Sentences with phrase «not sufficient observations»

For example, there are not sufficient observations of the uptake of heat, particularly into the deep ocean, that would be one of the possible mechanisms to explain this warming hiatus.»

Not exact matches

But, in the interests of consistency, we shall only invent new objects when we can not escape from doing so; usually, it is sufficient slightly to modify the description of our previous objects, e.g., when we modify the definition of the atom to accommodate it to new observations about radioactivity or atom - smashing, or new types of chemical combination.

Each spacecraft's observations alone weren't sufficient to model the shocks.

«What we find is that observations today are not sufficient to be able to see change in the ocean - carbon sink,» McKinley explains.

This observation suggests that the low protein intake was not sufficient to allow for tissue recovery from the acute toxic effects.

«Quality assurance and quality improvement arrangements, including the observation of teaching and learning, have not resulted in sufficient improvements since the previous inspection.»

The exclusive use of direct observation as an evaluation procedure presumes that observable, overt teaching actions provide a sufficient basis for judging a teacher's adequacy, even though teaching may not be just a set of observable performances or behaviors.

The proposed ordinance contains requirements that high volume retailers and breeders have adequately trained and sufficient staff who haven't been convicted of animal cruelty within a year of employment, nutrition, proper handling of dogs, socialization, daily observation and assessment, enrichment, proper grouping, exercise where dogs can reach a «running stride», also a proposed requirement under the PUPS Act pending in Congress;  «necessary routine and preventive veterinary care», «prompt treatment of illness or injury» and humane euthanasia, at least limiting the methods to those approved by the AVMA.

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

You do need a model though (which can be statistical, heuristic, or physics - based like a GCM)-- observations on their own are not sufficient.

There is a significant component of «synoptic» variability in the ocean as well (eddies etc.) and so while the variation is less than in the atmosphere, for many areas there aren't / weren't sufficient independent observations to be sure of the mean values.

... a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

Abstract:... Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

As a tree physiologist who has > devoted his career to understanding how trees make wood, I have made > sufficient observations on tree rings and cambial growth to know that > dendrochronology is not at all an exact science.

However, there is not compelling evidence that anthropogenic CO2 was sufficient to influence Earth's temperatures prior to 1950, i.e. «Climate model simulations that consider only natural solar variability and volcanic aerosols since 1750 — omitting observed increases in greenhouse gases — are able to fit the observations of global temperatures only up until about 1950.»

I think not enough emphasis is placed on the experimental and observational efforts in climate science, and often, observations are too immediately linked to what I call climatological conclusions without sufficient attention to the underpinnings of such long term projections.

None of current models have a sufficient number of runs to overcome chaotic uncertainty and therefore can not be validated against observations.

The statistician watching the fight you described says that the observations and analysis have not yet been worked out in sufficient detail to answer the question.

The first is that observations of a short streak of successful predictions of a truly random event are sufficient to generate a significant belief in the hot hand of an agent; the perception which also did not revert even in the final round of coin flip.

Also, mere empirical observation is not sufficient to qualify as science, it's just one step.

In proceedings to which the European Union is a co-respondent, if the Court of Justice of the European Union has not yet assessed the compatibility with the Convention rights at issue of the provision of European Union law as under paragraph 2 of this Article, sufficient time shall be afforded for the Court of Justice of the European Union to make such an assessment, and thereafter for the parties to make observations to the Court.

Next - generation «Smart» information management systems will not rely on users dreaming up smart questions to ask computers; rather, they will automatically determine if new observations reveal something of sufficient interest to warrant some reaction, e.g., sending an automatic notification to a user or a system about an opportunity or risk.

With regard to the sample size required for valid application of this modeling approach, we are hesitant to speak of sufficient sample sizes, since a large number of observations with little score variation over time (as in our second empirical application) does not necessarily provide richer information than a smaller sample with more fluctuations.