Sentences with phrase «trends over the recent past»

Unlike the continental U.S., with its abundance of micro and regional climates, the small island area of Great Britain affords less climate variety yet produces similar warming / cooling trends over the recent past.

However, this method does not account for the natural variability in the Arctic system that may be an important factor in trends over the recent past.

Not exact matches

If the trend continues, the world could see as many as 116,000 additional deaths annually, according to a recent study — essentially eliminating the impressive gains made over the past 15 years.

For those who prefer simpler methods, a third measure, which just takes out volatile food items and petrol, and adjusts for the recent change to the child care rebate, shows essentially the same trend over the past couple of years, though at a slightly lower rate (Graph 15).

While the inevitable climb of mortgage rates has had false starts over the past couple of years, the recent hikes could be the first phase of a long - term trend.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Over the past year, employment growth has been around trend, though lower in recent months.

While, in trend terms, the prices of these services tend to increase more quickly than the overall CPI, the recent outcomes partly reflect the relatively high wage increases in these sectors over the past year.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

To put recent trends in even sharper relief, 205 abortion restrictions were enacted over the past three years (2011 — 2013), but just 189 were enacted during the entire previous decade (2001 — 2010).

Because of the strong recent warming, the updated trend over 1906 to 2005 is now 0.74 ± 0.18 degree C. Note that the 1956 to 2005 trend alone is 0.65 ± 0.15 degree C, emphasizing that the majority of 20th - century warming occurred in the past 50 years.

The findings show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Long sleeve tees have been huge over the past few seasons and if you've seen any of the recent fashion week street style shots you'll know that this kind of monochromatic futuristic design from SYSTVM is bang on - trend.

The data, while under, are consistent with other recent research pointing to a «greening» trend in teaching over the past 20 years or so.

EW: Although the trend has been to build bigger schools over the past 70 years to keep costs down, do you think evidence from recent studies strongly favors the construction of smaller schools, including middle schools similar to the size of elementary schools?

Unlike income achievement gaps, the racial academic achievement gaps have declined significantly over the past four decades, the researchers said, so the recent narrowing of the racial readiness gap among kindergarteners is merely a continuation of the trend.

Education Week says the data, while still under review, are consistent with other recent research pointing to a «greening» trend in teaching over the past 20 years.

Based on the recent SPIVA U.S. Scorecards, actively managed domestic equity funds appear to have had a positive trend over the past three semiannual periods.

• Declining dividend growth trend over past 10 years, with two most recent increases (including this year's) at only about 2 %.

Over the last ten years or so, the trend to design exhibitions predicated on re-creations drawn from the relatively recent past has grown.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).

If one plots the records from GISS, HADCru, RSS and UAH; GISS is the outlier, and three of the four primary global temperature measuring systems show a decrease over the most recent six years and a downward trend over the past decade; not that this establishes a significant trend yet.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Recent and very precise satellite measurements taken over the past few decades have confirmed this trend.

The forests of the eastern United States (including the Midwest) have been accumulating large quantities of carbon over the past century, 26 but evidence shows this trend is slowing in recent decades.

Our key finding, that the recent warming trend is unprecedented over at least the past 1,000 years, has not only been overwhelmingly affirmed by more than a dozen subsequent studies, but has been vastly strengthened.

The trend in the NAM helps explain the spatial structure of recent trends in NH climate and several ecosystems over the past few decades.

Proxy - based reconstructions of past climate provide insights into externally forced and intrinsic variability over regional to global scales and can be used to place recent trends in a long - term context.

The IPCC notes in its most recent scientific assessment that there are «[n] o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»

Such models also indicate that warming would initially cause the Antarctic ice sheet as a whole to gain mass owing to an increased accumulation of snowfall (*; some recent studies find no significant continent - wide trends in accumulation over the past several decades; Lemke et al., 2007 Section 4.6.3.1).

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in its most recent scientific assessment that «[n] o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes... have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»

There are many people who have graphed the temperature trends over the past 10 years and I would love to see a page developed that compiled and compared the shifting trends created by homogenization over recent years after the quality control of historic data had already been completed.

I have to conclude by suggesting that if the reported temperature record itself is something that you believe may be very different from the true trend of anomalies over the many decades of the past century — particularly the more recent decades — then you are probably grasping a slim reed in hoping to question mainstream conclusions.

Weather fluctuates, and as a consequence itâ $ ™ s easy enough to point to an unusually warm year in the recent past, note that itâ $ ™ s cooler now and claim, â $ œSee, the planet is getting cooler, not warmer!â $ But if you look at the evidence the right way Ââ $» taking averages over periods long enough to smooth out the fluctuations â $» the upward trend is unmistakable: each successive decade since the 1970s has been warmer than the one before.

This mirrors the significant rise in global temperatures detected over the past 30 years, supporting the conclusion that there is a global trend toward enhanced glacier frontal recession in recent decades and providing support for the assertion that glacier recession can be attributed to recent warming.»

The current warming trend 1998 - 2005, has no precedent in recent Arctic memory, there were a few unique occasions when open water was seen during mid-winter over Barrow Strait, but this was at roughly 10 year intervals, now the intervals are totally irregular, but between Islands ice cover is not the best indication of warming, monthly temperature readings for the past 4 years or so, have been mostly above normal by 1 to the occasional 4 to 5 degrees.

Huntington is the author of a recent review of more than 100 peer - reviewed studies showing that although many aspects of the global water cycle — including precipitation, evaporation and sea surface temperatures — have increased or risen, the trend can not be consistently correlated with increases in the frequency or intensity of storms or floods over the past century.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

The most recent pronouncements from both the Federal Court (2015) and Federal Court of Appeal (2014) continue a trend [4] over the past few years of trying to uphold a patent and find that it has the required utility.

This is a recent trend seen over the past few years as states have stepped up the fight against uninsured motorists on the road.