Sentences with phrase «of observational networks»

A serious concern is the decline of observational networks.

Reverse the decline of observational networks in many parts of the world.

Provided that rapid losses in sea ice may be predictable, there is additional uncertainty regarding what is required in terms of an observational network and modeling system to predict such events.

Not exact matches

«Poor adherence with the Canadian pregnancy prevention guidelines means that Canada, inadvertently, is using pregnancy termination rather than pregnancy prevention to manage fetal risk from isotretinoin,» states lead author Dr. David Henry, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).

«There's been a lot of observational research done on plant - pollinator networks,» Brosi said.

«We're looking forward to longer - term results to come in the next five years from various ongoing observational studies,» Dr. Arterburn said: The Utah Obesity Study, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, and large cohorts from Veterans Affairs health system and the HMO Research Network (including Group Health) and should yield important long - term information comparing the efficacy, safety, and costs of surgical and non-surgical care for severe obesity.

Operation of an internationally recognized observational network developed during the last three decades.

Introducing NEON: The National Ecological Observatory Network was created to understand and forecast the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental - scale ecology by providing an observational infrastructure to support research, education, and environmental management in these areas.

(b) Observational study of space weather using the Solar Magnetic Activity Research Telescope (SMART) and the international ground - based solar observation network (CHAIN).

Many of the issues and weather phenomena are similar across the world, and Europe has one of the most comprehensive meteorological and hydrological observational networks in the world.

Aside from continuing to misunderstand that the «missing heat» is about having an inadequate global climate observational network (mainly because we don't have good measurements of deep ocean heat), observational data have demonstrated that water vapor, and likely clouds, are indeed positive feedbacks.

Sources such as the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the Aura satellite, the Cloud - Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO), and the ground - based Aerosol Robotic Network (Aeronet) will be used, requiring the input of both the modeling and observational communities.

Any observational inaccuracies in the actual observations of the VOS network and their computed averages may consequently become magnified many-fold (hundred-fold?)

This will facilitate the creation of targeted observational networks, provide test beds for reconstruction methods, and enable comparisons with paleoclimate model simulations.

In the long term, the PAGES 2k community recommends the continued development of methods that incorporate network, observational, and chronological uncertainty into quantitative estimates of past climate variability, including approaches that allow for quantitative calibration and validation of low - frequency variability.

Relatively few studies have focused on temperature trends west of the Peninsula due to the comparative remoteness of this area and to the even sparser observational network.

Maintaining and enhancing the current observational network of remotely sensed and in - situ measurements that can be used to infer changes in the atmospheric circulation is essential.

This technical document provides guidelines with the aim to provide managers and operators of climate monitoring networks with a set of recommended procedures / practices by which change can be managed in the observational programs in a manner that best maintains the required integrity of the climate record.

This is in contrast to more recent periods where there is both dense network coverage and detailed records of observational practices.

For national extremes reported from local meso - networks, the team should include the mesonet service technician, head of the mesonet, the local NWS Cooperative Program Manager, instrument and observational procedure specialists from NWS headquarters, and state climatologists or RCC representatives covering the state with the current extreme record and potential record.

One of the observational records employed in the GISS analysis is the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data set for surface air temperature at meteorological stations, which is maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

We did so by estimating monthly fluxes and their uncertainty over a one - year period between June 2009 and May 2010 from 1) observational data collected in existing networks of surface CO2 measurement sites (GLOBALVIEWCO2 2010; extrapolated to the year 2010) and 2) both the surface observations and column - averaged dry air mole fractions of CO2 (XCO2) retrieved from GOSAT soundings.

These include experimental and observational studies of infants» and toddlers» interaction with their peers; longitudinal studies of children's social development; educational and psychological studies of children's adjustment to child care and nursery school classrooms; social, psychological, sociometric and ethological studies of young children's social networks and dominance relationships.