Sentences with phrase «1930s than in recent decades»

The paper, «Evaluating Statewide Climate Extremes for the United States,» published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, finds that far more State - wide all - time - high temperature records were set in the 1930s than in recent decades.

Not exact matches

He points out that this is just what happened in the 1920s and 1930s, when the ice melted even more dramatically than it has done in recent years, before it recovered again during the decades of what is called «the Little Cooling».

Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.

In many cases, the recent decade is half a Kelvin colder than the 1930» ies.

Further, heat waves in the U.S. have not been increasing; the EPA's analysis of the heat wave index for the U.S. [link] shows that the index during the 1930's reached levels almost an order of magnitude greater than the recent decade.