Sentences with phrase «as temperatures increased»

Anthony Westerling of Scripps Institution and colleagues found that the average wildfire season in the western United States has lengthened by 78 days from the period 1970 — 86 to 1987 — 2003 as temperatures increased an average 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

As temperatures increased, there has been a population boom among the insects.

Both the mosquitoes» development rates and mortality rates increased as the temperatures increased, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

For example, the precise way in which clouds will respond as temperatures increase is a critical factor governing the overall size of the projected warming.

Mortelliti, whose lab research focuses on the effects of land - use change on mammals and birds, will focus on the northward movement of plant species as temperature increases.

But as temperatures increase, chances to survive across Skagerrak also increase, and oyster harvest might not be as efficient.

Using their innovative approach, Emsley's team found that the sequence of protein motions follows a specific hierarchy as temperature increases: first the protein's solvent molecules, then the protein's side - chains and water molecules, and finally the protein's backbone.

Corals can not move pole - ward as fast as the temperature increases are predicted; if fish do not adapt, reducing critical processes like reproduction, they will have to move to deeper waters where living conditions are less than ideal.

As temperatures increase with global warming, more icebergs disintegrate in the ocean, creating a noisier environment

«Plants, animals, and people all depend on forests and may all face additional challenges as temperatures increase and precipitation patterns shift,» said John Shuey, a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Wild dogs, for example, reduce hunting activity as temperature increases.

As temperature increases, these bonds break down and the double strands «unzip,» releasing the positively charged calcium ions.

In those organs, ion channels in the cell membrane of sensory nerve fibers expand as temperature increases.

While zircaloy loses strength as temperature increases — becoming 2 percent weaker for every 10 C increase in temperature and losing all strength at about 1300 C, Stempien says — the strength of the SiC ceramic remains essentially constant to temperatures well above 1500 C.

As temperature increases, the atoms vibrate more, and increasing the scattering of bounced electrons.

«As temperatures increase, the oils essentially cook and you get this sooty mess inside.

Jedediah Brodie, a scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic are completely a result of ice loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.

The system is helping scientists understand how quickly glaciers and ice sheets will melt, and how fast oceans will rise, as temperatures increase

However, it says the observed changes in fire activity are in line with long - term, global fire patterns that climate models have projected will occur as temperatures increase and droughts become more severe in the coming decades due to global warming.

The faster the absorption increased as the temperature increased, the faster the strands separated, indicating a less stable duplex.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that the rates of spontaneous mutation in DNA — a key driver of evolution — rise very steeply as temperatures increase.

We know that attraction and repulsion depend on temperature, much like sugar dissolving in coffee — the saturation, or maximum mixing of the sugar with the coffee, improves as the temperature increases.»

To get a runaway of that sort, you need a reservoir of greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere to ever greater extents as temperature increases.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

As stated in Nourishing Traditions, pressure cookers denature proteins as the temperature increases greater than the traditional way of cooking over a stove or fire.

The reason why this happens only for hot starts is because the fuel is more likely to vaporize as temperature increases.

by Nancy Kay, DVM With the approach of summer, as temperatures increase so too do my thoughts about what I will do when I happen upon a dog left in a car on a hot day.

This season gives way to slightly warmer waters, and as temperatures increase, the trend is to fish shallow sand areas, shallow rock areas, and bays.

As the temperature increases and the sediments dry out the rate of methane oxidation will increase since the rate of oxygen diffusion will increase.

«Basically, it looks like a continuum of increasing likelihood and severity as temperature increases, rather than threshold,» said Jim W. Hall, an author on both papers.

On the other hand dry areas will get drier as temperature increases — more floods more droughts — less agriculural production

Would a higher or indeed lower absolute mean global temperature now affect this forcing as temperature increased due to CO2 in the future or is the effect minimal.

As temperatures increase, permafrost degrades and could release at least 10 % of its trapped carbon into the atmosphere, according to Ko van Huissteden of Amsterdam's Vrije University.

To get a runaway of that sort, you need a reservoir of greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere to ever greater extents as temperature increases.

Physically, the Stefan - Boltzmann feedback becomes more negative and the water vapor feedback becomes less positive as the temperature increases.»

If the oceans were gaining heat, it would show up as temperature increases and that has not happened since 1998.

Rising temperatures are warming ocean waters, which expand as the temperature increases.

defined as the temperature increase expected from a doubling of atmospheric CO2.

The solubility of CO2 in water decreases as temperature increases.

I don't see the influence of the Krakatau eruption, but if the drop was 1.2 degr.C the first year, that would give a drop of 5 ppmv, increasing to 7 - 8 ppmv the next year and dropping again after that as the temperature increases again.

This is no exaggeration: NASA is the leading agency in studying the effects of global warming on the planet, in measuring the changes in our atmosphere, our oceans, the weather, and yes, the climate as temperatures increase.

You are correct that as temperature increases a fixed input will have less effect on the equilibrium temperature, but there is no basis for your belief that a hot surface can somehow disregard incident radiation.

The increase in the airborne fraction as temperatures increase is by no means an established fact; if anything the historical record says the airborne fraction is stable or declining very slightly.

And who of «these same scientists» is supposed to have said that the unforced natural variability was of similar scale as the temperature increase since the mid 1970ies?

And things really get dicey as temperature increases approach 4 °C.

Cell efficiencies decrease as temperatures increase, and higher temperatures also threaten the long - term stability of solar cells.

An amusing part of this cherrypicking comes from our friend Chris Monckton and others at Watts Up, ignoring the vast majority of temperature measurements and saying no warming trend for X number of months using RSS data, and then carefully moving the start date forward as the temperature increases.

The researchers found that Arctic soils containing low carbon content — which make up 87 percent of the soil in permafrost regions globally — not only remove methane from the atmosphere, but also become more efficient as temperatures increase.

As the temperature increases, the water vapor pressure (hence by inference the water evaporation rate on non-dry surface) increases supralinearly; that is, a 1K increase from 288 K is much less than a 1K increase from 308K.