Sentences with phrase «as average surface temperature»

They are calculated using specific methods and describe something that can be crudely described as the average surface temperature, but it's not clear, what The Global Mean Surface Temperature really is.

The average near surface temperature of Earth's atmosphere is much the same as the average surface temperature of the oceans.

Defining climate merely as average surface temperature is far too simplistic.

Not exact matches

Because the sulfate haze reflects a portion of the sun's energy back into space, the average temperature on Earth's surface drops by as much as 0.5 or even 1 degree Celsius.

So as soon as the hail of asteroids stopped, Earth may have cooled to an average surface temperature of — 40 °F and a crust of ice as much as 1,000 feet thick may have covered the oceans.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

With an El Niño now under way — meaning warm surface waters in the Pacific are releasing heat into the atmosphere — and predicted to intensify, it looks as if the global average surface temperature could jump by around 0.1 °C in just one year.

The computer model determines how the average surface temperature responds to changing natural factors, such as volcanoes and the sun, and human factors — greenhouse gases, aerosol pollutants, and so on.

Ocean Only: The global ocean surface temperature for the year to date was 0.99 °F (0.55 °C) above average, tying with 2010 as the second warmest such period on record, behind only 1998.

With an average surface temperature of -55 ° Celsius, water itself can not exist as a liquid on Mars, but concentrated solutions of perchlorate could survive these low temperatures.»

On average, a penguin's body surface temperature dropped as low as -23 °C, about 3 ° below air temperature.

Climate model simulations suggest that on average, as the surface temperature and moisture increases the conditions for thunderstorms becomes more frequent.

As world leaders hold climate talks in Paris, research shows that land surface temperatures may rise by an average of almost 8C by 2100, if significant efforts are not made to counteract climate change.

The average global sea surface temperature tied with 2010 as the second highest for January — August in the 135 - year period of record, behind 1998, while the average land surface temperature was the fifth highest.

As New Scientist has previously reported, this means we are passing an ominous milestone, with global surface temperatures now more than 1 °C above the pre-industrial average.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

With ENSO - neutral conditions present during the first half of 2013, the January — June global temperature across land and ocean surfaces tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period, at 0.59 °C (1.06 °F) above the 20th century average.

The western tropical Pacific is known as the «warm pool» with the highest sea surface temperature (SST) in the world (on average).

Expressed as a global average, surface temperatures have increased by about 0.74 °C over the past hundred years (between 1906 and 2005; see Figure 1).

This is defined as the change in average global surface temperature for a given amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere.

The June temperature for the mid-troposphere (roughly 2 miles to 6 miles above the surface) was the fifth highest for June in the 1979 — 2016 record, at 0.50 °F above the 1981 — 2010 average, as analyzed by UAH.

The June - August temperature for the mid-troposphere (roughly 2 miles to 6 miles above the surface) was the third highest for June - August in the 1979 — 2016 record, at 0.65 °F above the 1981 — 2010 average, as analyzed by UAH.

As a result, temperature variations on Mercury are the most extreme in the Solar System ranging from -183 °C -LRB--298 °F) to 427 °C (800 °F), although its average surface temperature is 167 °C (333 °F).

The July temperature for the mid-troposphere (roughly 2 miles to 6 miles above the surface) tied with 2010 as the second highest for July in the 1979 — 2016 record, at 0.67 °F above the 1981 - 2010 average, as analyzed by UAH.

The May temperature for the mid-troposphere (roughly 2 miles to 6 miles above the surface) was the second highest for May in the 1979 — 2016 record, at 0.83 °F above the 1981 — 2010 average, as analyzed by UAH.

Earth's average surface temperature in 2017 placed as the second or third highest on record, according to new analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The September globally averaged sea surface temperature was 1.33 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.1 °F, tying with 2014 as the second highest global ocean temperature for September in the 1880 — 2016 record, behind 2015 by 0.16 °F.

Cooling sea - surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean — part of a natural warm and cold cycle — may explain why global average temperatures have stabilized in recent years, even as greenhouse gas emissions have been warming the planet.

As to calculating a surface temperature, the calculation would have to calculate an average temperature above that of molten rock (before the first rock formed), an average temperature in excess of 100 C (before the first liquid water formed), and all other temperatures in between.

More than 95 % of the 5 yr running mean of the surface temperature change since 1850 can be replicated by an integration of the sunspot data (as a proxy for ocean heat content), departing from the average value over the period of the sunspot record (~ 40SSN), plus the superimposition of a ~ 60 yr sinusoid representing the observed oceanic oscillations.

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

As is usual, today marks the release of the «meteorological year» averages for the surface temperature records (GISTEMP, HadCRU, NCDC).

Finally, to revisit the question originally posed @ 203: Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

Surface temperatures in parts of Europe appear to have have averaged nearly 1 °C below the 20th century mean during multidecadal intervals of the late 16th and late 17th century (and with even more extreme coolness for individual years), though most reconstructions indicate less than 0.5 °C cooling relative to 20th century mean conditions for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole.

«The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces tied with 2010 as the highest on record for April, at 58.09 °F (14.47 °C) or 1.39 °F (0.77 °C) above the 20th century average.»

If one postulates that the global average surface temperature tracks the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, possibly with some delay, then when the CO2 concentration continues to rise monotonically but the global average surface temperature shows fluctuations as a function of time with changes in slope (periods wherein it decreases), then you must throw the postulate away.

The western tropical Pacific is known as the «warm pool» with the highest sea surface temperature (SST) in the world (on average).

Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

The 2007 IPCC report highlights surface temperature projections for the period 2090 - 2099 under a business - as - ususal scenario that reveals +5 °C to +7 °C warming warming of annually average temperatures over much of Eurasia under an aggressive A2 scenario.

Nonetheless, there is a tendency for similar equilibrium climate sensitivity ECS, especially using a Charney ECS defined as equilibrium global time average surface temperature change per unit tropopause - level forcing with stratospheric adjustment, for different types of forcings (CO2, CH4, solar) if the forcings are not too idiosyncratic.

The 60S - 60N averaged sea surface temperatures have been relatively flat since 2001 as shown in a personal communication from NOAA, that should be widely available soon.

However their predictions are about much more than just the average near - surface air temperature, they are mainly focused on how heat mixes into the ocean and how that affects the rise in surface temperature as CO2 is doubled over 100 years.

There have been decades, such as 2000 — 2009, when the observed globally averaged surface - temperature time series shows little increase or even a slightly negative trend1 (a hiatus period).

I think it's a mistake to refer to changes in global average surface air temperatures as if they were definitive measures of the change to the climate system.

Redistribution of heat (such as vertical transport between the surface and the deeper ocean) could cause some surface and atmospheric temperature change that causes some global average warming or cooling.

Is the past 10 to 15 years — which have seen little net change in the average surface temperature of the Earth despite ever - larger carbon dioxide emissions — an indication that climate change will not be as bad as previously projected?

As critics of «global warming» science have pointed out for years, there are serious issues with the surface temperature datasets that result in corrupted global average temperatures that are currently used by policymakers.

Global average surface temperature anomalies, 2000 - 2100, as projected by MAGICC run with the original RCPs as well as with the set of RCPs modified to reflect the EPA 30 % emissions reductions from U.S power plants.

Sea surface temperatures remain in the range of 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above average as a heat dome high pressure system swelters Japan.

Since 1850, CO2 levels rose, as did the «globally and annually averaged land and sea surface temperature anomaly» (for what it's worth), but nobody knows whether or not the increase in CO2 had anything whatsoever to do with the warming.