Sentences with phrase «on a local scale»

Positive feed - back processes taking place on a local scale, may give rise to larger local variations.

Although they've made a lot of progress over the last decades, we still do not really know how climate is changing on a local scale.

Annual rainfall, for example, can dramatically influence yearly population levels on a local scale.

Some providers work on a local scale while others work on a national scale.

Compare your financial situation with those who are worse off than you versus with those who are better off than you... on a global scale... and not just on a local scale.

«During that time, the lag between major collisions was long enough to allow intervals of more clement conditions, at least on a local scale,» said Marchi.

To improve parameterization, the researchers propose developing Earth system models that learn from the rich data sets now available (thanks, in large part, to satellite observations) and high - resolution simulations on local scales.

In the wake of that decision, 247 mayors across the U.S. announced that they would step up their cities» own efforts to combat climate change, and adopt the Paris climate agreement on a local scale.

It might not be measurable on local scales, like here in the solar system, or in any matter - strewn environs, such as galaxy clusters.

«For the first time we do not have to make any assumptions but can measure the flow rate on the local scale.»

Genetic tests also indicated a lack of breeding between the two killer whale types highlighting the distinctness of the sympatric Bigg's and resident killer whales on a local scale.

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

«Although the violation is only on the local scale, the implications are far - reaching,» Vinokur said.

Reindeer were concentrated regularly during several centuries on the same locations, resulting in dramatic vegetation shifts on a local scale.

Supernovae also influence star formation on local scales and potentially on up to whole galaxies.

While we do work with experts from around the globe, our NZ team is also committed to research on a local scale; creating useful NZ dating analysis that has been featured in the likes of the NZ Herald, Stuff, and North & South.

At Centennial Press, though they are sometimes published internationally, the books are designed and created on a local scale.

Travelling across Pennsylvania, he imagines these towns as vibrant communities looking towards the hot stacks and brick factories; a past where prosperity was possible on the local scale, and the streets and storefronts were bustling.

This will shift the distribution of states on the local scale to a new equilibrium (i.e. a new climatology).

These gases are distributed throughout the atmosphere, and they also must maintain energy balance on a local scale, meaning that the same amount of radiation absorbed (e.g., from the ground), must be re-emitted (in both upward and downward directions) so as to maintain constant temperature.

After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's view of climate change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.

PIOMAS has higher resolution and the physics of the cyclone itself is taken care of in the NCEP / NCAR model, which is basically a forecasting model - and forecast models serve us well on a day to day basis forecasting the weather on local scales.

Although these processes are known to produce varied isotopic signatures on local scales, it is uncertain whether wetland emissions that reach the broader atmosphere have a more coherent signature.

And that is true globally, let alone on the local scales being discussed in the BBC story, as the one scientific expert quoted is only too aware:

Most likely, advocates will also agree that — after walking — bikes and other forms of human - powered vehicles provide both the most efficient, and the most resilient, mode of transport on a local scale.

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

The Digital Exhibition explored the legacy of the 2008 youth voyage and told the story of the returned voyagers, and their efforts to communicate global climate challenges on a local scale»

The Assembly will explore tackling online propaganda on a local scale to safeguard elections, and how to stimulate cultural opposition to the filter bubbles of fake information.

At least on the local scale, the Bushwick event may have been more successful, with more than 520 neighborhood artists participating this year.

To improve parameterization, the researchers propose developing Earth system models that learn from the rich data sets now available (thanks, in large part, to satellite observations) and high - resolution simulations on local scales.

Second, on a local scale, slower growth and stagnating living standards could stoke popular discontent in many countries.

As far as retail goes, we've done most of that on a local scale.»

General relativity follows from Einstein's principle of equivalence: on a local scale it is impossible to distinguish between physical effects due to gravity and those due to acceleration.

On a local scale the dive resorts on Sipadan Island, for example, have been closed to tourists since January 2005 allowing an island which was previously full of nesting turtles to be given the chance to return to its former status.