Sentences with phrase «temperature shifts»

It was those samples that showed the most sustained period of sharp temperature shifts of all — 120 years long.
The researchers found that internal water temperature shifted as giant internal waves moved through.
This accounts for the tropics not experiencing big temperature shifts during times of global warming.
My question is, where you live do you have extreme temperature shifts?
This is recorded on a special graph that enables you to visualize the different temperature shifts.
Large and small mammals seemed equally vulnerable to temperature shifts throughout that span, the authors reported.
Researchers have offered various explanations for the recurring outbreaks, including temperature shifts and the changing ecology of local water bodies, but they haven't had enough evidence to nail down the cause.
The results showed the glaciers rapidly responding to minor temperature shifts.
Some women who aren't pregnant will also see two temperature shifts during their cycle, and this can be completely normal.
This accelerating magnetic pole alignment shift correlates well with the observed temperature shifts at the earth's surface.
Scientists consider cold - blooded species particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their sensitivity to even small temperature shifts.
Thus, the title of the USF press release, «Frogs Getting Sick from Climate Change,» is accurate in suggesting that climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate change.
Heat waves are also occurring more frequently as temperatures shift upwards:
The optical density of silicon naturally changes when it's exposed to even slight temperature shifts, making it a sensitive material especially suited for thermometry, according to Han.
The presence of the supporting adobe walls is not merely visual; there is a subtle, cool temperature shift when standing close by, and a gentle scent of raw material.
To put things in perspective, the global temperature shift between the last Ice Age and now is believed to be 10 °F; and an estimated 11 °F increase in world temperatures was sufficient to wipe out 95 % of species at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago.
-- Changes to patterns of climate variability (such as the Pacific temperature shifts (such as El Niño La Niña)
Shemesh, A., and D. Peteet, 1998: Oxygen isotopes in fresh water biogenic opal — Northeastern US Alleröd - Younger Dryas temperature shift.
Tree rings, coral skeletons, and glacial ice cores (Figure 3) are proxies for annual temperature records, while boreholes (holes drilled deep into Earth's crust) can show temperature shifts over longer periods of time.
This gallery includes charts that show the expected changes in cervical fluid and other fertility signs as ovulation approaches, along with a clear and sustained temperature shift, all of which points to a clear ovulation date.
A likely explanation for the significant temperature shift starting 1997 is movement of the Perth Airport weather station about one kilometre to the north in that year, illustrated in the photo graphic below courtesy of Warwick Hughes:
But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.
For example, Project Sherlock AI can tell if a boiler temperature shift is related to a benign change in upstream operations or an abnormality that requires correction.
Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming
«Going forward, we need to better explore the biome - specific responses as global temperatures shift beyond the historic range,» Frey said.
For the purposes of the present study, data loggers were placed in 92 of the nests to record temperature shifts during the incubation process.
These days they are increasingly hemmed in by human development, so future temperature shifts are likely to cause even more rapid extinctions.
One species may come to dominate the other off the West Coast if water temperatures shifts take hold.
Co-author of the study Professor Stephen Barker, from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results offer an alternative explanation to this phenomenon and show that a gradual rise of CO2 within the atmosphere can hit a tipping point, triggering abrupt temperature shifts that drastically affect the climate across the Northern Hemisphere in a relatively short space of time.
A periodic temperature shift in the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, plays a role, as does overgrazing, which reduces vegetative cover, and therefore the ability of the soil to retain moisture.
Charting your cycle means taking your basal body temperature first thing every morning to track temperature shifts that tell you when you ovulate.
I ended up supplementing my diet with about a 1/4 cup of whole flax seeds (ground fresh and mixed with yogurt) during the first half of my cycle until I confirmed ovulation by a basal body temperature shift.
Opting for roasted vegetables over salad might sound like a more natural choice when it comes to lunch or dinner, but the same seasonal temperature shift applies to smoothies too.
There's a noticeable temperature shift when the sun begins to set and casts shadows over the 2016 Tesla Model S P90D as we set across the serpentine - like Angeles Crest Highway with Autopilot engaged.
In general it will take the signal from a significant air temperature shift around 500-1000 years to reach a depth of some hundred meters.
Some years back, we hypothesized that changes to climate variability, rather than changes to mean climate, might tip the balance towards the chytrid fungus because all pathogens are smaller and have faster metabolisms than their hosts, and thus might acclimate more quickly following short - term temperature shifts [link].
The 78 - author paper, published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, used a variety of indirect indicators of temperature, from tree rings to pollen grains, to build on other work charting temperature shifts since the end of the last ice age — including the recent Marcott et al paper, explored here, which used seabed sediments to chart 11,000 years of temperatures.
I've had time to transcribe a few sections, which are appended below, but wanted first to summarize an important point made by Hall, who has been using models to project regional temperature shifts for the Los Angeles region.
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