Sentences with phrase «but weather variability»

And don't tell me a silly tale that the current conditions are anything but weather variability.

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But this is the first time that any study has found that a weather event was so extreme that it was outside the bounds of natural variability — let alone three such events, Herring said.

Many of the other 24 studies in the new issue found a strong likelihood of human influence on extreme weather events, but stopped short of saying they were completely out of the realm of natural variability.

But increases in weather variability and extreme weather events could lower crop yields.

But beyond the 80 percent mark, the amount of energy storage required to overcome seasonal and weather variabilities increases rapidly.

Scientists expect some annual variability as wind and weather patterns change, but predict the contraction will continue long - term.

On this latter scale teleconnections manifest as a response of middle - latitude weather to the dominant modes of variability of the tropics (the Madden - Julian Oscillation and the Boreal Summer Intra-seasonal Oscillations, which similar to El Niño and La Niña characterize variations of climate but on shorter time scales).

Not only do the vagaries of weather patterns and ocean currents make it hard to see climate changes, but the variability in what are often termed the Earth System components complicates the picture enormously.

But Cohen said there was a «really robust» relationship between Arctic variability and wild swings in mid-latitude weather.

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

First off, these are not GCM estimates, but from a simple box model — and so «weather» variability is outside their scope.

But tremendous natural variability occurs in the large - scale atmospheric circulation during all seasons, and even in summer the links between Arctic warming and mid-latitude weather are not supported by other observational studies.

I know climate models do not predict weather as such, but do any major models predict greater variability in weather due to climate change?

We also anticipate the variability of weather patterns will change dramatically over some parts of the world, such as North America, Europe and Asia, but not in others.»

On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).

We still don't expect each year to be warmer than the last due to the intrinsic variability («weather») in global mean temperature (around 0.1 to 0.2 °C), but at the current rate of global warming (~ 0.17 °C / decade), new records can be expected relatively frequently.

But sure, in a single location it will be swamped by natural variability, or «weather».

There can / will be local and regional, latitudinal, diurnal and seasonal, and internal variability - related deviations to the pattern (in temperature and in optical properties (LW and SW) from components (water vapor, clouds, snow, etc.) that vary with weather and climate), but the global average effect is at least somewhat constrained by the global average vertical distribution of solar heating, which requires the equilibrium net convective + LW fluxes, in the global average, to be sizable and upward at all levels from the surface to TOA, thus tending to limit the extent and magnitude of inversions.)

So everything we see has an element of global warming but is dominated by weather / natural variability.

There are three large average surface wind patterns few know about: the tropical easterlies (tradewinds), the midlatitude westerlies and the polar easterlies, but variability results in significant weather changes.

How the Arctic weather patterns form is as important for Finland as it has been this winter in the U.S., but we are often in the opposite phase of the variability.

The fact that there has on any basis been little further warming over the course of the last 10 to 15 years over and above that which had already occured by the mid / late 19902 suggests that recent extreme weather events are not the consequence of additional warming (there having been all but none these past 15 years) and therefore must be due to natural variability of weather events in an ever changing and chaotic world in which we live.

I agree gbaikie that models are not appropriate for prediction but could assist in sorting out natural variability as distinct from anthropic influences on weather and climate.

Hidden within annual averages and expected variability are startling instances of new temperature and rainfall records in many parts of the world — weather extremes that would once be considered anomalies but that now risk becoming the new norm as the Earth heats up.

That's the fate of most local disturbances, but there are also collective modes that have the potential of causing long persistent and major variability in weather patterns and even in climate.

The most natural type of long term variability is in my view based on slowly varying changes in ocean circulation, which doesn't necessarily involve major transfer of heat from one place to another but influences cloudiness and other large scale weather patterns and through that the net energy flux of the Earth system.

The variability correlates with weather variability, but that occurs for carbon storages that have no growth trend.

Similarly to weather forecasting, efforts can be made to setup a model to match initial conditions at a certain point in time but they are likely to break down pretty quickly because we lack the quantity and quality of data to be precise enough in the setup (and possibly because the chosen model does not accurately produce variability similar to that observed on Earth).

«There is year - to - year variability, but averaging across that «weather,» the signal of climatic warming is very clear.»

For all we know solar variability might have a very important impact on weather and climate, but due to the complexity of the pathways we are unable to say how much.

But fire suppression by management is found in many studies to explain much less of the total area burned than does the variability in weather and climate (See: National Research Council, 2011.

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

Severe weather variability has affected harvests around the world but the many of the tools to enhance food security are within our grasp.

A climatic state includes the texture of internal variability, but the same texture can occur with different exact weather events.

But the challenge is then shifted to how to calculate the delta changes, and then use them to create a new scenario of surface forcing that captures the spatio - temporal weather variability that is desired from a daily forcing data set.

This report found, for instance, that the estimates of economic losses from weather and climate related disasters have increased, but with large spatial and inter annual variability.