Sentences with phrase «average global surface temperature since»

As was widely covered in the media, 2014 saw the highest annual average global surface temperature since records began, the report says:

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«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

Since global average surface temperature exhibits a long - term sinusoidal trend, one can display either a positive or negative trend with careful start and end point choices.

The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

-- The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the December — February period was 0.41 °C (0.74 °F) above the 20th century average of 12.1 °C (53.8 °F), making it the 17th warmest such period on record and the coolest December — February since 2008.

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.&Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.&global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

This was one of the motivations for our study out this week in Nature Climate Change (England et al., 2014) With the global - average surface air temperature (SAT) more - or-less steady since 2001, scientists have been seeking to explain the climate mechanics of the slowdown in warming seen in the observations during 2001 - 2013.

From the abstract: «Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001.»

The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 — 0.2 °C, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

the problem is that this definition implicitly assumes that the global, time average surface temperature is a definite single valued function of the radiative average forcing, which is far from being true since there are considerable horizontal heat transfer modifying the latitudinal repartition of temperature: the local vertical radiative budget is NOT verified.

It is extremely likely * that human activities have caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature since the 1950s.

Furthermore since modelers tweak cloud parameters to match global albedo and achieve energy balance, and because the AR4 models achieve a good match to global average surface temperatures, there are at least partially compensating errors elsewhere in the models for both albedo and temperature.

«Another recent paper used a different NOAA ocean surface temperature data set to find that since 2003 the global average ocean surface temperature has been rising at a rate that is an order of magnitude smaller than the rate of increase reported in Karl's paper.»

Since publication of the AR4, nature has thrown the IPCC a «curveball» — there has been no significant increase in global average surface temperature for the past 15 + years.

The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for April 2016 was 1.98 °F above the 20th century average — the highest temperature departure for April since global records began in 1880.

Although the IPCC climate models have performed remarkably well in projecting average global surface temperature warming thus far, Rahmstorf et al. (2012) found that the IPCC underestimated global average sea level rise since 1993 by 60 %.

If you read it closely, you will see that there is nothing in the NASA link you cited that refutes the observed fact that global average surface temperature has stopped warming since 2001 or 1998.

The annual anomaly of the global average surface temperature in 2014 (i.e. the average of the near - surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.27 °C above the 1981 - 2010 average (+0.63 °C above the 20th century average), and was the warmest since 1891.

GLOBAL average temperature is meaningless in regard to the RADIANT envelope since a significant portion of the surface of the Earth is outside of the RADIANT envelope.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

Uncertainties of estimated trends in global - and regional - average sea - surface temperature due to bias adjustments since the Second World War are found to be larger than uncertainties arising from the choice of analysis technique, indicating that this is an important source of uncertainty in analyses of historical sea - surface temperatures.

The global average surface temperature has not increased substantially (or statistically significantly) since 1997.

They conclude that while the rate of increase of average global surface temperatures has slowed since 1998, melting of Arctic ice, rising sea levels, and warming oceans have continued apace.

The chart plots the absolute global averages for both surfaces and atmospheric temperatures since the major 1998 El Niño peak.

Globally, the average land and ocean surface temperature for January — March 2018 was the sixth highest such period since global records began in 1880 at 0.74 °C (1.33 °F) above the 20th century average of 12.3 °C (54.1 °F).

Globally, scientists believe that worldwide forest clearing since the 1700s has had a small net cooling effect on global average surface temperature.

The global land surface temperature for March 2018 was 1.49 °C (2.68 °F) above average and the seventh highest since global records began in 1880.

England and his colleagues calculated that the stronger trade winds have reduced the global average surface temperature by 0.1 - 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.18 - 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit)-- enough, they write, «to account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001.»

Global average surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively stable since the late 1990s, in a trend that has been seized upon by climate sceptics who question the science of man - made warming.

Moreover, since 1960, solar activity has declined slightly, while the average global surface temperature has increased by more than 0.5 °C.

This was warm enough to set another milestone that had already been set two previous times this year; the average global sea surface temperature was so warm in September that it broke the all - time record for the highest departure from average for any month since 1880, at 1.19 degrees Fahrenheit above average.

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).

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists.

The discussion of whether 2012 is the 8th, 9th 10th or 11th warmest annual global average surface temperature is intellectually engaging (and a bit of a waste of the engaged intellect), but a more significant point is that the warm years since 1998 have all occured without a transient bump comparable to the one that 1998 recieved from the signifcant El Nino that occured.

The slowdown or «hiatus» in warming refers to the period since 2001, when despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady, warming by only around 0.1 C.

Subsurface ocean warming explains why global average air temperatures have flatlined since 1999, despite greenhouse gases trapping more solar heat at the Earth's surface.

We've calculated the trend in the global average surface temperature simulated to have occurred starting in every year since 1950 and ending in 2012 for every * run of every climate model used in the new IPCC report.

3 Global Warming Defined Global Warming Is The Increase In The Average Temperature Of The Earth's Near - surface Air And Oceans Since The Mid-20th Century And Its Projected Continuation.

Armchair detectives might call it the case of Earth's missing heat: Why have average global surface air temperatures remained essentially steady since 2000, even as greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere?

Global Warming Is The Increase In The Average Temperature Of The Earth's Near - surface Air And Oceans Since The Mid-20th Century And Its Projected Continuation.

The gradual rise in the global surface temperature from 1978 to 1998 appeared to confirm the statement in IPCC2007 p. 10 that, «Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations».

Since 1900, the global average surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F).

Five - year averaging reduces differences among temperature datasets, showing that since the mid-1970s the global surface air temperature has on average increased by 0.1 °C every five to six years, although the rate of warming, viewed from a five - year perspective, has not been steady.

In fact Australian and global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001 (e.g. Nature Climate Change, volume 4, pages 222 - 227).

2 (1) Introduction Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface and oceans since the 20th century, and its projected continuation.

«The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 — 0.2 degree Celsius, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001,» wrote Australian researcher led by Matthew England of the University of New South Wales.

`... over the 100 years since 1870 the successive five year values of average temperatures in England have been highly significantly correlated with the best estimates of the averages for the whole Northern Hemisphere and for the whole earth» (In this last comment he is no doubt referring to his work at CRU where global surface records back to 1860 or so were eventually gathered) he continued; «they probably mean that over the last three centuries the CET temperatures provide a reasonable indication of the tendency of the global climatic regime.»

The global average sea surface temperature (SST) change over time since 1991.