Sentences with phrase «affect global mean»

Vertical land movements such as resulting from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), tectonics, subsidence and sedimentation influence local sea level measurements but do not alter ocean water volume; nonetheless, they affect global mean sea level through their alteration of the shape and hence the volume of the ocean basins containing the water.

Of course, I could always design a synthetic forcing that didn't affect the global mean T at all (i.e. by hemispherically compensating), but that would still have clear regional effects.

On shorter time scales, however, changes in heat storage (i.e., ocean heat uptake or release) can affect global mean temperature.

It's long been known that El Niño variability affects the global mean temperature anomalies.

And a second one that explains the cold Eurasian winters, but without affecting the global mean temperature.

Since the heat is just moved around, with Eurasian cold linked to a correspondingly warmer Arctic, this hardly affects the global mean temperature — unless you're looking at a data set with a large data gap in the Arctic...

The record temperatures occurred despite a moderate occurrence of La Niña, a phenomenon over the Pacific Ocean that tends to lead to cooler temperatures at the surface, affecting the global mean.

This bend in the jet draws warm air poleward and cool air southward without greatly affecting the global mean temperature.

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This means the time has come for those in international business to look at how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will affect global finance.

AnViL, when you say «highly likely to have effected the global climate» — are you really meaning «affected» or what you wrote?

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.

Either way, this finding means that increasing levels of carbon dioxide can affect trees both indirectly through global warming and directly as a chemical compound.

Steve: Sure and I mean, even if the disease never jumps to humans, if you have a global pandemic just affecting poultry, that's hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses.

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

Conservation biologist Joel Berger, who has done global research on the fear of predation, believes this phenomenon underscores more fundamental questions — the meaning of fear itself and how it can affect ecosystems.

Optogenetics works at micro scale, and fMRI covers wide regions of the brain — together this means that scientists have a way to intervene and experiment with entire brain circuits, to finally see how a certain type of brain cell affects the wider global activity of the entire brain.

Regional differences in temperature are more strongly affected by weather dynamics than the global mean.

«Spokane (Wash.) is only two or three airline flights from just about any place in the world — meaning that antibiotic resistance can spread rapidly at a global scale and affect all of us.»

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

(b) Total global annual area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1σ of historical mean).

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

Long fire weather season affected area, defined as the total global area observing fire weather seasons > 1 s.d. from the mean, has increased by 3.1 % per year from 1979 to 2013, leading to a 108.1 % increase in global long fire weather season affected area (Fig. 2b).

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

There were no significant trends in mean annual total precipitation or total precipitation affected area but we did observe a significant increase in mean annual rain - free days, where the mean number of dry days increased by 1.31 days per decade and the global area affected by anomalously dry years significantly increased by 1.6 % per decade.

The talk will cover the size of the problem on a global scale, the number of users that are affected, and what this means in terms of their online behaviour.

A conscious citizenship of some of the major global problems that affected us means to improve their knowledge of other cultures, stimulating the change of perspective and an own critical reflection.

Part of their awareness as global citizens meant knowing how different media are used to persuade us into forming opinions and outlooks on the issues that affect us all.

When the word global is used when describing a financial crisis it means that everyone has been affected one way or another.

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I mean a huge example would be Driveclub game got a huge graphical upgrade, everything from higher textures to better normal maps, global illumination, advanced weather systems, drip maps, reflections shadows and improved lighting but most gamers didn't notice it, maybe cause a lot of gamers think crushed blacks and or certain lighting affects look better then others kind of like console gamers who claim they cant see the difference in 30 and 60 fps or even weird cases of gamers saying 120 fps is not noticeable or even worse then 60 fps.

The adjustments are unlikely to significantly affect estimates of century - long trends in global - mean temperatures, as the data before, 1940 and after the mid-1960s are not expected to require further corrections for changes from uninsulated bucket to engine room intake measurements.

The occurrence of El Ninos in particular years, and their strength, will somewhat affect the global and tropical mean temperatures, but unless El Nino starts doing something really, really different, this effect is likely to be much smaller than the temperature increase due to doubling CO2.

Would a higher or indeed lower absolute mean global temperature now affect this forcing as temperature increased due to CO2 in the future or is the effect minimal.

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

An increase in data coverage will affect the estimated variance and one - year autocorrelation associated with the global mean temperature, which also should influence the the metric.

Just because the tropopause is getting colder doesn't mean it is not being affected by global warming.

You will still SEE an increase in temperatures, but because of the poor localisation the variability is much higher and the effect of small - scale (compared to global) forcings that affect only the region you have measurements for mean that to get the signal from the noise requires more time.

-- «But global warming very definitely DOES affect the temperature of the tropical free troposphere, so it is not possible to conclude, as alas many have, that increasing SST per se means increasing tropical cyclone intensity (though it usually does signify more TC - related rain).»

As, according to NOAA's global temp maps, there has been a cold blob around in the N Atlantic pretty much since the beginning of «13, I can only assume DMI mean that the record cold Cold Blob (Jan — June» 15) was caused by weather — so we don't have to worry, DMI reassures us, «the N Atlantic overturning circulation has not received it's death blow and then weaken significantly during the foreseeable future» The Böning et al 2016 paper referred to above (Greenland meltwater) is summerized in the DMI article: ``... so far there has not been enough meltwater released to affect the overturning circulation significantly.»

Furthermore, given that «global warming» doesn't mean that the whole world is simply going to get warmer (rather, climate changes will be complex), pointing out that civilizations in the past may not have been affected by warming is something of a red herring.

As for the last sentence, the RC position that there is no way to prove that Katrina either was, or was not, affected by global warming contradicts your assertion that there is no connection, unless by «no connection» you mean only «no inference from an event to GW is possible.»

And, on the heels of a recent report about the global droughts to be expected due to climate change — one can only wonder if such scenes will become more common elsewhere.Throughout the affected state of Amazonia, rivers provide the only means of access to the outside world for families residing in the regions around the capital of Manaus.

But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.

Your hypothesis that the record of global mean temperatures might have been affected by the odd warm hour on a spring day here and there has a very low probability of being correct, given the vast amount of data that goes into the global mean, from stations in all pats of the world (from the fully dark Antarctic winter days to the fully illuminated Arctic summers, desert and equatorial forest sites etc etc).

Which means that ALL the weather on this planet, all the time, is affected by global warming in some way.

The energy flow diagrams of Trenberth et al and Stephens et al show 3 mechanisms by which a warming Earth surface can warm the troposphere and restore radiative balance: it is not reasonable to assert a priori that two of them can't matter in calculating the global mean temperature after a doubling of CO2 concentration, when even a little study shows that all of them will be affected.

So, if «all else» is not materially affected, theory has it that Katrina say was made 5 % stronger or so, but «all else» may also mean that actually anthropogenic global warming has made it say 15 % stronger or 5 % weaker.

Figure A illustrates how 1 C of global warming might affect the annual mean temperature over the Mediterranean Basin.