Sentences with phrase «on spatial patterns»

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have identified a mechanism that causes low clouds — and their influence on Earth's energy balance — to respond differently to global warming depending on their spatial pattern.

Not exact matches

For example, children classify objects (stacking blocks by shape or sorting them by color); measure things («This cloth isn't big enough to cover the table»); count just about anything (coins, candy, people, toys, and so on); transform objects (stretching dough and making a flat circular shape); recognize patterns and shapes (building a symmetrical structure by putting a two unit block over two blocks); and explore spatial relations (finding a location or following directions).

Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.

It starts with data from the Department of Defense on local incidence of influenza - like illness combined with laboratory - verified cases of influenza and adds a spatial element by incorporating information from Census data on commuting patterns.

Those games depend primarily on a person's ability to recognize spatial patterns — for example, you know an elliptical galaxy when you see one.

Space - based constraints on spatial and temporal patterns of NOx emissions in California, 2005 − 2008.

This topographic pattern arises from a spatial pattern of deposition and erosion on the sand surface.

By looking beyond the single archaeological site and instead focusing on settlement patterns, regions, and the surrounding landscape archaeologists are able to look at large - scale spatial and temporal patterns of social organization, land use, and their environmental impact.

The study reports that glaciers flowing to the coast on the western side of the Peninsula show a distinct spatial correlation with ocean temperature patterns, with those in the south retreating rapidly but those in the north showing little change.

To capture the early spatial patterns of a newly emergent virus in swine populations prior to extensive geographical mixing, this study focused on an H1 influenza virus that was introduced twice from humans into swine around 2003.

However, despite the fact that groups of howlers exhibit distinct diets depending on spatial and temporal patterns of resource availability, activity patterns are consistent across howler groups and species.

Using spatial correlation functions to quantify the differences between emergent cell lineage segregation patterns, we find that strong adhesion often, but not always, maximizes the size of clonal cell clusters on flat surfaces.

Spatial patterns of fire activity will be complex and dependent on disturbance history and current stand condition.

My research interests are broadly focused on the spatial and temporal patterns of plankton in the oceans.

When grown on a geometrically confined surface, human induced pluripotent stem cells go through differentiation with distinct spatial patterning.

This provides spatial information on protein expression patterns to define the subcellular localization to cellular organelles and structures.

In other words, the time spent by fish in the vicinity of the two prototypes was compared to detect the role of the robotic fish color pattern on fish spatial preference.

«Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution.»

While even the most well - executed 3D narrative films have hardly depended on the gimmick for anything more than bonus effect, 3D actively enhances the audience's understanding of the subject in «Pina,» where movement patterns and spatial deconstruction in the late Pina Bausch's choreography are brought to the fore, replicating the immediacy and interactivity of live performance.

* Practising 2D shape manipulation, to develop visual - spatial awareness, mathematical problem - solving skills, and awareness of geometric shape properties (Tangram Cats) * Working with visual codes in addition (Cat Sums in Tens, Cat Sums in Hundreds, Cat Paw Bonds — Adding to 50) * Recalling multiplication facts, in fun ways (Cat Dish Factors, Cat Paw Bonds — Multiplication) * Investigating geometric patterns in polygons (Cheese Patterns) * Reading keys and interpreting pictogram graphs (Favourite Foods of Cats) * Working with directions on visual maps (Cat Directions), and map coordinates (Cat Island) * Word puzzles which provide practice with syllables, digraphs (Cat Word Patterns) & word families (Hidden Words) * Solving visual - spatial puzzles (Cat Logic patterns in polygons (Cheese Patterns) * Reading keys and interpreting pictogram graphs (Favourite Foods of Cats) * Working with directions on visual maps (Cat Directions), and map coordinates (Cat Island) * Word puzzles which provide practice with syllables, digraphs (Cat Word Patterns) & word families (Hidden Words) * Solving visual - spatial puzzles (Cat Logic Patterns) * Reading keys and interpreting pictogram graphs (Favourite Foods of Cats) * Working with directions on visual maps (Cat Directions), and map coordinates (Cat Island) * Word puzzles which provide practice with syllables, digraphs (Cat Word Patterns) & word families (Hidden Words) * Solving visual - spatial puzzles (Cat Logic Patterns) & word families (Hidden Words) * Solving visual - spatial puzzles (Cat Logic Puzzle).

Any potential users must learn to interact with such interfaces and gain skills — depending on the system, examples are hand - eye coordination, spatial intelligence, pattern recognition, causality, etc. — and improve them over time.

With The Super Source teacher guide, students will build skills in looking for patterns, spatial visualization, and organizing and interpreting data with each hands - on lessons.

With The Super Source teacher guide, students will build skills in looking for patterns, spatial visualization, and organizing and interpreting data with each hands - on lesson.

