Sentences with phrase «first global atmospheric temperature»

In 1990, he joined with a colleague, Roy Spencer, to use measurements taken by NASA satellites since 1979 to produce the first global atmospheric temperature data.

Not exact matches

«At first, tropical ocean temperature contrast between Pacific and Atlantic causes slow climate variability due to its large thermodynamical inertia, and then affects the atmospheric high - pressure ridge off the California coast via global teleconnections.

First let's define the «equilibrium climate sensitivity» as the «equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature following a doubling of the atmospheric (equivalent) CO2 concentration.

Yu Kosaka & Shang - Ping Xie, as published in Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7467/full/nature12534.html): «Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual - mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty - first century1, challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming.»

The international agreements forming the IPCC and the UNFCCC were designed to prevent greenhouse gas warming of the atmosphere, and as those agreements were hammered out, two American scientists, Roy Spencer and John Christy, developed a method that uses data collected from weather satellites to produce science's first comprehensive measure of global atmospheric temperatures.

Comparison of global lower troposphere temperature anomaly over the oceans (blue line) to a model based on the first derivative of atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa (red line).

In the first half of 2011 alone, a number of acute disruptions to seasonal atmospheric and climate norms have occurred, and latest scientific projections indicate the pace of global temperature increase is accelerating.

My own examination of the warming we see at present seems to indicate that the atmospheric CO2 rose first (beginning with the industrial revolution and the massive use of fossil fuels) and this has been followed by the rising global mean temperature.

Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish physicist, first suggested in 1896 that increases in atmospheric CO2 would lead to global temperature rises.

One thing is almost a certainty — CO2 atmospheric content can't affect changes in the Earth's magnetic field — global temperature change can't affect changes in the Earth's magnetic field regardless of which one came first Not so certain is that the sun's magnetic oscillations can't affect changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

It was Callendar who first used meteorological data to construct a global temperature time series; who first established the background concentration level of atmospheric CO2 and identified an anthropogenic increase; and who was instrumental in bringing thirty years of advances in spectroscopy to bear on climate studies.