Sentences with phrase «annual decrease in temperature»

Preventing that warming would necessitate a 0.05 degree Celsius annual decrease in temperature between now and 2070.

Not exact matches

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

A 1 degree average annual increase in summer temperatures, or a 25 % decrease in precipitation?

Regression analysis of the 65 - y annual temperature record after the maximum in the late 1930s indicates a temperature decrease of 1.58 C between 1935 and 1999.

But even if the rest of the month is not quite cold enough to push the entire year into negative territory, the 2013 annual temperate will still be markedly colder than last year's record high, and will be the largest year - over-year decrease in the annual temperature on record, underscoring the «outlier» nature of the 2012 temperatures.

«Indeed it is estimated that annual mean temperature has increased by over 2 °C during the last 70 years and precipitation has decreased in most regions, except the western part of the country, indicating that Mongolia is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to global warming.»

Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in global temperatures, sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes, sea ice extent will decrease.

These effects combined with an estimated decrease in electricity demand by 2 % due to warmer temperatures, could provide an additional 11 TWh of annual energy.

Since annual land surface temperatures are on average less than sea surface temperatures, the temperature difference between land and ocean is decreasing, not increasing, but don't let the facts get in the way of your evaluation.