Sentences with phrase «century winter warming»

Indeed, the dampened late 20th century winter warming over a substantial part of Greenland, particularly the western and southern regions emphasized by the network of stations analyzed by Vinther et al, is known (see e.g. this NOAA page) to be associated with a trend toward the positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation («AO») pattern.

Indeed, the dampened late 20th century winter warming over a substantial part of Greenland, particularly the western and southern regions emphasized by the network of stations analyzed by Vinther et al, is known (see e.g. this NOAA page) to be associated with a trend toward the positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation («AO») pattern.

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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.

Created as an «elixir of life» in the Czech Republic, Becherovka — a warming, two - century - old golden amber liqueur — has quickly become the winter darling of top cocktail dens in New York.

But these severe winters may be a temporary phase within longer term warming: By the end of the century, the researchers report, the Arctic Oscillation could overpower the cooling effect from WACE — and winter temperatures over Eurasia will gradually increase.

In the midst of an unseasonably warm winter in the Pacific Northwest, a comparison of four publicly available climate projections has shown broad agreement that the region will become considerably warmer in the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise to the highest levels projected in the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «business - as - usual» scenario.

That study, based on temperature records extending back to 1880, found that while such an extreme winter would have been a once - a-decade event for that region back in the late 19th century, it «has become extraordinarily unlikely in the early 21st century» due to long - term warming, the authors wrote.

Other studies have linked these oceanic cycles with earlier snowmelts and warmer winters in California since the 1940s, and with a decline in California's coastal fog since the early 20th century.

Since 1950, average statewide temperatures have increased by 0.5 °F / decade (0.3 °C / decade), with greatest warming in spring; projected to increase by 3 - 7 °F (1.7 - 3.9 °C) by mid century, with greatest warming in summer and winter and in the southeast.

For centuries alpaca wool has been used to keep the Peruvian people warm and that tradition is being brought to you in these gorgeous handmade knits that will be sure to keep you warm and cozy all winter long.

In the Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks have meditated since the 1st century B.C. And who knows?Montreal's Underground City, a 4.5 - square - mile modern marvel with shops, apartments, and a chapel, may be rediscovered centuries from now, lending insight into Canadian culture, and man's ingenuity when it came to keeping warm during brutally cold winters.

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

In «The Early Twentieth - Century Warming in the Arctic — A Possible Mechanism» BENGTSSON 2004, they wrote «The largest warming occurred in the Arctic (60 — 90N)(Johannessen et al. 2004) averaged for the 1940s with some 1.78 C (2.2 C for the winter half of the year) relative to theWarming in the Arctic — A Possible Mechanism» BENGTSSON 2004, they wrote «The largest warming occurred in the Arctic (60 — 90N)(Johannessen et al. 2004) averaged for the 1940s with some 1.78 C (2.2 C for the winter half of the year) relative to thewarming occurred in the Arctic (60 — 90N)(Johannessen et al. 2004) averaged for the 1940s with some 1.78 C (2.2 C for the winter half of the year) relative to the 1910s.

The El Niño year has people throughout the country experiencing warmer than typical temperatures this winter, but these interactive maps show that those mild temperatures will become the new normal by the end of the century, especially if we don't significantly reduce carbon emissions.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...

Having said that there were around forty years at the start of the 18th century that seem broadly comparable to the modern day according to observational and crop records with very warm summers although still colder than now winters on the whole Tonyb

Other studies have linked these oceanic cycles with earlier snowmelts and warmer winters in California since the 1940s, and with a decline in California's coastal fog since the early 20th century.

Unfortunately — as the climate of the boreal forests warms more beetle larvae survive the winter months — large pine beetle outbreaks are no longer once in a century events.

There is the possibility that in the last one and a half centuries Nepal experienced no net warming in case of its winter or past - monsoon season.

These findings are absolutely contradictory to the statements about a scary warming rate of 0.09 ° c per year or 9 ° c per century, mostly observed in winter.

This north / south asymmetry has grown since perihelion was aligned with the winter solstice seven to eight centuries ago, and must cause enhanced year - on - year springtime melting of Arctic (but not Antarctic) ice and therefore feedback warming because increasing amounts of land and open sea are denuded of high - albedo ice and snow across boreal summer and into autumn.

The statewide average temperature during the winter of 2014 — 2015 was the warmest ever recorded (50.5 °F)-- more than 5 °F warmer than the average for the twentieth century.

Do you think you can convince me that we aren't in a interglacial period that is getting a bit long in tooth, that the Milankovitch cycle that helps the glaciers grow by making northern hemisphere winters warmer and summers cooler isn't moving in the direction favorable to glaciation, and that the next once - per - thousand year volcanic eruption won't happen in this century, and it won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back by lowering the earth's temperature a couple degrees for a few years to mark the end of the Holocene?

I do agree that there is a modest human impact on climate, mainly clear in the latter half of the twentieth century, and mainly manifested by «mild - ing» or decrease in extremes (little warming in summer, mostly in winter) I'm not convinced that this is a good way to isolate the signal.

The data scientists are now studying reveal substantial evidence that on average Arctic temperatures in the winter have risen 11 degrees over the past 30 years, and in the late 20th century were the warmest in four centuries.

For nearly a century, scientists have known that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would eventually result in warming that was most pronounced in winter, especially on winter's coldest days, and a cooling of the stratosphere.

This suggests that colder winter temperatures over the NH continents during portions of the 15th through the 17th centuries (sometimes called the Little Ice Age) and warmer temperatures during the 12th through 14th centuries (the putative Medieval Warm Period) may have been influenced by long term solar variations.»

Rather, as reported in the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CO2 - induced global warming is supposed to reduce its extent by an average of between 16 and 67 percent in the summer and 8 to 30 percent in the winter by the end of the century (IPCC, 2013).

Driven by warmer winters and earlier springs, they are predicted to move well north into Canada in coming years, just as they migrated up the Atlantic seaboard and north into Scandinavia at the close of the twentieth century.

In fact, the statewide average temperature during the winter of 2014 — 15 was the warmest ever recorded, at 50.5 degrees Fahrenheit (10.3 Celsius)-- more than 5 degrees warmer than the average for the 20th century.

Denver's snowiest month on average (over the past century at least) has been March... and it is also the warmest month of the traditional (Dec - March) winter.

At any rate, as winter approaches upstate New York (my home for over a half - century), I do what I have done all my life — pray for a warmer winter.

Irrigation also leads to boreal winter (December - February) warming over parts of North America and Asia in the latter part of the century, due to enhanced downward longwave fluxes from increased near surface humidity.