Sentences with phrase «contrast warming of the atmosphere»

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I applied for this position because the university was warm, comfortable, and friendly, in sharp contrast to the indifferent and sometimes hateful atmosphere of large institutions.

Artist Statement «I wanted to create the atmosphere of winter, snow, freeze things in contrast with the warm of the pullover, with a sad funny face, Mr. Scrooge.»

Volume, in contrast, is crucial in determining the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice to rapid future reductions (since thin ice is much more prone to react strongly to a single warm summer, making single very - low sea - ice summers more likely), and the thickness of the ice determines the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere.

Computer simulations of the atmosphere and ocean, when run with rising greenhouse gases, show the warm pool heating at the same rate as other ocean regions, in contrast to what has been observed there so far, the researchers said.

Before the ice gets too thick, the temperature contrast between the warmer water and the cold atmosphere makes conditions just right for the formation of surface crystals like this field of frost flowers on Dillon Reservoir, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

East Coast winter storms, known as «nor» easters» because of the unusual northeasterly direction of the winds as the storm spirals in from the south, are unusual in that they derive their energy not just from large contrasts in temperature that drive most extratropical storm systems, but also from the energy released when water evaporates from the (relatively warm) ocean surface into the atmosphere.

Hybrid storms and climate change: Sandy, continues Emanuel, is a «hybrid storm» — in other words, it has characteristics of tropical cyclones (hurricanes) that get their energy from the warm ocean surface, but also of winter cyclones that get their energy from temperature contrasts in the atmosphere.

This contrast in surface warming along the U.S. coast drives the frequent generation of cyclones, or low - pressure systems, that cross the Atlantic and are very efficient in drawing the upper atmosphere's energy down to the height of the turbines.

In contrast, a coupled atmosphere - ocean experiment with an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 400 ppm produced warming relative to pre-industrial times of 3 °C to 5 °C in the northern North Atlantic, and 1 °C to 3 °C in the tropics (Haywood et al., 2005), generally similar to the response to higher CO2 discussed in Chapter 10.

Each pound of black carbon, by contrast, will warm the planet relatively intensely for the week or two it remains in the atmosphere.