Sentences with phrase «climate state»

Scenario simulations of future climate states are useful for testing ideas about how the climate system works.

We also find an interesting relationship between the reliability of present climate states and spread of climate sensitivity.

If you live in warmer climate states, then you are in luck.

The atmospheric circulation response seems to be sensitive to the magnitude and geographic pattern of sea - ice loss and, in some cases, to the background climate state.

I doubt that will happen but it's the most stable climate state by a long shot and the one in which most life on this planet evolved.

Security depends on a balanced climate state to function.

My mistake, but the impact of using the correct 1850 climate state forcing value is minor.

Yet results from models, which produce a «realistic» modern climate state, might be preferable to «unrealistic» models.

That unprecedented climate state will continue for 10,000 years.

Moreover, the starting climate state in several of the models may depart significantly from the real climate owing to model errors.

He suggested that a slight change of conditions might set off a self - sustaining shift between climate states.

One is that climate sensitivity, at least in some climate models, is not fixed but rather depends on the background climate state, increasing rapidly with temperature.

Worst of all, a 4 C world may not be a stable climate state — climate feedbacks at 4 C may make a higher equilibrium point inevitable.

Our security system is developed to function within the realms of a balanced climate state — a situation with an equilibrium energy budget.

Small changes push the system past a threshold at which stage a new climate state emerges as tremendous energies cascade through powerful sub-systems — and this is indeed a quite widely accepted climate science paradigm.

However, under different climate states during the past few millennia the water flux was greater than now; this leads to great uncertainty in estimations of how much of the current water flow is renewable versus fossil.

At the scale of the 20th century — we can see 4 shifts in the trajectory of surface temperature associated with shifts in climate state at multi-decadal periods.

Combining information from four RCM simulations, Christensen et al. (2001) and Rummukainen et al. (2003) demonstrate that it is feasible to explore not only uncertainties related to projections in the mean climate state, but also for higher - order statistics.

''... more dependent on the initial climate state and the sign of the forcing.

Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is 6 °C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and ice - free Antarctica.»

These same slow feedbacks are estimated to amplify climate sensitivity by almost a factor of two for the climate change between the Holocene and the nearly ice - free climate state that existed 35 million years ago [54].

This problem is one reason — and only one — for why trying to estimate climate states over long periods, from tree ring widths, is completely unreliable.

Changes in trajectories of global surface temperature occur at the same times as shifts in Pacific climate state.

'' The Guardian — 20 August 2016: Green Party candidate Jill Stein calls for climate state of emergency «Presidential hopeful points to California wildfires and Louisiana flooding in push for Green New Deal to address both environment and economy»

The US Southwest, already by far the hottest and most arid region of the country, is set to enter what experts are diplomatically calling a «drier climate state.»

The general pattern of sea surface temperature during these hiatus periods is very reminiscent of a La Niña - like climate state.

Average gas consumption per residential customer for several cold climate states and the CEDA territory

Since no values based on the recent climate state appear to have been computed for ozone forcing in the NINT version, it is impossible to be sure what values should be used for its recent ERF and iRF ozone forcing.

«The differences we find between the two climate states also suggest that if we shift the system too much, we could enter a different system, which could lead to greater fluctuations.

«Although the climate system already was primed for the switch, we argue that these changes initiated the shift from a largely glacial to a largely interglacial climate state.