Sentences with phrase «at higher latitudes because»

Although our study confirms a benefit of ongoing climate change on plant growing conditions at higher latitudes because of fewer freezing days, this considerably underestimates the full extent of consequences of projected climate changes, particularly under business - as - usual projections.

The CCSM indicated that ocean waters warmed significantly at higher latitudes because of rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas.

Visual acuity — the ability to resolve fine detail — should be subtly worse at higher latitudes because of the dimmer light found there.

When Arthur Hinks, the Royal Geographical Society's cartographer, knew Scott was going south, he held a seminar on navigation, explaining that longitude doesn't matter very much at high latitudes because the effect on your course is minimal.

But also keep in mind that Lambeck et al (2002) have suggested that loss of permanent ice over the Arctic Sea at the end of the last interglacial allowed for increased accumulation of snow and ice at high latitudes because of the increased amount of moisture available.

«Previous models tended to dramatically underestimate the amount of soil carbon at high latitudes because they lacked the processes of how carbon builds up in soil.

Not exact matches

Still, because organisms at northern latitudes have evolved in a world of high ozone, «they may be susceptible to even a few percent increase in UV,» Newman says.

This is because wealthier countries have the scientific resources to detect pests earlier than others, and wealthier countries tend to be at higher latitudes.

These kinks and twists in the magnetic field develop because the sun spins more rapidly at the equator than at the higher latitudes and because the inner parts of the sun rotate more quickly than the surface.

So in Greenland it got warmer both because of higher CO2, more sunlight at high latitudes during summer, AND because of increased poleward heat flow.

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

The warm air above nocturnal or polar inversions, or even stable air masses with small positive lapse rates, are warmer than otherwise because of heat capacity and radiant + convective heating during daytime and / or because of heating occurring at other latitudes / regions that is transported to higher latitudes / regions.

AIUI, the assumption is that most of the first - year ice will melt, and much of it is located around the North Pole this year, so it will melt late (if at all) because of less insolation at high latitudes.

Charged particles from space easily move along geomagnetic field lines and intercept the upper atmosphere at high latitudes (that is, toward the poles) because that is where the field lines originate.

The Atlantic Ocean circulation that carries warmth into the Northern Hemisphere's high latitudes is slowing down because of climate change - and is at its weakest point in the past 1,600 years.

In 1938, Callendar himself concluded that, «the combustion of fossil fuel -LSB-...] is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways», notably allowing cultivation at higher northern latitudes, and because, «the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely».

This is because local temperature anomalies at high latitudes are well correlated over ~ 1000 kms, so in fact 55 point samples they took covers a huge area.

For example, as long as the rise in global average temperature stays below 3 degrees Celsius, some models predict that global food production could increase because of the longer growing season at mid - to high - latitudes, provided adequate water resources are available.

The first difference arises because annual average temperature change is greater than summer temperature change at high latitudes, but the mass balance sensitivity is greater to summer change.

The second is because the global average temperature change is less than the change at high latitudes, where most glaciers are found (Section 9.3.2).

The largest decreases have occurred at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres because of the large winter / spring depletion in polar regions.

Season or specific months: (A) Seasonal temperatures are of particular interest because Polar Regions at high latitudes are an outstanding example of the considerable impact and influence of the sun decreases in wintertime as far down as the North - and Baltic Sea (both above 50 ° North).

Existing projections suggest an increase in primary production at high latitudes such as the Arctic and the Southern Ocean (because the amount of sunlight available for photosynthesis of phytoplankton goes up as the amount of water covered by ice decreases).

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

Anomalies for stations in areas of high latitudes and high elevations are typically some of the largest anomalies in the world because temperatures are warming at the greatest rates in those areas.

This is largely because melting sea ice changes the albedo of high latitude oceans, and to a lesser extent because an inversion prevails at high latitudes, especially in winter, whereas at low latitudes the heating is convectively mixed througout the troposphere.

As can be seen, coverage at high latitudes during winter is poor mainly because the sun is not high enough over the horizon.

So the factor of two arises because of cancellations of the contributions from lower latitudes, making the relatively small adjustments at high Arctic regions relatively more important.

Gains and losses in suitable plant growing days due to projected temperature changes alone are lessened because some regions are already limited by either solar radiation (reducing gains at high latitudes) or water availability (reducing losses in arid regions).

That 1.1 C is the IPCC low end «sensitivity» estimate which isn't a scary number at all and in fact is a great number because if that's all it is then the slight warming, mostly in the winter in the higher latitudes, is a great boon to agriculture especially when the biological effect of higher CO2 on green plant growth rates and water consumption is taken into consideration.