Sentences with phrase «physical understanding»

These expectations are based on physical understanding of the climate system.

A judgment of each estimate's reliability is given as a level of scientific understanding based on uncertainties in the climate change agents and physical understanding of their radiative effects.

The results could show whether dogs» shortcomings in physical understanding are ingrained or have to do with the environments they grow up in.

This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting.

They are actually studying physical understanding.

She was one of my heroes; her contributions reflect her deep physical understanding, her experimental boldness and her willingness to deploy any biophysical approach that would answer the key questions underlying a biological system.

Each piece produces its own physical understanding.

Basically I'd like a more direct and fine - grained physical understanding than, «We ran a GCM and here is a graph», which is what most of the papers I've found contain, and somewhat more detailed and worked - out than the textbook treatments (e.g.raypierre's book).

This mantra has been widely misunderstood and misapplied, but was the first and perhaps still the only systematic conclusion about regional precipitation and global warming based on robust physical understanding of the atmosphere.

It is well known that curve fitting to a series of chaotic signals can lead to apparent periodicities, but that these have no value for prediction unless they are supported by an underlying physical understanding.

We argue that the huge and successful effort to develop physical understanding of the Earth system needs to be complemented by greater effort to understand and reduce model uncertainty.Without such reductions in uncertainty, the science we do will not, by itself, be sufficient to provide robust information for governments, policy makers, and the public at large.»

Technical summary of the Fourth Assessment Report, TS.1 Introduction, page 21, quote, «There is still an incomplete physical understanding of many components of the climate system and their role in climate change.

Finally, it is therefore inescapable that: if the official GAST data from NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU are invalid, then both the «basic physical understanding» of climate and the associated climate models will also be invalid --

Focus: Long - standing model biases (at least a few of them); Understand how model errors or shortcomings impact projections and predictions; Gain physical understanding of the climate system through model development.

'' [W] e can now get extremely sharp images,» he said, which creates «a unique opportunity to improve our physical understanding of Eta Carinae and many other key objects.»

Isaiah 60:14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you Shall come bowing to you, And all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; And they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel One must become more righteous and pure than the ones that gathered and wrote the bible, in order to understand it in both a spiritual and then a physical understanding, of the creational relationship between man and GOD.

Einstein never gave the Giffords, but his contention that God does not play dice with the universe set the stage for lecturers such as Ernest Rutherford and Nils Bohr, who considered whether a physical understanding of the world left any room for the activity of God.

Our physical understanding of the macroscopic world is so good that everything from bridges to aircraft can be designed and tested on a computer.

«I really wish I had a physical understanding of what is going on, and I don't,» Toms says.

«We've done the world's best job of decreasing the uncertainty in the measured rate of universal expansion and of accurately assessing the size of this uncertainty,» said Filippenko, «yet we find that our measured rate of expansion is probably incompatible with the rate expected from observations of the young universe, suggesting that there's something important missing in our physical understanding of the universe.»

Using a global network of observations as input and our physical understanding of the atmosphere, weather simulations do a good job at estimating how fast these systems will travel and how they interact.

Such periods are a relatively common climate phenomenon, are consistent with our physical understanding of how the climate system works, and certainly do not invalidate our understanding of human - induced warming or the models used to simulate that warming.

Putting these exercises into practice while carrying or lifting heavy loads may take some mental focus at first until the technical and physical understanding of the technique is understood and muscle memory is developed.

The subjective exploration of imagined space inspired by the experience of a literal one has been a continued interest in Zahaykevich's work; the physical understanding of her sculpture has a deceptive relationship to it's actual size.

It seems to me that there is a particular haptic quality to the work of many California artists who did not follow or come out of the Finish Fetish school, but rather drew on the specific qualities of the West Coast environment to inform their vocabulary — light filled, a hyper awareness of geology, and a physical understanding of material.

This range reflects both uncertainties in physical understanding and inaccuracies arising from the need to reduce the mathematical problem to one that can be handled by even the fastest available electronic computers.

Rather, we build a physical understanding of past changes, and assume that the laws of physics stay the same.

On the background of our physical understanding and the empirical data — i.e. the lack of trend in the CRF record (as well as other solar proxies such as 10.7 cm flux)-- the notion is inconsistent with our understanding of how the world works.

But results from the iid - test is certainly not the reason for why we think there is an ongoing climate change: it's to my mind firstly our physical understanding and secondly the multitude of empirical evidence.

Studies with climate models have noted that the ITCZ width depends on interactions between radiation and clouds (Voigt & Shaw 2015) and how the model represents sub-grid scale convection (Kang et al. 2009), but a physical understanding of why the ITCZ width is affected by these processes is lacking.