Sentences with phrase «larger than observations»

However, even state - of - the - art climate models (GCMs) have systematic errors in simulation of different climate characteristics, which are often much larger than observations uncertainties (Covey et al. 2003).

Not exact matches

One of the few historical observations on which there is a large consensus is that companionate marriage of the last 150 years — in which the marriage relationship is based on intimate love alone — has created more problems than it has solved, carrying within it the seeds of its own destruction.

SMMIS contains over 500,000 observations, so even though fewer than 2 % had a planned home birth, the absolute number of planned home births was large enough to give reasonable power to statistical tests.

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

In February, Kepler will release its first major set of observations; early word is that the data will include tentative identification of several hundred planets that are just slightly larger than our own.

Observations revealed that D. villosus took a far greater toll on the other species in its tank than did G. duebeni, killing and mangling large numbers of blue - tailed damselflies, water boatmen, fish leeches and water hoglice.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

The research team compared these sounds against the largest available database of orangutan calls collected from over 12,000 hours of observations of more than 120 orangutans from 15 wild and captive populations.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

Observations and results Were the craters always larger than the meteorites that formed them?

Other studies have attempted to determine how the research activities of MSTP graduates differ from those of other groups of MD and MD / PhD recipients.7 - 10 Although the data from these studies suggest that a large majority of MSTP graduates hold appointments in clinical departments, and that most have clinical responsibilities, MSTP graduates are less likely than other groups of physician - investigators to publish in journals containing high proportions of clinical observations and clinical studies.

Observations of two galaxies made with the National Science Foundation - funded Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope suggest that large galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously thoLarge Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope suggest that large galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously tholarge galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously thought.

Mapping and seafloor observations revealed that, of the material that erupted, which was nearly 1.5 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, about 75 percent floated to the surface and drifted away with winds and currents.

An adjustment is necessary because as climate models are continually evaluated against observations evidence has become emerged that the strength of their aerosol - cloud interactions are too strong (i.e. the models» «aerosol indirect effect» is larger than inferred from observations).

The image also suggests that low mass brown dwarfs — objects that have the awkward distinction of being too large to be called planets and too small to be categorized as stars — may be more common than observations so far suggest.

Shoemaker added that the new observation provides «further confirmation of the existence of stellar - mass black holes that are larger than 20 solar masses» — objects which he said scientists «didn't know existed before LIGO detected them.»

This observation clashes with the fact that men are significantly larger than women.

The global increase in ocean heat content during the period 1993 to 2003 in two ocean models constrained by assimilating altimetric sea level and other observations (Carton et al., 2005; Köhl et al., 2006) is considerably larger than these observational estimates.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

It may be that the galaxy we have observed, EGSY8p7, which is unusually (intrinsically) luminous, has special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» said Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who helped undertake the key observations.

Radar observations find that about 80 percent of the surface is covered by lava flows with a few Australia - size uplands of two to five km (1.2 to 3.1 miles) high, and there are large shield volcanoes that rise above the plains as high as 11 km (6.8 miles)-- higher than Mount Everest's eight km (five miles) above Earth sea - level.

After initial observations led to the belief it was larger than Earth, the recently - created IAU accepted the object as a planet.

Researchers collected more than 55,000 observations of social interactions of spotted hyenas over a 20 year period in Kenya, making this one of the largest to date of social network dynamics in any non-human species.

The coronal magnetic reconnection hypothesis can explain the observations via the notion that superflares and solar flares share the same origin and that the two activity distributions therefore are within similar range, but that superflares mainly take place on stars with activity levels larger than the Sun.

Here, we use observations from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST, also called the Guoshoujing Telescope at Xinglong observatory, China) 33 to show that superflare stars are generally characterized by larger chromospheric emissions than other stars, including the Sun.

The combination of small telescopes optimized for SZE observations and large correlator bandwidth make this system roughly 100 times more sensitive than the previous SZE system on the OVRO (10.4 m dishes) and BIMA (6.1 m dishes) telescopes.

In order to catch this particular FRB in the act, astronomers had to use the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, located near Socorro, New Mexico, which provided more than 80 hours of observation time.

When I lecture on heart health, I draw from nutrition studies such as the Adventist Health Study of nearly 100,000 participants, the EPIC - Heart trials with more than 500,000 subjects, and other large collections of observations.

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»

Downsizing sees Payne and Taylor working on a larger palette than usual, but like their shrunken characters, the filmmakers» humor and their sharp observation of the human condition have survived the change in size and scope.

In general, survey results based on larger numbers of observations are more precise, that is, less prone to sampling variance than those made across groups with fewer numbers of observations.

Variation within regions Another key observation to come from the report is that the difference in academisation within regions is larger than variation between regions.

In general, survey responses based on larger numbers of observations are more precise, that is, less prone to sampling variance, than those made across groups with fewer numbers of observations.

Numbers from the largest available database of classroom observations, and the striking conclusions experts draw from more than 2 million data points

Is this observation linked to the possibility that a larger than normal percentage of sexually tantalizing reading material is bought over the internet?

Also, note the observation that the long - term Treasury fund, with no credit risk but large term risk, has a higher standard deviation of annual returns than does the high - yield corporate bond fund, which has significant credit risk but much less term risk.

It and the corticosteroids have the largest number of proponents, but it has been my observation that most dogs with panosteitis do not respond to these anymore than they do to anything else.

In addition, some newer behavioral research and ongoing observations at large - scale bird rescue / placement organizations now suggest that parrots who are hand - fed as babies may actually make worse long - term human companions than parent - reared chicks.

As we strolled into a large exhibition space filled with paintings — more than any other medium, a friend made an interesting observation.

However, the observed amplification of rainfall extremes was found to be substantially larger in the observations than what is predicted by current models.

In the short observation from the Mayo clinic which you cite, it says Caffeine only has a diuretic effect if you consume large amounts of it — more than 500 to 600 milligrams (or 4 to 7 cups of coffee) a day.

In 2015 and 2016, OCO - 2 recorded atmospheric carbon dioxide increases that were 50 percent larger than the average increase seen in recent years preceding these observations.

What if Emanuel's observations turn out to mean that the effect of SST on hurricane intensity is larger than the theoretical prediction?

Pursuing this last point, it is clear that in the coming few decades we are going to be continually confronted with observations of trends or events of just this type — relatively short records; much larger magnitudes than our models suggest — raising the question of whether, on the one hand, models / theories are underestimating the rapidity of the response or missing something fundamental or, conversely, whether it is internal variability.

So, for CMIP5, the diagnosis of ECS involves a much larger change in forcing than the period of observation (ie., ~ 40 % increase in the «real world», vs. a 400 % increase in the diagnostic test of model sensitivity.)

Hubble's millionth observation records the spectral signatures of the gas giant HAT - P - 7b, a planet larger than Jupiter orbiting a star hotter than our sun.

To leave out the polar regions, and specifically the northern hemisphere, which, both by observation and by measurement has seen a larger percentage warming than the mid-latitudes is to slice the greatest area of dynamic change related to global warming right out of the equation.

This discrepancy is associated with simulated increases in daily maximum temperature being larger than observed, and could be associated with simulated increases in cloud cover being smaller than observed (Braganza et al., 2004; see Section 3.4.3.1 for observations), a result supported by other analyses (Dai et al., 1999; Stone and Weaver, 2002, 2003).

For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations.

Independent observations by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego show that not only did 2015 have the largest increase, but also that the annual increase was larger than two ppm for each of the last four years, another first.