Sentences with phrase «drive temperature change»

«but they also know that these changes in greenhouse gases amplify a relatively weak forcing to help drive temperature change.»

On the one hand, climate change depends on cumulative greenhouse - gas emissions, which drive concentrations which drive temperature change.

The only known transiting planet with a comparably long orbit, called HD 80606 b, has an extremely eccentric orbit; the distance between HD 80606 b and its star varies greatly throughout the planet's orbit, driving temperature changes of several hundred degrees in a matter of hours.

There are no indicators of ocean heat driving temperature changes that are supported by the evidence.

If there is also a time lag upon the onset of cooling, then it appears that some other mechanism actually drives the temperature changes.

But one thing we do know: if CO2 emissions drove temperature change, then the earlier cooling period could not have happened.

If there is also a time lag upon the onset of cooling, then it appears that some other mechanism actually drives the temperature changes.

Due to the important role of ozone in driving temperature changes in the stratosphere as well as radiative forcing of surface climate, several different groups have provided databases characterizing the time - varying concentrations of this key gas that can be used to force global climate change simulations (particularly for those models that do not calculate ozone from photochemical principles).

Others blasted Spencer's conclusion (that cloud formation drives temperature change) as unrealistic.

I would be interested to see the time series of the PDO, AMO and SOI to get some sense of how they changed in the post 1960 period to drive the temperature changes to resemble the changes we have seen over the past 50 years.

The two authors acknowledge that it is «difficult» to isolate the influence of the ocean's effects on temperature changes and the influence of climate - or radiation - induced changes in driving temperature change.

Indeed all the evidence from prehistory suggests CO2 level is driven by temperature change not CO2 change drives temperature change.

Not exact matches

If you drive south, and then a bit east from Monterey, the landscape changes from the big horizons, slates and blues of the coast to rolling, golden hills, warmer temperatures, craggy trees, and horse properties.

That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

So while it may take decades for warming at the sea surface to change deep - sea temperatures, alterations in wind - driven events may have more immediate effects.

The researchers say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by human - caused climate change, are mostly to blame.

It's OK to state that, «The common belief that carbon dioxide is driving climate change is at odds with much of the available scientific data: data from weather balloons and satellites, from ice core surveys, and from the historical temperature records» when this is clearly untrue.

Lyons observed that temperature changes and erratic weather drive a cycle that could further worsen allergy risks.

The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

Temperature - driven changes in the food web mean fish may lack food at this critical time, forcing them to fatten up for longer before reproducing.

«If you are going to use these systems, use them to support the primary task of driving — like for navigation or to change the radio or temperature — and keep the interaction short.»

Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.

The resulting temperature differences between land and sea drive monsoons — steady winds that change direction twice a year.

«This trend is not seen during the industrial period, where Northern Hemisphere temperature changes, driven by humanmade forcings, precede variability in the marine environment.»

But the ice core - derived climate records from the Andes are also impacted from the west — specifically by El Niño, a temporary change in climate, which is driven by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

«If climate change drives temperature up a degree or two,» goes the common dismissal, «how bad could that be?»

A 2000 - year transient climate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insolation.

Data from other paleoclimatic research suggest that cyclical changes in the tilt of the earth's axis and seawater temperatures drove these wet conditions in the South American tropics.

Rising temperatures and ocean acidifi cation drive changes in phytoplankton communities [Also see Reports by McMahon et al. and Rivero - Calle et al..]

The underlying pattern in this year's fire forecast is driven by the fact that the western Amazon is more heavily influence by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, and the eastern Amazon's fire severity risk correlates to sea surface temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

They will look for evidence of temperature changes caused by ocean circulation patterns in both the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific Oceans, which drive precipitation in Tibet as well as the Indian monsoons.

Cracking driven by daily and seasonal temperature changes may help explain substantial fraction of sunny - day rockfalls

«Instead, the array of lenses can remain in the liquid state, which allows us to change the periodicity of the liquid lenses if, say, the temperature difference driving the convection cells is varied.

Discussions on whether temperature or water availability is driving the strength of these variations in the land carbon sink have been highly contested with these year - to - year changes of the carbon balance seemingly related to global or tropical temperatures.

Increased ocean temperatures, changes in salinity and overfishing have driven the fish eastward.

The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into thChange, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into thchange: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.

It is commonly thought that hydrologic change is driven by precipitation and radiation changes caused by climate change, and that as the land surface adjusts, rising temperatures and lower precipitation will make the planet drier.

Finally, none of the teams experienced a shift in Shannon - Wiener diversity or evenness, which would be expected in an exercise - driven community shift, since metabolically active bacteria might come to dominate the community with a change in pH, temperature and moisture at the skin surface.

That's because hot temperatures, which are being driven by climate change, are worsening and extending wildfire seasons.

Scientists think this reversal in strength was driven by changes in sea surface temperature and upper - ocean ventilation.

[Response: Well, something like a circulation changed forced by the NAO pattern (which may in turn be affected by greenhouse gases) might cause an increase in European air temperatures, which in turn would allow low level moisture to increase if there is enough moisture supply, which would then constitute an amplification of a signal driven remotely.

o Ice core and sea - bed sediment measurements show no evidence that changes in CO2 drive world temperatures or climate.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

Direct effects of climate change on individual trees will be driven by temperature in energy - limited forests and moisture in water - limited forests.

He then uses what information is available to quantify (in Watts per square meter) what radiative terms drive that temperature change (for the LGM this is primarily increased surface albedo from more ice / snow cover, and also changes in greenhouse gases... the former is treated as a forcing, not a feedback; also, the orbital variations which technically drive the process are rather small in the global mean).