Sentences with phrase «sparse sampling»

This is based on sparse sampling.

Despite evidence for a growing sink when globally integrated (Khatiwala et al. 2009, 2013; Ciais et al. 2013; DeVries 2014), this variability, combined with sparse sampling, means that it is not yet possible to directly confirm from surface observations that long - term growth in the oceanic sink is occurring.

Maybe the planet's temperature is really a constant, and we see those fluctuations due to sparse sampling and measurement errors.

However, the uncertainties in the geological sea level record are substantial, associated with sparse sampling, uncertainties in the proxy methods and uncertainties in the analysis methods.

In order to produce an estimate, given the sparse sampling, it is necessary to combine a range of methods and datasets (in - situ, DEM differencing, altimetry, gravimetry) to arrive at a robust global estimate.

For such sparse sampling to work, advanced, broadcasting civilizations would have to be abundant, or searchers would have to get very lucky.

But these sparse samplings provide only snapshots of the sea's shifting moods, says Kate Moran, NEPTUNE's director.

This sparse sample size was dramatically increased upon the discovery of 215 eggs of the pterosaurs species Hamipterus tianshanensis from a Lower Cretaceous site in China.

Not exact matches

The data accompanying those samples are more sparse and so the serum specimens are not as useful for studies, although they are still kept in the repository.

The sparse representation of women in the sample may nonetheless represent some recent gains, says John Walsh, a science policy specialist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who was not involved in the study.

Gaab, N., Gaser, C., Zaehle, T., Jancke, L. & Schlaug, G. Functional anatomy of pitch memory - An fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

We decided to grab a sample of the Daily Star (although a wide range of more edifying titles are on offer) and it works well enough offering up full colour, zoomable pages, with an overview to dive to the page you want, and links to the «text only» stories, which to be fair on the Daily Star were rather sparse.

In a recent study, LaFranchi et al. collected air samples at the WLEF tall tower in northern Wisconsin, an area surrounded by forest and wetland ecosystems with a relatively sparse human population.

Annual mass balance is typically assessed from a sparse network (0.5 - 50 points / km2) of sample locations that are not uniformly distributed across the glacier (Pelto, 1996; Fountain and Vecchia, 1999).

Because the sampling of the «no - dendro» dataset is much sparser, we expect that it will be more influenced by regional variations, and less representative of the true NH mean temperature.

A continuous temperature «surface» based on a sparse convenience sample uses infinitely more interpolation than a gridded area averaging method.

• Below ocean depths of 700 m the sampling in space and time is too sparse to produce annual global ocean temperature and heat content estimates prior to 2005.

It should be noted that their estimate of uncertainty relates mostly to the spatial sampling, or sparse data coverage.

Granted, the satellites are less good at sampling right near the poles, but compared to the very sparse data from the thermometer network we are in fat city coverage-wise with the satellite data.

The sampling particularly of the mid to deep ocean is very sparse prior to 2000.