Sentences with phrase «large spatial scales»

The study incorporates multiple environmental drivers — notably climate and fire — at large spatial scales for a significant number of species and populations.

So if you want to understand the average behavior of that system you need to sample at a much larger spatial scale over larger time intervals than was previously appreciated.

Measuring noise pollution is a challenging task, given its diffusive nature and since sound is not easily monitored remotely over large spatial scales; it can't be measured by satellite or other visual observations.

Journal: L. McClenachan et al. «Ghost reefs: Nautical charts document large spatial scale of coral reef loss over 240 years.»

In fact, Min et al. used leading empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs; a type of principal component analysis) in their attribution analysis for extreme precipitation, implying large spatial scales.

«REDD can only be implemented across very large spatial scales if REDD revenues are substantially more than profits from agricultural commodities.

We conclude that the weekend effect is a real short time scale and large spatial scale geophysical phenomenon, which is necessarily human in origin.

We highlighted a powerful conservation tool that simultaneously brings social security for local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation at large spatial scales.

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

Study co-author Lars Gutow, a biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, said that gaining assistance from tourists was an «inexpensive and efficient way to compile data on a large spatial scale.»

Systematic instrumental errors, such as changes in measurement practices or urbanisation, could be more important, especially earlier in the record (Chapter 3), although these errors are calculated to be relatively small at large spatial scales.

However, detection and attribution analyses based on climate simulations that include these forcings, (e.g., Stott et al., 2006b), continue to detect a significant anthropogenic influence in 20th - century temperature observations even though the near - surface patterns of response to black carbon aerosols and sulphate aerosols could be so similar at large spatial scales (although opposite in sign) that detection analyses may be unable to distinguish between them (Jones et al., 2005).

Current computer models can faithfully simulate many of the important aspects of the global climate system, such as changes in global average temperature over many decades; the march of the seasons on large spatial scales; and how the climate responds to large - scale forcing, like a large volcanic eruption.

The new approach combines several remote - sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape — above and below ground — in high resolution and over large spatial scales.

The new approach combines several remote - sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape, above and below ground, in high resolution and over large spatial scales.

On large spatial scales, heat stress is the most common factor causing bleaching, which is predicted to increase in frequency and severity as the climate warms.

There is a strong relationship between surface air temperature and TOA forcing (at least at large spatial scales).

Also, the confidence in projections is higher for some variables (e.g. temperature) than for others (e.g. precipitation), and it is higher for larger spatial scales and longer time averaging periods.