They were designed for local-scale weather forecasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAS: Assuring the Integrity of Research Data « Climate Audit] Reference

Some local-scale factors are endogenous to decision makers and are therefore under local control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causes of land-use and land-cover change] Reference

Attempts to significantly influence regional and local-scale climate based on controlling CO2 emissions alone is an inadequate policy for this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming] Reference

Conclusions: The above examples indicate quite clearly that the required amounts of cooking energy are extremely variable; only painstaking local-scale investigations are able to pinpoint how much cooking energy can be saved by using solar cookers.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers] Reference

The main conclusion is that micro- and local-scale impacts dominate the meso-scale impact of the urban heat island: many sections of towns may be warmer than rural sites, but meteorological observations are likely to be made in park “cool islands.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trends in Peterson 2003 « Climate Audit] Reference

The main conclusion is that micro- and local-scale impacts dominate the meso-scale impact of the urban heat island: many sections of towns may be warmer than rural sites, but meteorological observations are likely to be made in park “cool islands”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » No Debate On Cause of Global Warming] Reference

Nested between local-scale issues-such as the health effects of urban pollution-and global-scale issues-such as climate change-are a number of regional-scale problems that affect human health and ecosystems over areas the size of countries and continents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

In contrast, within the MA sub-global assessments local-scale services of a spiritual nature are of a variable condition, typically either collapsing or being revived, depending on policies, interventions, and context-specific factors such as changes in leadership (SG8. 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports] Reference

The scale at which the indicators are gathered is also critical as some changes can be detected and are best managed at a regional scale (e.g. changes in access to market foods to supplement local diets at critical times of the year) while others require a more local-scale approach (e.g., monitoring permafrost stability at the airstrip of a community).    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing a community response to climate change and health in the Arctic] Reference

But these days, the large-scale changes are observable even in local-scale dynamics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organizations and Markets] Reference

Adaptation of these sectors will require local-scale climate predictions, tailored to a sector's individual needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Emphasizing independent income sources, they consider dozens of possible careers from basic services to local-scale technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Bulletin -] Reference

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, is the author's manifesto for moving beyond growth economics and transitioning to more local-scale enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, is the author's manifesto for moving beyond growth economics and transitioning to more local-scale enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The interpretation of the PCNM vectors derived from a 2D, regular grid is fairly simple: lower order vectors represent regional-scale groupings, which higher order vectors represent more local-scale groupings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Geospatial] Reference

Canadian scientists are contributing to the development and refinement of regional climate projections of changes for the 21st century, which will provide information for better regional - and local-scale studies to more precisely determine risks and vulnerabilities to human health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

Local-scale biogas dissemination work by involving local artisans through personal~ initiative and customer orientation.    From Wordnik.com.  [9. Social acceptance and dissemination] Reference

2. Attempts to significantly influence regional and local-scale climate based on controlling CO2 emissions alone is an inadequate policy for this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit] Reference