Sentences with phrase «on a regional scale»

Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.

So, although renewable energy output might be intermittent on a regional scale, it would have a more constant flow at a national scale.

If the models fail systematically on a regional scale, then there is a good chance that the global mean agreement is just an accident.

Even though on a regional scale it appears that not much occurred, there were some interesting precipitation rankings at isolated locations.

This study took the same approach on a regional scale.

Not to mention how dubious it is to claim that models give meaningful results on a regional scale (they don't, period).

The differences between ensemble members will be most noticeable on the regional scale.

The detection and attribution research discussed in this chapter includes research on regional scales, extremes and variables other than temperature.

The final results / impacts are not relevant at 1 km scale, but rather on the regional scale.

«Although the future degree and magnitude of climate change on regional scales is uncertain, it's clear that the potential for environmental disasters is on the rise due to the changing nature of the hydrologic cycle and sea level,» said Antonio J. Busalacchi, committee co-chair and director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.

A state payroll tax has already been used on a regional scale to benefit the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and suburban taxpayers.

However, many practical challenges remained in the way of it becoming a successful production tool for use in our game Horizon Zero Dawn: authoring cloudscapes on a regional scale, animation and transitions, integration into our atmospheric system, further optimization to pay for these new features, and the task of creating a language and long term plan for what we want to achieve in the context of our game engine, Decima.

The authors conclude that aircraft measurements can be used to quickly characterize the isotopic signature of methane emissions on a regional scale and that these broad signatures can then be incorporated into regional and global models to discriminate the sources of methane emissions.

And while weather models in a place like Seattle provide excellent detail on a local level, for Everest the models are not on a regional scale but rather a global one — for the entire continent of Asia or the Himalayan range.

Saccaro boasts that the company's attention to detail on the ingredient side and its ability to mass - produce fresh food every day doesn't exist on a regional scale outside of Quest.

The laser equipment will eventually estimate daily evapotranspiration rates on a regional scale.

«This paper attempts to provide a unifying concept of how the deformation is proceeding on a regional scale in Colombia,» said Mann.

Similar efforts on a regional scale, such as the Hood River Conservation Project, convinced some 85 percent of possible participants to better weatherproof their homes through a mixture of financial incentives, mass media campaigns and other interventions.

The scientists began to realize that farmers in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority faced similar challenges, which needed to be addressed on a regional scale.

Prof Hui says while the current article took an invasive moth species as case study, the new theorem is applicable to the financial world, ecologists working on regional scale invasions or threatened species, as well as any biologist working with time - series data.

Douglas Robinson, an ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, calls the approach «probably the wave of the future» for determining geographic connections on a regional scale, but he thinks that more detail will be needed to make a difference in conservation.

They effectively remove mass from the ice sheet surface by sublimation and redistribute snow on a regional scale.

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

The views seem mildly skeptical, but not outrageous for someone focusing on monthly anomalies on a regional scale, and who is clearly very interested in various «cycles.»

This example highlights the much greater natural variability on small scales which makes detection of the small systematic signal, such as that might arise from enhanced greenhouse effect, much more difficult to achieve on regional scales.

It also describes solar energy technologies; the distribution of solar energy resources on a regional scale; activities to be undertaken for site monitoring, evaluation, and utility - scale development; the impacts associated with implementing current technologies; and mitigation measures and constraints relevant to solar energy development.

Dr. Daniela Jacob, director of the Climate Service Center Germany, focused on the importance of the computations on a regional scale and on concrete matters: «Can a farmer grow bananas in the future in a certain region on earth?»

Such circulation changes are the main cause of variations in climate elements on a regional scale, sometimes mediated by parallel changes in the land surface (IPCC, 1990, 1996).

In response to the finding that anthropogenic aerosols create a significant perturbation in the earth's radiative balance on regional scales, ESRL / GMD expanded its aerosol research program (1992) to include aerosol monitoring stations in regions where significant aerosol forcing was expected.

Food and water security are tightly linked with climate, which means that women often have a better understanding of the Earth's climate processes on regional scales, how they are changing, and how to adapt, but it also leaves indigenous women the most vulnerable of all.

The traditional global mean radiative forcing provides no information about this regional structure, so many researchers have begun to present estimates of radiative forcing on a regional scale as derived from models or observational campaigns.

The complexity of Arctic landscapes under climate warming means we have low confidence in which of these different processes might dominate on a regional scale.

Reductions in air Hg concentrations on a regional scale have been reported for areas where anthropogenic emissions have been reduced (Kellerhals et al., 2003; Wängberg et al., 2007).

In addition, the Index measures well - being indicators on a regional scale.