Sentences with phrase «periods of acceleration»

B. Reconstructed temperature proxies reveal multiple climatic periods of acceleration and levels of cooling / warming that far exceed what the modern era has experienced.

I did detect a slight lag or delay during some periods of acceleration, but it wasn't offensive to me.

In recovery mode it gathers kinetic energy generated under braking and periods of trailing throttle, storing it in the battery for use during periods of acceleration.

«We're in the greatest period of acceleration in 20 centuries of Bible translation,» said Morrison resident Paul Edwards, who heads up Wycliffe Bible Translators» $ 1 billion Last Languages Campaign.

Inflation was another period of acceleration, and we don't know what caused that acceleration, either.

The launch is so sudden there doesn't seem to be a period of acceleration at all.

1981 - 1985 has a similar period of acceleration compared to the 2011 - 2015 slow down.

Sitting in Birmingham County Court, Judge McKenna decided that that but for the defendant's tort, Mrs Brazier would have continued to work as a carer for another four and a half years, the period of acceleration caused by the first accident.

Not exact matches

All options and restricted shares awarded under our equity plans are also subject to a double - trigger accelerated vesting condition under the terms of our equity award letters, which provides for an acceleration of the vesting schedule if the associate is terminated without cause or resigns for good reason (as defined by the applicable equity plan) within the one - year period following a change in control (as defined by the applicable equity plan).

The annualized growth rate of the FHFA price index has been volatile month to month but provides a detailed measure of the pre-boom stability, boom period acceleration, subsequent collapse and recovery of prices.

The annual figure represents a clear acceleration from a figure of 3.9 per cent over the year to November 1996, and follows a period when this measure of aggregate wages growth had been fairly steady at around 4 per cent.

The workday features four to five periods that run 60 to 90 minutes each and includes 15 minutes of cone drills to improve acceleration and deceleration, and another 15 minutes doing 10 - to 25 - yard sprints to quicken the first step.

One can hardly avoid the impression that after a period of somewhat reluctant cooperation, there's been an acceleration of initiatives from the Iraqi side since the end of January.

Such evidence would help confirm the standard cosmological model and give scientists a clue to the underlying cause of the present period of cosmic acceleration.

Recent Hubble Space Telescope images of a supernova that exploded 8 billion light - years from Earth (below) is filling in details of what happened during the transition period between deceleration and acceleration.

If the cylinders are firing more quickly because of acceleration, the periods between the slight acceleration will decrease.

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

The same analysis applied to the period 19932010, however, indicates a sea - level rise of about three millimetres per year, consistent with other work and suggesting that the recent acceleration in sea - level rise has been greater than previously thought.

They suggest this «pause» in the acceleration of carbon dioxide concentrations was, in part, due to the effect of the temporary slowdown in global average surface warming during that same period on respiration, the process by which plants and soils release CO2.

And, rather than limit enrichment and acceleration to a predetermined group, Dance wants to allow for more flexible grouping, so that a student who needs «advanced academics» in just one subject or for a period of time can get it.

Today the acceleration feels brisk rather than blistering, but an in - period recorded 0 - 62mph time of 6.0 sec (against a claimed of 6.2) is nothing to be sniffed at, and a 0 - 100mph time of just over 15sec is genuinely quite stunning.

Weighing in at 115Kg and storing 927 kWh of energy, the system is able to dump a full 500 kW of power during periods of heavy acceleration.

You learn over time that the Rogue Hybrid has two zones of acceleration — an initial brief period when everything seems to click into place, followed by the delivery of ample power to get you up to speed.

Hybrid drive makes full use of both the gas engine and the electric motor and is employed during periods of hard acceleration and to promote efficient driving whilst operating in stop and go traffic.

I also took note of the car's killer adaptive - cruise - control system — now my best in the business for its stunning ability to «read» traffic flow and not overreact with sudden braking, to hold a tight gap, to respond fairly quickly with acceleration when space opens up, and to be able to sit for a long period in stopped traffic and then pick up again with a merely tap of the accelerator pedal.

When the vehicle requires additional tractive power during rapid acceleration or while climbing gradients, the system can deliver an instant peak torque boost of up to 3400 N · m (2,508 lb - ft) for a short period.

