Sentences with phrase «placed by the natural variability»

Finally, the components within each stream are identified as belonging to Phase I or II research, and the limits placed by the natural variability of the climate system on what can be learned from low - level Phase II field - testing are roughly assessed.

Not exact matches

«This is important for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where climate change dominates the observed sea level rise and places where the climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional variability caused by natural ocean climate cycles.»

Doing it that way would just be less sophisticated and informative, because in some places 1.8 degrees would just by nature of the local natural variability be exceeded much more easily than in some other places, so using that kind of threshold would not be as «fair» and even - handed as the 3 - sigma threshold.

This is a view shared by Prof Peter Nienow, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh, who said: «The significant warming being seen in many places across the planet makes it unlikely that the recent warming reported in this paper is due just to local natural variability.»

Because natural fire regimes varied widely historically, and are complicated in many places by similar variability in logging practices and intensities, the effect of fire reductions on bark beetle outbreaks varies considerably and involves several issues of spatial and temporal scale variability.