Sentences with phrase «as average temperatures»

I live in the UK and it is definitely a growing issue, especially as the average temperatures seldom reach a level which most people consider it hot enough to reach for the sun cream.
Now the sea ice response is quite obvious — it is melting, and this melting will continue as average temperatures keep rising.
His end of the tutorial focused on the changes we can anticipate as average temperatures go up around the world, noting that models have become more robust and that scientists are zeroing in on the harms that will be caused by unmitigated changes to the global climate.
And, of course, if under such a scenario it is vulnerable, it continues to become more vulnerable as average temperatures rise and extreme events become more frequent, and more extreme.
Less abrupt changes would occur around the world as average temperatures increased.
But as the average temperatures continue to rise this century, we will keep setting more record highs.»
Surface water will be harder to come by, and groundwater will be drained, as average temperatures rise.
As average temperatures at some plover nesting grounds have been inching up in recent years, the researchers found the mother and father bird have to switch off incubation duties more frequently than usual.
Moreover, the annual number of hot days — defined as average temperatures exceeding between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius, depending on location — rose by almost two a decade.
«As average temperatures and yearly hours of sunshine decrease and latitude increases, rates of alcohol - attributable cirrhosis increase.
The pattern has kept monthly average temperatures for the entire U.S. — as well as the average temperature for the year - to - date — in the middle of the pack record-wise, but has contributed to the stunning drought that has propagated across California.
As the average temperature of the planet goes up and as humanity encroaches on wilderness, pathogens and the organisms they infect are moving into new habitats, increasing the risk of infecting native hosts.
Extreme heat is one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises, record heat becomes much more likely than record cold.
For each channel, the brightness temperature can be thought of as the averaged temperature over a thick atmospheric layer....»
Glaciers are also melting faster as the average temperature in the Himalayas has gone up thrice as much as the global average since 1990.
The efficiency of mid to upper troposphere cooling increases as the average temperature increases.
TCR is defined «as the average temperature response over a twenty - year period centered at CO2 doubling in a transient simulation with CO2 increasing at 1 % per year.».
On the spindly peninsula that stretches out toward South America, temperatures have risen rapidly, nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, about 10 times as much as the average temperature rise worldwide.
But if you starting from 80 C as average temperature the skin surfaces will cool within minutes to an hour.
No Sun, and the assumption is that the surface temperature is the same as the average temperature — which would be an over-estimate.
Generally, for climate purpose, the Earth's temperature is regarded as the average temperature of the air at any given moment and much scientific effort has been put into ascertaining what it is and how the real world arrives at that temperature for the air.
Those numbers are meaningless as the average temperature of the surface of the Moon is between 80 °C on the lit face and -200 °C on the dark face and averaged over a lunar day it's 98 K at the poles and 206 K at the equator.
Transient climate response (TCR) is defined as the average temperature response over a twenty - year period centered at CO2 doubling in a transient simulation with CO2 increasing at 1 % per year.
Low - lying Pacific nations, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, likely will be uninhabitable at that level of warming, which is measured as the average temperature increase since the industrial revolution.
These unique fingerprints are easier to see by probing beyond a single number (such as the average temperature of Earth's surface), and looking instead at the geographical and seasonal patterns of climate change.
The Land ocean INDEX, is commonly referred to as an Average temperature, and explaining to people that this is actually a prediction or estimation is even more difficult.
A measure requiring shorter integrations is the transient climate response (TCR) which is defined as the average temperature response over a twenty - year period centered at CO2 doubling in a transient simulation with CO2 increasing at 1 % per year.
«The transient climate response (TCR) which is defined as the average temperature response over a twenty - year period is currently near zero.»
The results are usually reported as average temperature changes across the planet.
That is, as the average temperature in - creases cloud cover decreases so that more solar energy reaches and is absorbed by the Earth's surface, which is partially offset by increased outgoing IR radiation.
UKCIP08 will provide a statistical «weather generator,» which will allow users to see what daily (or even hourly) sequences of weather could look like at specified locations, given changes in basic aspects of climate such as average temperature, frequency of dry days, and average precipitation on wet days.

Not exact matches

Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.
In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before the Industrial Revolution), and, if we miss that target, to as far below 2 degrees as possible.
As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.
There is a direct connection between the current changes in the world's atmosphere and the rise in average temperature; this is known as global warming or the «greenhouse effect».
Blessed with sunny weather, dry powder and a mild average temperature, Big White is best known as a family friendly resort where kids and adults can all have fun.
As summer heats up in the Arizona desert temperatures easily exceed 100ºF with an average summer temperature of 112ºF and warmer.
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
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.
The researchers estimated that areas of the city could reduce average summertime temperatures by as much as 1.7 degrees C or more.
Oregon and Washington experienced much higher - than - average temperatures during the 2014 - 15 winter but were not as dry overall as California.
With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.
If they continue to die off, as they did in 1999 and 2003 when temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than average and summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.
Titan's atmosphere is far denser than Earth's, its gravity just one - seventh as strong, and its average temperature a chilly — 289 degrees Fahrenheit.
In fact, this study showed that all regions with above - average temperature are located near volcanic hot spots, which points to mantle plumes as the culprit for the excess volume of magma in these areas.
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.
The main drivers of El Niño conditions, ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, were as high as 3 °C above the average, making this event one of the three most intense El Niños on record.
As a result, the climate policy scenario lowered global average temperatures by 0.27 degrees in 2050, which is more than when only short - lived climate forcers were controlled.
In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.
The research found that cutting soot and methane as described above produced an average temperature reduction of 0.16 degrees Celsius by 2050, which is substantially less than the 0.5 - degree reduction found in earlier studies.
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