Sentences with phrase «scales over a few decades»

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

Not exact matches

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Four - in - five say US made wrong decision in voting to removing internet protections April 4, 2018 — While the internet has grown in scale, influence and importance in the lives of most everyone on the planet over the past few decades,

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

Resume: Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal transport has enabled a significant degree of control over heat and sound propagation by lattice vibrations - phonons.

Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal transport has enabled a significant degree of control over heat and sound propagation by lattice vibrations - phonons.

The terrestrial processes that might significantly affect large - scale climate over the next few decades are included in current climate models.

At high latitudes, there has been a major, wide - scale change in tree - growth over the past few decades.

The graphs are drawn at a scale that makes it impossible to tell what it's showing over a few decades.

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

Imo local and regional models that can accurately forecast what matters to humans for policy (rainfall, temperature, storms, etc.) over time scales of a few days to one or two decades is critical.

During this period, the rate of this rise has varied on multidecadal time scales making identifying exact reasons behind upswings, such has been observed over the past few decades, difficult.

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

We define abrupt climate change as a large - scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human and natural systems (see Glossary).

Further, a large ensemble of climate model realizations reveals that additional global warming over the next few decades is very likely to create ∼ 100 % probability that any annual - scale dry period is also extremely warm.

In addition, time scales matter here — increasing the amount of CO2 by 33 % over the course of a few decades would overwhelm any system (like the Earth's climate) that has a time constant of centuries.

One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large - scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations» governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions...

One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large - scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations» governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions make it easier to hide wrong - doings and deceive the system.