Sentences with phrase «uncertainty in the data»

The report authors noted large uncertainties in the data persist and the true growth figure may be anywhere between 1 and 3 %.

2 Due to the inherent uncertainties in these data, the estimates and projections presented in this publication are referred to as experimental.

However, uncertainty in the data exposing a lack of scientific «proof» of safety can equally well be used as a lack of «proof» of harm.

His role, specifically, is to determine how uncertainties in the data could affect the simulation of the photochemical processes occurring in Titan's atmosphere.

Butler and co-authors Neil Frazer (UHM SOEST) and William Templeton (now at Portland State University) created a numerical model based only upon the basics of plate tectonics: fault length and plate convergence rate, handling uncertainties in the data with Bayesian techniques.

Further advances in understanding the acquisition of magnetisation in archeo - and paleomagnetic data, continuing development of improved laboratory procedures and further investigations of suitability and appropriate scaling of sedimentary relative intensity records will help to reduce uncertainties in the data, and consequently also in the models.

In the western North Pacific, long - term trends are masked by strong inter-decadal variability for 1960 to 2004 (Chan and Liu, 2004; Chan, 2006), but results also depend on the statistics used and there are uncertainties in the data prior to the mid-1980s (Klotzbach, 2006).

Recent studies on methane leakage have found a wide potential range, due largely to differences in assumptions, methodologies, measurement techniques, industry practices, and regional variations that result in a high level of uncertainty in the data.

However, the constructed CO2 / temperature graph (Geocarb III / Paleomap) in your first link is highly suspect; the graph reconstruction is much too precise and does not reflect large uncertainties in the data.

There are no trends in temperatures over this period and the inherent uncertainty in the data is largest at this time due to a sparser observing network.

The predictions incorporated both the uncertainty in the data and the natural inter-annual variability in climate.

Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it highlights the uncertainty in data released by the Chinese government.

Because states differ on how they report statistics to the Bureau of Justice Statistics and on other measures such as recidivism, the researchers present ranges to reflect error and uncertainty in the data.

Moreover, the researchers had to simulate the storm multiple times — as an ensemble — to estimate and reduce the uncertainty in the data and in the physics of the weather phenomena themselves.

[Response: But you have ignored the uncertainty in the data — which is much larger than this.

Response: Well, the 0.85 number is the mean from the models, and so is not directly related to the uncertainty in the data.

In the context of the complexity of this issue, the uncertainties in the data and natural variability, this difference is not significant.

Gavin, your comments just confirm that the model have serious problems that are in part due to uncertainty in the data.

Andrew spoke to and indicated the uncertainty in his data, Lindzen did not.

Record or near - record years are interesting, but the ranking of individual years should be treated with some caution because the uncertainties in the data are larger than the differences between the top ranked years.

The disagreement was always about the scope and depth of natural variability, on the point where data adjustments become statistical manipulations, on gaps and uncertainties in data, on the proper use and limitations of climate models and on chaos in climate and models.

Specifically, he criticized the lack of error bars on the data used in The Escalator, making some rather wild claims about the uncertainty in the data.

Quite simply, contrary to Briggs» claims, the warming trend is much larger than the uncertainty in the data.

I would also agree that the Hadley Centre is making a more realistic effort to address the issues of uncertainty in the data.

Professor Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said it was «pretty clear that there was uncertainty in the data itself, but the bigger issues are to analyze the data and interpret it.»