Sentences with phrase «cloud cover during»

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

The temperature effects of cloud cover during the 20th century could be as much as 7 times greater than the alleged temperature effect of 200 years worth of additional carbon dioxide and several times greater than that of all additional greenhouse gases combined.

Good cloud data is in short supply and covers only the recent decades but we can derive cosmic ray intensity and deduce there has been a general reduction in cloud cover during the 20th Century.

Others find no change in global cloud cover during FD (Čalogović et al. 2010; Laken & Čalogović 2011).

All it shows is that if there is greater cloud cover it tends to be cooler, it certainly doesn't support your assertion regarding cloud cover during a warmer period.

Craig Loehle Your still making an assumption that CO2 was the main driver of recent warming when the observations show a 4 - 5 % reduction of cloud cover during the 1990s that was responsible at least 75 % (0.3 degC or 0.7 W / m2) of the observed warming in the satellite period.

Due to pronounced cloud cover during summer, and occasional during winter periods, the daily data coverage can be very sparse.

We also have the condition regarding air pressure and the character of the cloud cover during certain cyclonic or anti-cyclonic conditions.

A small increase in cloud cover during summer daytimes can have an effect at least as strong as the doubling of CO2, and in the opposite direction.

For cause and effect: You never know, but I don't think that cloud cover regulates the sun cycle... Globally, the variation of cloud cover during a sun cycle is around 2 %, which can have a substantial influence on global temperatures.

Not exact matches

During these flybys, Juno will probe beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and study its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

These qualities of the plant in turn, in one area of production, depend on weather conditions, such as cloud cover, temperature and rainfall to which the plant is subjected, particularly during the grape period (March to September).

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.»

The nadir of the movie's poor judgment occurs during its still - mostly - astonishing climax, when Petit lies down on the cable, engulfed in misty cloud cover, and watches a lone gull hovers over him and seems to stare into his eyes, as if wondering if he's some kind of bird, too.

The nighttime hike didn't end up happening because we had some pretty intense and scary rainstorms during our stay, but it was still cool to look up at the full moon when the clouds were not covering it.

However, during this time you'll see a lot of cloud cover and it can rain heavily for several hours each day.

Frequently, particularly during the «May gray / June gloom» period, a thick «marine layer» cloud cover keeps the air cool and damp within a few miles of the coast, but yields to bright cloudless sunshine approximately 5 — 10 miles (8.0 — 16.1 km) inland.

During the May gray and June gloom seasons, a dense cloak of coastal clouds, known as marine layer, covers the coastal areas, keeping the area cool and moist to up to 5 — 10 miles (8.0 — 16.1 km) inland.

During October it is no different, the median cloud cover is a clear 3 % and does not vary substantially over the course of the month.

During the day the big mountain is usually covered in clouds.

During September and October is when most of the rain usually occurs, but for those who want to witness the Arenal Volcano with all its activity and no clouds covering its peak, these are the best months to see it.

During June the median cloud cover is extremely low at 1 % and does not vary over the course of the month.

A new Final Fantasy VII Remake screenshot was released of Cloud taking cover behind a large box during battle, and naturally there were a few concerns - the primary of those being: what is going on?

From Zen Pinball 3D, Choplifter HD, and Back to the Future's episodic content, we cover diversions which originate from the cloud, in addition to some of the games such as WWE ’12 and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, which we overlooked during the busy holiday season.

and possibly increase the cloud cover, especially during the hottest time of the year in each region.

All I have proposed is the possibility that a small (1C or less) increase in global mean temp or a doubling of CO2 concentration will raise the rate of latent heat transport and possibly increase the cloud cover, especially during the hottest time of the year in each region.

No matter what (unknown) physical process causes the changes in cloud cover, these changes are observed during a sun cycle.

The situation seems to have improved somewhat subsequently, but back then the only satellite imagery I could find (with help from a friend who is an expert) was visible band imagery, and during the key time periods the 85E region of Gakkel was completely obscured by cloud cover.

During a sun cycle, the global cloud cover changes with + / - 2 %, good for a change of several W / m2 (depending on type of clouds and region), far higher than the effect of insolation change as result of the sun's energy variation.

Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation.

During the La Niña, does an increase in the strength of the North Atlantic trade winds also reduce cloud cover over the tropical North Atlantic?

Particularly «The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.»

One can see that during La Nina events (in which case you mentally reverse the anomalies shown in the image), there is net convergence over the western Pacific which results in increased cloud cover and precipitation.

The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.

Your 30 °C could be relevant if most of the global ocean was at 30 °C but it isn't, and in the ex-tropics cloud cover decreases as temperature rises during summer.

Temperatures would still become dangerously hot during the day and dangerously cold at night, with Venus having a far more light - weight atmosphere while retaining its thick cloud cover.»

Consistency between EECRA upper - level cloud cover anomalies and those from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) during 1984 — 1997 suggests the surface - observed trends are cloud cover anomalies and those from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) during 1984 — 1997 suggests the surface - observed trends are Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) during 1984 — 1997 suggests the surface - observed trends are real.

«This study examines variability in zonal mean surface - observed upper - level (combined midlevel and high - level) and low - level cloud cover over land during 1971 — 1996 and over ocean during 1952 — 1997.

In deserts without cloud cover, temperatures can fluctuate from 50C during the day, and in winter months plummet to minus C.

Bio-optical sensors would supplement satellite observations of the ocean's color by providing measurements of chlorophyll, light, and light scattering deep into the ocean interior throughout the year, in cloud - and ice - covered areas, or during the dark of polar winter.

The risk they face from wind energy facilities is likely greater during conditions of high winds, heavy rain, fog, or low cloud cover, which can affect flight altitude and bring them within the rotor - swept area of the turbines.

There are also papers explaining the mechanisms by which specific solar cycle changes could reduce planetary cloud cover and there is observational evidence that shows sub cycles of warming and cooling with the sub cycles correlating to the specific solar mechanisms during the 20 year period at which time there was satellite measurement of planetary cloud cover.

The Earth's temperature has warmed in the modern era as a consequence of the strong solar activity during the 20th century (the Modern Maximum) shielding cosmic ray intensification and thus reducing decadal - scale cloud cover, which leads to warming via an increase in absorbed surface solar radiation (as illustrated here by Ogurtsov et al., 2012 and detailed by Avakyan, 2013, McLean, 2014, and others).

He theorizes that the Earth's temperature has warmed in the modern era as a consequence of the strong solar activity during the 20th century (the Modern Maximum) shielding cosmic ray intensification and thus reducing decadal - scale cloud cover, which leads to warming via an increase in absorbed surface solar radiation (as illustrated here by Ogurtsov et al., 2012 and detailed by Avakyan, 2013, McLean, 2014, and others).

This would be manifested in drift to more El Nino events during warmer periods of reduced cloud cover and La Nina events during cooler periods of increased lower tropospheric cloud cover.

The recharging takes place during La Nina events when stronger trade winds decrease cloud cover and allow more downward shortwave radiation to warm the tropical Pacific.

Conversely, during periods of lesser sunspot activity (e.g., during much of the 19th Century, the late - 1950s to mid-1970s and the last 15 years) albedo would increase — a consequence of more cloud cover over the oceans and continents.

If this happens during northern winter, surface pressure falls in the Arctic (rising AO) the night jet stalls, NOx injection falls away, stratospheric ozone levels increase, the coupled circulation is invigorated and pressure falls at 50 - 60 ° north and this is associated with cloud loss (when global cloud cover is at its maximum value) and a strong rise in global sea surface temperature.

The cooling effect of clouds during the daytime depends very much on solar inclination as well as cloud optical thickness and cover.