This book introduces and
explains weather terms and concepts.
Not exact matches
His first stop on the Web was to check out the
weather because he wanted to find out if it was an optimal time for «crutching» his sheep, a
term he
explained to the technicians refers to removing the wool around sheep's rear ends.
In other words, the meltdown could be
explained by natural variations in the
weather, not long -
term climate trends.
Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic
weather service showed in his lecture on Saturday that the short -
term temperature fluctuations from year to year correlate with the heat exchange through the sea surface, but that this does not
explain the longer -
term development of the «cold blob» over decades.
,
weather history, cloud seeding,
weather terms, greenhouse gases
explained, climate change, and then renewable energy sources.
The Associated Press
explained the nation's short -
term memory loss in the article «Scientists: Americans are becoming
weather wimps,» — the nerdy web comic XKCD captured the sentiment even more concisely.
Therefore we reasoned that, by studying the experimental temperature profiles (e.g., using
weather balloons), we could quantify the magnitude of the greenhouse effect for each profile at all altitudes, by subtracting the parts of the temperature profile that could be
explained in
terms of the thermodynamic properties of the bulk gases (i.e., nitrogen & oxygen).
«While scientists routinely find themselves
explaining that day - to - day
weather patterns are not the same as long -
term climate trends, they also widely agree that human - caused climate change is exacerbating extreme
weather.
Possible correlations between solar ultraviolet variability and climate change have previously been
explained in
terms of changes in ozone heating influencing stratospheric
weather.
If a noted climate scientist
explains multi-year changes in ocean heat storage in
terms of «tropical variablity» or «
weather», I would suspect that any particularly intense tropical cyclone (or season, or multiple seasons) would surely also fall into this category of «tropical variability».
Re # 112: «If a noted climate scientist
explains multi-year changes in ocean heat storage in
terms of «tropical variablity» or «
weather», I would suspect that any particularly intense tropical cyclone (or season, or multiple seasons) would surely also fall into this category of «tropical variability».»
Please provide any resources to help
explain why short -
term experiences of severely cold
weather like we have in the U.S. and Great Britain right now are not proofs that global warming is false.
«One out of 10 record - breaking rainfall events observed globally in the past 30 years can only be
explained if the long -
term warming is taken into account,» says co-author Dim Coumou, a PIK researcher into the links between atmospheric circulation and extreme
weather events.
However, the Met Office has covered its back,
explaining that long -
term weather predicting is more of an art than a science and that there is still a chance we'll get the wet, windy
weather of the past few years.