Sentences with phrase «likely upper bound»

The IPCC estimates a likely upper bound for sea level rise, for instance, at about a meter, but under much stronger warming scenarios.

Not exact matches

Where would costs likely fall between the unrealistic upper and lower bounds?

I've said this before and I'll say it again: I think it's very likely that if $ 9.99 becomes the upper bound for pricing on eBooks, then you are going to find $ 9.99 becomes the standard price for eBooks, period, because publishers who lose money up at the top of the pricing scale will need to recoup that money somewhere else, and the bottom of the pricing scale is a fine place to do it.

Slow approximates the consensus of current climate models, intermediate is what they consider more likely, and fast is their upper bound.

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment reported a likely upper SLR bound in the year 2100 near 0.6 m (meter).

The right - hand panel shows ranges of global average temperature change above pre-industrial, using (i) «best estimate» climate sensitivity of 3 °C (black line in middle of shaded area), (ii) upper bound of likely range of climate sensitivity of 4.5 °C (red line at top of shaded area)(iii) lower bound of likely range of climate sensitivity of 2 °C (blue line at bottom of shaded area).

Would that rational and objective approach involve using an upper bound for climate sensitivity of 18.5 C and deeming it as equally likely as say, 1C or 2C?

The IPCC AR4 states that equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely (> 66 %) to lie in the range 2 — 4.5 C and very unlikely (< 10 %) to lie below 1.5 C. Annan and Hargreaves demonstrate that the the widely - used approach of a uniform prior fails to adequately represent «ignorance» and generates rather pathological results which depend strongly on the selected upper bound.

We consider that this represents an upper bound, because it is likely that the rate of seepage from any reservoir will decrease with time as the surrounding water table rises, as assumed by Sahagian (2000).

The synthesis in section 13.8 also says that neither a «very likely» range nor upper bound can be defined.

As described in the table above and graph below, these scenarios provide a guide to the upper and lower bounds of likely outcomes for this year's mean temperature anomaly.

However, if bulls fail to breakout and sustain above the lifetime highs, we are likely to witness a few days of range - bound trading between $ 0.61 on the lower end and $ 0.88268 on the upper end.