Sentences with phrase «modelling scenarios for»

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.

By combining all the data, they can model scenarios for the future, which can help regional managers to make informed decisions.

In other words, even after the climate has hit bottom, IPCC will still be prattling on about the good old days (or general climate model scenarios for 2100).

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In most models the ideal scenario for organizations is to get as many engaged employees as possible.

Our models compare and contrast multiple forecast scenarios so clients can assess the valuation impact of different forecasts for revenue growth, margins and capital allocation strategies.

Though it's anyone's guess how the data might influence the Fed's thinking about the pace of rate hikes, the contrasting views of policymakers suggest that now may be time for investors to model the impact of the three scenarios on their portfolios.

Finally, we inverted our model to calculate the sustainable withdrawal rate (the maximum rate at which a given portfolio may be drawn down without depleting the portfolio before the end of the 35 - year retirement horizon) for each of the 100 scenarios.

The Bank's usual practice is to assume for our projection that oil prices will remain stable and use our economic models to test alternative scenarios.

MS&T utilizes high tech tools for training combat soldiers, assessing medical practitioners, and simulating computer programs and models for how they would perform in real world scenarios.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

The Conference Board and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in partnership with The SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, developed a scenario model that companies can use to enhance the gender diversity of their boards.

Expecting this scenario to unfold is highly optimistic for any company, much less one with a broken business model.

Given the above «status quo» scenario, the VALUATION model I developed for silver prices over the past century is relevant.

Lead generation, lead nurturing, and content marketing can each be enhanced for effectiveness with buyer scenario modeling.

After adjusting for these hidden liabilities, we can model multiple purchase price scenarios.

The model linked here details a hypothetical payback for investors, with several variables, such as revenue and net income margins, which can be altered for a number of potential scenarios for a Profit Sharing Unit.

However, in order to both keep the model as simple as possible and give predictions that are in reality a best - case scenario, our model simply assumes that each household's income grows at a steady, fixed rate each year, that retirement savings grow and accumulate returns at a steady pace, etc. (For more detail on the values used in the model for growth in home values, retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix beloFor more detail on the values used in the model for growth in home values, retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix belofor growth in home values, retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix below).

Accessing CSIRO's expertise in energy research and modelling capabilities through the scenario planning process enabled the partner to identify multiple new business opportunities resulting in competitive advantages for their business today and into the future.

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

For the study, Dr. Toohey and his colleagues from GEOMAR and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particlFor the study, Dr. Toohey and his colleagues from GEOMAR and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particlfor Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particles.

This weather - based model was then used to predict the impact on severity of the disease of future weather scenarios for the period from 2020 to 2050.

A study released last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres used three different models to run the same SSCE scenario in which sea - salt engineering was used in the low - latitude oceans to keep top - of - atmosphere radiative forcing at the 2020 level for 50 years and was then abruptly turned off for 20 years.

As for matching the Lake Ryuuoo geologic record, she adds, «Our model earthquake scenarios showed the Bungo Channel region subsiding seven feet and lowering Lake Ryuuoo's barrier beach from 13 to six feet, such that a tsunami with a feasible height for an inland region easily flooded the lake.»

This enabled the team to estimate how temperature - related mortality rates will change under alternative scenarios of climate change, defined by the four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for climate modelling and research in 2014.

The study used simulations from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) run at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and examined warming scenarios ranging from 1.5 degrees Celsius all the way to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

To better plan for potential effects due to climate change, scientists using the North American Breeding Bird Survey and Audubon Christmas Bird Count employed correlative distribution modeling, to assess geographic range shifts for nearly 600 North American bird species during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons under a range of future climate change scenarios through the end of the century.

The second was a scenario modeled for a future of increased expansion of industrial farms growing crops like oil palm, a product that is blamed for significant forest losses in other nations like Indonesia.

A new study by Duke University researchers suggests that this type of scenario makes a person less likely to remember what halted the action — for example, the make and model of the car in the blind spot.

To produce visualizations that show temperature and precipitation changes similar to those included in the IPCC report, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation calculated average temperature and precipitation changes from models that ran the four different emissions scenarios.

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

Intrigued, Schneider took a summer job as a computer programmer for planetary scientist S. I. Rasool, who asked him to model both grim scenarios.

To date, the group, known as the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC), has created a 173 - pound adult model and continues to make updates for a broader range of body types and scenarios.

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.

Then we told the model, given our scenario for 2035, tell us the most economical way to meet the total energy demand of the community.»

In the new work, Surabi Menon of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and colleagues used aerosol data collected from 46 ground stations in China to assess four different climate modeling scenarios.

His next project is to run the model for a future - case scenario.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

The research team then modelled three different scenarios of seasonal suitability for mosquito - borne transmission of Zika virus.

In their newly published study, the U-M researchers examined cost, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for different types of 60 - watt - equivalent bulbs and created a computer model to generate multiple replacement scenarios, which were then analyzed.

Still, «no matter what you do it's very, very hard in our model to find a scenario where dye is kept within the Gulf for a period of longer than six months.»

He said Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently is leading an emissions modeling effort that is devising scenarios for ways both Brazil and others can achieve maximum ambition in the years after 2020, and said «our expectation is to have some very good ideas by the end of 2014.»

For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.

Including the elevation effects in the model increases the estimated sea - level rise by a small but significant amount (5 % enhancement of melt by 2100 and 10 % by 2200 for a climate warming scenario).

For her study on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model.

The most catastrophic scenario for such planet migration, dubbed the Nice model (after the French city), has been gaining ground of late.

In using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

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.

The new study relies on the IIASA energy system model MESSAGE in order to explore a variety of long - term scenarios for the development of oil prices up to 2050.

For example, in a simulated world where the atmospheric CO2 levels were double today's values — a scenario many scientists believe likely — models predict that Earth will warm by more than 2 °C.