Sentences with phrase «change in cloud coverage»
Change in cloud coverage was the primary cause of sea surface temperature variations, and clouds provided a positive feedback to temperature variations.
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Climate experts are now concluding that research must focus on clouds, with many scientists considering the possibility that a 1 % or less change in cloud coverage could explain most of the past changes in global temperatures.
The brightest areas on the planet moved around with time, which Armstrong and colleagues say is due to changes in cloud coverage around the world.
If the models incorrectly calculate the absolute cloud coverage, then isn't it also reasonable to guess that the models will incorrectly calculate any changes in cloud coverage?
In addition, the warming stopped and started to slide lower when the cloud coverage increased after the 1990s - apparently, small changes in cloud coverage are quite powerful in terms of subsequent temperature trends.
Not exact matches
Stated another way, since the cloud coverage is in some sense a feedback from the warming due to carbon dioxide, wouldn't a change in carbon dioxide also lead to an incorrect change in the feedback of cloud formation?
For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea ice extent and sea ice volume and sea ice density and moisture content in the air and cloud coverage and rainfall and measures of extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result of a statistical modeling of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.
Project Earthshine (Earthshine is the ghostly glow of the dark side of the Moon) has been measuring changes of the terrestrial albedo in relation to cloud coverage data; according to cloud coverage data available since 1983, the albedo of the Earth has decreased from 1984 to 1998, then increased up to 2004 in sync with the Mean Global Temperature.