Tornadoes have hit every continent on the planet except Antarctica, but the vast majority of tornadoes hit in the United States — specifically in the south and southeast United States, or «tornado alley,» where cold air blowing east from the Rocky Mountains can mix to deadly
effect with warm air blowing north from the Gulf of Mexico.
Not exact matches
More than two of every five Americans reside in counties
with unhealthy levels of smog and
air pollution, thanks largely to the
effect of global
warming, health researchers report.
The researchers found that on windy nights it wasn't possible to measure the cooling
effects of the green spaces beyond their boundaries as there was too much turbulent mixing of the
air; but on calm
warm nights they estimate that a network of green spaces of around 3 - 5 hectares each situated 100 - 150 m apart would provide comprehensive cooling for a city
with a climate and characteristics similar to London.
However, a new University of Minnesota study
with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a
warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the
effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open -
air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.
Ironically, if the lakes enter the fall
with record
warm temperatures, it could herald an above - average season for lake
effect snow, which occurs when cold, dry
air blows across large expanses of comparatively milder waters.
(1) Most of the
warming would actually occur near the surface in areas
with shallow cold dry
air masses, such as in Siberia and northern Canada where it would not have a large
effect.
So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses
with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One
with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global
warming» type
effect, but simply because
Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than
Air does.
I have also never seen the combination of an earth tube
with the stack
effect, to deliver fresh
air, cool in summer and
warmed in winter, to a building this size.
So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses
with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One
with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global
warming» type
effect, but simply because
Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than CO2 does.
Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the
air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase
with any
warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so
with a
warming due to an increase in the greenhouse
effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be
warmer to begin
with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal
effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).
Similar negative
effects occur
with worsening
air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase
with warmer temperatures have been directly linked
with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety —
warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor
air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).
It is the collision of cold Arctic
air with relatively
warm unfrozen lake water in early winter that causes lake
effect snows in the first place.
John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse
effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse
effect, the fact that
with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the
air this
effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees
warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»
Lake -
effect snow happens when moisture from
warmer lake waters mixes
with cold
air coming from the north, causing more than 2 to 3 inches of snow an hour.
Rider: If CO2 does help
warm the
air (or the globe in general), does the extra warmth disappear soon after,
with no significant
effect on climate?
Part of this
effect has been associated
with the prevailing west wind bringing in
warmer air off the ocean.
To point out just a couple of things: — oceans
warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to
warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water
warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands»
warming is led by UHI (but, this
effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters
warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI
effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global
effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional
effects); but I would not run out a small
warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very
warmer than
air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison
with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI
effect (still remembering that it has a small global
effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).
In other words, UHI * is the value of the urban - heat - island
effect if wind were not reducing it by replacing
warmer air with colder; and NSTI * is the
effect of the near - surface temperature inversion if the wind were not mixing up the
air near the ground
with the
air a little higher up.
However, on windy days, I expect the UHI
effect to be vitiated by mixing of
air from outside the region of the city
with the relatively
warmed air; and I expect the windiness to reduce the stratification of the boundary layer («mix it up») and thus reduce the cooling
effect of the NSTI.
In their Geophysical Research Letters publication the researchers also write that «aerosol invigoration
effect occurs mainly in
warmed - based convection
with weak shear «-- as they could not find similar
effects in frontal convection weather systems, which have higher wind shear and where
air is forced up not by land surface
warming, but by a pushing cold
air wedge.
Also, off the top of my head, a very tall tank may allow for a small lapse rate like
effect,
with warm air rising.
The Nature study suggests that global
warming will mix growing amounts of higher, drier
air with ocean clouds over the course of the century, thinning out the clouds and reducing their cooling
effect.
If these plumes of
warm air operated in the same way during the last glaciation as they do know then they would make short work of ice sheets that were hanging around because of the albedo
effect, this is possible because not all the northern hemisphere mid latitude land surface was covered
with ice throughout the period of glaciation and might explain why glaciations terminate quickly
Warmer air temperatures
with ocean temperatures lagging would result in La Nina's having a relatively larger spread between water and
air temps producing a stronger
effect even
with weak La Nina's.
With evaporation being the more powerful
effect the rate of energy flow to the
air above is likely to increase rather than decrease and the 1 mm deep layer descend and / or intensify despite a
warming of the topmost few microns.
As I understand AGW, the theory goes that added CO2 combines
with an energy photon (ie the greenhouse
effect) to
warm the world, & heat the
air which results in more water vapor which absorbs more photons which results in Man caused
warming feedback.
One of the most well - known
effects of global
warming is an intensification of the water cycle,
with higher
air temperatures leading to increased evaporation from the seas and soils, and more atmospheric water vapor contributing to more frequent heavy precipitation events.
The second issue is far more complex, namely the inter-relationship
with other gases in the atmosphere and what
effect it may have on the rate of convection at various altitudes and / or whether convection effectively outstrips any «heat trapping»
effect of CO2 carrying the
warmer air away and upwards to the upper atmosphere where the «heat» is radiated to space.
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).