Sensitivity studies refer to research or analysis that examines how sensitive or responsive a system or model is to changes in various factors or variables. It helps us understand how much the system's output or results change when its inputs or conditions are altered.
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However, before they should be provided to the impacts communities as anything more than a
model sensitivity study, they must be shown to have skill with respect to real world observations.
We can answer this question by performing another set of
sensitivity studies where we consider only the effects of indirect forcing uncertainties.
The diagrams can be used to define the limits of temperature / precipitation change to be employed in climate
impact sensitivity studies.
Further
sensitivity studies with a climate model (CESM) in which extra-tropical cloud albedo is systematically varied illustrate the influence of cloud albedo perturbations, not only directly above the oceanic subduction regions but across the extra-tropics, on the equatorial bias.
«We showed that the model accurately represents what we measured in cities, so now we can use it to
conduct sensitivity studies, where only a single variable — the percentage of the city covered by impervious versus pervious materials — changes,» he said.
It is thus unlikely this new graph would have seen the light of day had it come up in 2007; and given that next year will likely be warmer than last year, it is not likely to come up again; and since the impression of «failure» relies on you using the HadCRUT3v data, we probably won't be seeing too
many sensitivity studies either.
The point is the parameterization for turbulent diffusivity in a large - scale (global) atmospheric model does not dominate the solution at all, as evidenced
by sensitivity studies to different treatments of the diffusivity.
Morris L. Sorrells M.D. discusses the
penile sensitivity studies he and other doctors conducted that studied circumcised and intact penises.
For example, a recent ice sheet model
sensitivity study finds that incorporating the physical processes of hydrofracturing of ice and ice cliff failure increases their calculated sea level rise from 2 meters to 17 meters and reduces the potential time for West Antarctic collapse to decadal time scales.
GCM sensitivity studies (Boucher and Anderson, 1995) and column calculations (Nemesure et al., 1995) show that the radiative forcing is a strong function of relative humidity but relatively insensitive to chemical composition.
Given that local rainfall statistically can account for 30 - 50 % of the variation in local temperatures and given that simple physics help explain this, I am left wondering where the effect of rainfall on local temperatures in inserted
into sensitivity studies, if indeed it needs to be.
Yang, P., M.G. Mlynczak, H. Wei, D.P. Kratz, B.A. Baum, Y.X. Hu, W.J. Wiscombe, A. Heidinger, and M.I. Mishchenko, 2003: Spectral signature of ice clouds in the far - infrared region: Single - scattering calculations and
radiative sensitivity study.
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