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Seasonal Variations at Freight + Volume September 24, 2009 — October 31, 2009 / Reception: Thursday, September 24, 6 — 8 pm Negotiating the uncertain border between the art object and consumerism, David Baskin's recent sculpture explores the underlying agendas inherent in the «formal» properties of everyday consumer goods.
«To their surprise, the researchers found that mercury and CO2 show similar
seasonal variations at five forested monitoring stations in the Northern hemisphere including Pallas», says researcher Katriina Kyllönen from FMI.
«They form at different times and different latitudes on Mars, all related to
the seasonal variations at those locations.
Not exact matches
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If the effects of climate change weren't included in the model, the trends toward bigger
seasonal variations in CO2
at Arctic latitudes disappeared, researchers report online today in Science.
The data showed that the region experienced minimal
seasonal variation in temperature and rainfall; in other words,
at most a very weak monsoon.
The regular
variation in isotope ratios suggests that rather than wandering
at random from site to site, Diprotodon made the same round trip each year, following
seasonal shifts in vegetation and rainfall.
Observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide made by aircraft
at altitudes between 3 and 6 kilometers (10,000 - 20,000 feet) show that
seasonal carbon dioxide
variations have substantially changed during the last 50 years.
«So, we decided to go back and look
at emergency department visits for that time period and see if there were more visits here
at certain
seasonal variations during the year.»
Then, they looked
at satellite data that measures
variations in Earth's gravitational field to track the long - term and
seasonal movements of water between the oceans and the continents.
However, the
seasonal variations do not affect the hexagon and its jet stream
at all, so both are part of an extensive wave, deeply rooted in Saturn's atmosphere.
But researchers expect to see
seasonal variations in the dark matter signal because the speed
at which the Earth ploughs through the surrounding sea of dark matter changes depending on its direction of motion.
In other words, the earth's orbit was almost circular and,
at the same time, its axis tilted less, leading to fewer
seasonal variations and less extreme weather conditions for a period of about 200,000 years.
Ca
seasonal variation follows the behaviour expected from impact vaporization by interplanetary dust, due to Mercury's substantial radial excursions (heliocentric distances between 0.306 AU
at perihelion and 0.465 AU
at aphelion).
«We're left trying to imagine how we can create this
seasonal variation,» said Webster, who is
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The large - scale patterns of
seasonal variation in several important atmospheric fields are now better simulated by AOGCMs than they were
at the time of the TAR.
At the Amsterdam Island station, operated by the French polar institute Paul Emile Victor and surrounded by 3000 km of Ocean in all directions, both mercury and CO2 show near - zero
seasonal variations (see Figure).
They found that the amplitude of
seasonal atmospheric mercury
variations is largest
at inland monitoring sites away from the coast.
Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM, red) follows
seasonal CO2 (blue)
variations at the forested site of Pallas, reflecting leaf uptake of atmospheric mercury.
Morphometric
variations at an ecological scale:
seasonal and local
variations in feral and commensal house mice
Using data from an observational study, we used sinusoidal regression models to evaluate
seasonal variation of nutrient intake, PA, and body weight as amplitude and phase (a time while the measure was
at peak).
At a larger scale, this method would more accurately assess the
seasonal variation in predation rates, individual hunting behavior throughout the year and the actual impact of cat predation on prey populations (Tschanz et al., 2011).
Water clarity can reach 100 feet
at certain times, but can also vary greatly based on
seasonal variations in the outflow of Guyana's Orinoco River.
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.
But looking
at the diagram, despite the
seasonal variation would seem to be positive trend in the mass component for sea level.
One need to look
at the AIRS data with some caution: what you see as «not well mixed» is in fact the
seasonal variation, which is seen in the ground based stations too (the satellite data were calibrated by the stations and airplanes!).
If one looks
at the ocean / water temperatures http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst.html there are enormous differences between the tropics, temperate and north, and enormous
seasonal variations during the year which will affect CO2 absorption and emission, and there is a lot of biological activity in seas and waters that also are involved.
