Sentences with phrase «short measurement periods»

Not exact matches

David Nassar's forecast sample size is small and the sample period short, so confidence in the measurement of his accuracy is low.

Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification / laser photogrammetry — making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.

That's because past measurements have been spotty and difficult to extrapolate across larger regions, and the period over which rainfall data have been recorded is relatively short.

Forty precision Doppler measurements were used to confirm that the short - period transit event is due to a planetary companion.

Initial, space - based parallax measurements by the HIPPARCOS Mission proved to be «confused» by the short - period («curious epicyclic») motions of this multiple star system (R. F. Griffin, 1998).

Direct measurements of in vivo tissue proteolysis during short periods (i.e., after meal ingestion) are technically impossible.

In the notes following the performance charts contained herein for each of our Funds, we have always gone to great pains to point out the inherent inconsistency of equity returns, particularly in comparison to benchmark indices over shorter term measurement periods.

The roughly thirty year period over which we have reliable reanalyses and satellite measurements is too short to rule out the influence of natural climate variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Re # 33 (Dave D.): Ice core measurement issues aside, remember that there has to be some degree of lag because a) the initial warming is from Milankovitch changes, not CO2, and 2) the delayed turnover of ocean water means that not all the CO2 will outgas in a short period of time.

A problem with satellite measurement is the rather short period that this as been done.

More recently the GRACE measurements show a receding trend, but the time period is short and there are still serious questions regarding the reliability of this method.

The majority of studies also had fewer than 10 sampling sites and measured fluxes over short periods of time (minutes to hours), often neglecting night sampling in favor of daytime measurements.

Focusing on short - period measurements is a bit like dropping your keys at night and then only searching under lamp - posts.

Land temperatures themselves are of interest, but as far as I know the only widespread measurements of them have started over the last decade, a period too short to do much trend analysis.

He said that they would be discarded, which annoyed me, because it happened that the temperature deviated considerably within a very short period of time, although the measurements had been taken very carefully.

Our results, simulated with a radiative - photochemical model, are consistent with contemporaneous measurements of ozone from the Aura - MLS satellite, although the short time period makes precise attribution to solar effects difficult.

Particle probe measurements in the cirrus clouds are used to compute ice water content and radar reflectivity averages in short time periods (25 — 30 s).

This could be random variation of the atmosphere over a short period, or random measurement error, or some combination.

Ocean temperatures experience interannual variability and over the past 3 decades of global warming have had several short periods of cooling... Argo takes measurements in the top 2000 metres of the ocean.

In the Metzl et al paper for example (your link above), Ocean - atmosphere fluxes differ wildly between models and observations (more than 5 GTc / month, ie 60 Gt / y,) and measurements are made on short periods (less than a decade).

Like most smartwatches, the S2 goes to sleep after a short period of inactivity, which, by my measurements, is usually around 15 seconds; there's no option in the software to lengthen this period of inactivity.