Sentences with phrase «decadal trend»
The phrase "decadal trend" refers to a specific pattern or change in something over a period of ten years. It is used to describe how a particular phenomenon, such as temperature or population, has been consistently increasing or decreasing over a decade. Full definition
According to Dr. Natali, «Our results show that while permafrost degradation increased carbon uptake during the growing season, in line with decadal trends of «greening» tundra, warming and permafrost thaw also enhanced winter respiration, which doubled annual carbon losses.»
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So we should be able to compare 1991 - 00 (minus Pinatubo years) to 2001 - 09 and get a fairly accurate, ENSO - balanced look at decadal trends.
Orange lines show decadal trend (IPCC AR4 FAQ 3.3 adapted from Alexander 2006).
The trends in LW and SW are larger than the trend in NET, but it should be noted that getting decadal trends out of satellite data of this sort is difficult.
For his part, Karl acknowledges that it is important to investigate how short - term effects might impact decadal trends, but says that these short term trends do not necessarily elucidate the long - term effects of rising greenhouse - gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Tracking decadal trends in both methane and hydroxyl, Frankenberg and his colleagues noted that fluctuations in hydroxyl concentrations correlated strongly with fluctuations in methane.
Combining the STORM model with analysis of the rainfall data set allowed the investigators to gain insights into decadal trends in monsoonal rainfall intensity under climate change.
Even in scenario A2 the models produce still slightly negative or near zero decadal trends until 2040 or so.
You aren't even discussing decadal trends, which makes me wonder whether you even understand the term.
I have read the IPCC reports and the models have yet to accurately predict decadal trends.
The data represent decadal trends within overlapping 15 - year windows that are centered on the plotted year.
Decadal trends also differ greatly between POLES and TOVS primarily owing to the discontinuation of ice station data in the POLES dataset after 1991.
Linear decadal trends in atmospheric and surface parameters for six Arctic seas during spring (MAM) derived from satellite sounder retrievals from 1979 to 2005.
Furthermore oscillating decadal trends in wind strength can further magnify biological effects causing pH to trend independently of atmospheric CO2.
They found that, in the model, the striking SPNA decadal trend reversal from 1994 - 2004 to 2005 - 2015 arose largely from variable heat transports by the ocean's midlatitude horizontal gyre circulation.
Seasonality of tropical Pacific decadal trends associated with the 21st century global warming hiatus (Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans)
Averaging a number of runs in the ensemble still smears interannual variability but it seems to me that would still leave a decent indication of decadal trend bias.
«Because of the pronounced effect of interannual noise on decadal trends, a multi-model ensemble of anthropogenically - forced simulations displays many 10 - year periods with little warming.