Sentences with phrase «multiple decades of observations»

Although the impact of SAM events over the short term was an interesting finding, it was the long - term trend over multiple decades of observations that gave a crucial indication of the changes occurring in the Southern Ocean.

Not exact matches

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Interannual observations don't suffer from the problems of stitching together data from multiple datasources over decades, hence they are not as likely to contain a bias.