Sentences with phrase «century over the duration»

Accordingly, global warming has occurred at a pace of approximately 1 degree Celsius per century over the duration of the satellite record.

Not exact matches

«Such ecological impacts are likely to have become more prevalent with the increasing frequency and duration of [marine heat waves] over the last century.»

Although this may be bad news for the Baltic Sea and other areas plagued by this dinoflagellate, Kremp also noted that the short duration of most lab studies limits what we can know about how toxic algae may evolve over the next century.

That sounds like a lot, but it works out to the duration of a 24 - hour day being lengthened by about 1.78 milliseconds over the course of a century.

Globally averaged time series showed a general increase in MHW duration from about 11 days in the early twentieth century to over 15 days in recent years (Fig. 5d, black line).

We used three independent and complementary sources of SST data to reveal global patterns of change in MHW frequency, intensity and duration over the past century.

Anouk Kruithof «s Enclosed Content Chatting Away In The Colour Invisibilty (2009) is an installation of approximately 3500 books which the artist collected in Berlin over a duration of eight months, mostly early 20th Century Eastern - European publications published in the GDR, the coloured edges of whose pages form a loose colour spectrum that varies with every installation of the work.

For the duration of Milan design week, the Czech company took over decadent 19th - century puppet theatre Teatro Gerolamo to showcase 18 glass monsters, created by designers from all over the world.

For corn, small long - term average temperature increases will shorten the duration of reproductive development, leading to yield declines, 4 even when offset by carbon dioxide (CO2) stimulation.5, 6 For soybeans, yields have a two in three chance of increasing early in this century due to CO2 fertilization, but these increases are projected to be offset later in the century by higher temperature stress7 (see Figure 18.2 for projections of increases in the frost - free season length and the number of summer days with temperatures over 95 °F).

While there was no apparent change in drought duration in the Midwest region as a whole over the past century, 90 the average number of days without precipitation is projected to increase in the future.

For instance, as temperatures have warmed over the past century, the prevalence and duration of drought has increased in the American West [2].

15th - 14th over Europe was a very warm period, and 13th - 12 century over the Mediterranean Middle East B.C, hotter still, and in case for a period of about 100 years in duration.

He has also shown the effect of hurricanes of short duration, less than two or four days, on the trend of hurricanes over the past century.

Because all 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios — except Representative Concentration Pathway 2.6 (RCP2.6), which leads to the total radiative forcing of greenhouse gases of 2.6 W m − 2 in 2100 — imply that cumulative carbon emission will exceed 1,000 Gt in the twenty - first century, our results suggest that anthropogenic interference will make the initiation of the next ice age impossible over a time period comparable to the duration of previous glacial cycles.»

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.