Sentences with phrase «slow variations»

The timing of the cycles was apparently set by minor changes in sunlight caused by slow variations of the Earth's orbit.

Kane and his team also observed that unlike Earth, which experiences climatic changes such as an ice age because of slow variations in its orbit around the sun, Wolf 1061c's orbit changes at a much faster rate, which could mean the climate there could be quite chaotic.

Thus, there are sufficient studies, both theoretical and phenomenological, confirming our results that for slower variations the climate sensitivity is stronger.

The fact that the amplitude of the events vary from time to time implies slower variations, just like modulations of the sunspot number has led to the proposition of the Gleissberg cycles (80 - 90 years).

Bruce Finney, an aquatic ecologist from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, used the same technique to show that there has been an even larger, slower variation in salmon populations.

Secondly, the slow variation in this high - pressure ridge is enhanced by filtering out the atmospheric noise through land soil processes.

Slow variations in upper ocean heat content that have been observed in the subpolar and marginal ice zone regions of the Atlantic since the mid-twentieth century are thought to be related to changes in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).