Sentences with phrase «larger fraction of»

We have found evidence that a reduction in the ocean's capacity to absorb anthropogenic CO2 is ominous; a larger fraction of anthropogenic emissions will remain in the atmosphere, exacerbating the global warming due to industrial activity.

In mountain regions that are warming, as most are, a larger fraction of precipitation falls as rain rather than as snow, which means lower stream flows in spring and summer.

Therefore we a likely over time to see a much larger fraction of the IPCC «unexplained warming» attributed to «data error» than what RC is currently suggesting.

«Optical depth» is a measure of opacity: higher optical depth means greater opacity (a larger fraction of radiation being scattered or absorbed, rather than passing through unaltered).

CL at # 45 wrote: «As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.»

Otherwise the attribution statements would have claimed greater confidence and anthropogenic causation of a larger fraction of the observed warming.

Another difference is that a larger fraction of China's electricity comes from burning coal, which is more polluting.

The variations are stronger because of the northern hemisphere's larger fraction of land, which has a lower heat capacity than the ocean and thus responds more quickly to variations.

The distinctly larger fraction of medium sand - size quartz grains present within the A laminae, as well as the abrupt transitions between A and B components suggest that the rhythmites represent deposition during alternating high - energy and lower - energy seasons, which is consistent with a monsoonal precipitation pattern.

That may have been partly because of the steady accumulation of knowledge, and also because the public in wealthy countries had become better educated (a larger fraction of young people was now going to college than had gone to high school at the start of the century).

Because of ocean chemistry the size of the initial input is important: higher emissions imply that a larger fraction of CO2 will remain in the atmosphere.

Not all individual proxy records indicate that the recent warmth is unprecedented, although a larger fraction of geographically diverse sites experienced exceptional warmth during the late 20th century than during any other extended period from A.D. 900 onward.»

Convection due to a diurnal cycle can cool the surface during the day and warm it at night; that is, it permits a larger fraction of the atmosphere to buffer the diurnal temperature changes.

As we make our vehicles more efficient, this «embedded» energy becomes an even larger fraction of its lifetime energy consumption.

The skin layer will absorb a larger fraction of the intensity coming from closer to horizontal than from closer to vertical.

Warming must occur below the tropopause to increase the net LW flux out of the tropopause to balance the tropopause - level forcing; there is some feedback at that point as the stratosphere is «forced» by the fraction of that increase which it absorbs, and a fraction of that is transfered back to the tropopause level — for an optically thick stratosphere that could be significant, but I think it may be minor for the Earth as it is (while CO2 optical thickness of the stratosphere alone is large near the center of the band, most of the wavelengths in which the stratosphere is not transparent have a more moderate optical thickness on the order of 1 (mainly from stratospheric water vapor; stratospheric ozone makes a contribution over a narrow wavelength band, reaching somewhat larger optical thickness than stratospheric water vapor)(in the limit of an optically thin stratosphere at most wavelengths where the stratosphere is not transparent, changes in the net flux out of the stratosphere caused by stratospheric warming or cooling will tend to be evenly split between upward at TOA and downward at the tropopause; with greater optically thickness over a larger fraction of optically - significant wavelengths, the distribution of warming or cooling within the stratosphere will affect how such a change is distributed, and it would even be possible for stratospheric adjustment to have opposite effects on the downward flux at the tropopause and the upward flux at TOA).

Moreover, it would have to change over time because the thermometer observations have covered a larger fraction of Earth's area with time (see Figure 3).

Wili: As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.

Maybe the wikipedia energy densities assumed a larger fraction of inorganic ash?

Is this because in the past with average precip area larger, precipitating systems that were mostly oceanic dumped some larger fraction of rain over land, but with precip areas shrinking this is no longer the case?

And the larger the fraction of total capital under index fund management, the greater and more likely the distortion, and thus the higher the potential returns to traditional managed investments would become.

For most individuals, the best way to increase the annual return over time is to allocate a larger fraction of their funds, on average, to higher return types of investments such as stocks.

If you want to optimize the tax result for options exercised in 2010 you need to hold a larger fraction of the shares.

A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the school amplifies the effect of Long - Term Orientation on educational performance.

A working paper from Jonathan Roth, a doctoral student at Harvard University, examines the impact of the rise in teacher retirements immediately following the passage of Act 10.68 He finds that in the 2011 - 12 school year, teacher value - added measures in math improved among school - grade levels in elementary schools in which a larger fraction of teachers retired.

But veteran teachers are also concerned that longer days don't work for the youngest students, and that an absent teacher or student also loses a larger fraction of the school week.

The larger fraction of each pair is underlined.

Indeed, they have «trickled up» to encompass not just a much larger fraction of the African American community but a large swath of the white community as well.

«It appears that that relation does not work very well with extremely massive black holes; they are a larger fraction of the host galaxy's mass,» Ma said.

Because it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler, smaller, red - dwarf type stars, and because such stars are much more common in the Milky Way than Sun - like stars, nearby stars will predominantly be red dwarfs.

Uncertainties are expected to be reduced in future releases of the catalogue, when a larger fraction of the stars will have seismically - determined evolutionary status classifications.

Stars that contain a larger fraction of heavy elements (i.e., any element aside from hydrogen and helium) are more likely to possess detectable gas giant planets.

Of course, the larger fraction of the exoplanet community thinks about this challenge, the more likely it is that we can solve the problem to inform upcoming Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope observations, which may then lead us to sampling habitable zone exo - earth atmospheres within the next five years.

If true, more than just Earth's thin crust might play a role in this key cycle — a much larger fraction of the planet might be involved as well.

And, Head notes, Orientale is not even the biggest lunar basin — a larger impact such as the one that formed the Imbrium Basin would affect an even larger fraction of the terrain.

You will represent a larger fraction of their workforce and will, consequently, be valued more.

They also found that today individual trackers cover a much larger fraction of the web.

But the planets surface will be warmer, because a larger fraction of that infrared will be blocked by the blanket of greenhouse gases.

Weightlifters learn to suppress these signals, enabling them to use a larger fraction of the muscle's potential in lifting.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

A larger fraction of younger voters are descended from post-1980 immigration.

These Americans (who are becoming a larger fraction of the electorate every year) have a particularly skewed view of our political debate.

As years go by, an ever - larger fraction of Americans will only hear about the news from liberal - leaning outlets.

Reaching this group is key because they (and their younger brothers and sisters) are going to be making up an ever - larger fraction of our politically active population.

A larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters favored restricting late - term abortion than voted for Mitt Romney.

This helps explain why the trades in these companies» shares are taking up a larger fraction of total share volume.

Both the perceived change in credit availability compared to a year ago and one - year ahead credit availability expectations improved in September, with a larger fraction of respondents reporting easier credit conditions.

A policy shift toward more skills - based immigration would probably result in a larger fraction of immigrants coming from Asia and a smaller fraction from Latin America, not a large shift toward Europe, and certainly not toward Norway.

The other problem with Trudeau and Morneau styling themselves as champions of the working class is that they may forget that they, and a large fraction of the people they know, are fabulously wealthy.