Sentences with phrase «understand spatial patterns»

«It helps us understand spatial patterns of climate change and the timescales over which these consequences are relevant.»

Land cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policies.

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«Improved understanding of the spatial patterns of change over the three periods studied are vital for understanding the causes of recent events,» he said.

«By refining the spatial pattern of mass loss in the world's second largest — and most unstable — ice sheet, and learning how that pattern has evolved, we are steadily increasing our understanding of ice loss processes, which will lead to better - informed projections of sea level rise.»

His research concerns understanding global climate and its variations using observations and covers the quasi biennial oscillation, Pacific decadal oscillation and the annular modes of the Arctic oscillation and the Antarctic oscillation, and the dominant spatial patterns in month - to - month and year - to - year climate variability, including the one through which El Niño phenomenon in the tropical Pacific influences climate over North America.

In learning about how this method works — its strengths and its weaknesses — I understood that the patterns it produces could reflect spatial structure in population data.

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.

While even the most well - executed 3D narrative films have hardly depended on the gimmick for anything more than bonus effect, 3D actively enhances the audience's understanding of the subject in «Pina,» where movement patterns and spatial deconstruction in the late Pina Bausch's choreography are brought to the fore, replicating the immediacy and interactivity of live performance.

Deciding that a spatial pattern that is correlated to a «socio - economic» variable is causative, requires an understanding of what the distribution of that pattern is under a null hypothesis of no «contamination».

Let me try to rephrase the ENSO - PDO relationship so that you can understand it: ENSO creates the PDO spatial pattern in sea surface temperature anomalies, which is why the PDO is called an ENSO - like pattern.

The SOI has shown this in detail and clearly demonstrates what some of us understand, the typical neg PDO spatial patterns encourage La Nina conditions.

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»