Despite its abundant torque, the Swift runs right up to the redline, supplying linear acceleration the whole way — which was the case with both the manual and automatic variants we drove over a period of two weeks.

When pressed «the drivetrain is pre-conditioned for maximum acceleration for 20 seconds... In this mode, the optimal gear is engaged and engine management is adjusted for even more spontaneous response for a brief period of time».

The hill climb allows for full - throttle acceleration for an extended period, followed by hard braking and a hairpin left turn at the crest of the hill.

During the same period, the economy has been showing signs of acceleration.

The riders mentioned in previous comments provide for acceleration of distributions from the accumulation account in the annuity for some contractual period.

Acceleration: speed over a period of time.

A new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, «Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s,» surveys a group of almost 70 artists who were working in New York's Lower East Side during this crucial period: a time of stock - market speculation, rapid globalization, and vast accelerations in consumer and media culture.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).

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The recent projections, from the IPCCs AR5 representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5 (which we use here, see Methods), very closely resemble quadratic curves and have near constant accelerations of ~ 0.064, 0.096 and 0.136 mm per year2 over the period 1990 — 2100, for the lower, central and upper projection range, respectively.

Hunter and Brown calculated an average acceleration in the central projection of the IPCCs AR4 A1FI emission scenario (including scaled - up ice sheet discharge) of 0.002 mm per year over the period 1990 — 2010 (see the value plotted at 2000 in their Fig. 1, ref.

I believe that what the phrase is trying to get at is either the acceleration relative to the pause in the 1950 - 1970 period, or the acceleration in accumulation of noticeable consequences — worldwide glacier melt, sea ice retreat, earlier onset of springtime, (possibly) increasingly intense hurricanes, Larsen - B breakup, melting of Greenland along the margins, etc..

We are looking at the end of this interglacial period based firmly upon historical cycles and norms without any acceleration when compared to previous cycles, as that happens, more warm would be seen as a blessing.

To do that I plotted the instantaneous rate of rise over the period of time and then determined the acceleration (mm / yr2) of the sea level change.

«The global mean sea level for the period January 1900 to December 2006 is estimated to rise at a rate of 1.56 ± 0.25 mm / yr which is reasonably consistent with earlier estimates, but we do not find significant acceleration»

Short period trends of acceleration in mean sea level after 1990 are evident at each site, although these are not abnormal or higher than other short - term rates measured throughout the historical record.»

Don't forget watson «s paper for the CSIRO Is There Evidence Yet of Acceleration in Mean Sea Level Rise around Mainland Australia?http: / / www.jcronline.org/doi/full/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-10-00141.1 The analysis reveals a consistent trend of weak deceleration at each of these gauge sites throughout Australasia over the period from 1940 to 2000.

The second chart shows that over the 20thC the SL record was marked by significant decadal oscillations in the rate of rise, varying from -1 mm / year to +5 mm / year, but no apparent acceleration over the period.

The chart on the left (for periods ending Sept. 1999) reveals an acceleration of global warming trends, while the CO2 growth trends (see black dotted curve) across periods were fairly stable.

(I regret BEST land - only is the only dataset I have easy access to that is long enough in duration to show three or more successive periods of the supposed 60 year or longer «waves»; however, on all of the datasets longer than 120 years, the claimed waves degenerate, and the appearance of acceleration for pretty much any proposed period longer than 50 years persists across all global datasets.)

Jevrejeva 2014:» Fig. 15 reveals that during the past 203 years there are several time periods with positive and negative sea level accelerations, suggesting that a wide spectrum (from 10 to 100 years) of variability influences estimates of sea level acceleration, and this leads to uncer - tainty in the quadratic fitting of the GSL depending on the time period selected.»

There was a large sampling change in this period of marked «acceleration».

but some appreciation of the fact they are fitting to data with an obvious cycle component and how the fitting period will affect this is important before anyone get too excited about 0.001 mm / yr ^ 2 «acceleration» in sea levels.

Although the global temperature data show short periods of greater and smaller warming trends, and even short periods of cooling, the team's key question was whether or not these are statistically significant in showing a change in the form of a slowdown or acceleration of global warming, or whether they are merely expected fluctuations — or noise — in the data.