Sentences with phrase «even decadal scales»

«These campaigns are going to help us better predict the changes we may see on seasonal scales, and even decadal scales.»

Not exact matches

Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stressed the persistent uncertainty in the range of warming expected from a buildup of greenhouse gases as cutting against the idea of specific thresholds: «Our biggest science problem is that we do not know how strong the climate feedbacks are, or even whether we know all of the ones that are important on decadal and longer time scales,» he said in an e-mail.

«The forecast for global mean temperature which we published highlights the ability of natural variability to cause climate fluctuations on decadal scale, even on a global scale.

When this reinforces the anthropogenic change, it can cause RILEs [rapid ice loss events]-- but it can also counter that change and cause brief periods of near - stability (or even small increases on a decadal scale).

But I would suppose that equilibrium climate sensitivity [background] and even global mean surface temperature on a decadal scale could be better nailed down by model pruning and better ocean data.

My understanding is that the response of the climate system to even a constant solar influx is highly chaotic, even on decadal time scales.

Borehole reconstructions aren't able to give annual or even decadal variation, yielding only century - scale trends.

«The ECS series was never created to examine annual, or even decadal, time - scale temperature variability.

Even under unchanged climate and sea level conditions the town site could only have been considered «temporary» on the decadal and century scale.

Even a perfect model can deviate significantly from past observed trends or changes, just because the physical system allows variability at decadal time scales; the climate and its trend that we're experiencing is just one of the many climates that we could have had.

I agree that the ambition to make (regional) climate predictions even at decadal or longer time scales can not be supported by the current apparent feasibility, given the studies that demonstrate the lack of predictive skill.

And his predictions are even worse:» The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.»

Variations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation are natural, probably even on decadal scales.

As one of the studies (Nicholson, 2005) cited by the petitioner states: «The fluctuations between «wet» and «dry» in the Sahel / Soudan zones are extreme even on decadal and multi-decadal time scales.»

But VTG's numbers indicate that you made that statement even when the paper you was in the process of getting published indicates that ACO2 in fact dominated climate on a decadal scale over the past 6 decades or so.»

If you read my comments on the previous threads, I was surprised to hear that Judith said that ACO2 doesn't «dominate» (let alone «influence») the climate on decadal or even centenial scale.

But VTG's numbers indicate that [Judith] made that statement even when the paper [she co-authored and] was in the process of getting published indicates that ACO2 in fact dominated climate on a decadal scale over the past 6 decades or so.»

«we are fooling ourselves to think that CO2 control knob really influences climate on these decadal or even century time scales,»

Likewise, a statistician will not automatically be aware of the difference between proxies of low resolution (which may be good at estimating average temperature on a decadal or even centennial scale) and proxies of high resolution that are good at estimating temperature at a yearly level.

At the larger, synoptic, scale of oceans and continents, this effect is seasonal or even decadal.

Present - day ocean models do have some rudimentary capability to model El Nino - like variability, but they are not yet able to reliably simulate decadal - type variability, even though 1000 - year climate runs exhibit variability over a broad range of time scales.

It is not an even process, currents are not of constant velocity, and they oscillate on multi decadal scale.