Sentences with phrase «over wide ranges of time scales»

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the dominant mode of atmospheric circulation variability over the North Atlantic / European sector, is a leading governor of wintertime climate fluctuations in Europe, the Mediterranean, parts of the Middle East and eastern North America over a wide range of time scales from intra-seasonal to multi-decadal (e.g., Hurrell 1995; Hurrell et al. 2003).

By the dominance of stochastics I mean that they vary in a way that allows for stable averaging over reasonably short periods, while weak stochasticity might allow for the formation of peristent attaractors that make avaraging almost irrelavant over wide range of time scales.

phil said: «It is beyond any doubt that a large dissipative open system with obvious chaotic dynamics such as the climate, is subject to internally driven nonlinear oscillations over a wide range of time scales.»

Not exact matches

In contrast, he notes, Sallan and Galimberti's analysis assesses trends in body size over a broader time scale and among a wider range of species.

Glasses have many important industrial applications, yet understanding the changes that occur over the wide range of time and length scales of the glass transition remains a challenge.

«Turning this from a promising technology into a mainstream scientific tool depends critically on large - scale, high - performance, high - fidelity modeling of complex processes that develop over a wide range of space and time scales,» he said.

All of these are varying over time scales ranging from milliseconds to millennia, and at spatial scales from the microscopic to planet - wide.