The measurements
at MLO, Barrow, Samoa, south pole represent 95 % of the atmosphere, where only
seasonal variations and a continuous increase are seen, not (or limited) the influence of local / regional biological decay or uptake, car exhausts or chimneys as in 5 % of the atmosphere over land where such
variations are measured for other reasons than a global CO2 level...
The range of
seasonal CO2
variation is ~ 16ppm
at Barrow Alaska versus ~ 1ppm
at the South Pole, versus an average annual increase in global CO2 of ~ 1.5 ppm.
The
seasonal variation is larger near ground near the north pole than
at Mauna Loa and larger in the NH than in the SH:
«8 - Year ground - based observational analysis about the
seasonal variation of the aerosol - cloud droplet effective radius relationship
at SGP site.»
A number of publications suggest that
seasonal, inter-
seasonal and inter-annual
variations of the earth's rotation velocity are directly proportional to the relative angular momentum
at the atmosphere, which primarily depends on the velocity of zonal winds (Langley et al. 1981; Rosen and Salstein 1983; Robertson 1991).
The impacts of the marked
seasonal variability of factors such as net radiation and / or temperature
at high latitude sites are of far more importance for tree growth than the small
seasonal variation in CO2 (a well - mixed gas).
Seasonal and Interannual
Variations in Aerosol Characteristics
at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site.
It is fastest over land where heat received by day is all lost by radiation to space
at night although there are
seasonal variations around the globe.
A set of long, nearly complete daily precipitation series for Alaska spanning the latter half of the 20th century has been analyzed for
seasonal relationships between
variations in mean, heavy, and extreme precipitation and large - scale atmospheric circulation
variations at interannual, decadal, and secular timescales.
«We tried to look
at the
seasonal variation.
Scientists use permafrost temperature, measured
at a depth where
seasonal variations cease to occur, as an indicator of long - term change and to represent the mean annual ground temperature.
If we look
at the data of
seasonal variation of sea ice year by year
at Arctic [North Pole] and Antarctic [South Pole] the year to year
variations of
seasonal trends are above the average
at Antarctica and below the average
at Arctic in the last decade.
Therefore, as in our time - series analyses of annual proportions of male births and stillbirths, we found no support for the hypothesis that
seasonal variation in ambient temperature
at the time of conception is related to the proportion of male births in New Zealand.
Thus, for our third hypothesis we tested whether
seasonal variation in ambient temperature
at the time of conception is related to the proportion of male births [18] using monthly data from 1980 — 2009.
The average temperature of the surface is that depth
at which there is no daily,
seasonal, or annual
variation i.e. a constant year - round temperature.
Ecological processes such as the flooding of the Don River
at the east of the site, and
seasonal solar and temperature
variations are incorporated into the functionality of the greenhouses, building, and productive landscape.
Observations of recent global warming, short - term cooling after major volcanic eruptions, cooling
at the Last Glacial Maximum and other periods in the historical record, and the
seasonal variation in climate, all provide some information which helps to determine the value of climate sensitivity.
Grachev A. A., P. O. G. Persson, T. Uttal, E. Akish, C. J. Cox, S. M. Morris, C. W. Fairall, R. S. Stone, G. Lesins, A. Makshtas and I. A. Repina (May 2018):
Seasonal and latitudinal
variations of surface fluxes
at two Arctic terrestrial sites.
However, in Brient Alb
seasonal variations — as used in Zhai — were considered to produce a less satisfactory constraint than deseasonalized
variations, since models are relatively poor
at reproducing the observed
seasonal cycle.
Day - by - day
variations of UV have to be put in the context of the
seasonal peaks since daily
variations can be simply due to weather related filtering
at the surface level.»
However, (a) the anthropogenic emission is less than a third of the
seasonal variation, and (b) the rapid changes to atmospheric CO2 concentration of the
seasonal variation indicate that during each year the system very rapidly adjusts to
seasonal changes that are much greater than the anthropogenic emission each year (in some places more than an order of magnitude greater; e.g.
at Alert, Canada).
I long ago removed the doors to the cabinet and it helped a tad but looking
at your redo of that wall has convinced me that open shelving is the way to go and I love your
seasonal variations.