By using a sensor which has a longer response time than
the fluctuations of the air temperature, the sensor «averages» these fluctuations.
Not exact matches
The results suggest that, on millennial time scales, past
fluctuations of Rwenzori glaciers were strongly influenced by
air temperature.
El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic
fluctuation in sea surface
temperature and
air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course
of years, sometimes even decades.
Aqua's suite
of instruments include devices that will measure cloud properties, the wetness
of land surfaces, land and sea
temperatures, humidity and
temperature at different levels
of the atmosphere, the properties
of particles in the
air,
fluctuations in solar energy absorption and many other parameters.
This study highlights the expected range
of projected winter
air temperature and precipitation trends over the next 30 — 50 years due to unpredictable
fluctuations of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) superimposed upon forced anthropogenic climate change.
This gives rise to very marked
fluctuations in the
temperature of the
air at the top
of the atmosphere.
Fluctuations in
air and water
temperature are evident in the fossil record, and the uranium / thorium ratios
of late Permian sediments indicate that the oceans were severely anoxic around the time
of the extinction.
The mean
air temperature (1906 - 2005) measured at the climate station Vent (1906 m a.s.l) was -1.6 °C and the mean annual lapse rate is 0.57 °C / 100 m. For additional information on the status
of the glacier and on data relating to annual mass balance and other measurements, visit the WGMS
Fluctuations of Glaciers Browser.
Of all the rooms in your home, your bathroom is subjected to the widest
fluctuations in
temperature and
air humidity.