Sentences with phrase «scale model of a future»

Made of foam and white plaster, they were conceived as 1:1 scale models of some future disaster - broken planes, masses of geological rock forms and subterranean tunnels are conjoined together in a manner that recalls the aftermath of an explosion or a natural cataclysm, whose colour can only be added by the events of a history yet to unfold.

The architects call it «a scale model of a future Chinese city

The architects call it «a scale model of a future Chinese city which offers alternatives to the current urbanization in China.

Not exact matches

Business models with the scope to benefit the future prospects of everyone and everything on a global scale, warrant being given every opportunity to succeed and hopefully, this will yet be the case regardless of any existing hurdles, past and present.

Johansen: The future of small business is very bright, because you've got this potential to create new business models and partner with very small or very large organizations, and then to scale much more quickly than before.

With the LogPoint license and pricing model, your worries of data limits instantly disappear, allowing you to scale for future needs in a predictable manner

One near - term step researchers could take, it says, «is defining the scale and scope of observations and modeling capabilities necessary to detect the signal of any future field experiments» of geoengineering techniques, and ways «to evaluate their consequences.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

Funding from Future Energy Source Ltd. has allowed Dr Khan and his team to set up labs in Poole, which include a scale model of the solar thermal system — an invaluable tool for testing.

Genome - scale metabolic models as platforms for identification of novel genes as antimicrobial drug targets — Bashir Sajo Mienda — Future Medicine

Future work includes building a multiscale simulation framework that establishes connections between the proposed model to atomistic models based on explicit parametrization of relevant transport and oxidation parameters via appropriate small - scale models.

There is considerable confidence that Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) provide credible quantitative estimates of future climate change, particularly at continental and larger scales.

Measurements of large - scale structure in SDSS maps of galaxies, quasars, and intergalactic gas have become a central pillar of the standard cosmological model that describes our understanding of the history and future of the Universe.

I have a small collection of scale models and intend to get more in the future.

NEW YORK — Toyota's Scion youth brand unveiled three concepts for future products: a possible heir to the xB along with scale models of a mini-truck and a three - door fastback.All three vehicles...

Supreme Commander was a «spiritual successor» to Total Annihilation, an attempt to bring its massive scale of combat, large selection of units, an interesting economy / base construction model, and the crowd - pleasing nuclear superweapons back into the minds of gamers, and it being re-released at the time that Supreme Commander is getting its own sequel allows fans to relive history as they step into the future.

A release date, price and prototype model have not been officially shown, however Gecco provided fans - and press - with a promotional image of their future «Scissorwalker» statue; the upcoming collectible will feature the cloaked scissor - wielding demon at 1 / 6th scale, though exact dimensions have not been given.

- A large - scale model of Brooklyn in 2110, as a city of the future producing everything it needs to sustain itself within its physical borders.

Do Ho Suh's extraordinary sculptureFallen Star 1/5, which depicts the aftermath of a collision between two buildings, each a one - fifth - scale model of actual structures, is a highlight of the MFAH «sYour Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea — up through Feb. 14.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

And since key aspects of those large - scale scenarios as far as Atlantic TC activity is concerned (i.e. what really happens to the ENSO mean state and amplitude of variability) are currently not confidently known, neither can we be confident using the model projections to say what will happen to Atlantic TC activity in the future.

For the future, data assimilation might help us to keep the state of a climate model closer to the real world's, allowing us to improve predictions on seasonal and decadal time scales.

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).

Concerning climate - change forecasting, we can not expect that increased computer power and improved climate models will in the future «give more precise probability distributions of outcomes at the regional and decadal scales».

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).

The Evergreen Brick Works project is a massive redevelopment of a former industrial site into» Canada's first large - scale community environmental centre representing a striking new model for the future — a heritage

Treatment of Major Food Crops with Elevated Carbon Dioxide or Ozone Layer Under Large - Scale Fully Open - Air Conditions Suggests Recent Models May Have Overestimated Future Yields.

While it is occasionally found wandering to the interior, a large - scale shift to freshwater habitat, as is suggested by Audubon's climate model, is quite unlikely, regardless of future climate.

