Sentences with phrase «studies patterns of past»

Paul Blanchon, who studies patterns of past coral growth for hints of environmental conditions, led a new study of remarkable fossil coral reefs on the Yucatan peninsula near Cancún, Mexico.

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Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

His new study assesses both TFSA «holders» and TFSA «eligibles» and dissects the data to reveal past behaviour patterns on use of the TFSAs.

«It has been predicted from a study of the pattern of church attendance over the past 100 years that if trends continue there will be virtually no Christian institutional presence in Britain by the year 2050 (David Hay, the Biology of the Human Spirit).

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

She uses this knowledge of plants, and specifically their leaf waxes, to document past changes in plant life and rainfall patterns, including studies on the expansion of grasslands in Africa and the revegetation of Antarctica during a prior warming event.

A new study by an international team of scientists reveals the exact timing of the onset of the modern monsoon pattern in the Maldives 12.9 million years ago, and its connection to past climate changes and coral reefs in the region.

Past studies have focused on a single species, place, or industry, she notes, «but this lays everything out on the table... we can start to see overlapping patterns, which will help us identify areas at greatest risk of most extreme change.»

In one of his own studies, published this past March in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Sallis collaborated with urban design specialist Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia and others to link Atlanta's built environment with walking patterns in the city.

A new study has found that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to survive past bleaching events because they were exposed to a pattern of gradually warming waters in the lead up to each episode.

The new study, which looked at 30 - year averages of rainfall amounts, revealed that a similar pattern has persisted for the past 10,000 years.

In the past scholars of economics have studied patterns that cause a behavioral equilibrium that induces no further reaction within the system.

In the past scholars of economics have studies steady models of market behavior which are patterns that cause a behavioral equilibrium that induces no further reaction within the system.

Students then explore a historical case study, such as the Holocaust, and analyze how those patterns of human behavior may have influenced the choices individuals made in the past — to participate, stand by, or stand up — in the face of injustice and, eventually, mass murder.

This research examines the literature on the effectiveness of computers in social studies instruction and learning and assesses the trends and patterns of technology use in the social studies over the past five years.

In addition to a love of the rhythms and patterns found in nature, her work reflects her study of and work with Japan over the past three decades.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Given that studies of past climate patterns have found evidence of super-deluges in the Northeast, and that scientists have observed a century - long trend toward more rainfall coming in heavy downpours in the world's temperate zones (a pattern matching what's expected in a greenhouse - heated world), the logic in planning for the worst case in designing everything from a dam to a basement to a rural road is growing ever stronger.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the World Meteorological Organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Britain's Hadley Center have all issued recaps of the past year's temperature patterns today.

Examples include exploring relationships between past global climatic events and global spatial patterns of violence and food trade; using betting markets to forecast the cost of climate policy; quantifying the climatic drivers of recent fishery collapse; and studying the long - term dynamics of historical clean energy transitions.

Optimal detection studies that attempt to separate the responses to solar and other forcings in observations can also account for gross errors in the overall magnitude of past solar forcing, which remains uncertain (Chapter 2), by scaling the space - time patterns of response (Section 9.2.2.1).

As the AO loading pattern shares the North Atlantic (Icelandic Low) node of the NAO, the current PNAS study by Liu et al. presents a potentially contradictory result to previous studies performed at ECMWF in the past 2 - years.

The study will use a combination of complex computer models to replicate past weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf, and use the results, along with estimates of future production of man - made greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to predict Gulf hurricane activity.

This is one of the reasons that the study of past climates is so particularly important, as patterns of relationships between all the interacting forcings and feedbacks can be seen.

While following climate change news for the past year, I have marveled at the lack of attention given scientific specialties outside of «climate science», despite the fact the foci of those studies could significantly impact global weather patterns.

If past patterns of precipitation variability remain stable in the near term, then it is probable that precipitation and flows in the Salt - Verde watersheds will shift into wetter conditions within the timeframe examined in this study [66].

Using computer models of future climate change and analyzing tree - ring growth patterns, the study found that the latter half of this century is likely to be drier than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

The latest study is based on sophisticated climate models that match the predicted impact of the great ocean - atmosphere cycles with the pattern of climate shifts recorded in the past.

A groundbreaking study from the University of Bern has for the first time shed light on Earth's temperature patterns over the past two millennia.

Authors of a recent study published in Science Advances used paleoclimate data to examine how rainfall patterns have responded to past climate shifts.

They say they have rigorously studied the writing patterns of Satoshi Nakamoto in the past, and used an analysis technique known as stylometry to conclude that Craig Wright's writing style does not match that of Bitcoin's creator; ergo, Wright can not be Satoshi.

«A deep dive into the study of people and their patterns produces a meaningful analysis taking the past, current and future into account, reducing risk and ensuring site selection with the «right» talent,» says Emily Line, vice president of Commercial Services for RPR.

Those are the results of United Van Lines» 39th Annual National Movers Study, which tracks customers» state - to - state migration patterns over the past year.