Sentences with phrase «spatial variation»

They found substantial spatial variation in mortality rates, driven by species - specific relationships with environmental factors.

But the real surprise was the dramatic spatial variation in the field, which was significantly higher than expected in some locations, and markedly lower in others.

However, recent advances in technology offer promising methods to better monitor spatial variation that influence these carbon emissions and thaw rates.

where S (x) are spatial random effects that account for spatial variation in podoconiosis prevalence between villages, not explained by the predictors, and Z (x) are unstructured random effects, also known as «nugget effect», which capture extra-binomial variation within villages.

Annual average evaporation (Figure 10.12) increases over much of the ocean, with spatial variations tending to relate to those in the surface warming (Figure 10.8).

The automated confocal micro-extensometer (ACME)-- developed by a team of researchers in Europe and the US — allows scientists to measure spatial variation in the mechanical properties of plant cells with unprecedented accuracy.

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.

Substantial spatial variation in rates of sea level change is also inferred from hydrographic observations.

Krysia Lynch, Chair Krysia Lynch started her working life as a researcher in environmental health and epidemiology; researching spatial variations in disease incidence and health provision.

«Their pattern reflects spatial variations in the icy shell, consistent with a variety of geological features visible in Cassini images.»

Even though the northern Channel Islands comprise a relatively small geographical space, the data showed spatial variation.

There was significant spatial variation in rates.

This method is recommended for routine normalization of cDNA arrays as it corrects the M - values for both subarray spatial variation and for intensity - based trends [51,52].

«You can get a lot from collecting in situ data, but you don't really get the wider spatial variations,» Shutler said.

Based on the spatially - resolved $ Spitzer $ / IRS maps, we examine spatial variations of the PAH properties in detail.

The second point is that it amounts to special pleading for you to accept the IPCC global temperature reconstruction that you showed, which is actually that of Mann et al (2008), but to not then also accept the reconstruction of spatial variation on MWP warmth from Mann (2009) which uses the same data as Mann (2008):

(in review) Utilizing spatial variation in demography and life histories to optimize fisheries yield and conservation of a temperate sex - changing reef fish.

Around the continent marked spatial variations in shelf seabed temperature have been recorded.

In particular, I think it would be interesting to use a complex atmospheric chemistry component to allow for spatial variation in the forcing reduction through sulphate aerosols: increase the aerosol optical depth over one source country, for example, and let it disperse over time.

However, the new study by Dirk Scherler, Bodo Bookhagen, and Manfred R. Strecker of the Universities of Potsdam and California at Santa Barbara, indicates that there are «strong spatial variations in glacier behavior» in the Himalayas.

Differences in growth rates have been attributed to differences in spatial variations of the initial aerosol sizes, in solubilities, and in magnitudes of supersaturation.

Spatial variation in the earthquake's rupture controlled both the strength of shaking and the size of the tsunami that followed.

Indeed, they found that the spatial variation of the plasma flow regulates the turbulence of the drift - wave type.

The team has designed these nanomotors to move using the spatial variations of the concentrations of chemical species that they produce themselves by means of chemical reactions on their surfaces.

They couldn't quite resolve the spatial variations in the glow well enough to prove that they weren't just seeing some sort of random noise in their system.

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.

The study found that IRT demonstrated potential in evaluating office ergonomics and that spatial variation of upper back skin temperature was a promising measure in ergonomic assessments.

While the proton radiation belts are characterized by stability, this is not the case for the electron radiation belts that are characterized by both complex temporal and spatial variations.

Large spatial variations were prevalent in the intensity of MHWs (Fig. 1d).

Ultimately, MICHI on the TMT will be able to measure the spatial variation of SO2 on Io both meridionally (with latitude) and zonally (with longitude), but critically as a function of local time and during Jupiter eclipses that are both strong functions of frost sublimation, and will allow us to determination of how much of Io's atmosphere is supported purely by sublimation and how much by volcanic activity.

The divergence between fungal and bacterial communities in seasonal and spatial variations of wastewater treatment plants — Ziyan Wei — Science of The Total Environment

Using scanning capacitance microscopy with a Park Systems atomic force microscope a team at NASA successfully characterized both the spatial variations in capacitance as...

Functional diversity of the species pool contributes to spatial variation in community composition

We derive the spatial variations of dust continuum emission at different wavenumbers, which are compared with those of the [O III] 88 micron (113 cm ^ -1) emission and the OH 119 micron (84 cm ^ -1) absorption.

It is essential to carry out continuous measurement of planetary atmosphere, such as the Jovian infrared aurora and the volcanoes on Jovian satellite Io, to understand its time and spatial variations.

His main research interests is the study of microbial diversity, specifically of protists, in the marine environment, both in terms of a description of the taxonomic composition of these assemblages as well as understanding their patterns of temporal and spatial variation in the environment.

If you download 1998 - 2009 cloud cover here, and sea surface temperatures here, you can see that, except for a cloud band from ~ 0 to 10 degrees N, cloudiness is generally less where SST is warmer, though there are lots of details and spatial variation that lessen the correlation.

He claims that this can be corrected for, but he still isn't using the proper null — in M&N they show the results from the ensemble means (of the GISS model and the full AR4 model set), but seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that ensemble mean results remove the spatial variations associated with internal variability which should be the exact thing you would use!

Why there is such a nonlinearity in the abrupt4xCO2 runs is interesting, and as the papers cited suggest it is likely related to spatial variations in the feedbacks combined differences in response times (particularly the southern ocean).