Sentences with phrase «by previous warm»

Joey Comiso, senior research scientist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, said this year's ice retreat was caused by previous warm years reducing the amount of perennial ice — which is more resistant to melting.

Not exact matches

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

Senate 21st District: Senator Kevin Parker has been supported by 504 in several previous races and has maintained a warm relationship with the Club and its leaders.

Both spheres may be somewhat warmer than Kepler's two previous premier rocky worlds, Kepler 186 f and Kepler 62 f, each of which gets significantly less starlight — similar to that received by Mars.

Previous studies established that especially in cooler mountain regions, carbon bound in soil organic matter reacts very sensitively to warmer weather caused by climate warming, and is increasingly released by microorganisms.

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

In June 2015, NOAA researchers led by Thomas Karl published a paper in the journal Science comparing the new and previous NOAA sea surface temperature datasets, finding that the rate of global warming since 2000 had been underestimated and there was no so - called «hiatus» in warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

That bests the previous warmest January - June in 1934 by 1.1 °F — a substantial difference, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

«Previous studies have shown a correlation between temperature and insect damage diversity in the fossil record, possibly caused by evolutionary radiations or range shifts in response to a warmer climate,» said Donovan.

Previous laboratory studies by co-author William Cochlan of San Francisco State University showed that P. australis can take up nitrogen very quickly from a variety of sources, and appear to outcompete other, nontoxic phytoplankton in nutrient - depleted warm water.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions of sea level rise during past warm periods including the previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).

The correction also reduces the projected warming of the region by 20 percent relative to projections of previous climate models.

It beat out the previous warmest March, from 2010, by 0.65 °F (0.36 °C)-- a handy margin.

Because July is also climatologically the warmest month of any year, this was also the warmest month the globe has seen since 1880, topping the previous record - holder, July 1998, by 0.14 °F.

Previous research suggested that rapidly warming air and sea temperatures — which melt sea ice — might cause their numbers to plummet by as much as 19 % by 2100.

My co-authors and I have argued in previous papers that climate cycles on early Mars could have been driven by oscillations in the carbonate - silicate cycle, which would have provided transient warming from the accumulation of greenhouse gases by volcanoes and subsequent loss by weathering.

According to data released by NASA this weekend, February 2016 was 2.43 °F (1.35 °C) warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980, and 0.8 °F (0.5 °C) warmer than the previous record February, in 1998.

By NASA's measure, 2015 was 0.23 °F (0.13 °C) warmer than 2014 — the second largest - ever jump from a previous record.

With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).

The NOAA's National Climate Data Center recently announced that the last 12 months were the warmest on record in the «contiguous» U.S., extending the 2011 - 12 hot streak that has now eclipsed the previous record in 1999 - 2000 by a half degree Fahrenheit.

During the last deglaciation, and likely also the three previous ones, the onset of warming at both high southern and northern latitudes preceded by several thousand years the first signals of significant sea level increase resulting from the melting of the northern ice sheets linked with the rapid warming at high northern latitudes (Petit et al., 1999; Shackleton, 2000; Pépin et al., 2001).

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes the additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and documentation of the spatial coherence of recent warming described above (Cook et al. 2004, Moberg et al. 2005b, Rutherford et al. 2005, D'Arrigo et al. 2006, Osborn and Briffa 2006, Wahl and Ammann in press) and also the pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators described in previous chapters (e.g., Thompson et al. in press).

The scientists who based their research on the information given by satellites stated that the changes result in the global scale warming, which is bout 30 percent larger than their previous version of the dataset, as Independent noted.

The year, capped off by a record warm December, surpassed the previous record holders, 2005 and 2010, by 0.07 °F.

French - Argentinian Gaspar Noé has chosen to follow up his «psychedelic melodrama» Enter the Void with a graphic examination of relationships driven by lust and jealousy, and while it is a warmer film than his previous efforts, Love is a far cry from feel - good and offers its own set of challenges.

