Sentences with phrase «in positive phase»

For a period during the 1970s to mid-1990s, the Arctic Oscillation tended to stay in its positive phase.

In the positive phase the pressure is low at the pole and high at middle latitudes.

In its negative phase, it's closer to the equator while in its positive phase, it tends to be closer to Antarctica.

When the SAM is in a positive phase — meaning that the belt of winds is stronger than average — it has a cooling effect on Antarctic surface temperatures.

If natural cycles were to cause a «step up» in their positive phase, then they would also cause a «step down» in their negative phase, thus having zero net long - term effect on global temperatures.

The intensification of the Northern Hemisphere circulation is reflected in the positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), associated with higher - than - normal surface pressure south of about 508 N and lower - than - normal surface pressure over the high northern latitudes.

That index has a bump up in the 1940s followed by a decline to its negative pahse and is once again now in its positive phase.

When the AO is in a positive phase, sea level pressure in the Arctic is particularly low.

Apparently the current belief (discussed starting on page 18, and like most such statements accompanied by a caveat that much more research is needed) is that the PDO itself is closely linked to global warming, which is to say we can expect it to spend a lot more time in the positive phase as global warming progresses.

If the tropical East Indian has a lower sst relative to the WIO then the IOD is in positive phase and rainfall is reduced in Southern Australia.

Perhaps, you meant the AO is in a positive phase, in which the site says,» The Arctic Oscillation (AO) appears to be the cause for much of the recent changes that have occurred in the Arctic.

For the most part, I've not seen much evidence to suggest that internal variations alone can bring the climate to a new state on decadal timescales, even if the internal fluctuations do not completely average out over decades (e.g.,, the PDO being in a positive phase more than a negative phase during the timescale of consideration).

As the AMO has been in a positive phase since the early 1990s, it may have contributed to the extreme winters that both the US and Europe have experienced in recent years.

When the AMO is in its positive phase and the sea surface temperatures are warmer, the study has shown that the main effect in winter is to promote the negative phase of the NAO which leads to «blocking» episodes over the North Atlantic sector, allowing cold weather systems to exist over the eastern US and Europe.

«In the 1980s, the North Atlantic was stuck in a positive phase of NAO,» said lead author Kyle Meng, an economist at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

Not exact matches

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

«The positive efficacy results observed in the pivotal phase 3 clinical trials indicate that sarecycline can be an effective treatment option for patients with moderate to severe acne,» said Allergan R&D chief David Nicholson in a statement.

A new hormonal therapy designed to treat uterine fibroids called relugolix has finished a Phase 3 study in Japan, and the results are positive.

Thus «the supervention of the later phases does not involve elimination by negative prehensions; such eliminations of positive prehensions in the concrescent subject would divide that subject into many subjects, and would divide those many subjects from the superject» (PR 240F).15

In the first phase, positive physical prehensions — «feelings» — literally incorporate the past actual world in the becoming of the new act of concrescence: «Feelings are «vectors»; for they feel what is there and transform it into what is here» (PR 87In the first phase, positive physical prehensions — «feelings» — literally incorporate the past actual world in the becoming of the new act of concrescence: «Feelings are «vectors»; for they feel what is there and transform it into what is here» (PR 87in the becoming of the new act of concrescence: «Feelings are «vectors»; for they feel what is there and transform it into what is here» (PR 87).

The first part of a possible Whiteheadian explanation for these phenomena consists in the fact that actual occasions making up, say, the eyes, are basically selective in «receiving» their data from the external world due both to (i) the presence of negative as well as positive prehension in the first phase of concrescence (those that exclude and include data in the concrescence, respectively), and (ii) the activity of «transmutation» in a subsequent phase.»

This is backed up by the contention that there is no elimination in subsequent phases: «Thus the supervention of the later phases does not involve elimination by negative prehensions; 13 such eliminations of positive prehensions in the concrescent subject would divide that subject into many subjects, and would divide those many subjects from the superject» (PR 240/368).

