Sentences with phrase «impacts on a continental scale»

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Introducing NEON: The National Ecological Observatory Network was created to understand and forecast the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental - scale ecology by providing an observational infrastructure to support research, education, and environmental management in these areas.

On the 500 Mio year time scale you have to consider continental shifts which have important impacts on climate (e.g. completely different global ocean circulationOn the 500 Mio year time scale you have to consider continental shifts which have important impacts on climate (e.g. completely different global ocean circulationon climate (e.g. completely different global ocean circulation).

While some studies have focused on U.S. - based impacts, it is imprecise to simply apply global or continental - scale impacts to the United States without a basis in more geographically - centered studies.

It is well established that large - scale modes of the extratropical SH atmospheric circulation have strong impacts on Antarctic sea ice (e.g. Yuan and Li 2008; Stammerjohn et al. 2008; Holland and Raphael 2006; Liu et al. 2004; Kwok and Comiso 2002; Yuan and Martinson 2000) and on continental temperature anomalies (e.g. Marshall 2007; van den Broeke and van Lipzig 2004; Schneider et al. 2004; Kwok and Comiso 2002; Turner 2004; Bromwich et al. 2004; Thompson and Solomon 2002).