Handwriting contains thousands of variables, and the experiences the writer has accumulated throughout a lifetime and their response to them creates a distinct pattern in the spatial arrangement of the writing on the page, the way the letters are formed, and the rhythm and movement of the writing.

The patterns she creates suggest spatial ambiguities and shifting structures which work on the viewer's perceptions in subtle ways.

In Giulia Ricci's Order Disruption Painting there's something strange going on spatially, the patterned repetition of a triangular motif creating something akin to a systemic field which breaks down in places as the pattern is interrupted, resulting in the appearance of wormholes or spatial anomalies that can also be interpreted as twisting forms caught in the net of the surface whilst at the same time forming that surface.

In an iteration of this exploration of form, the Slinkys ® are deconstructed and refashioned to project two - dimensionally along the flat surface of a wall, forming meandering and layered patterns that expand or contract depending on the given spatial conditions.

Focusing mainly on patterns, I reorganize motion in an attempt to look at time in spatial terms, using the pattern itself as the framework for temporally redistributing all of the surrounding activity.

Tina Frank «s video — shown here as a large scale double - projection — focuses on the threshold of spatial perception: yellow and black patterns contract and unfold like a chromographic pendulum to pulsating rhythms by Florian Hecker.

Clearly unfinished and temporary in its manifestation as a dense cluster on a wall, «Personal Statement» also functions as a performative map of sorts — a spatial and visual representation of information, referring to a process of organising ideas, thoughts and observations about the world, and attempting to make a loose pattern or temporary cohesion.

These in turn have non-linear effects on malarial epidemiology, via changing spatial patterns of temperature and precipitation combined with the spatial pattern of human populations and the genetic resistance to malaria therein.

Based on the comparison between reconstructions and simulations, there is high confidence that not only external orbital, solar and volcanic forcing, but also internal variability, contributed substantially to the spatial pattern and timing of surface temperature changes between the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age (1450 to 1850).

«This study investigates past sea level reconstruction (over 1950 — 2003) based on tide gauge records and EOF spatial patterns from different 2 - D fields.

But, on the basis of studies of nonlinear chaotic models with preferred states or «regimes», it has been argued, that the spatial patterns of the response to anthropogenic forcing may in fact project principally onto modes of natural climate variability.

I have published a number of studies on the value of using some simple metrics of the spatial patterns of global temperature change, rather than just global mean temperature change.

Having done that, I think we could perhaps begin to look at the spatial pattern of those sites, and get some good insights into why temperature is having such different effects on growth in different places.

(I don't know how you could scientifically use data on village movements without comprehensive spatial and temporal data on other sites to determine a general pattern for permafrost wrt global warming, but I thought it might interest you.)

Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index

The attribution calculation in the IPCC AR5 is based on fingerprint studies, where the spatial patterns of the temperature response of the climate models to various agents are scaled to best reconstruct the temperature record from observational constraints.

The researchers focused on comparing model projections and observations of the spatial and seasonal patterns of how energy flows from Earth to space.

However, detection and attribution analyses based on climate simulations that include these forcings, (e.g., Stott et al., 2006b), continue to detect a significant anthropogenic influence in 20th - century temperature observations even though the near - surface patterns of response to black carbon aerosols and sulphate aerosols could be so similar at large spatial scales (although opposite in sign) that detection analyses may be unable to distinguish between them (Jones et al., 2005).

The spatial pattern of changes depends on model resolution.

The results show that the effects of SAL physics lead to time - varying, non-uniform spatial patterns and are an important component of ocean mass variability on scales from months to years.

It has been shown that the PDO SST spatial patterns and pressure pattern changes influence ENSO especially over the last 3 years, the influence of the Aleutian Low on the PDO metrics is also interesting.

By examining the spatial pattern of both types of climate variation, the scientists found that the anthropogenic global warming signal was relatively spatially uniform over the tropical oceans and thus would not have a large effect on the atmospheric circulation, whereas the PDO shift in the 1990s consisted of warming in the tropical west Pacific and cooling in the subtropical and east tropical Pacific, which would enhance the existing sea surface temperature difference and thus intensify the circulation.

Geoff Sharp says: «It has been shown that the PDO SST spatial patterns and pressure pattern changes influence ENSO especially over the last 3 years, the influence of the Aleutian Low on the PDO metrics is also interesting.»

Dietary composition and spatial patterns of polar bear foraging on land in western Hudson Bay.

The simulated change of GM in the last 30 yr has a spatial pattern that differs from that during the Medieval Warm Period, suggesting that global warming that arises from the increases of greenhouse gases and the input solar forcing may have different effects on the characteristics of GM precipitation.

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

A mortality map of the Amazon near Manaus, Brazil based on Landsat satellite images shows the spatial pattern of tree mortality.