Sentences with phrase «spatial characteristics of»

Fasullo and Trenberth (2008b) went on to evaluate the temporal and spatial characteristics of meridional atmospheric energy transports for ocean, land, and global domains, while Trenberth and Fasullo (2008) delved into the ocean heat budget in considerable detail and provided an observationally based estimate of the mean and annual cycle of ocean energy divergence and a comprehensive assessment of uncertainty.

Changnon, S., D. Changnon, T. Karl, 2006: Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States.

Nature of Space refers to the spatial characteristics of an interior.

Additional work is needed to confirm whether the fields produced are overly smooth or not both by using tests with synthetic data and by comparing the results to the spatial characteristics of high - resolution GCM field.»

The mid-12th century drought provides a baseline worst - case in terms of the temporal and spatial characteristics of drought during a warm period, but future water resources and drought planning should consider a number of other factors including trends in temperature, water demands, disturbance legacies, and possible land cover feedbacks.

The SST response patterns to these processes are not completely independent, but they determine the spatial characteristics of the PDO.

Up to now, we have focused on the spatial characteristics of climate anomalies associated with historical NAO variability.

An analysis of the spatial characteristics of the observed early twentieth - century surface air temperature anomaly revealed that it was associated with similar sea ice variations.

Sarkisian was among a group of artists to project video images against non-planar viewing surfaces - a technique he helped develop in the 1990's by digitally augmenting the spatial characteristics of projected images to match physical surfaces of varying shape and angular orientation.

Sarkisian was among an early group of artists to project video images against non-planar viewing surfaces, a technique he helped develop in the 1990's by digitally augmenting the spatial characteristics of projected images to match physical surfaces of varying shape and angular orientation.

This implies that in these cases a careful analysis of the implications of projected changes for the specific temporal and spatial characteristic of the climate variables relevant to the system at risk is required.

Not exact matches

Two terms could be used (from systematic botany): (a) hermaphrodite (from Lat., hermaphroditus, having the characteristics of both male and female), i.e., an individual biologically with both sex organs (unfortunately, the term is applied also to humans who possess both female and male sex organs); (b) monoclinous (Gk., monos, one + kline, a bed), i.e., a plant having flowers with both stamens and pistils — without regard to their spatial arrangement (such flowers are said to be perfect).

However, the epochal theory of time disposes of this foundation of spatial extensiveness, and hence this distinguishing characteristic of durations is likewise lost.15

It is a characteristic of these «spectral colors» that they can not be further resolved into constituent hues by passage through another prism; that they stand in a one - to - one correspondence with a particular angle of refraction (i.e., with a spatial property); and that, in the context of physical optics, each turns out to be quantifiable in terms of a spatial periodicity (the wavelength).

In this Perspective, Wolf and Ertl discuss results by Kliewer et al. (page 1399) and Petek et al. (page 1402), which illustrate the fundamental insights into the microscopic characteristics of electron dynamics at surfaces that can be obtained by state - of - the - art high spatial and temporal resolution studies.

Cell processes are also determined by the chemical labeling (or marks) and specific spatial organization of our genomes, which are epigenetic characteristics — that is, nongenetic but nonetheless inheritable traits.

Strong spatial variation of rupture characteristics in the moment magnitude (Mw) 9.0 Tohoku - Oki megathrust earthquake controlled both the strength of shaking and the size of the tsunami that followed.

This robust property arises from the intertwining of spatial symmetries, which are characteristics of the crystal structure, with the modern band theory of crystals, Bernevig explained.

The spatial patterns of forest harvesting intensity were well explained by forest - resource related variables (i.e., the share of plantation species, growing stock, forest cover), site conditions (i.e., topography, accessibility), and country - specific characteristics, whereas socioeconomic variables were less important.

This has led cognitive scientists to claim that using spatial concepts to talk and think about time is a universal characteristic of the human mind.

Analysis of the spatial and temporal characteristics of platelet - delivered factor VIII — based clots.

«This weakening is revealed by a characteristic spatial and seasonal sea - surface temperature «fingerprint»,» Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and colleagues wrote in one of the studies published in the journal Nature.

Although it is well established that the Sun's magnetic field is responsible for the supply of energy to the atmosphere, exactly how this magnetic energy is converted into thermal energy is still not understood in detail, as models struggle to simultaneously encompass the very disparate temporal and spatial scales on which the heating has to occur, in different structures, with a wide variety of characteristics (e.g. open versus closed structures, short quiet - sun loops versus hot active - region loops and large - scale interconnecting loops).

Spatial Histories of Modern Medicine: Using Space and Place to Understand the Past (under contract to Cambridge University Press) uses a series of historical examples, including homes, ambulances, and waiting rooms, to investigate how the characteristics of space and place influence healing practices, and how the practice of medicine produces particular kinds of place and space.

Variability with MJO characteristics (e.g., convection and wind anomalies of the correct spatial scale that propagate coherently eastward with realistic phase speeds) is simulated in many contemporary models (e.g., Sperber et al., 2005; Zhang, 2005), but this variability is typically not simulated to occur often enough or with sufficient strength so that the MJO stands out realistically above the broadband background variability (Lin et al., 2006).

