Sentences with phrase «over longer timescales»

Climate is not the «variation» of weather over longer timescales.
In addition, there are numerous uncertainties in the climate models themselves, due to the challenge of numerically simulating all relevant aspects of the climate system over long timescales of decades to centuries.
In other words, it is a measure for how the «average» weather changes over longer timescales.
«The only way to predict the day - to - day weather and changes to the climate over longer timescales is to use computer models.»
Initially scheduled to end next month, IBEX's mission was extended so that McComas can monitor the heliosheath over a longer timescale.
«But it's very clear that over a longer timescale there will be much bigger changes.»
Darwinian selection works over long timescales, not just from one generation to the next.
Such a cloud could have a density gradient that dims Boyajian's star over long timescales, as well as small knots of material that could cause the extreme short - term dips.
«Protein - folding simulations sped up: By modeling biological molecules over longer timescales, a new algorithm can help better understand diseases like Alzheimer's.»
This allowed us not only to map the cloud distribution, but also how it changes from rotation to rotation and also over longer timescales: our observations were following the brown dwarfs for more than a year.
In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt.
Our results support the use of short - term manipulative experiments spanning weeks as proxies to understand the potential effects of global change forcing on diatom community structure over longer timescales such as years.
The release of carbon dioxide and methane from the Arctic will provide a positive feedback to climate change which will be more important over longer timescales — millennia and longer.
However, there do also seem to be lunar and solar cycles which take place over longer timescales, e.g., the 18.6 year lunar cycle.
Determining the position of the SPCZ over longer timescales in the past (pre-20th century) has been studied using coral records of the southwest Pacific.
Excellent work as usual, Bob, but you won't be surprised that I'm still trying to see how your ENSO material can be worked into the climate cycling from MWP to LIA to date without some other force altering the relative strengths of El Nino and La Nina over longer timescales than the multidecadal.
To measure how the system has shifted over long timescales, researchers collected long cores of sediment from the sea floor.
Components of the Earth's climate system that vary over long timescales, such as ice sheets and vegetation, could have an important effect on this temperature sensitivity, but have often been neglected.
Calculating a «running average» over these longer timescales allows one to more easily see long - term trends.
Anonymous said: «Climate is not the «variation» of weather over longer timescales.
It has been happening since the last deglaciation, and its rate changes over longer timescales than the ones we focused on here.
Over longer timescales of 200 - 300 years the evidence suggests that sea levels are static globally.
Indeed there is evidence that over a longer timescale, sexual activity among young adults has increased.
«Additionally, over a longer timescale, by keeping close connection between astrophysicists and climate researchers, this programme will aid in the understanding of our own changing climate.»
He also pointed out that it is «unlikely that significant progress will be evident» in national social mobility data, and believes officials should also plan to monitor progress at that level «over a longer timescale».
But over a longer timescale, differences in leading tendency remained consistent; thus decision - making during the collective motion was not based on an egalitarian system in our sample.
Over longer timescales, the number of households using natural gas for space heating has increased — for example, in the Northeast, households are switching their heating fuel from heating oil to natural gas.
When in balance, primary production and respiration processes result in large diel variability (Table 2), but are essentially CO2 - neutral; however, over longer timescales, spatial and / or temporal decoupling of these processes can change pH drastically (Borges and Gypens 2010; Provoost et al. 2010; Cai et al. 2011).
Because climate is the variation of weather over longer timescales.
It is the * average * of weather over longer timescales.
Recent (40 year) tree ring series do not agree with temperature — what on earth would give you an reason to believe that over a longer timescale the agreement which can be contrived for 1850 - 1950 still holds with any precision?
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