instrumental record

collocation in English

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instrumental
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.t̬əl/
formal
If someone or something is instrumental in a process, plan, or system, that person or thing is one of the most important influences in causing it ...
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record
noun
uk
/ˈrek.ɔːd/us
/ˈrek.ɚd/
a piece of information or a description of an event that is written on paper or stored on ...
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(Definition ofinstrumentalandrecordfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It discusses the observed climate change during theinstrumentalrecord, basically the last 100 years.
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Over this period the recentinstrumentalrecord, mainly based on direct thermometer readings, has approximately global coverage.
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Their method was based on separate multiple regressions between each proxy record (or summary) and all of the leading principal components of theinstrumentalrecord.
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The calendar year 2007 tied 1998 as the second warmest year on theinstrumentalrecord(beginning 1880) while 2005 was the warmest.
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It is an often jazzy, progressive rock,instrumentalrecord.
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A historically important question in climate change research has regarded the relative importance of human activity and non-anthropogenic causes during the period ofinstrumentalrecord.
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Individual proxy records, such as tree ring widths and densities used in dendroclimatology, are calibrated against theinstrumentalrecordfor the period of overlap.
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We've done some great work in the past, but being able to focus on an entireinstrumentalrecordis going to be great.
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Instrumental records extend for only a few decades, in most cases, and provide limited insight into the potential variability of the climatic system.
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Denotes the period with the coldest temperatures after instrumental records began (1870s and 1880s).
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The temperature records were of various lengths, the shortest being theinstrumentalrecordfrom 1902 to 1980, and their convention centered data over this modern calibration period.
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C above the 1951 to 1980 average; this was the eighth warmest year since instrumental records began in 1860.
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Such maps help to identify earthquake epicenters, particularly where no instrumental records exist, such as for historical earthquakes.
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After 1900 most earthquakes have some degree of instrumental records and this means that the locations and magnitudes are more reliable than for earlier events.
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Such historical records may, in principle, be capable of providing estimates of climate at dates before instrumental records became available.
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Evidence for this includes geological observations, the longest instrumental records and the observed rate of 20th century sea level rise.
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Instrumental records of the period 19902010 were possibly above any temperature in the reconstruction period, though this did not appear in the proxy records.
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The graph showed three series of paleoclimate reconstructions, based on records of tree rings, corals, ice cores, lake sediments, etc., along with historical and instrumental records.
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The greatest warming occurred from the 19th to the 20th centuries, and they noted that instrumental records of recent decades were much warmer than the 20th century mean.
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