Sentences with phrase «measured less variation»

The probe's laser range - finder measured less variation in the height of the planet's surface than it did in the first flyby in January, which imaged a different part of the planet.

Not exact matches

He conveniently neglects to point out that the seasonal variation observed was less than 0.1 %, and that the measure variation linked to solar flares was less than 0.5 %.

The craft — named Ebb and Flow in a NASA - sponsored contest won by schoolchildren in Montana — have been measuring subtle variations in the moon's gravitational field in unprecedented detail since soon after they entered lunar orbit a little less than a year ago.

The results showed that the 5 laboratories that used finger - prick capillary blood samples to measure changes in postprandial glycemia obtained similar GI values for the same foods and less intersubject variation.

The coefficient of variation for repeated measures at baseline was less than 10 %.

A recent study found that initial teacher quality (as measured by student progress in the teacher's first year of practice) accounted for less than 5 % of the variation in teacher quality five years later.

There is not the slightest influence of any natural cycle, as long as the inflows are equal to the outflows, which is nearly the case: the variation in net sink rate (0.5 - 3.5 GtC) over a year is less than the increase measured in the atmosphere...

Perhaps the sub-decadal escalator steps we see like the ones http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:101/mean:103/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:29/mean:31/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1979/to:1988/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1987.5/to:1995.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1996.5/to:2001.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2003/to:2008/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:72/trend from ’79 to» 88, ’87 to» 95, ’96 to» 01, ’03 to ’08 and in the last six years all forming part of the longest and sharpest sustained rising global interpolated surface weather station temperature rise on record tell us not to be overly interested in a short - term variation in what is, after all, much less measured and much more difficult to measure?

As they state: «Satellite - measured skin temperatures are related to the surface air temperatures but do not necessarily have the same seasonal and diurnal variations, since they are more coupled to surface energy exchange processes and less to the overlying atmospheric column.

First, for females there was very little variation in the dependent variables, with less than one percent of the sample of females scoring two standard deviations above the mean on the outcome measures.