Sentences with phrase «number of measurements necessary»

The results confirm Fountain and Vecchia (1999) conclusion that the number of measurements necessary to determine mass balance on small alpine glaciers is scale invariant, in this case that 40 points satisfactorily minimized errors on both glaciers.
In an examination of the error in mass balance measurements using different sampling densities, it was noted on the Columbia Glacier that the total number of measurements necessary to achieve consistent accuracy within +0.10 was 40 points (Pelto, 2000).
In both cases the total number of measurements necessary to achieve consistent accuracy within +0.10 was 40 points.
The expedition was mandated to gather a number of measurements necessary for the design and conception phase of the station.

Not exact matches

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.
Swapping the ease of a single number for the apparently clumsier interval of numbers has been controversial among some chemists, but additional precision in measurements in recent years has shown the change is necessary for accuracy.
However, these approaches have significant drawbacks, including inconsistency; limitations in the number of simultaneous labels because of spectral overlap; and necessary pertur - bations of the experiment, such as fixing the cells, to generate the measurement.
334: Philip: it is by no mean necessary to make a huge number of measurements before observing a 5 sigma event, because the «sigma» is evaluated with the noise WITHOUT the external cause that superimposes to the noise.
The lagging is a question of closing depth of the bubbles, while the resolution is a matter of diffusion of CO2 through the firn before the bubbles close and the number of layers necessary to have enough sample for a CO2 measurement.
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