Sentences with phrase «absolute average surface temperatures»

I was referring to the plot of absolute average surface temperatures from different models against the projected rate of warming for 2011 to 2070 from those same models; this is the next to last graphic from Gavin's post.

Not exact matches

What I find most interesting is that the models are not normally distributed in calculated average surface temperature; there is a relatively tight cluster of models (22 data points) around 14.7 + / - 0.15 C absolute temperature and the rest spread out over 12.3 C to 14.1 C; perhaps the clustered models are based on common assumptions an / or strategies which lead to a relatively consistent calculated average surface temperature.

The second is that the «average» absolute global mean «surface» temperature is only accurate to about + / - 2 C degrees, includes «sub-surface temperatures averaged with above surface temperatures at varying altitudes.

By assuming that the absolute value of the «average» surface temperature common to both the atmosphere and oceans is 4 - 5 C lower than the actual, there would be considerable error wouldn't there?

The average absolute value of the air temperature close to the Earth's surface hit a new record in July.

Absolute estimates of global average surface temperature are difficult to compile for several reasons.

The chart plots the absolute global averages for both surfaces and atmospheric temperatures since the major 1998 El Niño peak.

Sensitivity equals dT / dF is only valid for an absolute temperature and absolute forcing over a small range of change and since the current «state of the artistry» «surface temperature average» requires using anomaly from very cold locations with very little energy per degree of anomaly, what «surface» is averaged impacts the estimate of «sensitivity».

Somewhere along the gradient (the surface if all outgoing energy directly radiated to space, or the AVERAGE altitude of outgoing to incoming energy balance for a real atmosphere), an absolute temperature has to be determined to give the rest of the slope actual temperatures.

The average absolute humidity also increases between the clouds and the ocean surface with increasing temperatures.

Doing this on a year - to - year basis shows NO apparent correlation with the absolute «globally and annually averaged land and sea surface temperature anomaly» (i.e. HadCRUT3), but does show a weak correlation with the CHANGE in temperature from the previous year, for example:

The average absolute temperature on land is ~ 5C cooler than the average absolute temperature at the sea surface.

(See NCDC Global Surface Temperature Anomalies) The same file states «The global monthly surface temperature averages in the table below can be added to a given month's anomaly (departure from the 1880 to 2004 base period average) to obtain an absolute estimate of surface temperature for that month.Surface Temperature Anomalies) The same file states «The global monthly surface temperature averages in the table below can be added to a given month's anomaly (departure from the 1880 to 2004 base period average) to obtain an absolute estimate of surface temperature for that moTemperature Anomalies) The same file states «The global monthly surface temperature averages in the table below can be added to a given month's anomaly (departure from the 1880 to 2004 base period average) to obtain an absolute estimate of surface temperature for that month.surface temperature averages in the table below can be added to a given month's anomaly (departure from the 1880 to 2004 base period average) to obtain an absolute estimate of surface temperature for that motemperature averages in the table below can be added to a given month's anomaly (departure from the 1880 to 2004 base period average) to obtain an absolute estimate of surface temperature for that month.surface temperature for that motemperature for that month.»

If the atmosphere contained no IR - absorbing substances, then all the IR emitted by the earth's surface would escape into space and radiative balance would dictate that the earth's average surface temperature (or really the average of emissivity * T ^ 4 where T is the absolute temperature and the emissivity of most terrestrial materials in the wavelength range of interest is very close to 1) is set by the condition that the earth must radiate as much energy as it absorbs from the sun.

LOBALLY - AVERAGED land and sea surface absolute temperature TS has not risen since 1998 (Hadley Center; US National Climatic Data Center; University of Alabama at Huntsville; etc.).