Sentences with phrase «diurnal cycle effects»

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

Not exact matches

They first removed the effect of distortions from changes to the diurnal cycle and from the changing geometry of the satellites themselves.

cortisol regulating - research has highlighted the effects of natural light / dark cycles on maintaining a diurnal flow of cortisol to modulate energy and stress

[Response: These feedbacks are indeed modelled because they depend not on the trace greenhouse gas amounts, but on the variation of seasonal incoming solar radiation and effects like snow cover, water vapour amounts, clouds and the diurnal cycle.

I would therefore argue that for the global mean the well - mixed GHGs and the counterbalancing reflecitve aerosol effects are «first - order» — without GHGs there is no appreciable warming signal, and without the aerosols, the warming from GHGs is excessive and important changes in the diurnal cycle and cloudiness are not captured.

There will be Regionally / locally and temporal variations; increased temperature and backradiation tend to reduce the diurnal temperature cycle on land, though regional variations in cloud feedbacks and water vapor could cause some regions to have the opposite effect; changes in surface moisture and humidity also changes the amount of convective cooling that can occur for the same temperature distribution.

They found that, although the aerosol direct effect or an increase in continental cloud albedo could contribute to damp the surface temperature diurnal cycle, only an increase in continental cloud cover would be consistent with observations (Karl et al., 1993).

«A climate pattern may come in the form of a regular cycle, like the diurnal cycle or the seasonal cycle; a quasi periodic event, like El Niño; or a highly irregular event, such as a volcanic winter... A mode of variability is a climate pattern with identifiable characteristics, specific regional effects, and often oscillatory behavior... the mode of variability with the greatest effect on climates worldwide is the seasonal cycle, followed by El Niño - Southern Oscillation, followed by thermohaline circulation.»

However, with enough capacitance (heat capacity), you could in theory get a reactive effect to diurnal cycling, contributing to overall impedance.

Your accusation of «ignorance» on my part about the «buffering» effects of a thermalized air mass is as amusingly misplaced as your ideas about what convection does throughout the diurnal cycle.

The passive system uses gravity and convection but it entirely depends upon a diurnal cycle to obtain a higher average and in no depends upon the radiative effect of the medium in the storage system.

I am still unsure of the sign and magnitude of the water effects of radiative influx and efflux; especially the during diurnal cycle and especially over both oceans and land.

It is notoriously difficult to take measurements near industrialized locations or forests (both of which impose a large diurnal cycle on mean CO2 levels) and not have boundary layer effects heavily contaminate the measurements.

As a satellite drifts through new LECTs, it consequently samples the emissions from the earth at changing local times, in effect allowing local diurnal cycle variations to appear in the time series as spurious trends.

We updated version A after discovering that the eastward drift of NOAA - 11 over its 6 - yr life span caused a spurious warming effect to develop due, as we believed, to the fact the satellite was sampling the earth at later times during the local diurnal cycle (version B, Christy et al. 1995).»