Sentences with phrase «clouds over tropical oceans»

Brient Alb is based on the correlation in CMIP5 models between ECS, and the relationship of shortwave (SW) reflection by low clouds over tropical oceans (TLC) with SST.

This type of precipitation is very common from shallow cumulus clouds over tropical oceans.

There's an even quicker - acting possibility for negative feedback: More warming might create more clouds over the tropical oceans, their whiteness reflecting more of the sun's heat back into space and thereby cooling things somewhat.

Projections differ widely among climate models, and differences in the solar reflection by low clouds over tropical oceans account for much of the spread in climate projections across current models.

Not exact matches

A new analysis using changes in cloud cover over the tropical Indo - Pacific Ocean showed that a weakening of a major atmospheric circulation system over the last century is due, in part, to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

The modeled mean CWCs [cloud water] over tropical oceans range from ∼ 3 % to ∼ 15 × of the observations in the UT and 40 % to 2 × of the observations in the L / MT.

The Pavlakis et al (2008) paper «ENSO Surface Shortwave Radiation Forcing over the Tropical Pacific» identifies the variations in surface downward shortwave radiation over portions of the Pacific Oceans caused by El Nino - produced cloud cover changes.

Examining the structure of the global cloud field one can see, a long line of bright, dense clouds near the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), more clearly evident over the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific oceans.

«High clouds over the western tropical Pacific Ocean seem to systematically decrease when sea surface temperatures are higher,» says Arthur Y. Hou of Goddard's Data Assimilation Office.

NASA's Terra satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Pam as it continued intensifying in the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured an image of the storm's 20 nautical mile - wide, cloud - filled eye.

Cloud amount and albedo decreased over mid-latitude oceans in both hemispheres (especially over the North Atlantic), over the southeast Indian Ocean, and in a northwest - to - southeast line stretching across the central tropical South Pacific.»