SCIENCE UPDATE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 1, 2008 ;     787 words ......effort is what's called the "Drylands Development Paradigm" (DDP)--the product...of the DDP framework are that slow variables determine what happens on arid lands and that these slow variables are often associated with thresholds...

A Framework for Building New Desert Science.

M2 Presswire;  May 24, 2007 ;     407 words ......The researchers introduced the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP), named for a...Jornada for many years: that slow variables determine what happens on arid lands, and that these slow variables are often associated with tipping...

A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING NEW DESERT SCIENCE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 24, 2007 ;     338 words ......The researchers introduced the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP) as a framework...Jornada for many years: that slow variables determine what happens on arid lands, and that these slow variables are often associated with tipping...

UN to Set Up Drylands Office in Kenya

Xinhua News Agency;  January 18, 2002 ;     153 words ......operation on February 11, the U.N. Development Program Drylands Development Center will concentrate its efforts on Africa,a continent...particular," Andre said. Philip Dobie, director of UNDP Drylands Development Center, said that Nairobi was chosen because desertification...

UN Drylands Development Center Relocated in Kenya

Xinhua News Agency;  February 12, 2002 ;     237 words ...The Drylands Development Center of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been formally moved from New York to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi...

UN Drylands Center to Focus on Livelihood in Arid Areas

Xinhua News Agency;  February 27, 2002 ;     240 words ...The United Nations DevelopmentProgram (UNDP) announced here Wednesday that its newly launched Drylands Development Center (DDC) in Nairobi is to focus on the livelihood problems faced by millions of people in arid areas worldwide. "These are...

Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers

Xinhua News Agency;  February 12, 2002 ;     88 words ......strolling on the streets as the capital of Nairobi leading with about 60,000. Daily Nation: -- Another U.N. agency, the Drylands Development Centre of the United Nations Development Program, was moved from New York to Nairobi on Monday. East African Standard...

Fluctuations and slow variables in genetic networks

Biophysical Journal;  March 1, 2003 ;   Bundschuh, R; Hayot, F; Jayaprakash, C;   787 words ...ABSTRACT Computer simulations of large genetic networks are often extremely time consuming because, in addition to the biologically interesting translation and transcription reactions, many less interesting reactions like DNA binding and dimerizations have to be simulated. It is desirable to use

Mauritania Drowning in an Ocean of Sand; Poverty, Warming Propel Emergency

The Washington Post;  April 15, 2007 ;   Rukmini Callimachi;   787 words ......underscoring an inability to grasp the threat, said Mounkaila Goumandakoye, acting director of the U.N. Development Program's Drylands Development Center. "What's happening in Mauritania is dramatic and something needs to be done," he said. "Politicians are used to...

Effect of Oceanic Advection on the Potential Predictability of Sea Surface...

Journal of Climate;  September 15, 2004 ;   Wang, Faming; Chang, Ping;   787 words ......time scales, the day-to-day weather events seem uncorrelated. This leads to the idea of stochastic climate models: certain slow variables (such as SST) of the climate system can be modeled as an integral response of the ocean mixed layer to the random weather...

Kiln Control & the Bottom Line.

Ceramic Industry;  December 1, 2000 ;   Ogonek, Steve;   787 words ......digital controllers calculate new output values at intervals that range from many times per second to once in several seconds. Slow variables such as temperature in a large furnace can be updated infrequently with no impact on control quality, while flow should...

Free gravity waves and balanced dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 1, 2002 ;   Wirosetisno, D; Shepherd, T G; Temam, R M;   787 words ......conditions), the "fast" ageostrophic variables evolve slowly for some time. Much of this slow evolution is slaved to the slow variables, as further underlined in the bottom panel: for times of up to several tens of eddy turnaround times, only a very small...

Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems.(Book...

Journal of the Community Development Society;  July 1, 2004 ;   Laughlin, Diana;   787 words ......elsewhere in the book it is argued that necessary to successful ecosystem management are the identification of fast and slow variables, diverse actors who make decisions and co-create solutions, and a set of assessment and forecasting mechanisms. The main...

Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation and Balanced Dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2006 ;   Neef, Lisa J; Polavarapu, Saroja M; Shepherd, Theodore G;   787 words ......that the linear Kalman filter will compute a balanced analysis state if the model error term is specified to consist of slow variables only, the problem becomes much more complicated if the dynamics are nonlinear. In the context of four-dimensional variational...