Sentences with phrase «area warms the region»

The work, which appeared in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics in June, shows that soot pollution on and above the Himalayan - Tibetan Plateau area warms the region enough to contribute to earlier snowmelt and shrinking glaciers.

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Meanwhile, by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.

A new global assessment reveals that increases in leaf abundance are causing boreal areas to warm and arid regions to cool.

The researchers also found that the timing of leaf change is more sensitive to temperature in warmer areas than in colder regions.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Experts says that it may be the last chance to study the polar regions as they are now; global warming is already being felt most severely in these areas and transforming them as a result.

Apparently, these natural carbon sinks only do their job effectively in tropical regions; in other areas, they have either no impact or actually contribute to warming the planet.

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

The brain areas that showed greater activation on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients during task performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.

Although warming will open up lands in cooler regions for cultivation, it will not compensate for the loss of water and land in areas near the tropics, he said.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

While commercial fishing has not yet occurred in the area, the world's hunger for fish protein is rising and both Arctic and non-Arctic nations are angling to develop natural resources in the region as global warming opens shipping lanes.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

The team chose the specific area examined in the study because it is Earth's warmest open ocean region and a primary source of heat and water vapor to the atmosphere.

However, this new research points to subtropical and temperate regions — the southeastern U.S., central Canada, northern Australia, southern Africa, central Asia and the African Sahel — as areas where these types of warmer, wetter extremes are most likely to occur.

The nematode that causes the original infection exists in dirt on all continents except Antarctica, and it is most common in warmer regions, particularly remote rural areas in the tropics and subtropics where walking barefoot combined with poor sanitation leads to infection.

That explains why radio astronomers have found more complex molecules in the warmer, more active star - birthing regions of dust clouds than in the colder, darker areas.

Surfaces such as asphalt roads and concrete buildings absorb and then radiate a lot of solar energy, which can leave urban areas 6 to 8 degrees Celsius warmer than rural regions.

The findings suggest that the Indo - Pacific area would see a 40 per cent increase in fisheries catches at 1.5 C warming versus 3.5 C. Meanwhile the Arctic region would have a greater influx of fish under the 3.5 C scenario but would also lose more sea ice and face pressure to expand fisheries.

In Arctic areas, global warming is happening at roughly twice the average speed, which has allowed Alaska's trumpeter swans to expand their breeding grounds northward into regions that were previously too cold, according to a study published in Wildlife Biology in December.

Rather, the main threat to the region is the so - called Ring of Fire, an area holding a wealth of minerals waiting to be mined as warmer weather and depletion of cheaper sources increase their attractiveness.

After cooling briefly in July, ocean temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region — the area where ENSO conditions are monitored — began warming once again.

In the U.S., while no state or region had a record warm March, all areas were above average and the month was the fourth warmest March for the entire Lower 48.

That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.

Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

This is an especially important region of the atmosphere because climate models have forecast the deep layer of the lower atmosphere is the area where CO2 - influenced warming should occur first and by the greatest amounts.

Analysing surface temperature data for 1979 - 2015, they link a warm Arctic during March to colder - than - average temperatures over northern regions of North America and dry conditions in central southern areas between March and May.

The study is a new angle on the relatively recent area of research connecting rapid warming in the Arctic with the weather of mid-latitude regions.

This bacteria is found in heavily soiled areas of regions where the temperature does not vary greatly between the warm and cold season, as well as in the tropic and subtropic regions.

CarsonNow.Org December 7, 2017 With cold weather having settled into the region, five churches in Carson City have partnered this season to operate nightly winter warming shelters for the area's homeless.

Protected from Pacific breezes by surrounding hillside, this region is warmer than other areas of Sonoma, yet cools a bit at night.

In the higher Alpine regions temperatures tend to be low, while the lower land of the northern area has higher temperatures and warm summers.

Given the one percent rise of temperature over the last century is an «average», and the Arctic and Antarctic regions are now warming faster, purportedly by up to eleven degrees, there must be areas that are now cooler.

So there are issues of the areas not included and they assume the 17 percent of the ocean not sampled warms at the same rate, but in fact the Arctic and Indonesian regions are warming much faster, but at least they did include something.

Conservationists say that adding to the water capacity of the Las Vegas area, which already has 1.8 million residents, could just foster more growth in a region that, especially in a warming world, is the last place to consider expanding human settlements.

The real question is whether topographical readings of the area were taken sometime in the 1940s to 1960s, when there was a sustained warming trend in the region comparable to the present.

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

As noted earlier in a post on another article, heat pumps extract heat from cooler regions and move them to warmer areas.

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

To leave out the polar regions, and specifically the northern hemisphere, which, both by observation and by measurement has seen a larger percentage warming than the mid-latitudes is to slice the greatest area of dynamic change related to global warming right out of the equation.

Position on a Continent Temperature Precipitation Distribution of Climate Regions - Due to water's better ability to hold heat longer, areas around coastlines tend to have warmer climates than areas that are further away from water.

[A] remarkably decreasing Gaa trend (− 0.27 W m − 2 yr − 1) exists over the central tropical Pacific, indicating a weakened atmospheric greenhouse effect in this area, which largely offsets the warming effect in the aforementioned surrounding regions.

EESI advances policy solutions that will result in decreased global warming and air pollution; improvements in public health, energy security and rural economic development opportunities; increased use of renewable energy sources and improved energy efficiency; and the protection of areas such as the Arctic and coastal regions.»

In northern latitudes during winter areas like Europe would much more affected by ocean warming - one would tropical like conditions during the winter in regions currently strongly affected by warmth of gulf stream - though the flow of gulf stream would greatly diminished, the ocean temperature would be significantly increased.

In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009).

Russia's president also pointed to the economic importance of the Arctic region as he argued global warming and ice melting in the area created beneficial conditions for economic improvement.

While President Obama visited Alaska in August to talk about global warming and make a guest appearance on reality TV show, Vladimir Putin has been increasingly visiting Arctic areas in his country and has embarked upon establishing military facilities throughout the critical region.