Sentences with phrase «variability occurring over time»
Researchers say the changes may be due to random biochemical fluctuations known as stochasticity, or «noise» — variability occurring over time and influenced by environmental factors.
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# 98 — ``... until the models have the ability to predict the short term variations occurring over the time interval of one year, we don't know how well the models have estimated natural variability.»
Many would think such a cooling outcome to be extremely unlikely (in the deep psyche impossible), but until the models have the ability to predict the short term variations occurring over the time interval of one year, we don't know how well the models have estimated natural variability.
Most of the variability in this gravitational pull occurs over time scales of less than a year.
Although substantial interdecadal variability is present in the time series, long - term decreases in upper - level cloud cover occur over land and ocean at low and middle latitudes in both hemispheres.
A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrc.20268/abstract Northern North Atlantic sea - surface height and ocean heat content variability Altimetric SSH is dominated by an increase of about 14 cm in the Labrador and Irminger Seas from 1993 to 2011, while the opposite has occurred over the Gulf Stream region over the same time period.
In essence, climate variability looks at changes that occur within smaller timeframes, such as a month, a season or a year, and climate change considers changes that occur over a longer period of time, typically over decades or longer.