Sentences with phrase «time seasonal climate»

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I thought this was a good time to share it, for those of you in seasonal climates,...

At this time of year we are prone to Seasonal affective Disorder (SAD) due to the lack of sunlight, especially those who live in northern climates.

I thought this was a good time to share it, for those of you in seasonal climates, feeling the first signs of spring among the remaining chill of winter.

Instead of waiting for an event to happen, the idea is to incorporate seasonal forecasts, which are done a month or more ahead of time, into the climate models.

Comparing the snakes» most active temperature range with predictions of shifts due to climate change, the team pointed out that the timing of seasonal activities may shift in the future — which could impact their interactions with other species.

So a group of researchers from all over Europe turned to looking at the timing of flooding, as the seasonal nature of them is tied much more closely to climate than to any other interfering factors.

NOAA evaluates the accuracy of its seasonal forecasts each year, with the aim of seeing the number of storms fall in the given ranges at least 70 percent of the time, which they do consistently, Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said.

Track a Tree will provide insights into the seasonal timing of U.K. woodland species, and how future changes in climate may affect the interactions between trees and flowering plants

«During a time when the climate was getting wetter and the wetlands expanding, this critical seasonal resource that is ripe at the peak of the flooding season when other resources are dispersed and scarce, residents of Monte Castelo began to grow larger rice»

Other climate records point to a sometimes - green Sahara around this time, and Osborne thinks that seasonal monsoons could have supported a patchwork of life - saving oases across the desert.

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

A new buzz - word is the concept of «seamless prediction», in which predictions ranging from nowcasting all the way to future scenarios are provided with a sliding time scale and that doesn't make distinction of incremental types such as «weather forecasts» «seasonal predictions» and «climate scenarios».

In this study, we undertake another effort towards understanding the role of the Sun in changing or varying the Earth's climate on seasonal to decadal time scale.

A new analysis published in the journal Environmental Research Letters establishes that seasonal forecast sea surface temperature (SSTs) can be used to perform probabilistic extreme - event attribution, thereby accelerating the time it takes climate scientists to understand and quantify the role of global warming in certain classes of extreme weather events.

A few climate models have been tested for (and shown) capability in initial value predictions, on time scales from weather forecasting (a few days) to seasonal forecasting (annual).

There is no «bad time» to take a trip, as the small seasonal climate variances reveal interesting wildlife year round.

For the future, data assimilation might help us to keep the state of a climate model closer to the real world's, allowing us to improve predictions on seasonal and decadal time scales.

In temperate climates the lethal H5N1 virus will be transferred to humans via cold drinking water, as with the birds in February and March 2006, strong seasonal at the time when drinking water has its temperature minimum.

But the talk about water withdrawal is genuine, even if like other long - time - coming environmental and climate changes, the river will see plenty of seasonal ups and downs before and end comes.

Additionally, the publication aims to highlight the full range climate - related health issues and risks (i.e. nutrition, NCDs, air pollution, allergens, infectious diseases, water and sanitation, extreme temperatures and weather, etc.) where health decision - making can benefit from climate and weather knowledge at historic, immediate, seasonal, or long - term time scales.

With this service, seasonal predictions, reanalyses and climate projections will be provided free of charge in the form of global and regional plots in real time.

For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics — to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America.

PCIC welcomes Dr. Alex Cannon who has joined PCIC as a Research Climatologist to work alongside the consortium's scientific and technical staff in the development of new tools and methodology for predicting climate extremes on seasonal and decadal time scales.

«to better understand and predict at the timescales of climate change, we need to work up ladder of the timescales, and figure out how to predict at the sub seasonal and seasonal time scales.»

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

3) Snow cover: The radiative and thermal properties of widespread snow cover anomalies have the potential to modulate local and remote climate over monthly to seasonal time scales

The increase in trapped heat changes the climate and alters weather patterns, which may change the timing of seasonal natural events, and the frequency of extreme weather events.

Lead author Dr Debbie Polson, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «This study shows for the first time that the drying of the monsoon over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural climate variability and that human activity has played a significant role in altering the seasonal monsoon rainfall on which billions of people depend.»

