Sentences with phrase «atmosphere radiation imbalance»

It is claimed by Schmidt and others that they use top of atmosphere radiation imbalance to tune and presumably some other parameters where good data is available.

«The global mean climate responses to different forcings may differ because of the character of the forcings themselves (such as their geographical or vertical distribution) and because different forcings induce different patterns of surface warming or cooling, thereby affecting the net top - of - atmosphere radiation imbalance, and thus the ocean heat uptake rate.»

Douglas and Knox show some correlations between Top - of - atmosphere radiation imbalance and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

Not exact matches

As mentioned in the introduction, the satellites which measure incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of Earth's atmosphere (TOA) can not measure the small planetary energy imbalance brought about by global warming.

The reason why there is «warming in the pipeline» is because there is a significant imbalance in radiation at the top of the atmosphere.

The imbalance is not between IR absorbed and IR emitted by a layer of atmosphere, but between the incoming shortwave solar energy from space and the outgoing longwave energy emitted to space, due to the increasing difference between the ground temperature and the temperature of the level from which re-emitted radiation can escape to space.

Some of that would result also in a change in the radiation to space, and in particular a change in the net top of atmosphere radiative imbalance.

While they are changing, there will be a «radiation imbalance» at the top of the atmosphere.

This much is true, and the only way that this imbalance will be eliminated will be for the Earth to heat up sufficiently that the rate at which thermal radiation is emitted will compensate for the increased opacity of the atmosphere to thermal radiation.

GHGs slow the release of Outgoing Long wave radiation («OLR»), allegedly reflected in the energy imbalance at the top of atmosphere.

The IPCC model suggests that the heat and latent energy exchange between the underlying surface and the atmosphere is a direct response to the imbalance of solar energy and terrestrial radiation at the surface.

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

As the dominant reservoir for heat, the oceans are critical for measuring the radiation imbalance of the planet and the surface layer of the oceans plays the role of thermostat and heat source / sink for the lower atmosphere.

[NB: To avoid the vexing issue of the effects of the down - welling infrared radiation, it is easiest to think of long - term zero energy imbalance, as measured by satellites at the top of the atmosphere — after the underlying atmosphere adjusts.

Cloud cover changes are significant determinants of the Earth's top - of - atmosphere (TOA) radiation imbalance, or how much solar radiative forcing is absorbed by the Earth's surface (oceans).

With increasing carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the top - of - atmosphere: the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming.

The limitations of OLS on data with a near unit root is well taken, but to claim that the temperature just changes stochastically, within bounds that are very far off what one would expect just from natural variability, is not convincing: Many parameters of the earth system are simultaneously showing signs of warming, plus there's still a positive radiation imbalance at the top of the atmosphere: The earth hasn't even warmed up yet to the full extent that the change in forcing implies.

Now the radiation imbalance at the top of the real atmosphere is not really a driver of anything, so much as a consequence of what is going on below and coming in from above, and of course there are other problems with the method which are well known (e.g. can all the forcings be just added up to find a net one, do some of them interact, are some of them heterogeneuous in space).