Sentences with phrase «land model by»

In particular, two commonly used methods for converting cumulus condensate into precipitation can lead to drastically different climate sensitivity, as estimated here with an atmosphere — land model by increasing sea surface temperatures uniformly and examining the response in the top - of - atmosphere energy balance.

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Today the market is shifting once again — and this shift presents the biggest showdown yet between the new digital model epitomized by LendingTree, and the traditional, realtor - and - branch - driven channel to landing a mortgage.

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the «land of the living dead» by never growing (failing to Pivot.)

However, he got a shock when he was fined S$ 15,000, about $ 11,000, after his Model S underwent mandatory emissions testing by Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA).

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This highlights the risk in creating specific land use terms that may quickly become outdated as farmers innovate and develop new, regenerative models that don't fit neatly into the terms dictated by the scheme.

By conserving land, protecting forests for carbon storage and absorption of green house gas emissions, and actively managing our lands for climate resiliency we can act as a model for statewide organizations and land trusts.

The government plans for the new model to be in place by March 2017 and wants all government land and property to transfer to the new body by the end of this parliament.

The plans for city regions to regulate bus services on the model of Transport for London were attacked by Martin Griffiths, the chief executive of Stagecoach, as an «uncosted and unnecessary plan [that] would land people in England's biggest city regions overnight with a tax bill running to hundreds of millions of pounds, as well as leading to higher bus fares.»

Editorial from Greater Syracuse Land Bank Executive Director, Katelyn Wright, outlines challenges faced by land banks across NY and points to Ohio as a model to follow in providing structural support for fighting bliLand Bank Executive Director, Katelyn Wright, outlines challenges faced by land banks across NY and points to Ohio as a model to follow in providing structural support for fighting bliland banks across NY and points to Ohio as a model to follow in providing structural support for fighting blight.

Huss plans to clarify the future of the earth's land ice by extending his model.

The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water.

Using topographic data and sea level models, Franklin modelled the effect of this transition, showing how of a 400 - foot rise in sea level affected the Bahamas, reducing their land area by more than ten-fold.

The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major national climate modeling center.

The new estimates, which are based on an integrated modeling framework that combines information about population, economics, and land use and land productivity, show that Europe could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use by more than 60 % by 2050.

The second model, the TF - X four - seater, is lifted by two foldable helicopterlike rotors and can take off and land without a runway.

By using a combination of crop growth, hydrological, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, researchers found that the estimated land suitable for bioenergy grasses — particularly Miscanthus, the most productive bioenergy crop — is limited, despite its relatively high biomass productivity and low water consumption per unit of ethanol.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simulator.

Those simulations, which included nitrogen limitations in northern hemisphere soils and phosphorus limitations in the tropics, predicted that land plants will absorb 23 % less carbon than is projected by other models.

In the theoretical study, the researchers developed computer models to understand if there are common - place instances when the geckos» ability to hold on to surfaces might be challenged, such as when canopy - dwelling geckos are being chased by a predator and are forced to leap from a tree, hoping to land on a leaf below.

This more detailed and accurate model could help scientists better predict the motion of dunes or manage coastal land threatened by erosion, says physicist Hans Jürgen Herrmann, also of ETH Zürich, who led the research team.

Guan and his research team implemented and evaluated a new maize growth model, represented as the CLM - APSIM model, by combining superior features in both Community Land Model (CLM) and Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APmodel, represented as the CLM - APSIM model, by combining superior features in both Community Land Model (CLM) and Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APmodel, by combining superior features in both Community Land Model (CLM) and Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APModel (CLM) and Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM).

The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.

«These results offer new perspectives in modeling how tetrapods may have taken their first steps onto land, by considering the unique contributions of both the forelimbs and hind limbs,» said lead author Sandy Kawano, a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

The model also identified how environmental factors might contribute to human conflicts by making land open to multiple uses.

«However, it is the bringing together of observations by ecologists, theory from biologists, physics from land surface modellers and climate science in the global modeling, that is revolutionary.»

By providing new data on how CO2 cycles through land and ocean plants, HIPPO will allow researchers to improve the accuracy of their climate models and reduce that uncertainty, Stephens said.

The principle crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1, with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAACland cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAACLand Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].

The observed patterns of warming, including greater warming over land than over the ocean, and their changes over time, are only simulated by models that include anthropogenic forcing.

«Evaluating Global Streamflow Simulations by a Physically - based Routing Model Coupled with the Community Land Model.»

(Bottom left) Multi-model average SST change for LGM PMIP - 2 simulations by five AOGCMs (Community Climate System Model (CCSM), Flexible Global Ocean - Atmosphere - Land System (FGOALS), Hadley Centre Coupled Model (HadCM), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Climate System Model (IPSL - CM), Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)-RRB-.

Developing earth system model land surface process descriptions and improving model parametrisations by means of sophisticated model - data fusion techniques

Brovkin, V., et al., 2006: Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity.

Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.

Warming over land is amplified relative to global mean by a model - dependent amount that is often around 50 %.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Sixty percent of the world's population will likely live in cities by the year 2030, so models like Aerofarms that grow food for urbanites using less land and less transportation are only going to become more important.

She was named Model of the Year by both GQ and the Daily Front Row, landed a major deal with Dior and is on too many covers to count.

Somali - American model Halima Aden has had a pretty insane week: She got signed by major agency IMG, she walked her first runway show for Yeezy, and she landed her first magazine cover.

Imagine summoning Yo - kai by inserting the medal into the Yo - kai Watch ™ Model Zero, discover the wacky world of the Yo - kai by scanning the medal with the Yo - kai Land app, and collect Yo - kai medals and store them in the Yo - kai Watch ™ Medallium Collection Book 2 (book and medals each sold separately).

The director, for one, has been particularly burnt in the past by the theatrical distribution model: Snowpiercer, despite its all - star cast featuring the likes of Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, was landed with a limited US theatrical run, and no UK distribution at all.

When Sakharine attempts to cause a mutiny, Haddock, Tintin and Snowy escape and make their way by land and air to the African country where they encounter another model of the Unicorn.

After being discovered by a modeling agent (Christina Hendricks, Mad Men), Jesse lands a gig with a famed photographer (a barely recognizable Desmond Harrington) and is eventually put in the crosshairs of a fashion mogul (Alessandro Nivola).

It can also be used to gain a CREST award Students initially look at some of the problems caused by climate change then design and make a model of their solution to a problem faced by farmers in Bangladesh... how to grow food even when the land floods.

In this land of «Breaking Bad» and mountain beauty we learned that the best elements of the community school model are already embodied by many of the schools in the Coa...

In this land of «Breaking Bad» and mountain beauty we learned that the best elements of the community school model are already embodied by many of the schools in the Coalition of Community Charter Schools (C3S).

By 1971, Land Rover Defender production hit its all - time peak, at 56,000 cars, as the Series III model arrived.

It's really only UK magazines that continue to obsess over cabin plastics, and apparently remain bamboozled by the fact that a CVT gearbox - something that has been fitted to various Subaru models since the late 1980s - works differently; we continue to read articles which put forward the notion that a Land Rover, with its significantly shorter warranty and known patchy reliability, is the superior choice.

Beneath the Velar's pretty skin is a modified version of the Jaguar F - Pace's mostly aluminum chassis that's been reinforced for off - road competence and is further bolstered by Land Rover's Terrain Response 2 system, which orchestrates goodies like an active rear locking differential, low traction launch system, hill descent control, and an available air suspension with adaptive shocks (standard on V - 6 models)-- all of which work in conjunction with stability control.

Three out of four Land Rover models are on the critically injured list (and the Range Rover Sport didn't miss by much).