Sentences with phrase «subarray spatial variation»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There was significant spatial variation in rates.

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

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].

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

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.

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

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.

``... the ecological and conservation significance of these kill tallies is difficult to contextualise, because (1) there are no reliable estimates of the total population of birds in Australia; (2) predation may fall disproportionately on some bird species; (3) some bird species may be able to sustain high mortality rates and maintain viable populations but others may not; and (4) as demonstrated here, there is substantial spatial variation in the numbers and proportion of birds killed across Australia.»

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).

Spatial variation — the tendency of photon intensity brightness temperature to approach the temperature of material over a path through that material

Also remember that when we talk about the global C sink, this is an aggregation of large spatial variation in regional sinks.

Satellite studies (8 — 10) have found that for clear skies and SSTs above 298 K, the spatial variation of Ga with SST, dGa / d (SST), exceeds the rate of increase of sea surface emission, ds (SST) 4 / d (SST) = 4σ (SST) 3.

Sciencecodex: A recent study indicated that the urbanization in eastern China has significant impact on the observed surface warming and the temporal - spatial variations of urbanization effect have been comprehensively detected.

Most studies have adopted incremental scenarios of constant changes throughout the year (e.g., Terjung et al., 1984; Rosenzweig et al., 1996), but some have introduced seasonal and spatial variations in the changes (e.g., Whetton et al., 1993; Rosenthal et al., 1995) and others have examined arbitrary changes in interannual, within - month and diurnal variability as well as changes in the mean (e.g., Williams et al., 1988; Mearns et al., 1992; Semenov and Porter, 1995; Mearns et al., 1996).

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).

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

If, on the other hand, you accept Mann (2008), end your special pleading and accept Mann (2009) as our best current indication of the spatial variation of MWP warmth.

Using new remote sensing methods to generate an updated glacier inventory for the Karakoram region of Asia — which is part of the Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalaya mountain range located between the borders of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China — Rankl et al. (2014) developed what they describe as «a new comprehensive dataset on the state of advancing, stable and retreating glaciers, including the temporal and spatial variations of frontal positions between 1976 and 2012.»

To assess these implications, we translate global into local SLR projections using a model of spatial variation in sea - level contributions caused by isostatic deformation and changes in gravity as the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lose mass (36 ⇓ — 38), represented as two global 0.5 ° matrices of scalar adjustment factors to the ice sheets» respective median global contributions to SLR and (squared) to their variances.

The advantage of error reduction that comes from multiple sampling begins to degrade when the «single» quantity being measured produces a set of random errors that has a Gaussian distribution about the mean that is significantly broadened by regional or spatial variations of the mean over the sample space.

When that is done with a reasonable number of components, strong spatial variations of temperatures are certainly predicted for the ocean areas.

Over the generally - recognised ARGO period (2004/2005 to present) spatial variation in subsurface ocean temperature change has been huge, as evidenced by altimeter SLR trend maps.

In some cases, recent climatic variations may explain some of this spatial variation along with the presence of expansive forests composed of dense, older trees.

Such spatial variation in tree mortality raises a number of questions.

As with soil data, the area represented by a given weather station is also subject to spatial variation due to changes in local topography.

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

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.

we're trying to isolate those very fluctuations from both the time trend, and from the spatial variations.

However, the large spatial variation in this relationship is logical, based on factors related to topography and atmospheric circulation.

Loranty MM, Lieberman - Cribbin W, Berner LT, Natali SM, Goetz SJ, Alexander HD, Kholodov AL (2016) Spatial variation in vegetation productivity trends, fire disturbance, and soil carbon across arctic - boreal permafrost ecosystems.

This preserves the spatial variations in annual mean.

When the bottom - up approach is used to extrapolate the emissions to larger scales, uncertainty results from the inherent large temporal and spatial variations of fluxes and the limited range of observational conditions.

However, developing an improved correlation model that incorporates additional spatial variations is a likely topic for future research.»