Here, we present an explanation for time - invariant land — sea warming ratio that applies if three conditions on radiative forcing are met: first, spatial variations in the climate forcing must be sufficiently small that the lower free troposphere warms evenly over land and ocean; second, the temperature response must not be large enough to
change the global circulation to zeroth order; third, the temperature response must not be large enough to modify the boundary layer amplification mechanisms that contribute to making φ exceed unity.
For example, reflecting sunlight would likely reduce the Earth's average temperature but could also
change global circulation with potentially serious consequences such as changing storm tracks and precipitation patterns throughout the world.
Anderson and Allen suggest that the changes reflect an influx of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, probably due to
changing global circulation (Science, vol 260, p 1920).
Not exact matches
This «would create a persistent layer of black carbon particles in the northern stratosphere that could cause potentially significant
changes in the
global atmospheric
circulation and distributions of ozone and temperature,» they concluded.
The poles are on the front lines of climate
change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns,
global oceanic
circulation and the marine food chain.
Changes in polar vortex winds high in the stratosphere can alter the
global conveyor belt of ocean
circulation.
«This makes one suspect that if
global climate
change is
changing these larger
circulations, then there is a connection between a
global [variability] and tornado activity.»
Gross says that the most important processes affecting day length are
changes in the weather, especially unusual variations in the strength and direction of the winds, which bring on alterations in the
global circulation of the atmosphere and ocean.
World weather patterns will also start to
change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in
global atmospheric and oceanic
circulation.
«This emphasizes the importance of large - scale energy transport and atmospheric
circulation changes in restoring Earth's
global temperature equilibrium after a natural, unforced warming event,» Li said.
«Northwest Atlantic Ocean may get warmer, sooner: High resolution
global climate model shows much faster warming and
changing ocean
circulation.»
Their research, published in Nature Climate
Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these
changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by
global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic
circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning C
circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning
CirculationCirculation.
He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of
changing patterns of ocean
circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect
global silicate weathering, which in turn controls
global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.
«Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean
circulation, climate: New understanding of
changes in North Pacific ocean
circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better
global climate models.»
By analyzing these records, Knudson and Ravelo found that the strength of the overturning
circulation in the North Pacific is inherently linked to
global climate
changes, but not in the way scientists had previously thought.
And what we see is both how complex climate
changes can be and how profound an effect
changing patterns of ocean
circulation can have on
global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»
Although the rising average
global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the
global climate system, what's actually happening involves
changes in
circulation patterns,
changes in precipitation patterns, and
changes in extremes.
Those three papers explore the
global ocean microbiome and plankton interaction networks, as well as how plankton communities
change across a key ocean
circulation choke point off South Africa.
«Climate
changes predicted by the
global circulation models would cause several percent of the Mexican population to move north [if] all other factors are held constant.»
They were Jorge Sarmiento, an oceanographer at Princeton University who constructs ocean -
circulation models that calculate how much atmospheric carbon dioxide eventually goes into the world's oceans; Eileen Claussen, executive director of the Pew Center for
Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological solutions to the global warming pr
Global Climate
Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological solutions to the
global warming pr
global warming problem.
New understanding of
changes in North Pacific ocean
circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better
global climate models
It was further supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the RACE - Regional Atlantic
Circulation and
Global Change project.
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A study relating to this — «Our study confirms many
changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean
circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by
global warming,» said Morison.
In applying them, they found that a more realistic representation of the marine ecosystem helped the ocean to take up and store carbon at similar rates regardless of
global changes in physical properties, like temperature, salinity and
circulation.
Wind fields are capable of great volatility and very rapid
global - scale teleconnections, and they are efficient generators of oceanic
circulation changes and (more speculatively) of multiple states relative to great ice sheets.
(Top left)
Global annual mean radiative influences (W m — 2) of LGM climate
change agents, generally feedbacks in glacial - interglacial cycles, but also specified in most Atmosphere - Ocean General
Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations for the LGM.
The precise connections between
global warming and
circulation changes are still being investigated and our understanding will evolve accordingly.
