Sentences with phrase «average air temperature»

Global average air temperature near the surface is dominated by the ocean (because it covers two thirds of the planet), particularly at low latitudes.

Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.

Average air temperatures range between 72 °F (22 °C) to 90 °F (32 °C).

It's clear that weather stations on land show average air temperatures are rising, and as a result, the frequency and severity of droughts and heat waves are increasing.

Thus, small changes of global average air temperature are associated with very large changes in some regions, particularly over land, at mid - to high latitudes, in mountain regions.

Some months this year, including June and October, have set global records outright for average air temperature, says Derek Arndt, chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

«In previous tests, we found snow melt runoff was positively correlated with average air temperatures [increases] throughout the winter, but correlations don't always necessarily mean that one thing causes another,» Dudley told LiveScience.

The 24 hour average air temperature at 10m was 13.8 C compared to Teff of 12.8 C.

Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over...

, shows how daily average air temperatures over the Arctic (red line) have spent most of January and February substantially above average (white line).

Two years ago, on the east side of the long peninsula that juts up toward South America — where average air temperatures have risen between 3.6 and 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years — a 1,200 - square - mile shelf of floating sea ice called Larsen B suddenly collapsed and drifted out to sea.

Average air temperatures around the world are rising.

For a long time now climatologists have been tracking the global average air temperature as a measure of planetary climate variability and trends, even though this metric reflects just a tiny fraction of Earth's net energy or heat content.

According to the record of what are known as «climate proxies», average air temperatures apparently fell as much as several degrees in some areas of the Northern Hemisphere.

The recent slowdown in the rise of global average air temperatures during the first decade of the 21st century is being used as a touchstone argument for those who deny the science of global warming.

According to a climate change adaptation report from the city government, average air temperatures in Rio have increased by about 0.05 degrees Celsius per year in recent decades.

The chart below, by Zack Labe at the University of California at Irvine, shows how daily average air temperatures over the Arctic (red line) have spent most of January and February substantially above average (white line).

The authors ran simulations for many possible scenarios for the size of the continents, the temperature sensitivity of chemical weathering and other factors to get the full range of possible scenarios for average air temperature and ocean pH through history.

Pritchard noted that the Antarctic Peninsula's annual average air temperature has risen 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) since 1950, while near - surface ocean waters have warmed 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average air temperature of a city of a million or more people may become 1 to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding rural areas.

The hiatus, which began in about 1998, has been typified by a slower rate of increase in average air temperatures than in previous decades.

The Caribbean invites the winds direction to Belize with moisture and heat, thus ensuring a pleasant feel - good climate with an average air temperature of just 26 degrees Celsius during the day.

Average air temperature is an important indication of energy changes, but it doesn't tell us everything.

Dana, I think you are pushing in the right direction with this; heat content is a much more direct measure of the underlying changes to the climate system than average air temperatures and climate science communicators should make heat content their first response to the suggestion that global warming is something that waxes and (allegedly, recently) wanes.

While the eastern U.S. suffered very cold temperatures in the recent cold snap, much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere saw higher - than - average air temperatures.

As the Earth warms and sea level rises, it is inundated with seawater, which is 12 - 15 degrees warmer than the average air temperature.

Average air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean were much higher than normal for the month, reflecting unusual atmospheric conditions.

Average air temperature over the land and sea surface was 0.56 degrees Celsius above the long - term average, tied with 2010 as the joint warmest year on record.

After above - average air temperatures and record ice loss in May 2010, the ice extent at the beginning of June fell below the previous record minimum for the same day in 2006.

Since 2001, the average air temperature at Earth's surface has risen more slowly than it did in previous decades.

The average air temperature in Barrow has increased by 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 degrees Celsius) from 2000 to 2010.

People don't wake up and say «oh gee, that global average air temperature that's gone up by point zero one of degree from last year has really affected my life».

They showed that in the relatively cool winemaking areas of France and Switzerland, early harvests have always required both above - average air temperatures and late - season drought.

The primary ways to monitor global average air temperatures are surface based thermometers (since the late 1800s), radiosondes (weather balloons, since about the 1950s), and satellites measuring microwave emissions (since 1979).

Consequently, assuming mild greenhouse gas emission scenario (RCP2.6), areal extent of the conditions suitable for the processes in the study areas can contract 70 % by 2050 owing to changes in average air temperature and precipitation.