Sentences with phrase «range of temperature changes»

The solid contours with labels show the range of temperature changes across the high - end models (again scaled by the global mean temperature rise).

This research shows that we've experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history — but this change happened a lot more quickly.

«This research shows that we've experienced almost the same range of temperature change since the beginning of the industrial revolution,» says Major, «as over the previous 11,000 years of Earth history — but this change happened a lot more quickly.»

The range of temperature change in Marcott is about the same amplitude as the range of temperature change in the instrumental record.

Not exact matches

Quartz recently chatted with Bernanke — now a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution — by phone, in order to take his temperature on a range of issues, from frothy valuations in Silicon Valley to his change of heart regarding healthy eating.

How is it that if the temperature of the planet changes a couple of degrees, still well within its recent historical range, it's a catastrophe.

Fran — The reducing time is just an estimate as stoves range so much in power, no two really agree on the temperature of «medium - high» and even pot thickness / material and depth / width can change the time.

Foil and metalized film packaging and changes in product temperature and moisture content have no effect on the sensitivity of foreign body detection and solutions are available to inspect frozen, chilled, canned and dried ready meals in a wide range of packaging types, such as:

Its screen will change color to let you know if your baby's temperature is in a safe range and, because it's an infrared thermometer, there's never any worry of cross-contamination.

This can occur for a preemie because their body temperature can change in a range of seconds.

In turn, the MIT allows dramatic nonmagnetic control of the coercivity, which changes by several hundred percent within a narrow 10 K temperature range, unlike any other known magnetic material.

Because temperature and moisture predictably change with elevation, these gardens reflect climate differences — ranging from desert to alpine forest — that mimic the effects of climate change.

«We found that in North Pakistan and the Eastern Ghats, a mountain range close to the Indian Ocean, changes of temperatures and humidity mark a critical transition to monsoon,» explains Stolbova.

Most of these lakes are in the eastern Himalayas, where glacier lakes are expanding more rapidly than those in other parts of the mountain range mostly due to rising temperatures and decreasing snowfall during the summer monsoon as a result of climate change.

«Most liquids obey the Stokes - Einstein equation over a wide range of temperatures, but some unexpected changes in behavior are found in supercooled water and other glassy materials,» coauthor Kang Kim, of Osaka University, says.

The reason the first changes in average temperature and temperature extremes appeared in the tropics was because those regions generally experienced a much narrower range of temperatures.

«Previous research suggested that climate change would directly affect the range of species due to rising temperatures.

Comparing the snakes» most active temperature range with predictions of shifts due to climate change, the team pointed out that the timing of seasonal activities may shift in the future — which could impact their interactions with other species.

Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

To find out how climate change will affect the overall survival of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes), a team of researchers placed mosquito larvae taken from ponds in western Greenland into chambers with temperatures ranging from 4 °C to 19 °C, simulating temperatures measured in the ponds during mosquito development, and then timed how long it took for the adults to emerge.

Existing electronic skins can sense temperature changes of less than a tenth of a degree Celsius across a 5 - degree temperature range.

So far, the skin is capable of detecting these tiny changes across a range of temperatures roughly between 5 to 50 degrees Celsius (about 41 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit), which is useful for robotics and biomedical applications.

The new skin can sense changes that are an order of magnitude smaller and have a responsivity that is two orders of magnitude larger than those of other electronic skins over a 45 - degree temperature range.

«The range of pH and temperature that some organisms experience on a daily basis exceeds the changes we expect to see in the global ocean by the end of the century,» notes Rivest, an assistant professor at VIMS.

The conclusion of that study was that we are now in that interval's warmest range of temperatures, therefore adding support to the overwhelming evidence from other sources and models that man - made climate change is already well underway.

In particular, RNA enzymes can not readily adjust their activities to temperature changes likely to have happened as the earth cooled, and so can not perform the very broad range of catalytic accelerations that would have been necessary to synchronize the biochemistry of early cell - based life forms.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

Solar storms can cause dramatic change in the temperatures of the upper atmosphere, including the ionosphere, which ranges from about 30 miles in altitude to about 600 miles high — the edge of space.

Fear that a warming climate will constrict this temperature range underlies recent studies that warn of the detrimental effects of climate change on the activity and survival of cold - blooded animals.

By looking at the larger data sets, researchers working on this study could examine individual species and groups of species within a geographic region, the temperature range inhabited by each species or species group, and the impact of temperature changes over time.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

This finding lies at the very uppermost range of temperature rise as calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The environmental ranges of many animal and plant species are starting to alter with climate change, as temperatures change and force species to migrate to more suitable climes.

Its results show a large range of natural summer temperature variability and identify distinct phases of rapid change.

That study addressed a puzzle, namely that recent studies using the observed changes in Earth's surface temperature suggested climate sensitivity is likely towards the lower end of the estimated range.

It was thought that perovskite didn't change structure over the enormous range of pressures and temperatures spanning the lower mantle.

Since the IPCC contends that all emissions scenarios are equally likely, there should be equal likelihood that the rate of temperature change should fall within either of the two ranges I just defined.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

The black line indicates observed temperature change, while the coloured bands show the combined range covered by 90 % of recent model simulations.

Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation can alter the ranges and life cycles of disease - causing pathogens and the animals that carry them.

Band 10 brings to ALMA a broad range of capabilities, which — among other things — enables astronomers and planetary scientists to study and monitor temperature changes at different altitudes above the clouds of Uranus and other giant planets in our Solar System.

Wigley et al. (1997) pointed out that uncertainties in forcing and response made it impossible to use observed global temperature changes to constrain ECS more tightly than the range explored by climate models at the time (1.5 °C to 4.5 °C), and particularly the upper end of the range, a conclusion confirmed by subsequent studies.

A limit of approximately 500 GtC on cumulative fossil fuel emissions, accompanied by a net storage of 100 GtC in the biosphere and soil, could keep global temperature close to the Holocene range, assuming that the net future forcing change from other factors is small.

These provide the range of fingerprint magnitudes (e.g., for the combined temperature response to different aerosol forcings) that are consistent with observed climate change, and can therefore be used to infer the likely range of forcing that is consistent with the observed record.

• 2 to 4.5 °C is lifting range that must suffer the global average temperature by the end of this century according to estimates made by the UN IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Digital Fuel Injection enhances throttle response and automatically adjusts for changes in temperature and elevation for optimum performance in a wide range of environments

This is one of the most iconic tracks at which we race, and for good reason: elevation changes — most notably the Corkscrew — plus an unpredictable track surface and full range of temperatures.

Extreme temperature conditions will reflect in the battery autonomy of an e-paper signage solution, as temperatures outside the 20 — 25 °C / 60 — 77 °F range change the chemical processes taking place inside of a battery, effectively lowering the initial battery capacity.

Not only can they create stunning looking arenas in a wide range of environments, they also have full control over a dynamic weather system, time of day, gravity and even environmental threats like meteorite showers and harsh temperature changes.

The IPCC temperature change range from 1990 to 2100 (11 decades) represents a range of rates of temperature change of 0.13 ºC / decade to 0.53 ºC / decade.