With an increase in global
average surface temperatures comes higher odds of heat waves.
Not exact matches
Any way you look it, from the Climate Prediction Center Outlook through May, to the ongoing warm anomalies in land and sea
surface temperatures, much of the United States is likely to find above
average temperatures in the
coming months.
Surface water will be harder to
come by, and groundwater will be drained, as
average temperatures rise.
The evidence
comes from direct measurements of rising
surface air
temperatures and subsurface ocean
temperatures and, indirectly, from increases in
average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes in many physical and biological systems.
Now the NOAA data
comes in and confirms the GISS data, and shows the http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/jun/global.html Global Highlights: Based on preliminary data, the globally
averaged combined land and sea
surface temperature was the second warmest on record for June and the January - June year - to - date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record.
Long term conditions such as warmer - than -
average sea -
surface temperatures and low wind shear in the upper atmosphere are among the factors expected to fuel activity in
coming years, forecasters say.
However, changes to climate that
come with AGW or would tend to
come with GW in general are more than a global
average surface temperature increase, and ACC could be seen as a more all - encompassing term.