Sentences with phrase «spatial changes in»

But models based on physical principles also reproduce the response to seasonal and spatial changes in radiative forcing fairly well, which is one of the many lines of evidence that supports their use in their prediction of the response to anthropogenic forcing.

Specifically, UC San Diego scientists were able to show that even without grid cells rats could still mark spatial changes in their environment.

«Temporal and spatial changes in Chesapeake Bay water quality and relationships to Prorocentrum minimum, Karlodinium veneficum, and CyanoHAB events, 1991 - 2008» was published in the journal Harmful Algae.

Not exact matches

One possibility: time is just another spatial dimension except at the beginning of space and time This is perhaps like formation of an ice crystal or alignment of magnetic domains, a phase change in which time becomes timelike.

It is indeed a difficult task to «switch gears» from a theology based on static, spatial models alone, such as the essence of God, the natures of Christ, and the substance of bread and wine, to a theology that is concerned with spatio - temporal models, such as change in God, Christ becoming divine, and the on - going process of revelation.

The world view of atoms of pure being in a spatial sea of nothing still needed to offer some explanation of causality and change.

I shall suggest below that a more useful strategy than either of these extremes lies in focusing on religious changes over a period of several decades and involving at least several levels of spatial organization.

The core of process thought: Rather than a «substance theology» based on static, spatial models, process thought «switches gears» to a concern with spatial - temporal models such as change in God, Christ becoming divine and the on - going process of revelation.

We all in practice assume that, when speakers raise their hands, thereby (among other things) changing the spatial location of the electrons in them, they do so because they decided to do so; or, if we take the speaker's hand gestures to be involuntary, we at least assume that they occurred because of points the speaker had decided to make.

It is not that Euclidean geometry fixes the meaning of «right line» for Newton that is important for present purposes; rather, it is that the notion of a «state of rest» or a «state of motion in a right line» presupposes some spatial reference, and «uniform motion» and «change of motion» presuppose some temporal reference.

For example, there are mathematical solutions of M - theory in which the number of spatial dimensions can change.

This data can then be used to analyze the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental conditions, including baseline data for global climate change and their relevance to changes in regional land use patterns.

«Our findings are not a reflection of general brain aging but rather of specific neural changes that are linked to specific problems in object but not spatial memory.»

Relative changes in gray matter volume, related to spatial and nonspatial representations of numerical size.

The mixed and virtual reality technologies used range from the installation of a display in the surfaces of the cabin to complete immersion in a head - mounted display that can change both spatial and body awareness.

We study the group velocity of single photons by measuring a change in their arrival time that results from changing the beam's transverse spatial structure.

The outcomes of the study reveal the complexity of the processes shaping climate change in the Arctic and point to significant spatial and chronological variances in sea ice cover.

NIRSIT, a functional near - infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging device, is set to change the landscape of neuroscience research and the medical sector by offering high spatial resolution as well as high temporal resolution in a portable and wireless manner.

These observations of spatial variation in relation to the terrain features are likely driven in part by changes in ocean bottom current speeds produced by the hilly terrain; this causes changes in the settling and drifting of marine snow.

Climate conditions in Kansas have already been noted to have changed in noticeable ways, and many such conditions are known to favorably affect tick phenology and spatial distribution.»

The objective is to integrate the fluorescent protein in the receptor so that its spatial structure changes together with that of the receptor when it binds a serotonin molecule — in such a way that the protein begins to glow.

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

If both spatial and temporal changes in storms continue, as they are likely to do as the world warms, there will be more destructive flooding across the world's major urban centres.

Spatial fingerprints of climate change on biotic communities are usually associated with changes in the distribution of species at their latitudinal or altitudinal extremes.

Our study shows that climate change affects the spatial core of the distributional range of plant species, in addition to their distributional margins, as previously reported.

«Climate change will lead to spatial shifts in the suitability of malaria transmission, with the total area in Africa becoming unsuitable for malaria matching or even exceeding the total area where malaria will become more suitable,» he said.

Emanuel and his colleagues had previously devised a technique to simulate hurricane development in a changing climate, using a specialized computational model they developed that simulates hurricanes at high spatial resolutions.

SUVI replaces the GOES Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument in previous GOES satellites and represents a change in both spectral coverage and spatial resolution over SXI.

