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Short - term natural climate variations could also affect the long - term human - induced climate change signal and vice-versa, because climate variations on different space and timescales can interact with one another.

An analysis of the historical data suggests a strong correlation between the solar activity and the natural climate variations on centennial time - scales, such as the colder climate during the Maunder (about 1650 − 1700 AD) and Dalton (about 1800 − 1820 AD) minima as well as climate warming during the steady increase in solar activity in the first half of the twentieth - century (Siscoe 1978; Hoyt & Schatten 1997; Solomon et al. 2007; Gray et al. 2010).

Another point is that there is no notable climate variations on the 60 Million year time scales (as opposed to the various claimed variations on half the period, at around 30 million years, including extinctions, etc.).

In time — it would take more than a few years» observations, obviously — such an experiment would settle once and for all the question whether human activities are making a significant contribution to climate variations on Earth.

Further analyses of long coupled model runs will be critical to resolve the influence of the ocean thermohaline circulation and other natural climate variations on Arctic climate and to determine whether natural climate variability will make the Arctic more or less vulnerable to anthropogenic global warming.»

Her work focuses on the impacts of climate variations on animal and plant life, and change on global agriculture and urban areas.

She goes so far as to say (in her post responding to Gavin's post, but responding to something else) «I do regard the emerging realization of the importance of natural variability to be an existential threat to the mainstream theory of climate variations on decadal to century time scales.»

To best represent the influence of climate variations on water resources, the Water chapter focuses on eight rivers and their watersheds (Figure IV; note that some watersheds — for example, that of Poplar River — extend beyond the state boundaries).

To best represent the influence of climate variations on water resources, this chapter focuses on eight rivers and their watersheds (Figure 3 - 5; note that some watersheds — for example, Poplar River and others — extend beyond the state boundaries).

It merely highlights the fallacy of looking for one single «driver» that explains climate variations on all time scales.

Ocean currents affect the surface temperature of the oceans and thus the heat exchange with the atmosphere — eventually causing climate variations on the adjacent continents.

While the atmosphere is mainly causing climate variations on shorter time scales, from months to years, the longer - term fluctuations, such as those on decadal time scales, are primarily determined by the ocean.

Solar irradiance modulation of Equator - to - Pole (Arctic) temperature gradients: Empirical evidence for climate variation on multi-decadal timescales

National Science Foundation supports research on the effects of climate variation on tropical birds

(See Soon & Legates 2013: Solar irradiance modulation of Equator - to - Pole (Arctic) temperature gradients: Empirical evidence for climate variation on multi-decadal timescales.)

We are not dealing with a beaker in a laboratory here — unless these modelers can explain all climate variation on the planet over the last several billion years.

Soon, W. and D.R. Legates, 2013: Solar irradiance modulation of equator - to - pole (Arctic) temperature gradients: empirical evidence for climate variation on multi-decadal timescales, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics 93: 45 — 56.

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It's a bit much for me to call that «little evaluation of the science», but it has little about the natural history of climate variation on Earth, and the use of that natural variation in assessing climate sensitivity to CO2.

Solar Irradiance Modulation of Equator - to - Pole (Arctic) Temperature Gradients: Empirical Evidence for Climate Variation on Multi-decadal Timescales

Not exact matches

Layers aren't just for cakes... On any given travel day, you could go through as many as 3 different climates, and the plane offers its own temperature variations as well.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data from temperature measurements and climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the reconstructed sea surface temperature variations at different locations around the globe on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.

On a millennial time scale, conventional climate models underestimated the variations of sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives by a factor of 50.

Martin King hopes that renewed interest in the seasonal variation of El Niño tele - connections in Europe will contribute to further progress in climate predictions on monthly and seasonal scales.

While most previous such work focuses on mean or average values, the authors in this paper acknowledge that climate in the broader sense encompasses variations between years, trends, averages and extreme events.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

Their research found that forests in the basin's north - east on average stored twice as much carbon as those in the south - west, as a result of soil, climate and species variation.

The researchers» results were comparable to previous studies that have analysed air pollution and mortality; however, there was some variation depending on which climate model was used.

«According to our study, the Atlantic / Pacific temperature difference shows pronounced variations on timescales of more than 5 years,» explained Chikamoto, USU associate professor in the department of Plants, Soils and Climate.

So climate scientists rely on indirect means, called proxies, to reconstruct past variations in precipitation patterns.

In 2013, he and his collaborators showed that microbial populations on the surface of wine grapes vary from region to region, in patterns consistent with climate variation.

But «there's clearly large variation in L.A. from the coast to the mountains,» says Neil Berg, a climate scientist on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), team that headed the work.

«Since oxygen concentrations in the ocean naturally vary depending on variations in winds and temperature at the surface, it's been challenging to attribute any deoxygenation to climate change.

The study was carried out at 60 different sites of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau in China which was chosen for its extensive variation in climate across sites.

The researchers determined that natural influences on Earth's climate, such as those caused by variations in its orbit around the sun, could affect the strength of El Niño events.

«This is important for being able to predict years of top - quality cava production, as well as for exploring the possible effects and variations of climate change on the quality» he concluded.

The researchers suggest that modeling the effects of future climate variations should focus on human response to transient short - term changes in addition to the traditional focus on long - term mean changes in climate.

For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.

A glimpse into the technical details More technically, the complicated analysis involved a technique called «optimal fingerprinting «or «optimal detection», looking for best signal in the noisy data and puts emphasis on regions where the GCMs give most realistic description of the climate variations.

The French scientific team benefited from data from NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, launched in 2002, that measure ocean mass and water storage variations on land.

The «equilibrium» sensitivity of the global surface temperature to solar irradiance variations, which is calculated simply by dividing the absolute temperature on the earth's surface (288K) by the solar constant (1365Wm - 2), is based on the assumption that the climate response is linear in the whole temperature band starting at the zero point.

On this latter scale teleconnections manifest as a response of middle - latitude weather to the dominant modes of variability of the tropics (the Madden - Julian Oscillation and the Boreal Summer Intra-seasonal Oscillations, which similar to El Niño and La Niña characterize variations of climate but on shorter time scalesOn this latter scale teleconnections manifest as a response of middle - latitude weather to the dominant modes of variability of the tropics (the Madden - Julian Oscillation and the Boreal Summer Intra-seasonal Oscillations, which similar to El Niño and La Niña characterize variations of climate but on shorter time scaleson shorter time scales).

The total energy in these particles is insignificant compared to the energy in the form of light from the sun, so the variation of the magnetic field will not have a direct effect on Earth climate.

Corbyn & Trenberth are similar in wasting our time on hyperpartisan political rants, rather than sticking to succinctly informing us about observation - based natural climate variations.

Monitoring, understanding, and predicting oceanic variations associated with natural climate variability and human - induced changes, and assessing the related roles of the ocean on multiple spatial - temporal scales.

The high temperatures and frequent heat waves were the combined result of natural variation and human influence on the climate.

He also fails to mention that Esper et al do not actually conclude that a downward revision in the importance of CO2 actually is necessary; they only attempt to say (albeit based on faulty logic) what would happen if higher estimates of climate variation proved right.