Sentences with phrase «combined effects of warming»

Corals and other species that depend upon them are also highly vulnerable due to the combined effects of warming ocean water, ocean acidification, and other human - caused stresses.

The reef is supposedly almost dead from the combined effects of a warming climate, nutrient pollution from Australian farms, and smothering sediment from offshore dredging.

The combined effects of warming and extreme dryness of the atmosphere and fuels, combined with the extraordinary fuel accumulations are «exaggerating» these fires (as Steve Pyne says).

A newly published research study that combines effects of warming temperatures from climate change with stream acidity projects average losses of around 10 percent of stream habitat for coldwater aquatic species for seven national forests in the southern Appalachians — and up to a 20 percent loss of habitat in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests in western North Carolina.

Not exact matches

This combines with the effect of warmer temperatures.

That was the key message of a new study recently published in the journal Science, in which American and German biologists defined the first universal principle on the combined effects of ocean warming and oxygen loss on the productivity of marine life forms.

Indeed, atmospheric chemists have estimated that the combined warming effect of these trace gases will soon equal or exceed the effect from carbon dioxide.

They speculate that a number of events that relate to historical fishing practices, both commercial and recreational, combined with the warming waters in the Gulf of Maine may be increasing the negative effects of the growth of kelp.

The high temperatures are the combined effect of El Niño on top of a man made global warming trend.

The combined effects of scattering and absorption can either cool or warm Earth's surface and the atmosphere itself.

However, extreme events may require the combined effect of increased prevailing winds and tropical storms guided by the strengthened blocking high pressure and nurtured by the unusually warm late - Eemian tropical sea surface temperatures (Cortijo et al., 1999), which would favor more powerful tropical storms (Emanuel, 1987).

These ecosystems are highly vulnerable to the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming.

For example, this November 2009 study, titled «Negative effect of static stretching restored when combined with a sport specific warm - up component,» which reaches the opposite conclusion.

It gained intensity right as it hit land, due to very warm oceans, due to a la nina generated anticyclone warming the ocean, combined with the effects of climate change on ocean temperatures.

With the cosmic ray effect we have ~ 0.3 C of solar warming combined with ~ 0.2 of CO2 warming, which is then offset by human - produced aerosols to yield ~ 0.3 of waring.

However, El niño effects combined with global warming are an important area of study, and there are indications that warming may affect the severity, frequency, and persistence of El Nino (more here and here).

As time wears on we will of course know more about thawing or freezing and I think see more clearly that this past warm cycle is over as deemed by our sun, this despite all the years of accumulated «human effects» combined.

The observed warming is likely the result of a combined effect: data strongly suggest that the AMO has been in a warming phase for the past two or three decades, and we also know that at the same time anthropogenic global warming is ongoing.

Combine with Co2 warming the surface and it can just so happen that the two effects cancel at the surface for a «pause» while the wind / current driven heating of the subsurface causes extra heating in the subsurface.

Alaska's coast is vulnerable to the effects of sea - ice retreat, thawing of coastal permafrost, and rising sea level, all of which are caused by warming, and combine to increase coastal erosion.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

Whether they will be able to recruit enough people to join them, and whether their combined efforts will be enough to head off the most serious effects of global warming, are open questions that can only be answered by future developments.

We have far more data about increasing CO2 than increasing water vapor, hence if we want to test this hypothesis by looking for a correlation between global warming and the combined effect of CO2 and H2O, a correlation with CO2 alone is more feasible than one involving water vapour.

Unfortunately, all of these impacts are due to the combined effect of global warming emissions from other regions.

When combined with the other human effects, the net human influence is responsible for approximately 102 % of the observed warming from 1851 to 2010, and approximately 113 % over the 50 - year periods from 1951 to 2000 and 1961 to 2010 (averaged together).

It is found that at least 60 % of the global warming observed since 1970 has been induced by the combined effect of the above natural climate oscillations.

It's slightly warmer, most likely due the combined effects of gradual warming since the LIA and the latest positive PDO phase change.

This resulted from the combined effects of high sea surface temperatures in open water areas and the effects of atmospheric circulation drawing warm air into the region.

a), b) & c) combined imply that the urban - heat - island effect is NOT increasing on a global basis, and therefore CAN NOT serve as the «real» cause giving rise to the impression of global warming as an artefact.

These regions are currently losing tree cover: California forests have lost more than 130 million trees since 2010, largely due to the combined effects of drought, warm temperatures, insects and disease.

«such that the effect on the Pacific warm pool is a regional consequence of more subtle global changes involving all the oceans combined»

The most likely combined effect of changes to all cloud types is to amplify the surface temperature warming (a positive feedback).

The combined effect of all these changes is actually to reduce the rate of surface warming over the past 100 years compared to what we see in the raw temperature data.

However, the warming effect of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide will grow sufficiently to overcome the combined impact of various natural climate cooling factors, journalists on a telephone news conference were told last week by Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

«However, the warming effect of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide will grow sufficiently to overcome the combined impact of various natural climate cooling factors»

This trend is believed to be a result of human - induced global warming, combining with the effects of a particularly devastating El Nino.

13 C. Wind & Ocean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temperature

It is the combined effects of solar heating and greenhouse warming that establishes the atmospheric temperature structure and water vapor and cloud distribution.

A new study coming out the City College of New York shows that continued warming temperatures, combined with the well - known (and growing) urban heat island effect, means more frequent and more intense heatwaves are in store for New York.

as for carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas and oxygen gas and the collisions you mention — the concentration by volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is very small — the most significant effects in the bottom layer of the atmosphere (troposphere) will surely be the heat trapping effect of increased carbon dioxide combined with the pressure - height changes of concentrations of carbon dioxide due to the warming effect.

Its about whether, if the recent trend combines AMO and global warming signals, interpretation of this as if it were an attribution study of global warming may overstate the pure effect of global warming.

the combined effect of these greenhouse gases is to warm Earth's atmosphere by about 33 ºC, from a chilly -18 ºC in their absence to a pleasant +15 ºC in their presence.

These effects combined with an estimated decrease in electricity demand by 2 % due to warmer temperatures, could provide an additional 11 TWh of annual energy.

Popular Science has a relatively user - friendly definition of «bomb cyclone» you can check out, but this type of weather event is essentially a super fast drop in pressure (bomb) caused by warm air meeting cold air, combined with the rotation of the Earth to create a swirling effect (cyclone).

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