«When we compared the spatial correlation using datasets that include only magnitude 3 - plus earthquakes, there was no change,» said Pollyea, adding that a larger reduction in wastewater injection volumes is needed to reduce the dangers of large magnitude earthquakes.

But mole rats that built nests within changing magnetic fields showed strong activity in a brain region called the superior colliculus, which collects spatial cues and directs orienting behavior.

The findings, published in the journal Global Change Biology, are based on spatial and statistical analyses of historical climate data, satellite data on current vegetation, and projections of potential vegetation under climate cChange Biology, are based on spatial and statistical analyses of historical climate data, satellite data on current vegetation, and projections of potential vegetation under climate changechange.

Spatial navigation tasks are used to study the way animals identify their location and navigate towards favourable, and away from unfavourable, locations in response to changes in the environment.

The study reports that glaciers flowing to the coast on the western side of the Peninsula show a distinct spatial correlation with ocean temperature patterns, with those in the south retreating rapidly but those in the north showing little change.

Amélie works in the realm of marine and coastal ecology and conservation and her research interests include the use of spatial tools (GIS, spatio - temporal analyses, bio-logging, habitat mapping) to understand and mitigate impacts of anthropogenic activities and changes on wildlife and natural values.

The combined electron and ion heating altered the gradient, or spatial rate of change in the plasma density.

The records document that the Laschamp Excursion was characterized locally by (1) declination changes of ± 120 °, (2) inclination changes of more than 140 °, (3) ~ 1200 - year oscillations in both inclination and declination, (4) near 90 ° out - of - phase relationships between inclinations and declinations that produced two clockwise loops in directions and virtual geomagnetic poles (VGPs) followed by a counterclockwise loop, (5) excursional VGPs during both intervals of clockwise looping, (6) magnetic field intensities less than 10 % of normal that persisted for almost 2000 years, (7) marked similarity in excursional directions over ~ 5000 km spatial scale length, and (8) secular variation rates comparable to historic field behavior but persisting in sign for hundreds of years.

Detectability of change in winter precipitation within mountain landscapes: spatial patterns and uncertainty.

After participation in a ship expedition with RV SONNE to the North Pacific in summer 2018, the tasks include to reconstruct the spatial and temporal changes in near - surface and subsurface water temperatures in the North Pacific, salinity, thermocline depth, and water mass stratification of the upper oceanic surface using geochemical proxy parameters, e.g. in planktic microfossils.

The current project will use high - resolution mass spectrometry - based metabolomics approaches to measure temporal and spatial changes of metabolic pathways in the RPE and retina under both physiological and disease conditions, with a focus on mTOR - mediated signal transduction pathways.

Efforts to reform the single - sector approach to marine spatial management should incorporate expected climate - induced changes in temperature, oxygenation, pH, and POC flux to the seabed in the development of regional and international management scenarios.

Additionally, there were also regional differences in the spatial patterns of change trend in the ARNC temperature at a given time.

However, research to date suggests that measures such as functional diversity or biomass of functional groups may not be directly related to ecosystem impact, due to spatial and ontogenetic changes in function.

Her research aims to enhance our understanding of environmental changes that impact primary producer communities, as these influence the ecology and fitness of higher trophic levels, and to inform future spatial population trends in light of current predictions of climate change.

Krist et al. (2014) suggest that expected climate changes would increase pathogen and insect risks to forests beyond those mapped in Figure 4 - 9 or, at a minimum, alter the spatial patterns of risk.

This was a product of not only the length of time astronomers were trying to note changes in other stars due to the existence of orbiting planets, but by state - of - the - art optical and spectroscopic instruments that were limited in spectral and spatial resolution.

For example, Theme 3 exploits information from Theme 2 to help predict future changes in ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems, but results from Theme 3 also feed back into Theme 2 by providing critical information on the expected temporal and spatial changes of ocean acidification and thus enable meaningful experimental designs.

Climatic signal in tree - ring width chronologies of European Russia: spatial change and perspectives for paleoclimatic reconstructions Vladimir Matskovsky

Wood, R.A., A.B. Keen, J.F.B. Mitchell, and J.M. Gregory, 1999: Changing spatial structure of the thermohaline circulation in response to atmospheric CO2 forcing in a climate model.

Paraphrasing the text in the post, aerosols that are input into the atmosphere, due to their spatial heterogeneity, also cause regions of heating or cooling that the atmosphere can respond to by changing its circulation — and that might have further climate effects in places far away from where the aerosols are input.