Phase 3: 2013 onward, even the most die - hard AOB has to acknowledge there being a different feel to AFC, and whilst the two FA cups will be derided and progress is not fast enough it still feels very different in an entirely positive way.

Spurs will advance as group winners in Group H as they look to end the phase in positive fashion when they take on APOEL Nicosia at Wembley on Wednesday night.

The French arrive at international tournaments with a distinct unpredictable nature, but in 2014 it looks positive as Matuidi has inspired the nation to successive victories and therefore progress to the knockout phase.

In Phase 3 Liverpool like to pressure with more intensity because there will be a higher chance for a positive break for their fast attackers.

Contribution in the attacking phase is the one area of the game that the Dutch midfielder should look to improve on as the season draws to a close but this was a positive sign.

Furthermore, the stats above are further indicators that we supporters should remain positive as the club enters a new phase in its development.

As was so perfectly illustrated in yesterday's article, 48 Hours in the Life of West Ham Transfer Speculation, we are now firmly in that positive upswing phase of gratuitous optimism, where you could easily be forgiven for thinking that players are falling over themselves (and not in the simulation sense) to earn a move to the London Stadium.

Certain of my friends have also had positive comments offered to them when nursing older toddlers in public and this is of great reassurance to me as I enter a new phase in my life as a nursing mother.

In the US, the pilot phase of an outstanding multi-site intervention which aims to equip low income couples with relationship / communication skills is reporting significant positive results.

«We've been closely involved in the pilot phase of these standards and the feedback received has been really positive.

When your child is in this phase of self mastery, back off and try again later when s / he moved into the more positive phase of self mastery.

On a positive note, separation anxiety happens in phases.

When I'm at my wit's end and Jack and I are in a butting heads phase, there are two things I've found to be super helpful for positive parenting:

Having generated an approving cheer in relation to the unequal formal departure date she dared to tell none other than the deified Jacob Rees Mogg that the European Court would inevitably have some jurisdiction during the transition phase, or what she calls the implementation phase (a phrase coined by David Davis to make the process seem more positive).

The positive phase was suspected to be behind the 12 - year drought Australia has just emerged from, as well as torrential rains that swept across East Africa in 1997.

During the IOD's positive phase, sea surface temperatures rise in the Arabian Sea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phase.

«We were able to show that storm and ocean wave activity in the Drake Passage, the ocean basin between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America, increases during positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode,» he explained.

During its positive phase the ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm and those outside this region to the north and south are often unusually cool.

In the past, these positive phases have coincided with accelerated global warming.

It was in a cold, negative phase but now appears to have switched to a positive one, Trenberth says.

«Although still only in an early phase trial, brigatinib is showing an objective response rate in approximately 70 percent of ALK - positive patients post-crizotinib and it's showing about a year of progression - free survival.

During the other phase of NAO, when the air pressure difference is weaker, the same areas have shown positive changes, in crop productivity.

International researchers prospectively analyzed and compared tumor and matched plasma DNA for EGFR mutations from 1060 patients that were screened as part of a phase IV, open - label, single - arm, first - line gefitinib in EGFR mutation positive Caucasian patients.

A new phase 3 study in some of the most difficult - to - treat patients, women with endocrine - resistant disease, showed that the newly approved drug, palbociclib, more than doubled the time to cancer recurrence for women with hormone - receptor (HR +) positive metastatic breast cancer.

«Since several BACE1 inhibitors are currently being evaluated in clinical phase 3 trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the identification of potential side effects will be of great importance to ensure a positive clinical outcome,» said Dr. Jochen Herms, a Professor of translational brain research at Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich.

This means that rather than oscillating between positive and negatives events, the dipole will get increasingly stuck in the positive direction, oscillating between less positive phases and more positive phases.

In the oscillation's positive phase, sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, falIn the oscillation's positive phase, sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, falin the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, fall.

In April 2014, the PDO moved to a positive phase.