Sentences with phrase «regional differences in scaling»

Many species show substantial variation in organ size and shape that could be produced by regional differences in scaling.

Not exact matches

Recent regional scale analyses using satellite - based vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index have found extensive areas of dryland greening in areas of the Mediterranean, the Sahel, the Middle East and northern China, as well as greening trends in Mongolia and South America, according to the paper.

Douglas Robinson, an ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, calls the approach «probably the wave of the future» for determining geographic connections on a regional scale, but he thinks that more detail will be needed to make a difference in conservation.

«If you look at the nutrient distributions in the oceans on a global scale, you can see regional differences,» says Dr. Browning.

A study on the regional differences in sea - level rise: A scaling approach to project regional sea level rise and its uncertainties

The reasons for the regional differences in historical scaled - interannual and future 30 - year trend regressions are unclear, since as noted above the model's interannual NAO variability does not appear to be affected by climate change between 1850 and 2045.

These regional differences in amplitude notwithstanding, the large - scale features of the SLP, SAT and P regression maps show a strong degree of resemblance between the version based on historical scaled - interannual statistics and that based on future 30 - year trends.

Using results from the HadCM2 four - member ensemble experiments, Giorgi and Francisco (2000), for example, suggest that uncertainty in future regional climate change associated with internal climate variability at sub-continental scales (107 km2), is generally smaller than the uncertainty associated with inter-model or forcing differences.

Overall, the pattern - scaled temperature changes in the high - end and non-high-end models are similar over much of the globe, but there are some regional differences, indicating that the regional response of the high - end and non-high-end models to climate change is not completely identical.

Recent analyses using the CCM3 climate model (Govindasamy and Caldeira, 2000) suggest, however, that a 1.7 % decrease in solar luminosity would closely counterbalance a doubling of CO2 at the regional and seasonal scale (in addition to that at the global and annual scale) despite differences in radiative forcing patterns.»