Sentences with phrase «climate system temperature»

I concluded that the climate system temperature response to any temperature forcing function, from whatever source, must be to produce «negative feedback».

Not exact matches

All of this occurs in a 19th century building whose climate control systems leave the temperature from room to room and day to day completely unpredictable and often untethered from the June temperatures that most New Yorkers try to be outside to enjoy.

But the agency had already been working on the problem since 2000, building a second temperature system, called the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), intended to provide a rigorous backup.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Since climate change is already leading to higher average temperatures overall, the finding that extremes are also more likely was not surprising, said Sophie Lewis, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and the climate system science center and the lead author on the paper.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

«We examined average and extreme temperatures because they were always projected to be the measure that is most sensitive to global warming,» said lead author from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Dr Andrew King.

«This relationship between Antarctica temperature and CO2 suggested that somehow the Southern Ocean was pivotal in controlling natural atmospheric CO2 concentrations,» said Dr Maxim Nikurashin from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

«This initially suggested that the climate system might be able to create large, sustained changes in temperature all by itself.»

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

A 2000 - year transient climate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insoclimate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insoClimate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insolation.

The humor at Stand - Up Comedy for Science often took a cerebral turn — Robert Mac deadpanned that a simple solution to instantly decrease the rising temperatures due to climate change would be converting to the metric system.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

The findings suggest the latitude of the Atlantic jet stream in summer is influenced by several factors including sea surface temperatures, solar variability, and the extent of Arctic sea - ice, indicating a potential long - term memory and predictability in the climate system.

The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

What's more, scientists say the plant's extraordinary sensitivity to temperature makes the industry a strong early - warning system for problems that all food crops are expected to confront as climates continue to change.

The ability to keep temperatures below 2 °C depends on three things: uncertainties in the climate system, when deep and sustained mitigation starts, and rapid development of new technologies.

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.

Also, the occasional halo of high - pressure systems doesn't seem to be linked to abnormally high temperatures in the tropics or to any particular climate cycle, such as El Niño.

The researchers examined various reconstructions of past temperatures and CO2 levels to determine how the climate system has responded to previous changes in its energy balance.

The idea of climate inertia is that when you increase the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere it takes the climate system a good deal of time for all its components to fully adjust and reach a new equilibrium temperature.

Even if we could determine a «safe» level of interference in the climate system, the sensitivity of global mean temperature to increasing atmospheric CO2 is known perhaps only to a factor of three or less.

But if we take «based on the CO2 we've already emitted» literally, then the relevant thing to ask is how would the climate system adjust, how would global temperature behave, if we immediately cut our emissions back to zero, so that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere can begin to fall.

But if we take «based on the CO2 we've already emitted» literally, then the relevant thing to ask is how would the climate system adjust, how would global temperature behave, if we immediately cut our emissions back to zero?

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

Every part of the Earth's climate system has continued warming since 1998, with 2015 shattering temperature records.

He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

This was accomplished using a stochastic climate model based on the concept that ocean temperature variability is a slow dynamical system, a red noise signal, generated by integrating stochastic atmospheric forcing, or white noise71.

One common measure of climate sensitivity is the amount by which global mean surface temperature would change once the system has settled into a new equilibrium following a doubling of the pre-industrial CO2 concentration.

Because climate systems are complex, increases in global average temperatures do not mean increased temperatures everywhere on Earth, nor that temperatures in a given year will be warmer than the year before (which represents weather, not climate).

Unless low - level cloud albedo substantially decreased during this time period, the reduced solar absorption caused by the reported enhancement of cloud cover would have resulted in cooling of the climate system that is inconsistent with the observed temperature record.»

indirect effect A secondary impact to a system from a change that was caused by shifting climate conditions, such as increased fire frequency, which is a result of drier conditions caused by an increase in temperature.

It makes me wonder, if we can't even argee what the global temperature is now whether we will even be able to agree in 50 years if there has been warming or not (assuming no dramatic change in the climate system).

It is the downwelling that reduces the rate at which energy is leaves the climate system until the temperature of the system rises enough that the rate at which energy enters the system equals the rate at which energy leaves the system — and a new equilibrium is established.

He estimates the heat capacity of the global climate system, and uses historical temperature data to estimate the «characteristic timescale» of temperature change.

Gregory et al. (2002) used observed interior - ocean temperature changes, surface temperature changes measured since 1860, and estimates of anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing of the climate system to estimate its climate sensitivity.

The Fourth Assessment Report finds that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising mean sea level.

They created a model to determine how temperatures of ocean waters could change shallow reef systems when sea levels rise and climate warms in the future.

The model accounts for the dynamic feedbacks that occur naturally in the Earth's climate system — temperature projections determine the likelihood of extreme weather events, which in turn influence human behavior.

Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate climate system.

This seminar will explore the concepts of climate and Earth system sensitivity, the methods and records of paleo - temperature and paleo - carbon dioxide proxies in the Cenozoic, and the statistical challenges of inferring sensitivities from these proxies.

The lifetime of fossil fuel CO2 in the climate system is so long that it must be assumed that these slow feedbacks will occur if temperature rises well above the Holocene range.

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.

«I'm aware of similar large changes in odds in other studies of wintertime high temperature events over the U.S., and so this is not too surprising,» Martin Hoerling, a climate scientist at the Earth System Research Laboratory, said.

Climate sensitivity and Earth system sensitivity relate changes in greenhouse gas concentrations and other radiative forcers to changes in temperature, both in Earth's past and in the future.

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government — for example, the right to The instrumental temperature record provides the temperature of Earth's climate system from the historical network of in situ measurements of surface air

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

A quad - zone climate control system allows for separate temperature and airflow for each of the car's four seats.