Sentences with phrase «background climate»

The latter are difficult to distinguish from a noisy background climate.
It examines the evidence (climate change research) and decides whether or not human - produced carbon dioxide emissions are interfering in a dangerous way with normal background climate.
In response to this evolving consensus, lots of folks in the climate hawk coalition (broadly speaking) have counseled a new approach that backgrounds climate change and refocuses the discussion on innovation, energy security, and economic competitiveness.
Hull's research focuses on the relationship between open ocean life and the environment during mass extinctions, abrupt climatic events, and changes in background climate state.
There is evidence that the temperature threshold at which bleaching occurs varies with local environmental conditions and background climate conditions.
Other educated guesses put forth by McPhaden include larger background climate factors, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, both of which might have played a factor in El Niño's initial no show.
The oxford group estimated (based on volunteer computing) that the likelihood of the Russian heat wave was something like 3 times more likely with 2000's background climate vs the 1980's.
There's temporal resolution loss as you go back, but I suspect that for a given background climate, there's a lot of «boringness» within it (e.g., how much in - Eocene or in - Snowball variability do we actually expect?
Does stage 19c have the same background climate state as our present interglacial, or are the factors that gave rise to different glaciations in the early Pleistocene also important?
Hu, A., G. A. Meehl, W. Han, B. Otto - Bliestner, A. Abe - Ouchi, and N. Rosenbloom, 2014: Effects of the Bering Strait closure on AMOC and global climate under different background climates.
The atmospheric circulation response seems to be sensitive to the magnitude and geographic pattern of sea - ice loss and, in some cases, to the background climate state.
The result of competing biophysical processes on Earth's surface energy balance varies spatially and seasonally, and can lead to warming or cooling depending on the specific vegetation change and background climate.
The height of the tropopause barrier all depends on the background climate of the planet — the cooler the planet, the lower the tropopause.
Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.
They define the probability of development of these vorticies into TCs through a «genesis» model that conditions the favorability of development on various characteristics of the background climate state, and they use a theoretical model to predict TC intensities.
Kevin Trenberth of NCAR takes a third view, asking: Given a changed background climate, how should we expect weather to change?
You wrote, «Unless we can do that then regrettably all your work is of little value in terms of the background climate changes upon which ENSO is superimposed.»
Paper: AMOC Response to global warming: Dependence on the background climate and response timescale (Climate Dynamics)
First, we note that the record can be divided into three eras, consisting two perturbed climates — the rapid warming after the end of LIA and the modern period of anthropogenic warming after the Second Industrial Revolution — separated by a background climate when Europe experienced a century (1738 — 1849) of mild temperature with no trend.
One is that climate sensitivity, at least in some climate models, is not fixed but rather depends on the background climate state, increasing rapidly with temperature.
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