Sentences with phrase «on seasonal time scales»

On seasonal time scales, where evaporation can exceed precipitation, trends in wet season becoming wetter and dry season becoming drier are also found.

summarizes the current literature on the predictability of European winter on seasonal time scales.

These ices sublimate and condense on seasonal time scales and flow glacially.

In terms of the core atmospheric model at ECMWF, this shows good predictive power on the weather time scale out to a week or so, and on the seasonal time scale.

Not exact matches

«I didn't think I was going to have to do things on this scale,» says Claypool, who oversees a Park District budget of $ 313 million and a staff that - after the latest round of cuts - numbers 3,500 full - time and 3,000 seasonal workers.

In this study, we undertake another effort towards understanding the role of the Sun in changing or varying the Earth's climate on seasonal to decadal time scale.

A few climate models have been tested for (and shown) capability in initial value predictions, on time scales from weather forecasting (a few days) to seasonal forecasting (annual).

Researchers who have traditionally focused on seasonal or shorter time scales talk about things like vertical shear, ITCZ latitude and African wave characteristics as centrally important.

A new paper Assessing the Globally Averaged Sea Level Budget on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales (Willis 2008) displays up - to - date data on ocean heat.

The scale and timing of the seasonal effect on hip score is consistent with that reported previously in Labrador Retrievers [23].

The second project on view, «Untitled 2017,» is part of a series of large scale and acutely sharp photographs that describe the slightest changes of light, humidity and time as seasonal changes play out across a section of the seemingly plain white exterior wall of the artist's studio.

For the future, data assimilation might help us to keep the state of a climate model closer to the real world's, allowing us to improve predictions on seasonal and decadal time scales.

However, physical drivers such as light supply, nutrient supply, and stratification are known to have an extremely important role on determining phytoplankton chlorophyll — dominating it on seasonal to inter-annual time scales.

Changes in land surface properties as the wet season progresses impact surface fluxes and boundary layer evolution on daily and seasonal time scales that feed back to cloud and rainfall generation.

So at best this is useful for seasonal forecasts, unless someone is forecasting sea ice extent on longer time scales.

PCIC welcomes Dr. Alex Cannon who has joined PCIC as a Research Climatologist to work alongside the consortium's scientific and technical staff in the development of new tools and methodology for predicting climate extremes on seasonal and decadal time scales.

From the perspective of business, weather forecasts on the sub-seasonal time scale provides an opportunity because it lies between the well - established application of daily weather forecasts and the increasing use of seasonal forecasts.

On a seasonal scale, the solar elevation angle also correlates with the number of daylight hours, which reduces the amount of solar energy received over the course of a day at times of the year when the sun is already lower in the sky.

«there is still a long way to go before reliable regional predictions can be made on seasonal to decadal time scales.»

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

Led by Dr. James E. Hansen from 1981 to 2013, research at GISS emphasized a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man - made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one - time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal / annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

The mitigation focus is on global climate and the century time scale, whereas the adaptation focus is regional and on timescales from the seasonal to decadal.

To describe and understand the physical processes responsible for climate variability and predictability on seasonal, interannual, decadal, and centennial time - scales, through the collection and analysis of observations and the development and application of models of the coupled climate system, in cooperation with other relevant climate - research and observing programmes.

I ask for a definition in part because you (Judith) seem to have defined «climate services» as occurring on the «seasonal to decadal time scale»... and things on that time scale in the past have always been called «weather».

Values are also averaged over successive four - month periods, to enable variations on upwards of the seasonal time scale to be seen more clearly than if monthly values had been plotted.

The Polar Prediction Project (PPP) is a 10 - year (2013 — 2022) endeavour of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal.

Questions that remain unanswered and are of interest to biometeorologists include: how do these contrasting landscapes affect the exchanges of energy on seasonal and annual time scales; and, do biophysical constraints imposed by water supply and water demand affect whether the land is occupied by open grasslands or savanna?

The primary objective of this work was to expand upon the capabilities of past GFDL models used to study climate on seasonal to centennial time scales by the addition of a comprehensive and interactive carbon cycle in the land, ocean and atmosphere to «close the carbon cycle» in the same way we do for water and energy in a traditional climate model.

These fluctuations are a useful reminder that «global warming» as yet remains smaller than natural temperature fluctuations on regional and seasonal time scales.»

Modes or patterns of climate variability - Natural variability of the climate system, in particular on seasonal and longer time scales, predominantly occurs with preferred spatial patterns and time scales, through the dynamical characteristics of the atmospheric circulation and through interactions with the land and ocean surfaces.

Altimeter data are used extensively in observationally based studies of ocean climate variability on seasonal and longer time scales.

Until we figure out how to do this on the weekly to seasonal time scales, trying to infer extreme events from coarse resolution climate models with insufficient number of ensemble members is like voodoo.

Review, prioritize, and coordinate US research plans to understand predictability of the oceans and climate on sub-seasonal, seasonal - to - interannual, decade - to - century and longer time scales.