Search Results - "Norris, J. R"

An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence by Sherwood, S., Webb, M. J., Annan, J. D., Armour, K. C., Forster, P. M., Hargreaves, J. C., Hegerl, G., Klein, S. A., Marvel, K. D., Rohling, E. J., Watanabe, M., Andrews, T., Braconnot, P., Bretherton, C. S., Foster, G. L., Hausfather, Z., Heydt, A. S. von der, Knutti, R., Mauritsen, T., Norris, J. R., Proistosescu, C., Rugenstein, M., Schmidt, G. A., Tokarska, K. B., Zelinka, M. D.

“…We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of atmospheric CO2, characterized by an effective sensitivity S . This…”
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A Spurious Jump in the Satellite Record: Has Antarctic Sea Ice Expansion Been Overestimated? by Eisenman, I., Meier, W. N., Norris, J. N.

“…Recent estimates indicate that the Antarctic sea ice cover is expanding at a statistically significant rate with a magnitude one-third as large as the rapid…”
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Evaluation of multidecadal variability in CMIP5 surface solar radiation and inferred underestimation of aerosol direct effects over Europe, China, Japan, and India by Allen, R. J., Norris, J. R., Wild, M.

“…Observations from the Global Energy Balance Archive indicate regional decreases in all sky surface solar radiation from ∼1950s to 1980s, followed by an…”
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The equilibrium response to idealized thermal forcings in a comprehensive GCM: implications for recent tropical expansion by Allen, R. J, Sherwood, S. C, Norris, J. R, Zender, C. S

“…Several recent studies have shown the width of the tropical belt has increased over the last several decades. The mechanisms driving tropical expansion are not…”
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AVERAGING OVER FAST VARIABLES IN THE FLUID LIMIT FOR MARKOV CHAINS: APPLICATION TO THE SUPERMARKET MODEL WITH MEMORY by Luczak, M. J., Norris, J. R.

“…We set out a general procedure which allows the approximation of certain Markov chains by the solutions of differential equations. The chains considered have…”
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Cluster analysis of midlatitude oceanic cloud regimes: mean properties and temperature sensitivity by Gordon, N D, Norris, J R

“…Clouds play an important role in the climate system by reducing the amount of shortwave radiation reaching the surface and the amount of longwave radiation…”
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Eyre Creek Mélange: an accretionary prism shear-zone mélange in Caples Terrane rocks, Eyre Creek, northern Southland, New Zealand by Pound, KS, Norris, RJ, Landis, CA

“…The Eyre Creek Mélange, a north-northwest trending 0.5-1 km-wide zone within Caples Terrane rocks in northern Southland, New Zealand, is composed of phyllonite…”
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Interannual Variability in Stratiform Cloudiness and Sea Surface Temperature by Norris, Joel R., Leovy, Conway B.

“…Marine stratiform cloudiness (MSC) (stratus, stratocumulus, and fog) is widespread over subtropical oceans west of the continents and over midlatitude oceans…”
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On the Relationships among Low-Cloud Structure, Sea Surface Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation in the Summertime Northeast Pacific by Klein, Stephen A., Hartmann, Dennis L., Norris, Joel R.

“…The long-term record of observations from Ocean Weather Station (OWS) November (N), which operated at 30°N, 140°W from 1949 to 1974, is analyzed to document…”
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Quaternary shelf structures SE of the South Island, imaged by high-resolution seismic profiling by Gorman, AR, Hill, MG, Orpin, AR, Koons, PO, Norris, RJ, Landis, CA, Allan, TMH, Johnstone, T, Gray, FL, Wilson, D, Osterberg, EC

“…Along the south-eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island, observations and characterisations of shelf geology are complicated by numerous possibly active…”
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The Effect of Rainfall on the Survivorship and Establishment of a Biocontrol Agent by Norris, R. J., Memmott, J., Lovell, D. J.

“…1. The weather is believed to affect the establishment of insect biological control agents in the field, in particular heavy rainfall immediately after…”
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How do lineations reflect the strain history of transpressive shear zones? The example of the active Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand by Toy, V.G., Norris, R.J., Prior, D.J., Walrond, M., Cooper, A.F.

“…Lineations within mylonites exhumed in the hanging wall of New Zealand's active Alpine Fault zone have a complicated relationship to contemporary plate…”
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Femtosecond Spontaneous-Emission Studies of Reaction Centers From Photosynthetic Bacteria by Du, Mei, Rosenthal, Sandra J., Xie, Xiaoliang, DiMagno, Theodore J., Schmidt, Mark, Hanson, Deborah K., Schiffer, Marianne, Norris, James R., Fleming, Graham R.

“…Spontaneous emission from reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria has been recorded with a time resolution of 50 fs. Excitation was made directly into both…”
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Low Cloud Type over the Ocean from Surface Observations. Part II: Geographical and Seasonal Variations by Norris, Joel R.

“…Synoptic surface cloud observations primarily made by volunteer observing ships are used to construct global climatologies of the frequency of occurrence of…”
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Medical costs of osteoporosis by Norris, R J

“…Global healthcare expenditure has risen at an alarming rate over the past thirty years and the situation is most pronounced in the USA, which now spends 12% of…”
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Late Quaternary displacement rate, paleoseismicity, and geomorphic evolution of the Alpine Fault: Evidence from Hokuri Creek, South Westland, New Zealand by Sutherland, Rupert, Norris, R. J.

“…A 400 ± 100 m offset of Lake McKerrow, South Westland, New Zealand, combined with dated (15.6 ka) glacial lake silts, requires an Alpine Fault displacement…”
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An examination of the differences between surface and free-air temperature trend at high-elevation sites: Relationships with cloud cover, snow cover, and wind by Pepin, N. C., Norris, J. R.

“…Contrasts in high‐elevation surface and free‐tropospheric temperatures between 1971 and 1996 are examined by comparing surface temperatures from a subset of 72…”
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Low Cloud Type over the Ocean from Surface Observations. Part I: Relationship to Surface Meteorology and the Vertical Distribution of Temperature and Moisture by Norris, Joel R.

“…Surface cloud observations and coincident surface meteorological observations and soundings from five ocean weather stations are used to establish…”
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Mechanism of the Initial Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by CHI-KIN CHAN, DIMAGNO, T. J, CHEN, L. X.-Q, NORRIS, J. R, FLEMING, G. R

“…The initial electron transfer in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 was studied by a subpicosecond transient pump-probe technique. The measured…”
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Structure of Large Random Hypergraphs by Darling, R. W. R., Norris, J. R.

“…The theme of this paper is the derivation of analytic formulae for certain large combinatorial structures. The formulae are obtained via fluid limits of pure…”
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