Global warming hiatus Global warming hiatus A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such 15-year periods appear in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long-term warming trend. Such a "hiatus" is shorter than the 30-year periods that climate is classically averaged over. Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998–2013. The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the
Visual Word principle to images then we have to find what those words and terms will be in our images. The idea is to try to understand the images like a collection of "visual words". Definition 1: Visual word: it is a small patch on the image (array of pixels) which can carry any kind of interesting information in any feature space (color changes, texture changes ...etc.). In general visual words (VWs) exist in their feature space of continuous values implying huge number of words and therefore a huge language. Since image retrieval systems need to use text retrieval techniques which are