Sentences with phrase «change in air temperature»

Gas turbines, wind turbines and solar cells also could be affected by changes in air temperature.

The scientists working on the IPCC assessments have carefully documented observed changes in air temperature, ocean temperature, ice retreat, and sea level rise since the past century.

Future changes in air temperature and precipitation are also projected to change stream temperature, which will impact the health and habitats of local ecosystems — more than many people realize.

Permafrost is very sensitive to direct changes in air temperature and snow cover, making it especially vulnerable to global warming.

Indeed, we are not even feeling all of that, at least in terms of changes in air temperature, because so much energy is currently going into heating large bodies of water and melting huge chunks of ice.

Ice acts as an insulator, protecting the waters from big changes in the air temperature above.

Similar changes in air temperature and wind speed were observed for Iceland, where conditions were generally clearer, but there is no evidence of the eclipse cyclone.

multi-model mean CMIP5 simulated change in air temperature over the 21st century divided by the simulated amplitude of natural variability — the signal - to - noise ratio (from Ed Hawkins).

For example, in terms of fly behaviour with a corpse, the ebb and flow of their presence with the slightest change in the air temperature was really surprising to witness.

However, changes in the distribution of snowfall through the year, conceivably linked to increases in sea surface temperature, may have reduced the reflectivity of the glacier and played an even bigger role in forcing the retreat than changes in air temperature alone.

The smallness of that variation from peak to trough of a single cycle has caused considerable doubt as to how significant changes in the air temperatures could occur at time scales of up to a century but the net energy delivery effect of a change of length does not appear to have been properly investigated.

The team measured the effect the soot would have had on glaciers at the time in terms of equivalent changes in air temperature.

The NAO's prominent upward trend from the 1950s to the 1990s caused large regional changes in air temperature, precipitation, wind and storminess, with accompanying impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and contributed to the accelerated rise in global mean surface temperature (e.g., Hurrell 1996; Ottersen et al. 2001; Thompson et al. 2000; Visbeck et al. 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003).

5) It is important that changes in air temperatures do not seem to be able to either heat up the oceans or significantly affect the variable rates of energy release from the oceans.

«It is recommended that the time constant, defined as the time required by the thermometer to register 63.2 % of a step change in air temperature, should be 20 s.

The main way that a moderate change in the air temperature or any other term increases ablation is by increasing the proportion of the day during which melting can occur.

However, we found that in real - world situations this type of mobile thermal imaging was affected by changes in air temperature and body movement.»

The observed changes in air temperature that we notice and measure occur during the process of equalisation and are fully explicable by that process alone.

Changes in air temperature, not precipitation, drove the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains at the height of the last ice age, according to a Dartmouth - led study.

Glaciers are small and have short response times, so they react quickly to changes in air temperature and precipitation.

When you consider that the day to day and month to month swings in the market are magnitudes smaller than the changes in air temperature on the occasions you dare venture outside during an ad break on Fast Money, it kind of brings a bit of perspective.

(Throughout the year, refiners adjust the vapor pressure of their fuel to compensate for the change in air temperature.

This is what most of us think of when we talk about «Global Warming»; that it is changes in the air temperature!

Can changes in air temperature or cloud cover account for that much heat, or do we need to consider ocean currents?

By preventing any persistent build up of temperature differential between air and water it also prevents any changes in air temperature affecting the temperature of the oceans and thereby changing the air temperature by indirect means.

So, again, any increase in greenhouse gases will result not in a change in air temperature but an imperceptible shift in the air circulation patterns.

When melting sets in, the amount of melt becomes very sensitive to changes in air temperature or absorbed solar radiation, since any increase in the energy input can not be offset by a rise in the surface temperature; the whole increment goes directly into driving more melting.