Sentences with phrase «average surface temperatures remained»

Human civilization developed over a period of 10,000 years during which global average surface temperatures remained remarkably stable, hovering within one degree Celsius of where they are today.

Not exact matches

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

An average surface temperature of 300 ºF (149 ºC) below zero allows water to build and form impressive, rugged mountain ranges, while nitrogen ice remains relatively malleable.

However, it is generally not possible to «tune» the models to fit very specific bits of the surface data and the evidence for that is the remaining (significant) offsets in average surface temperatures in the observations and the models.

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.»

So, although each molecule of CO2 that escapes from the oceans will, on average, be back in the ocean again in five years time, if the sea surface temperature rises the increase in the atmospheric CO2 will remain.

Sea surface temperatures remain in the range of 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above average as a heat dome high pressure system swelters Japan.

In the last subperiod [2003 - 2014], the global averaged SULR [surface upwelling longwave radiation / greenhouse effect] anomaly remains trendless (0.02 W m − 2 yr − 1) because Ts [global temperatures] stop rising.

Climate models surveyed by the Bureau of Meteorology have increased their chances of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean remaining at neutral levels, though still warmer than average, for the remainder of 2012.

The temperature of the water below the surface remained above - average, as the large area of warmer - than - average subsurface waters continued to move slowly to the east (a downwelling Kelvin wave).

For all of its warnings, and despite a steady escalation of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, the planet's average surface temperature has remained pretty much the same for the last 15 years.

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.

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?

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).

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»

To return to an earlier point I raised that a linear lapse rate mathematically translates a temperature change at any altitude to other altitudes including the surface, I remain interested in observational data on linearity is terms of a flux - weighted global average.