Sentences with phrase «regional scale has»

Because the drivers of climate change are truly global, even dedicated action at the regional scale has limited prospects for ameliorating regional - scale impacts.

Climate on the regional scale has been overwhelmingly presumed to drive these changes, with little attention paid to the possible effects of competition.

Indeed, the utility of the term in describing past climate changes at regional scales has been questioned [see e.g. Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004 and references therein.]

While the anomalous nature of recent trends in global average temperature is often highlighted in discussions of climate change, changes at regional scales have potentially greater societal significance.

Reductions in air Hg concentrations on a regional scale have been reported for areas where anthropogenic emissions have been reduced (Kellerhals et al., 2003; Wängberg et al., 2007).

Not exact matches

Myanmar Metals CEO and Chairman, John Lamb, said: «Bawdwin is considered to be in a very unique position in that it may be the only «Tier 1» - scale VMS deposit in the world that has not had any modern exploration programs or modern drilling, either searching for extensions to the known deposits, or on the regional targets.»

Sweetgreen's supply chain counts hundreds of regional growers, producers, and distributors, and has played a major role in its race to achieve national scale.

Using our interactive models, we find that using our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that group.

In May, The Economic Times reported that the company had scaled down operations in its regional offices at Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad, and may even shut down a few if it fails to raise a fresh funding round.

As had already happened among the Presbyterians (1837) and Methodists (1844), the weight of slavery tipped the scales towards regional schism, foreshadowing the coming national crisis.

Perhaps more importantly, the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia, and what was widely regarded as the EU's confused, divided and often impotent response to it, not only illustrated the weakness of the EU's political present, but also indicated that regional conflicts had replaced large - scale territorial war as the principal security threat.

A state payroll tax has already been used on a regional scale to benefit the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and suburban taxpayers.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

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.

* Correction, 30 September, 11:43 a.m.: The article has been amended to give the correct location for Mira Edelstein, who is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and to reflect the regional scale of EcoPeace Middle East.

Other large - scale forms of collaboration have begun on a regional basis.

Whereas carbon levels can affect warming on a global scale, the effects of increased albedo and poor evotranspiration would affect temperatures only on a regional level.

Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

The results are on a regional scale and therefore, the installation of a geothermal station in a specific place would require more detailed studies.

So, although renewable energy output might be intermittent on a regional scale, it would have a more constant flow at a national scale.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

Compiling them into a large regional data set allowed us to answer questions at a large scale that hadn't been addressed before,» says Jeff Matthews, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I, and co-author on the study.

The regional scale of the decline made scientists strongly suspect that an increase in the influx of ocean heat beneath the ice shelves must have taken place.

The analysis uses methods that have already been peer - reviewed, including examining the change in occurrence of such extreme rains in the historical record and in climate models, as well as using finer - scale regional climate models to compare the current climate to one without warming.

NOAA has a list of some state - by - state impacts, but these localized impacts are, of course, less robust statistically than broader regional - scale impacts.

Major consequences of such changes over regional scales will probably include (1) reductions in primary production combined with (2) shifts from diatom - dominated (low SA: V ratio) phytoplankton assemblages with high POC - export efficiencies to picoplankton communities (high SA: V ratio) characterized by low export efficiencies (Smith et al., 2008; Morán et al., 2010; Morán et al., 2015).

«This is the first documented regional - scale bleaching event in WA during an El Nino year and the first time we have been able to measure the percentage of impacted corals in 2016,» she said.

Jiacan has worked on several projects on climate dynamics, including the response of large - scale circulations in the warming climate, its effects on regional weather patterns and extreme events, tropical influence on mid-latitude weather, and dynamical mechanisms of sub-seasonal variability of mid-latitude jet streams.

He has had a central role in PNNL's global aerosol, chemistry, and climate modeling, and in modeling studies of aerosols and cloud - aerosol interactions at local and regional scales.

However, human activity is having an impact on this precious resource on local, regional and global scales.

We are producing TOCs on a global and regional scale now, with TOCs specifically for the Frankfurt Book Fair (we just had our third and most successful TOC Frankfurt last October), the Bologna International Children's Book Fair (our 2nd annual takes place March 18) and will be adding TOCs in Buenos Aires, Spain and Asia this year.

«But regional and local newspapers have a tougher battle ahead because they do not have the advantage of scale.»

Because regional banks and credit unions often operate on a smaller scale, customers can have a much more intimate relationship with these financial institutions.

It already happens in many regional and national dog shows, it has to happen for each and every dog registration if we want to start solving the problem at scale.

Richetts has had her own share of entering artful toy exhibitions, and was honored to serve as juror for the Southern California regional Small Scale Toy Show held in San Diego last year.

The campaign acknowledges that reasonable cuts and efficiencies are necessary but that the 25 % cuts being proposed will destroy much of what has been achieved and will have a particularly damaging impact on smaller scale arts organisations, as well as on national and regional museums and their collections.

Here in Wisconsin, we have a great effort unfolding which could serve as a high standard for regional / state - wide efforts in down - scaling climate projections and communicating the information in a way that is useful for farmers, policy makers, natural resource managers, public health officials, etc..

In fact, 2017 arguably has more events than 2011 given that our analysis traditionally counts all U.S. billion - dollar wildfires, as regional - scale, seasonal events, not as multiple isolated events.

Many studies have now been published, and many more presented at national scientific meetings, on methane emissions using techniques which capture the emissions at regional scales and do not require industry permission to sample.

Previous studies have focused on hemispheric or global - scale temperature reconstructions, which are useful for understanding overall average conditions, but can overlook important differences at regional scales.

Both the NAO and the AMOC have a dominant influence on regional variations over Europe on time scales of a decade [1].

Ocean salinity changes, while unimportant for sea level at the global scale, can have an effect on regional sea level (e.g., Antonov et al., 2002; Ishii et al., 2006; Section 5.5.3).

In the sense of map scales, we're talking about going a very small scale (global; say maybe 1:100,000,000) to a larger scale ratio (regional — maybe 1:10,000,000 or 1:1,000,000)... which process might better have been called upscaling.

But since we seem to have determined that global mean temperatures do tend to track global mean forcings, the interesting science is now in determining the regional scale at which we can still make useful statements — and whether a forcing is «first order» or not will depend quite crucially on what the scale is.

But isn't the UHI effect something other than this «microscale variability» that would be evident at a regional, spatial scale as a «hot spot» for instance (thus the urban heat island).

We already know that (regional) monsoon variability on the scales for sub-seasonal to interannual are higher than the projected model trends of future mean monsoon rainfall (I've just seen that Kevin has mentioned this also).

The models have been able to produce reliable projections on a global scale as opposed to regional ones.

SAN FRANCISCO — A small - scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, researchers have concluded.