Sentences with phrase «of weather fluctuations»

They can be defined as the sciences of weather fluctuations on time scales respectively smaller and longer than one human lifetime.

You need a decent time period to accurately discern climate trends amid the noise of weather fluctuations.

Not exact matches

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

The Federal Reserve studied the effects of weather on retail sales in 2000, and found that, in general, monthly fluctuations in sales caused by weather were smoothed out on a quarterly basis.

Investors shouldn't get too caught up in every twist and turn of the stock market, experts say, and should keep their big - picture investment strategies in mind as they weather fluctuations due to political events.

Consumer confidence and discretionary spending, fear of terrorism or war, weakening economic conditions, fare initiatives, labor actions, weather and other factors have resulted in significant fluctuations in revenues and results of operations in the past.

Located at the junction of the Delta and the Bay, the park offers an ideal vantage of how climate change, water policy and natural fluctuations in the weather and currents affect our region.

The prevalence of deer related crashes can be influenced by a range of factors, including weather conditions and deer population fluctuations from year to year.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.

The weather might explain many of the fluctuations within the season and between the years, but it doesn't explain the rapid downward trend.

Obtaining accurate sea surface temperatures is important for a range of applications — from weather prediction to climate modeling to understanding marine ecosystem fluctuations.

We at ASDA, just like other businesses, have to cope with the risks of more pronounced seasonal weather fluctuations.

Researchers want to distinguish the difference, especially in the context of large fluctuations in annual weather.

Enyew Adgo (Bahir Dar University) points out that East African meteorological agencies are well aware of the interactions between the Ethiopian weather and fluctuations of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

«The fluctuations of the currents bring order to the weather chaos.»

Studies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme event studies is lacking.

The remainder was predominantly the influence of El Niño with some smaller contribution from random weather fluctuations and slightly elevated solar radiation.

The increase in sea surface temperature over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific known as El Niño, and the corresponding decrease known as La Niña, contribute to seasonal climate and weather fluctuations in many regions of the globe.

That's down to natural fluctuations that temporarily boost or dampen the speed of warming, such as the global weather phenomenon known as El Niño, the paper notes.

Together, the warm and cold events form the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and cause most of the fluctuations in global weather we see from one year to the next.

Such mixed results aren't unusual in attribution science, which seeks to look for the causes, whether climate change or natural fluctuations, that change the odds of extreme weather events.

The «compounding effects» of climate change and natural weather fluctuations are «giving rise to this remarkable increase in forest fire activity,» said John Abatzoglou, a geographer at the University of Idaho who coauthored Monday's paper.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

A growing number of entertainment companies are investing in advanced weather strategies that go beyond keeping their audience safe during extreme conditions, they leverage day to day weather fluctuations to create a remarkable customer experience.

So, what you're really seeing on the day - to - day is your daily stresses, daily hormonal fluctuations, daily impacts of weather, daily differences in fuel storage.

The combination of these various stressors, in addition to cooler weather fluctuations, also makes for the beginning of the dreaded cold - and - flu season.

Thus, my review is desperately overdue but this oil serum has also been through 3 cycles of hormones, moons, weather fluctuations, and children's sporadic sleep schedules.

Oily skin can result from any of the following: inherited overactive oil producing glands (sebaceous glands), hormonal fluctuations, use of harsh soaps and facial cleansers, humidity and hot weather.

If it is any consolation, so many of us Californians are getting sick because of the fluctuations in the weather.

I am all about layers too — there is such fluctuation with weather here this time of year you just have to be prepared!!

During the course, we will meet a variety of distractions and real - life situations such as: strollers, skateboarders, joggers, baby strollers, children running, other dogs (who aren't in class and may or may not be under the control of their owner), strangers who want to pet your dog (and might not ask you first), loud noises, and weather fluctuations.

What causes doubt and confusion is that the effects of global warming are not uniform around the globe and there are always weather fluctuations (that may even increase in scale and predictability) as global warming progresses.

This is in fact part of the central conceit behind climatology: it isn't dealing with the day to day weather so much as the average behavior of the system, but it can do this only because fluctuations and unknown factors often cancel one - another out.

It's a daunting task to try to detect any links between short - term fluctuations in extreme weather events and the rising influence of accumulating greenhouse gases on climate, given that extreme weather is, by definition, rare.

I am a little concerned about this, in the sense that we are still at a point where the natural fluctuations of climate are still large — at least, the natural fluctuations of weather compared to long - term climate change....

Given some of the ongoing discussion, it obviously still needs to be pointed out that year - to - year fluctuations in any of the key metrics of planet's climate are mostly a function of the weather and can not be expected to be captured in climate models, whose «weather» is uncorrelated with that in the real world.

Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic weather service showed in his lecture on Saturday that the short - term temperature fluctuations from year to year correlate with the heat exchange through the sea surface, but that this does not explain the longer - term development of the «cold blob» over decades.

Empirical evidence of warming was masked by weather fluctuations, and warming was kept small, temporarily, by the inertia of deep oceans.

Indeed, the record - breaking losses in the past couple of years could easily be due to natural fluctuations in the weather, with summer sea ice increasing again over the next few years.

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The economic impact of climate change: Evidence from agricultural output and random fluctuation in weather.

Model outputs do produce specific year - to - year fluctuations — fluctuations that are not hindcasted well (that's the weather, after all)-- but nobody's interested in knowing the exact temperature of any particular year.

This guidance document provides an overview of how El Niño climate pattern, which is strongly linked to weather fluctuations around the globe, is fueling an international food security crisis for millions of people.

I don't have a large network of liberal, middle, and conservative friends and associates, and I obviously can't read everything, but my sense is that a majority of Californians remain more interested in trying to prevent future warming than in trying to prepare for the weather fluctuations that will persist.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

For example, we could prepare for both short - and long - term changes of weather and climate while we continue to investigate the ecological and societal effects of atmospheric fluctuations, both natural and man - caused.

The same thing holds for our present extrapolations of North Atlantic models: they simply do not yet take into account such fluctuations as El Niño and the North Atlantic Oscillation, nor freak «random» combinations of weather that set up self - perpetuating regional droughts like the Dust Bowl.