Long - term natural variability has implications for the modeling of future climate changes, on the scale of decades to centuries.

[1] Reconstructing solar activity variability beyond the time scale of actual measurements provides invaluable data for modeling of past and future climate change.

Syllabus: Lecture 1: Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modelling Lecture 2: Types of Atmospheric and Climate Models Lecture 3: Energy Balance Models Lecture 4: 1D Radiative - Convective Models Lecture 5: General Circulation Models (GCMs) Lecture 6: Atmospheric Radiation Budget Lecture 7: Dynamics of the Atmosphere Lecture 8: Parametrizations of Subgrid - Scale Physical Processes Lecture 9: Chemistry of the Atmosphere Lecture 10: Basic Methods of Solving Model Equations Lecture 11: Coupled Chemistry - Climate Models (CCMs) Lecture 12: Applications of CCMs: Recent developments of atmospheric dynamics and chemistry Lecture 13: Applications of CCMs: Future Polar Ozone Lecture 14: Applications of CCMs: Impact of Transport Emissions Lecture 15: Towards an Earth System Model

Scaling factors derived from detection analyses can be used to scale predictions of future change by assuming that the fractional error in model predictions of global mean temperature change is constant (Allen et al., 2000, 2002; Allen and Stainforth, 2002; Stott and Kettleborough, 2002).

Bearing in mind that the end user needs information regarding future rainfall at a much finer scale than the simulator grid, needs to know not just the amount but type of rainfall, e.g. a model that drizzles a bit every day is not very helpful, so they do their own downscaling.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

Future coupling of demography with existing global land model predictions could enable assessment of these potentially important die - off responses [44], as well as implementation of more realistic reductions in tree loss to drive scenarios (i.e., enabling assessments of ecological changes less drastic or occurring on shorter time - scales than conversion from forest to grassland biomes).

«The large - scale winds would look better because the release of latent heat drives a lot of those winds, and climate sensitivity would be better constrained because not only is the base state highly dependent on convective parameterization but the model predictions for future climate change are also very sensitive to that as well.»

The model simulations are therefore taken as possibilities for future realworld climate and as such of potential value to society, at least on variables and scales where themodels agree in terms of their climate distributions (Smith 2002).

Projections of future large - scale mass change are based on surface mass balance models that are open to criticism, because they ignore or greatly simplify glacier physics.

Carbon models all indicate that the ocean will continue to be a net sink for CO2 for a long long time into the future on the scale of centuries or even millennia.

13.5.1 Key Uncertainties in Climate Scenarios 13.5.1.1 Specifying alternative emissions futures 13.5.1.2 Uncertainties in converting emissions to concentrations 13.5.1.3 Uncertainties in converting concentrations to radiative forcing 13.5.1.4 Uncertainties in modelling the climate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scenarios

The weather prediction model used in this research is advantageous because it assesses details about future climate at a smaller geographic scale than global models, providing reliable simulations not only on the amounts of summer precipitation, but also on its frequency and timing.

Method: We used consistent climate — air - quality — health modeling framework across three geographical scales (World, Europe and Ile - de-France) to assess future (2030 — 2050) health impacts of ozone and PM2.5 under two emissions scenarios (Current Legislation Emissions, CLE, and Maximum Feasible Reductions, MFR).

He's confident that as numerical techniques improve and scientists gain a better understanding of fluid dynamics and the relationship between small - scale turbulence and large - scale motion, future models will become more robust.

Based on our published results and as well as those of other modeling groups, we conclude that at the global scale: a future increase in tropical cyclone precipitation rates is likely; an increase in tropical cyclone intensity is likely; an increase in very intense (category 4 and 5) tropical cyclones is more likely than not; and there is medium confidence in a decrease in the frequency of weaker tropical cyclones.

It is shown that for the «A2» business as usual scenario, every model exhibits an increase in the eddy length scale in the future compared with the simulation of 20th Century climate.

Being based on the UTXO model of Blockchains allows us to process some transactions in parallel and is thus capable of scaling to higher numbers in the future.