Sentences with word «nao»

Tim Burr, head of NAO said that the government should have planned the program more efficiently.
Today's NAO report found that overall performance was improving but that G4S and Serco were still failing to meet some of their key performance targets.
The negative NAO index phase shows a weak subtropical high and a weak Icelandic low.
NAO says schools in England face 8 % real - terms cut per pupil by 2019 - 20 but have not been told how savings might be made
The Positive NAO index phase shows a stronger than usual subtropical high pressure center and a deeper than normal Icelandic low.
The existence of positive NAO values during the months of March to August, when the grape is developing and maturing, reduced the capacity of obtaining top quality cava,» Raimundo Real told SINC.
is a group exhibition envisioned by Rafa Esparza that includes new work by Carmen Argote, Beatriz Cortez, Esparza, Timo Fahler, Eamon Ore - Giron; new and existing photographs by Star Montana; a major body of work by Nao Bustamante; the contributions of adoberos / artists Sandro Cánovas, Maria Garcia, Ruben Rodriguez, as well as many hands from the community...
In this study, the Granger causality test is used to examine the effects of ENSO, PDO, and NAO on global drought conditions.
# 18discuss: Project X Forum 8 Lost and Found with Nao Bustamante Wednesday, October 14, 7:30 - 9:30 pm 18th Street Arts Center Curator's Lounge 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, 90404 RSVP for this free event is essential.
The fact that the 40 - year (2016 — 2055) and 50 - year (2016 — 2065) SLP trend regressions do not differ significantly from their scaled - interannual counterparts suggests that there may be an additional source of multi-decadal variability that is influencing the statistics of simulated NAO trends over the next 30 years.
Wednesday, laugh (or maybe be scared) with Nao Bustamante at MoMA.
There are more than 45 songs included in the game, with many genres to choose from, as Nao Miyazawa from co-publisher acttil explained:
Dr Chris Chalmers is one of the academics involved in a research project looking at the impact of NAO robots, involving South Australian schools.
Yet it is easy to exaggerate the PAC / NAO influence.
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However the negative NAO also implies a spin - down of the subtropical gyre and therefore a drop in the pole - ward transport of warm tropical waters.
«Until the department meets its targets and can show how its approach is improving trainee recruitment, quality and retention, we can not conclude that the arrangements for training new teachers are value for money,» said NAO head Amyas Morse.
Most recorded events appear to be linked with cooling episodes, mostly in winter, a transition to or from a negative winter NAO mode, a positive AMO mode.
«While part of the uneven seasonal North Atlantic Oscillation changes might be due to natural random fluctuations in atmospheric circulation, the statistically highly unusual clustering of extreme NAO values in early winter, as well as extreme high summer Greenland Blocking Index values since 2000, suggest a more sustained, systematic change in the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation that may be influenced by longer - term external factors.
A recent study of instrumental time series revealed NAO [North Atlantic Oscillation] as main factor for a strong relation between winter temperature, precipitation and river discharge in central Norway over the past 50 years.
The reasons for the regional differences in historical scaled - interannual and future 30 - year trend regressions are unclear, since as noted above the model's interannual NAO variability does not appear to be affected by climate change between 1850 and 2045.
With a somewhat colder Gulf Stream Atlantic depressions are confined to the Atlantic Northwest (so NAO does not turn negative), where these may feed a ridge of high air pressure stretching from the Azores to Scandinavia and North Russia — one that proves more stable than we had anticipated two weeks back.
Every conceivable route of transmission — by air, food, water and vector — was influenced by NAO conditions.
Anne Markt is a Certified Holistic Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and is currently working with a Functional Medicine Doctor as well as studying Functional Medicine techniques for her practice at NAO and Be Well's patients / Clients.
But as much as I love the Earth - invading, Gundam - model - building alien frogs, my pick this week has to go to Moon and Blood, a new series by Nao Yazawa just from Digital Manga Publishing.
The underlying message was this: «I want to invest in ETFs like NAO.
Here, σ is computed for each ensemble member individually and then averaged over all 40 members, but nearly identical results are obtained by appending the detrended NAO time series from all 40 ensemble members into one long record and then computing σ (not shown).
Following convention, a positive NAO state is defined when SLP over the northern (central) North Atlantic is below (above) normal, and vice versa (e.g., Hurrell 1995).
I will note that indices such as AO and NAO showed extremely low channel fraction variance of the signal.
In this way, we can obtain the expected range of projected climate trends using the interannual statistics of the observed NAO record in combination with the model's radiatively - forced response (given by the ensemble - mean of the 40 simulations).
This approach provides a hybrid assessment of the combined influence of anthropogenic climate change [determined from the ensemble - mean of the CESM - LE or from the multi-model Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) archive (Taylor et al. 2012)-RSB- and observed NAO variability on climate over the coming decades.
MASKED THEATRE The 50 - centimetre - tall, white plastic Nao humanoid (see photo) looks adorable.
Yakuza 6 seems to be gearing up to be a top game as there are a few confirmed actors set to appear include: Kazuma Kiryu (voiced by Takaya Kuroda) Haruka Sawamura (voiced by Rie Kugimiya) Yuuta Utsumi (voiced by Tatsuya Fujiwara) Takumi Someya (voiced by Shun Oguri) Kiyomi Kasahara (voiced by Yoko Maki) Nagumo Tsuyoshi (voiced by Hiroyuki Miyasako) Tsuneo Iwami (voiced by Nao Omori) Touru Hirose (voiced by Beat Takeshi) In addition to...
Finally, we assess the extent to which NAO variability changes with climate change, using the CESM - LE as our test bed.
The first EOF mode of low - frequency precipitation variability over North America is accompanied by a negative NAO mode in SLP (Fig. 6d).
NAO chief Amyas Morse said: «The continuing problems highlighted in my report show that, if it is to make the most of the money available, the department has more to do to address its longstanding issues on project performance.»
Nao wants nothing to do with the gruff and frightening Taiga, but he suddenly presents her with a huge bouquet of flowers and asks her to date him — with marriage in mind!
NCAR publishes NAO data going back to 1860.
A negative NAO makes the Jet Stream more likely to move in a big, wavy pattern across the U.S., Canada and the Atlantic, causing the kind of big southward dip that occurred during Sandy.
But showing that robots — in this case, off - the - shelf Nao models — can tackle logical puzzles requiring an element of self - awareness is an important step towards building machines that understand their place in the world.
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