Sentences with phrase «model scenario limits»

PNNL's model scenario limits the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels only 65 percent of what they would reach if no future emissions controls are implemented.

Not exact matches

Our analysis has modelled a limited number of alcohol taxation scenarios that may be considered politically feasible.

Most model scenarios make a big assumption: that rising agricultural productivity and vegetable - based diets will limit the need for new farmland.

Goodfellow has been working on machine - learning models to let computers invent more dynamic narratives, which could go beyond limited scenarios such as planning out a series of chess moves — something computers have done extremely well for decades.

This fact may lead may limit the predictive capacity of the models bot more research is needed: «It remains to be shown how ignoring core parts of the industrial system influences the feasibility of certain scenarios to mitigate climate change.

On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in making judgments on this point if the IPCC had modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which made more moderate assumptions about growth in output and energy use.

The current limits provide us with a unique opportunity to explore the extremely faint fluxes of photons expected in some astrophysical scenarios and they challenge the most recent models of super-heavy dark matter.

The model showed this scenario to be at the «limits of feasibility», with many of the model runs limited by the difficulty of rapidly deploying low - carbon technologies, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), in the near term.

Forward Wright - Fisher simulations are powerful in their ability to model complex demography and selection scenarios, but suffer from slow execution on the CPU, thus limiting their usefulness.

The LED lights that come with the Limited and Technology models offer fair to good visibility in all scenarios, IIHS says, but the halogen lights that are on the base Premium trim performed worse and earned a score of «Poor.»

In fact, it might not be a scenario limited to only the XOOM as with the launch of the iPad3 and Google's next generation Ice Cream Sandwich tablets scheduled later in the year, there are further price drops that can be expected from other vendors in order to make sure that their soon to be outdated models don't get piled up.

One of the most interesting scenarios raised is that if the government is intent on limiting the capabilities of the agency model, publishers need to figure out what other tools they can use to combat the growing dominance of Amazon.

ln his own financial modeling, ValuePenguin's credit card analyst, Rob Harrow, finds the avalanche method works best to limit interest paid in most scenarios.

On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in making judgments on this point if the IPCC had modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which made more moderate assumptions about growth in output and energy use.

Me, either, and neither does any scholar of such things; all we can do, basically, is write qualitative scenarios, perhaps buttressed by some limited qualitative modeling.)

Under your different model scenarios, is there even one that has China not emitting more than the «danger limit»?

Though the study's authors concede the study is limited by the «availability of data and the necessity to make assumptions to model likely scenarios,» they carried out sensitivity analysis to assess the resuts, and also found that in all scenarios tested there was a net benefit (i.e. increased longevity) for Bicing users.

If the issue is limited to the evaluating, post hoc, the accuracy of any respective computer model, then I would certainly agree that any of the prospective assumptions made long ago as to emissions scenarios are irrelevant.

Like the 2 % C warming limit, it seems plucked from the ether without adequate modeling — perhaps spurred by fears of the horrific but unlikely RCP8.5 nightmare scenario.

Using the model Acclimate he contributes to studying the resilience of the global supply system leading to identification of possiblities and limits of global adaptation strategies along different warming scenarios.

Our Producer - Limited Profile has future fossil - fuel production that is lower than all 40 of the IPCC scenarios, so it seems that producer limitations could provide useful constraints in climate modeling.

A recent study in Nature Geoscience by Will Wieder and three colleagues performed modelling to determine what effect limiting N and P supplies would have on plant growth in a RCP8.5 scenario.

The relatively small changes in the N2O emissions across regions and scenarios are explained, in part, by a limited capacity of the SRES models to capture drastic shifts in technologies and practices (e.g., new catalytic converters or new manure management systems) that directly impact emission levels.

Jeff Tollefson in Nature points to the 2C scenarios in the fifth IPCC report as a source of hope for policymakers, yet their unreasonable reliance upon negative emissions technologies like BECCS — a systemic bias, as Chris Mooney in the Washington Post reports — suggest there's limited or distorted hope in models.

This report reviews a range of modelling scenarios for future GHG emissions, identifies opportunities and recommends lines of action to harmonize energy policy objectives with climate goals that meet the needs for a limited global carbon budget.

In practice, this sequential and conditional approach to representing uncertainty in climate scenarios has at least one severe limitation: at each stage of the cascade, only a limited number of the conditional outcomes have been explicitly modelled.

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

And re-review the confidence limits on the forecasts / predictions / scenarios with a complete re-evaluation of the areas of uncertainty and their impact on the models.

Lower map shows model projections of the change in storage by 2100 as a result of nitrogen and phosphorus limits, under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5).

Not only is this incorrect but is the fatal flaw which greatly limits the skill and accuracy of climate model scenarios or projections.