The standard includes data fields about characteristics of the organism or environmental source of the specimen, spatial - temporal information about the specimen isolation event, phenotypic characteristics of the pathogen / vector isolated, and project leadership and support.

A generous and versatile spatial concept, high - grade materials and a characteristic three - dimensional surface design provide the interior of the new BMW X3 with a modern, premium ambience and intelligent functionality.

Through an analysis of the work of theorists (e.g. Cohn; Groensteen; Hatfield; Miodrag) and practitioner - theorists (e.g. Eisner; McCloud), a model of comics is developed based on seven key characteristics of the form: space as time; simultaneous juxtaposition of images; closure between images; spatial networks; reader control of pacing; tablodic images; word and image blending.

His sculptures capture our attention as complex lineaments, rhythmic webs or biomorphous spatial bodies and animate us to engage in intense perception of their characteristic saturation of form, surface, and space.

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Without being spatially or programmatically overly determined, each exhibition building has a pronounced spatial quality, scale, and lighting characteristic, producing a spectrum of more contextualized or more abstracted frameworks for exhibiting and perceiving art.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

Explore whether industry partners would be willing to share proprietary data that could help fill gaps about the spatial (and perhaps temporal) distribution of permafrost characteristics.

The magnitude and spatial distribution of the high - latitude climate changes can be strongly affected by sea ice characteristics, but evaluation of sea ice in models is hampered by insufficient observations of some key variables (e.g., ice thickness)(see Section 4.4).

Spatial and temporal differences in thermal response to storm events were controlled by precipitation and stream discharge peak characteristics (above) plus antecedent basin conditions, which together determine the nature and rapidity of hydrological response.

«This weakening is revealed by a characteristic spatial and seasonal sea - surface temperature «fingerprint»,» Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and colleagues wrote in one of the studies published in the journal Nature.

They accurately capture the spatial and temporal characteristics of intense events, while they tend to overestimate their number and underestimate their intensity.»

Rather, stations that display unreliable data characteristics are down weighted in the construction of spatial temperature fields.

The equations for Rossby waves (Calculation of the Meridional Wave Number, Physics of the Parameter, and Calculation of the Amplitudes) show that this can occur if a set of necessary conditions are met: u ¯ > 0 in the midlatitude region; the highest value of l within the waveguide is in the range of the meridional wave numbers lm dominantly contributing to the external forcing with a given m, which provides closeness of the k waves to respective m waves not only in terms of the zonal but also the meridional wave numbers, favoring the QRA of the m waves; the total latitudinal width of the waveguide is no less than the characteristic spatial scale of the relevant Airy function (25), which is used as the boundary condition at its southern and northern boundaries; and latitudinal distribution of l is sufficiently smooth in the waveguide, and both TPs lie within a midlatitude region of ∼ 25 ° N — 30 ° N and ∼ 65 ° N − 70 ° N, as the necessary condition for the application of quasilinear Wentzel − Kramers − Brillouin (WKB) method (25) when solving the equations for Rossby waves.

The simulated change of GM in the last 30 yr has a spatial pattern that differs from that during the Medieval Warm Period, suggesting that global warming that arises from the increases of greenhouse gases and the input solar forcing may have different effects on the characteristics of GM precipitation.

Accounting for the characteristic spatial scale ΔA of the relevant Airy function (see Basic Necessary Conditions and Assumptions) at the waveguide's boundaries, the averaging of [S18] over Δ yields the following estimate for A˜m, max, at typical values of l0 ≈ (0.3 − 0.5) × 10 − 6 m − 2, ΔQRA / Δ ≈ 0.3 − 0.5, and ΔA / Δ ≈ 0.2 − 0.25: A˜m, max ≈ K2 -LSB-(K2 + l02 + l04) / (m / a) 2] Kl0u ¯ 0ΔQRA2 Δ.

The analysis of the results shows that, in all those cases, the distance between the adjacent boundaries of the waveguides is lower than the characteristic spatial scale of the relevant Airy functions.

This study shows that the coupled climate models have mixed results in reproducing the spatial and temporal characteristics of major observed Pacific climate patterns of variability (e.g., the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and El Niño).

We posit that these characteristics are the result of demonstrable differences between corresponding topographical datasets used in the gridded observations and CRCM, the resulting errors propagated to physical variables tied to elevation and the beneficial effect of subsequent spatial averaging.

The spatial and temporal characteristics, of climatic change and evidence for different causes, including human activity, from the beginning of the Quaternary period (2.6 million years ago) to the present day.

You can consider peculiarities of eddies and their temporal and spatial characteristics.

First, the consistency of Antarctic temperature trends among several datasets was assessed, including their seasonal and spatial characteristics.

Recent research begins to bridge the gap in links between new climate extreme event analyses and local populations» socio - economic characteristics by providing evidence of inequitable spatial impacts from climate extremes on the world's poorest people, says Donna Green

Clearly, since WMO (1992), this forcing has been investigated in an intensive manner using different approaches, and the observational evidence of the O3 losses, including the spatial and seasonal characteristics, are now on a firmer footing.

The map of thickness temperature spatial trends and their zonal average over 1979 — 1996 (Fig. 2) shows that warming in the Northern Hemisphere is statistically significant only in several small isolated regions, and does not support a conclusion of general warming of the Northern Hemisphere troposphere — or the latitudinal characteristics reported in (1).