Abandoned by his family, Oscar, an 8 - year - old beagle, warmed the hearts of San Diego Humane Society Facebook fans, especially that of his adopter Aaron, who can't believe his previous owner gave him up.

By changing your dog's diet now, adding supplements, and bathing early — and frequently — you can help your pooch be less itchy during warm weather than in previous years, and keep him happy year round.

In essence, the authors have revisited a question posed earlier in a paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (2003: see our previous discussion here), investigating whether or not evidence from past proxy records of temperature support the existence of past intervals of warmth with the widespread global scale of 20th century warming.

The probe by this team takes the timeline on Exxon's focus on climate change several years earlier than a previous investigation of oil industry assessments of global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Models predict by and large constant rate of warming, which is around 0.15 deg C in previous 30 years.

«That blew away the previous record for the warmest summer by any U.S. state on record, set by Oklahoma in 1934 with an average temperature of 85.3 degrees.

It is to be noted here that there is no necessary contradiction between forecast expectations of (a) some renewed (or continuation of) slight cooling of world climate for a few decades to come, e.g., from volcanic or solar activity variations; (b) an abrupt warming due to the effect of increasing carbon dioxide, lasting some centuries until fossil fuels are exhausted and a while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the previous ones) for many thousands of years.»

The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).

One was a paper published in Science a week ago, by Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University and colleagues, that generated cheers from doubters of global warming because the authors concluded the climate was less responsive to a big buildup of greenhouse gases than some previous work had concluded.

The author shows this lack with his statement «For which, by the way, there is no natural explanation, and the best estimate for the anthropogenic share of global warming since 1950 is 110 percent — more on this in my previous post.»

For which, by the way, there is no natural explanation, and the best estimate for the anthropogenic share of global warming since 1950 is 110 percent — more on this in my previous post.

Whereas some meteorologists believe that there is not a link between gobal warming and storms, there has also been a recent model study on how the storm statistics can be affected by a global warming that we failed to mention in the previous discussion.

Mean temperatures for the season were 1.57 C above the 1961 - 1990 average, surpassing the previous record of 1.43 C (set in 2006) by 0.14 C. Daytime maximum temperatures were also the highest on record, coming in 2.07 C above average and 0.24 C above the previous record (also set in 2006), while overnight minimum temperatures were the fourth - warmest on record.

The ten years to August 2012 were warmer than the previous 10 years by 0.15 ºC, which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17 ºC, which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17 ºC, and which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17 ºC (purple).

Solar activity has been the highest in the previous 4 centuries: http://www.climate4you.com/images/SolarIrradianceReconstructedSince1610%20LeanUntil2000%20From2001dataFromPMOD.gif The empirical data from peer reviewed science, Hatzianastassiou (2005), Goode (2007), Pinker (2005), Herman (2013), McLean (2014), shows that during the last 2 decades of the 20th century when most of the late 20th century warming occurred, the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface increased by 2.7 W / m ² to 6.8 W / m ².

Therefore, if we are alledgedly warming, and those warmer values are used to skew the past missing data, then the previous data would be rounded up by this «adjustment».

(1) The Earth has largely benefited by past warming cycle's and that these previous «warmings» had nothing to do with man's activities.

The 12 — 21 cm higher sea level stand during the MWP is likely the highest sea level since the previous interglacial period 110,000 years ago, and was produced by an extended period of warming, allowing time for glaciers and thermal expansion to reach a climatic balance.

My understanding of the viewpoint of the majority of experts in related fields is that analysis shows that relative to 50 years ago, and the LIA, and the MWP, average global temperatures are warmer, and increasing in warmth at an anomalous rate than indicated by the data on previous time periods, including the MWP.

«annual temperatures up to AD 2000 over extra-tropical NH land areas have probably exceeded by about 0.3 °C the warmest previous interval over the past 1162 years»

2016 is officially the new warmest year on record, edging out previous record holder 2015 by 0.07 °F, according to NOAA.