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  • You state here about the difficulties of separating an oscilation from a trend when the timescale of the observed record is not sufficiently long enough to capture the entire oscilation.

    More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit 2006

  • How then are these cases so different that you can determine a trend in one (climate) when you can not in the other (AMO) when both suffer from the same problem of an observational record that is not sufficiently longer than the timescale of the oscilation?

    More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit 2006

  • Our reliable dataset for climate is approximately as long as the oscilation timescale.

    More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit 2006

  • One of the bowl and ball combination, installed in the portion of wall overhang - ing an underground way, would betray any attempt to force the door far below by the oscilation of ball within basin.

    Witch World Norton, Andre 1963

  • Can you please answer these questions on resonance and oscilation? en Español

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Can you please answer these questions on resonance and oscilation? en Español

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • The solar oscilation they used to detect it must have been really really really subtle.

    Ace of Spades HQ 2009

  • Yeah, that theory has been shown to be less a progression of stages as an oscilation; to-and-froing (- sp?) between sometimes multiple stages of recovery.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

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