Sentences with phrase «over multidecadal time scales»

Testing the hypotheses must be accomplished by using «hindcast» simulations that attempt to reproduce past climate behavior over multidecadal time scales.

Not exact matches

(A) coordinate programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to ensure the timely production and distribution of data and information on global, national, regional, and local climate variability and change over all time scales relevant for planning and response, including intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time periods;

During this period, the rate of this rise has varied on multidecadal time scales making identifying exact reasons behind upswings, such has been observed over the past few decades, difficult.

If a scientist and in particular climate scientists don't understand the wide swings that do occur in data over short multidecadal time scales then how can they be trusted with understanding the large climatic swings on longer millenia time scales or vise - versa.

It seems that every new climate scenario making the media over the past 20 years they always describe a warm future on a multidecadal scale ignoring a cool future as if variability didn't exist, but isn't scientific climatology primarily concerned with longer millenia time scales of a thousand years or more?