Ed Hopkins, Wisconsin's assistant state climatologist, told me that winters continue to be highly variable, with lots of snow some years and bare ground in others, but he recently tallied up the length of the frost-free season since 1971 and found that, in some parts of the state, it has increased by as much as three weeks.
These show that SOC storage can be highly variable with depth.
Stack-gas concentrations of pollutants were found to be highly variable, with standard deviations on the order of mean values.
In fact, the tsunami deposit thickness is known to be highly variable with several to several tens of centimeters' thickness, depending on local undulation (Hori et al., 2007; Fujino et al., 2010; Naruse et al., 2010).
After compiling 10 floe-scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.
The DNA distribution resulting from multipolar cell division was found to be highly variable, with frequent nullisomies in the daughter cells.
It is also true that autism is highly variable, with periodic improvements and regressions, and most children receive several therapies at once.
Recommended guidelines from health professionals are highly variable, with some doctors recommending complete abstinence and others suggesting that occasional light drinking is unlikely to cause harm to the baby.
Rainfall is highly variable, with extremes of drought and flood and a high risk of damage from tropical cyclones on the more northerly coasts.
The machine works best when it digs into a uniform substance, but the earth around the tunnel, known as fill, is highly variable, with complex combinations of soil types, pieces of metal and concrete, and possibly even boulders and car bodies.
Electroencephalogram patterns in neonatal seizures are highly variable with complex and varied morphology, frequency, and topography[18].
