Sentences with phrase «seasonal cycle»

Like most climate - related variables, snow cover shows a strong seasonal cycle, with more snow in winter and less in summer.

Other stations of the global CO2 measurement network show almost exactly the same; the most important regional variation is the greatly subdued seasonal cycle at stations in the southern hemisphere.

«The normal seasonal cycle of tick and flea pressure is no longer as visible,» he says.

Before air - conditioning, American life followed seasonal cycles determined by weather.

The black line with the square symbols represents the same, after correction for the average seasonal cycle.

All bands have very well defined annual cycles, i.e., every year the phase change conditions for each band goes through clear seasonal cycles.

This statistic can be used to assess the combined contributions of both spatial pattern errors and seasonal cycle errors.

It appears that the overall seasonal cycle is riding on a gradually warming average value, but peak positive excursions are being limited by the ice melt temperature in Summer.

We don't follow seasonal cycles that come and go.

Your point «The superior utility of the OLR seasonal cycle in narrowing the spread of climate sensitivity may arise because it is a better measure of dOLR / dTs.»

By contrast, when only the OLR seasonal cycle predictor field is used, either in full or restricted to latitudes 30S — 30N, full standardization has only a marginal impact on the Prediction ratio.

Instead, results based on what appears to be the most appropriate choice of predictor variables — OLR seasonal cycle over 30S — 30N latitudes — indicate a negligible (3 %) increase in mean predicted warming, and on their face support a greater narrowing of the range of predicted warming.

Model performance in reproducing the observed seasonal cycle of land snow cover may provide an indirect evaluation of the simulated snow - albedo feedback under climate change.

After its latest battle with H1N1, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recommended in February that everyone six months and older get the annual vaccine, a step that should improve immunity against future pandemics as well as seasonal cycles of the flu.

Simulations of the mid-Holocene with AOGCMs (see Section 9.2.1.3 for forcing) produce an amplification of the mean seasonal cycle of temperature of approximately 0.5 °C to 0.7 °C.

Meanwhile, permafrost observers the world over will take measurements in boreholes at least 30 meters (100 feet) deep — the depth where temperatures do not fluctuate during seasonal cycles — though some will stretch much deeper.

The persistent nature of the hexagon in imaging observations implies that it is present throughout Saturn's 29 - year seasonal cycle.

And some diseases that spread among people might turn out to be nearly impossible to predict using satellite and environmental data beyond what researchers already know about seasonal cycles, like that for the seasonal flu.

Each species seems to be tied to their local seasonal cycle of greening, which is markedly different among species, suggesting that annual climate cycles may help maintain genetic and phenotypic divergence in giraffes.

At first, both groups of starlings appeared to behave normally, exhibiting a natural seasonal cycle in which «the whole [brain] mechanism for song shuts down in autumn, presumably to make room for other centers that are more important — like finding food,» says Katherine Buchanan, a study leader.

The area has a predictable seasonal cycle, where the water rises and descends, with average changes of about 35 feet during the course of the year.

Hall, A. & Qu, X. Using the current seasonal cycle to constrain the snow albedo feedback in future climate change.

Tis the Season Seasonal cycles often influence purchase decisions.

Eisenman, I., T. Schneider, D. S. Battisti, and C. M. Bitz, 2011: Consistent changes in the sea ice seasonal cycle in response to global warming.

Snowfall less sensitive to warming in Karakoram than in Himalayas due to a unique seasonal cycle.

A least - squares fit regression line for the simulations (solid line) and the observed seasonal cycle Δαs / ΔTs value based on ISCCP and ERA40 reanalysis (dashed vertical line) are also shown.

Already this is not my understanding of a climatology as I understood it to include the expected seasonal cycle, e.g. the file abstem3 in the HadCRUT3 dataset.

«And what we found was that we got the right kind of temperature change and we got a dampened seasonal cycle, both of which are things we think we see in the Pliocene.»

«New approach to modeling Amazon seasonal cycles developed.»

For example, if at the end of this exercise I find that hey, I really didn't NEED that many skirts... I may cut down on my skirt selection and instead add an additional shirt / jean / dress next seasonal cycle.

Models are compared primarily to the current climatology and all of the adjusting goes into getting the mean climate / seasonal cycle etc. correct.

Global values are not particularly useful since they conflate the two disparate and out of phase seasonal cycles.

Here we show the existence of a distinctive seasonal cycle of subsurface cooling via mixing in the equatorial Pacific cold tongue, using multi-year measurements of turbulence in the ocean.