Sentences with phrase «key uncertainties»

What are scientists doing to address key uncertainties in our understanding of the climate system?

- Exploring key uncertainties, resulting from the pace of deployment for new technologies, market and policy developments, and changing consumer preferences.

The consortium project of SYKE, LUKE and FMI aims to improve the treatment of key uncertainties in climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability analysis.

The global legal environment presents two high impact key uncertainties for governments, business, and civil society organisations:

Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 16 underscored key uncertainties about the hominid.

We discuss the simulated changes in ecosystem state in terms of underlying model behaviors and assumptions, assess the level of agreement between the GVMs and GVM × GCM combinations, and identify where key uncertainties remain.

Ideally, future scenarios for solar geoengineering will also be constructed by a diverse group of people from both natural and social sciences, as well as policy makers, to enhance scenario credibility for policy making, and the understanding of key uncertainties within scenarios.

``... aerosols still pose key uncertainties in the understanding of Earth's radiative balance -LCB-...] major gaps exist in the understanding of the physicochemical pathways that lead to aerosol growth...»

Energy Commission staff has performed research on these topics and will briefly describe some of the issues and key uncertainties associated with these areas of the natural gas industry during the workshop.

Deterministic analyses are based on best - guess estimates for uncertain parameters, whereas probabilistic analyses explicitly consider key uncertainties of the coupled socio - natural system by describing one or more parameters in terms of probability distributions.

The probabilistic analyses of DAI reported in this section draw substantially on (subjective) Bayesian probabilities to describe key uncertainties in the climate system, such as climate sensitivity, the rate of oceanic heat uptake, current radiative forcing, and indirect aerosol forcing.

These newer studies underscore that, while our knowledge continues to improve in this area, key uncertainties persist.

Topic 6 summarises the major robust findings and remaining key uncertainties in this assessment.

The key uncertainty is how much the data has been distorted by the fall of China's annual Lunar New Year holidays, which were in February this year and in January in 2012 and which typically see factories shut up shop for two weeks.

The key uncertainty is a price war in India, which makes up 12 pct of revenue.

One of the key uncertainties of Brexit is likely to be the fate of the Northern Ireland - Republic of Ireland border, how it might be controlled and what impact this might have.

The climate models that feed into the assessments have grown bigger and better, but researchers have not succeeded in reducing some key uncertainties about climate change.

The key uncertainty circles back to his classic equation, particularly one variable, L, which represents the average longevity of a cosmic culture.

The 2018 edition of BP's Energy Outlook considers the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition.

One of the key uncertainties is clouds, understanding the physics behind clouds and how clouds interact with aerosol particles.

That has, unfortunately, also been a key uncertainty for a long time and is likely to remain one.

The workshop summarized the state of understanding, key uncertainties and next research steps on the shifting chemistry of the oceans and the impacts on species and ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystems of particular interest to humans.

Aerosols remain one of the key uncertainties in how fast our fossil fuel burning is pushing the climate system to warmer levels.

Climate scientists acknowledge that the aerosol issue is one of the key uncertainties in their understanding.»

Climate sensitivity is a key uncertainty for mitigation scenarios for specific temperature levels.

Among the key uncertainties are that temperature and precipitation are difficult to separate in some cases, or are representative of particular seasons rather than full years.

Such work, as shown in TS.6 Key Uncertainties, includes humble statements that are distorted and even lied about in the SPM.

His report, «Key Uncertainties, Milestones and Issues in the CCSP,» was originally available on the American Petroleum Institute's website, but has since been removed.

On the demand side, import levels of China, India, Korea and Japan are key uncertainties.

A key uncertainty that filters into several of the outlook contributions is the fate of first - year ice and in particular the extent to which it melts back completely or survives the summer.

Here we present a new approach for constraining this key uncertainty by combining ensemble simulations of the last glacial maximum (LGM) with paleo - data.

This analysis shows the extent of the differences between the three scenarios when it comes to the gas sector, identifies the key uncertainties affecting the role of gas and specifies the challenges faced by the gas industry.