Quick recovery is consistent with the Southern Ocean - centric picture of the
global overturning
circulation (Fig. 4; Talley, 2013), as the Southern Ocean meridional overturning
circulation (SMOC), driven by AABW formation, responds to
change in the vertical stability of the ocean column near Antarctica (Sect. 3.7) and the ocean mixed layer and sea ice have limited thermal inertia.
Previously, Kelly was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada where she studied the role of the
changing Arctic sea ice cover on
global circulation, weather, and climate using a hierarchy of numerical
global climate models.
In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed
changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate
changes («I judge our present
global ocean
circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940
global warming would continue.
Whether or not these
changes in atmospheric
circulation are themselves linked to
global warming wasn't something the study tried to answer.
Significant
changes in tree cover in Eurasia could cause an energy imbalance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, shifting the entire
global circulation of the atmosphere, including the location of rainfall in the tropics.»
Climate scientists would say in response that
changes in ocean
circulation can't sustain a net
change in
global temperature over such a long period (ENSO for example might raise or lower
global temperature on a timescale of one or two years, but over decades there would be roughly zero net
change).
«This expedition offered insights into Earth's history, ranging from mountain - building in New Zealand to the shifting movements of Earth's tectonic plates to
changes in ocean
circulation and
global climate.»
Included in resource are the following topics: Natural causes of climate
change Evidence of climate
change Global Warming Causes and effects of climate
change Global atmospheric
circulation Tropical storms causes, characteristics, location and frequency Causes of EL Nino Effects of the Big Dry Adaptation to drought At the end of the resources are pupil booklets.
Included: The Quaternary period Evidence for climate
change and advantages / disadvantages Human / natural causes of climate
change Potential causes of climate
change: extreme weather and sea level rise
Global circulation of the atmosphere El Nino / La Nina Tropical storms, formation and distribution Causes of droughts / location Extreme weather case study caused by El Nino - The Big Dry, Australia
This
global phenomenon of image
circulation possesses an extraordinary transformative potential, and, this weekend, galleries worldwide exemplify the power of photography to spark social, environmental and cultural
change.
Nevertheless, the risk of triggering ocean
circulation changes as a result of
global warming can not be ruled out at present (which is why you use the word «probably»), and it needs to be studied and discussed.
As the authors point out, even if the whole story comes down to precipitation
changes which favor ablation, the persistence of these conditions throughout the 20th century still might be an indirect effect of
global warming, via the remote effect of sea surface temperature on atmospheric
circulation.
Global changes of the atmospheric composition and natural
circulation changes are in competition to each other in determining the Arctic surface climate.
However, if the loss of Arctic Sea ice has significantly
changed global atmospheric
circulation patterns, then we are dealing with a different system that has only been in existence since 2007, and we do not know how often to expect crop failures.
That matters because the trickiest part of
global climate models appears to be how they handle ocean - atmosphere interactions, and I really have no idea how well they link
changes in local wind - driven upwelling to the net thermohaline
circulation.
~ Our study confirms many
changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean
circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by
global warming,» / / www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131 [ANDY REVKIN comments: That's precisely what I wrote in the Science Times feature on Arctic ice in September (link is in the post).
He tells us
global warming will disrupt the
circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically
changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.
Climate
change related to a
global warming is more than just temperature and precipitation - massive atmospheric
circulations change too, and these
changes can have consequences.
Changes in the Arctic affect the rest of the world, not only in obvious ways (such as the Arctic's contribution to sea - level rise), but through the Arctic's role in the
global climate system, its influence on ocean
circulation, and its impacts on mid-latitude weather.
There is no question that the
changes going on are
global in scope and the Walker
circulation linking the Pacific and Atlantic plays an important role, but I have to be very very skeptical to say the Atlantic is the driver.
The Nature study is talking about
changes associated with ocean
circulation even while CO2, and the
global imbalance, and
global temperature, is increasing.
It also provides the background state against which El Niño events take place, and so
changes in the Walker
circulation should form an intrinsic part of thinking about how
global warming will affect El Niño.