Sentences with phrase «although warmer ocean surfaces»

d) That although warmer ocean surfaces absorb less CO2 the observed increase in CO2 in the air is all or mostly our fault.

Not exact matches

«We're finding planets with ocean that, although cold at the surface, are likely warm at the bottom.

In Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amounts.

Now if someone were to day, as Judith clearly did not although she had many opportunities to do so, that «concurrent with warming of our oceans there has been a hiatus in the significantly increasing trend of global surface temperatures,» then I would have not problem with the logic.

Now if someone were to dsay, as Judith clearly did not although she had many opportunities to do so, that «concurrent with warming of our oceans there has been a relatively short - term hiatus in the trend of significant increase in global surface temperatures,» then I would not have a problem with the logic.

Although it is commonly assumed atmospheric CO2 and ocean surface pH are in equilibrium, studies examining various time frames from daily and seasonal pH fluctuations (Kline 2015) to the millennial scale transitions from the last ice age to our warm interglacial (Martinez - Boti 2015), demonstrate surface ocean pH has rarely been in chemical equilibrium with atmospheric CO2.

If the imbalance remains, the ocean just keeps warming which eventually becomes difficult to do without the surface warming, although there are temporary periods where the surface doesn't keep up and the imbalance grows.

In the meantime, Levitus et al. have once again reminded us that although the surface warming may have been dampened in recent years, global warming hasn't magically vanished, and that heat stored in the oceans will eventually come back to haunt us.

That's a key reason surface temperatures haven't appeared to warm as fast as many had expected in the past ten years — although ocean warming has sped up, and sea level rise has accelerated more than we thought, and Arctic sea ice has melted much faster than the models expected, as have the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica

The second, following a slight cool - down, began in 1975 and rose at quite a constant rate until 1998, a strong Pacific Ocean El Niño year... although this later warming is reported only by surface thermometers, not satellites, and is legitimately disputed by some.