The researchers sought to understand seasonal - transition timing to offer strategies as climate change unfolds.

Tony Brown's «Long Slow Thaw» based on CET records and later supported by C Loehle's multi proxy climate study, cross references voluminous empiric data on weather across regions, UK and Europe eg frost fairs, crop failure data, famine reorts and farmers» accounts of seasonal shifts in planting times.

By measuring the seasonal timing of floods, it is much more likely that any detected changes are due to climate.»

Regional Climate Impacts and Outlook documents summarize seasonal conditions four times a year, in March, June, September and December.

During times of low sea level the continents are emergent, land faunas flourish, migration routes between continents open up, the climate becomes more seasonal, and probably most importantly, the global climate tends to cool off.

A unified treatment of weather and climate models (i.e. the same dynamical cores for the atmosphere and ocean are used for models across the range of time scales) transfers confidence from the weather and seasonal climate forecast models to the climate models used in century scale simulations.

The global warming signal itself is a multidecadal feature of the climate, but just like the seasonal example above, it has been possible at times to take one period of one temperature record - surface air temperatures in most cases - and do a «January - February» job with it, thereby making the claim that temperatures are flatlining or even cooling.

The mitigation focus is on global climate and the century time scale, whereas the adaptation focus is regional and on timescales from the seasonal to decadal.

To describe and understand the physical processes responsible for climate variability and predictability on seasonal, interannual, decadal, and centennial time - scales, through the collection and analysis of observations and the development and application of models of the coupled climate system, in cooperation with other relevant climate - research and observing programmes.

I ask for a definition in part because you (Judith) seem to have defined «climate services» as occurring on the «seasonal to decadal time scale»... and things on that time scale in the past have always been called «weather».

Brian Ettling, a long - time seasonal ranger with the National Park Service, gave many examples of how climate change is harming national parks during his Wednesday talk at Runge Nature Center in Jefferson City.

The improved robust and reliable forecasting can help meteorological and climate services to better deliver tailored predictions and advice, including sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales, will take Arctic climate prediction beyond seasons and to teleconnections over the Northern Hemisphere.

This paper aims to address the question of how the runoff extremes change in the future compared to the historical time period, investigate the different behaviors of the regional climate models (RCMs) regarding the runoff extremes and assess the seasonal variations of runoff extremes.

The S2S4E project will create an operational climate service that will enable renewable energy producers and providers, electricity network managers and policy makers to design better informed strategies at sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales.

Findings suggest that realistic land surface initialization is important for climate predictability at subseasonal to seasonal time scales.

6 Allison, M., and M. McEwen, 2000: A post-Pathfinder evaluation of aerocentric solar coordinates with improved timing recipes for Mars seasonal / diurnal climate studies.

The climateprediction.net Seasonal Attribution Project used computing time donated by the general public to run state - of - the - art high - resolution model simulations of the world's climate.

The primary objective of this work was to expand upon the capabilities of past GFDL models used to study climate on seasonal to centennial time scales by the addition of a comprehensive and interactive carbon cycle in the land, ocean and atmosphere to «close the carbon cycle» in the same way we do for water and energy in a traditional climate model.

The primary functions of treeclim are to (1) perform bootstrapped response and correlation functions; (2) conduct seasonal correlation analysis with tree growth; (3) conduct forward and backward evolution analyses for temporal stability tests; (4) evaluate trends on correlations betwen tree growth and climate over time; and (5) evaluate reconstruction skills for use in dendroclimatology and dendroecology.

The data is robust and comparable through time, which will enable climate researchers to better understand long - term changes in monthly and seasonal climate, as well as changes in day - to - day weather, such as the frequency of heat and cold extremes.

Modes or patterns of climate variability - Natural variability of the climate system, in particular on seasonal and longer time scales, predominantly occurs with preferred spatial patterns and time scales, through the dynamical characteristics of the atmospheric circulation and through interactions with the land and ocean surfaces.

Altimeter data are used extensively in observationally based studies of ocean climate variability on seasonal and longer time scales.