Sentences with phrase «spatial scale of»

Uncertainties due to the spatial scale of the scenarios and stemming from the application of different RCMs versus different GCMs (including models not used for regionalisation) were elaborated on in a range of impact studies (e.g., Ekstrom et al., 2007; Fronzek and Carter, 2007; Hingray et al., 2007; Graham et al., 2007; Olesen et al., 2007).

Length scales are typically hundreds of kilometres, corresponding to the spatial scale of weather systems, known as the synoptic scale in meteorology.

Abermann and colleagues are now assessing the spatial scale of this event using high - resolution satellite images, and have since identified several hundred other similar slush flow from the same event.

The RCPs provide a unique set of data, particularly with respect to comprehensiveness and detail, as well as spatial scale of information for climate model projections.

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»

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.

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.

For the climate change adaptation community, whose spatial scale of interest is often much lower than current high resolution GCMs can capture, the answer in general is no.

I assume you mean here «whose spatial scale of interest is often much SMALLER than current high resolution GCMs can capture».

The climate change impacts community has long bemoaned the inadequate spatial scale of climate scenarios produced from coarse resolution GCM output (Gates, 1985; Lamb, 1987; Robinson and Finkelstein, 1989; Smith and Tirpak, 1989; Cohen, 1990).

But when optical thickness gets to a significant value (such that the overall spatial temperature variation occurs on a spatial scale comparable to a unit of optical thickness), each successive increment tends to have a smaller effect — when optical thickness is very large relative to the spatial scale of temperature variation, the flux at some location approaches the blackbody value for the temperature at that location, because the distances photons can travel from where they are emitted becomes so small that everything «within view» becomes nearly isothermal.

Opportunity for selection in southern elephant seals: the effect of spatial scale of analysis.

The spatial scale of the disk in polarized light is around 300AU.

Journal: L. McClenachan et al. «Ghost reefs: Nautical charts document large spatial scale of coral reef loss over 240 years.»

The results of the research are published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology in an article entitled «Larval dispersal from a grouper spawning aggregation and the spatial scale of fisheries replenishment» by Glenn R. Almany, Richard J. Hamilton, Michael Bode, Manuai Matawai, Tapas Potuku, Pablo Saenz - Agudelo, Serge Planes, Michael L. Berumen, Kevin L. Rhodes, Simon R.Thorrold, Garry R. Russ and Geoffrey P. Jones.

Microbes are thought to be distributed heterogeneously at spatial scales of less than a millimeter.

Examination of the geographical distribution of the differences in 0 to 700 m heat content between the 1977 — 1981 and 1965 — 1969 pentads and the 1986 — 1990 and 1977 — 1981 pentads shows that the pattern of heat content change has spatial scales of entire ocean basins and is also found in similar analyses by Ishii et al. (2006).

Professor Denning's research group also focuses on spatial scaling of land - surface processes from the scales of leaves to continents from pixels in global imagery.

This is due to the fact that the spatial scales of precipitation are much smaller than of temperature.

Not exact matches

Upon the reversed scale of dreaming about dreamt dreams a dreamer might well see what we call as the atomized realms being nothing more than spatial nebulas and galaxies in miniature feasibilities.

Such closures of relationships are not restricted to any particular spatial or temporal scale.

Each such case would involve a matching of spatial and temporal scales between the defining network of relationships (subjective aim?)

[25] Lemaitre's famous differential equation for cosmic expansion is: R [2] = C / R + 1 / 3AR [2]- k where R is the scale factor for cosmic expansion which is proportional to the radius of the universe when that radius has meaning; C > 0 and proportional to the average present - day density of non-relativistic matter in the universe; cosmological constant, - C [0] < A < C [0], which serves to create a cosmic repulsion that keeps galaxies from being drawn together by gravity when it is positive and adds to the attractive force of gravity when it is negative; and spatial curvature, k = -1,0, +1.

We completed an intensive GIS spatial analysis to identify parts of our Commonwealth most threatened by development and created a website with interactive maps and data for use at the town, watershed, or county scale.

For further information contact Professor Nick Gallent Email: [email protected] Telephone: [phone] ESRC Press Office: Danielle Moore Email: [email protected] Telephone [phone] Jeanine Woolley Email: [email protected] Telephone [phone] Notes for editors: This release is based on the findings from «The Politics of Scale and Network Building in Spatial Planning: Bridging Community Ambition to Strategic Priority in Southern England» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and carried out by Professor Nick Gallent of the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London.

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This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

Ultrafast electron crystallography with the use of a tilted optical geometry technique afforded the necessary atomic - scale spatial and temporal resolutions.

As spatial and temporal scales decrease, attribution of climate change becomes more difficult.

The number of observed large spatial dimensions — kilometer - scale or bigger — is still limited to the three we know and love, the researchers report January 24 at arXiv.org.

«With citizen - science programs, we are able to collect a lot of data at multiple spatial and temporal scales, which you can't necessarily do in a university - led research program.

The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such as the size of the solar system, behaves as if there are three spatial dimensions.

Ye is most excited about the future possibility of using the atoms in the clock as a gravity sensor, to see how quantum mechanics, which operates on very small spatial scales, interacts with general relativity, the theory of gravity, a macroscopic force.

The number of observed large spatial dimensions — kilometer - scale or bigger — is still limited to the three we know and love, the...

These patterns emerge repeatedly across disparate temporal and spatial scales, suggesting the possibility of similar underlying processes.

In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution, the authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a hybrid zone in southern California.

By combining concepts from landscape ecology and Markowitz portfolio theory, they developed the landscape portfolio platform to quantify and predict the behaviour of multiple stochastic populations across spatial scales.

A team led by Thomas Stohlgren of the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Resources Division decided to revisit the problem by comparing two biomes — temperate grasslands and mountains — at several spatial scales.

«Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution.

To have this sort of rapid evolution, especially something that happens in two years or less, on the solar system spatial scale...» Well, it was unbelievable.

«The most important benefit to us is that the upgrade will increase the spatial resolution of our images, allowing us to study these dynamic processes at smaller length scales.

With a vertical spatial resolution of 10 meters, the new system could measure small - scale wind phenomena such as wind shear and the wake turbulence created by an aircraft.

The team examined spatial scales on the sky spanning about one to five degrees (two to ten times the width of the full Moon).

«To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to measure the second largest economy by mining such unprecedentedly large scale and fine granular spatial - temporal data,» the Baidu researchers write.

The ability to integrate studies at the end of the season, however, was extremely rewarding and provided insights at spatial scales that no single agency could accomplish alone.»

By correlating the local effects of this emitted light with the position of the electron beam, spatial images of these effects can be reconstructed with nanometer - scale resolution.

Nevertheless, the vibrational motions act back on the electrons, modulate their spatial distribution and change the electric and optical properties of the crystal on a time scale which is shorter than 1 ps (10 - 12 s).

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.

The study incorporates multiple environmental drivers — notably climate and fire — at large spatial scales for a significant number of species and populations.

The team also demonstrated the utility of the platform by applying it to examine a growth - modulating feedback circuit whose dynamics is qualitatively altered by circuit - host couplings and revealing the behaviors of a toggle switch across scales from single - cell dynamics to population structure and to spatial ecology.