's temporal resolution loss as you go back, but I suspect that for a given background climate, there's a lot of «boringness» within it (e.g., how much in - Eocene or in - Snowball variability do we actually expect?

We ultimately face a question of what we trust more: our estimate of our cumulative emissions to date combined with our full knowledge of how much warming that might imply, or an estimate of how warm the system was in 2014 which is subject to error due to observational uncertainty and natural variability.

Here are the main bullet points from the summary on impacts of the changing climate that have already been detected (it's important to note that the panel stresses it is not, in this section, assessing how much of the change is human - driven or the result of natural variability):

And this brings up what to me is the real question: how much of the hiatus is pure internal variability and how much is a forced response (from loading the atmosphere with carbon).

And I don't think you can much about a cycle with just 1 - 2 cycles: e.g., what the actual period of the variability is, how regular it is, etc..

This is what is called the attribution problem; that is, how much of these historical changes are attributable to human activity, versus natural variability?»

And the $ 64,000 question then is basically how much did internal decadal variability contribute... during the recent decades and I think the jury is still out about the relative contribution of this internal variability.

The real question is how much of the temperature change over the past million years was due to natural variability.

However there is considerable uncertainty and disagreement about the most consequential issues: whether the warming has been dominated by human causes versus natural variability, how much the planet will warm in the 21st century, and whether warming is «dangerous».

However, we were interested in how much influence unforced variability might have had on changes in the rate of warming over the instrumental period.

A separate issue is that one may compare the results that you obtain using approach with that of Lean and Rind who try to find out how much of the variability can be explained by solar and volcanic forcing and «explained» by ENSO.

The governing assumption in the vast majority of GCM / climate studies is that natural variability is a) small, b) integrates to zero over time and therefore its un interesting when it comes to answering the questions we care about: How much warming will human forcing cause.

The problem is that there's also a lot of extra variability in CET and that the available data is not sufficient for estimating well enough how much CET can tell about the wider temperature trends at other times.

One of the major drivers of this variability involves the El Niño — La Niña oscillation in the Pacific, which determines how much heat is taken up by the oceans rather than the atmosphere.

An assessment of CO2 sensitivity is implicit in flag assessment, but it gets conflated with how large you think natural variability might be relative your preferred value of CO2 sensitivity (or how much uncertainty you ascribe to assessments of CO2 sensitivity).

How much of the change we see is due to A) solar forcing B) volcanic forcing C) internal variability D) GHG forcing E) unknown forcings 2.

It really matters to making policy how much of the warming is from CO2, and how much is from methane, land use changes, urban island (asphalt, concrete, air conditioning, etc.), carbon black, solar changes (sun activity lower and heliosphere at low level), or the catch all — natural variability.

How much energy, where it will go, what positive and negative feedbacks are in play, what natural variability might do to mask or add to this anthropogenic efffect are the real interesting issues IMO.

Getting back to the IPCC, even though half could in fact be internal variability, the range of exactly how much is broad.

Our results show that the observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 can not be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified.»

If you plot anomalies on a graph with a y - axis that represents total climate variability in the last 100,000 years (I have no idea what that is but humor me and suppose it was + / - 5 °C), what you would see is pretty much how I look at these results: noise around the baseline.

At the moment, the uncertainties in modeling and complexities of the ocean system even prevent any quantification of how much of the present changes in the oceans is being caused by anthropogenic climate change or natural climate variability, and how much by other human activities such as fishing, pollution, etc..

Understanding the staircase is particularly important for understanding how much random variability has contributed to recent warming versus human influences.

Whenever I am trying to describe how a system works and I see lots of «random» variability I always assume that I am simply too ignorant to see a pattern, there are drivers which remain unknown to me, and much work remains to be done.

The SDO mission NASA has just launched will hopefully reveal more, though how much a 5 year mission will tell us about multidecadal variability remains to be seen.