Changing
global atmospheric conditions are giving rise to an increase in this activity.
Not exact matches
The US and
global transportation systems rely on a deep understanding of
atmospheric conditions and long - term weather patterns.
After confirming that oxidized organics are involved in the formation and growth of particles under
atmospheric conditions, the scientists incorporated their findings into a
global particle formation model.
Conclusion:
Global warming was primarily responsible, due equally to the thinning sea ice and warm
atmospheric conditions.
These
conditions occur when the jet stream, a
global atmospheric wave of air that encompasses the Earth, becomes stationary and the peaks and troughs remain locked in place.
They used the Community Earth System Model, funded primarily by the Department of Energy and NSF, to simulate
global climate as well as
atmospheric chemistry
conditions.
To simulate the interplay of
global climate with regional pollution
conditions, the scientists turned to two of the world's leading
atmospheric models, both based at NCAR and developed through broad collaborations with the
atmospheric science community.
This changed ocean chemistry and reduced
atmospheric CO2 levels, which increased
global ice coverage and propelled Earth into severe icehouse
conditions.
In other research around
atmospheric dynamics of tidally locked exoplanets, there could be a situation where the world has efficient «air
conditioning» — hot air from one hemisphere is distributed about the planet in such a way to balance
global temperatures.
As the authors point out, even if the whole story comes down to precipitation changes which favor ablation, the persistence of these
conditions throughout the 20th century still might be an indirect effect of
global warming, via the remote effect of sea surface temperature on
atmospheric circulation.
However,
atmospheric CO2 content plays an important internal feedback role.Orbital - scale variability in CO2 concentrations over the last several hundred thousand years covaries (Figure 5.3) with variability in proxy records including reconstructions of
global ice volume (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), climatic
conditions in central Asia (Prokopenko et al., 2006), tropical (Herbert et al., 2010) and Southern Ocean SST (Pahnke et al., 2003; Lang and Wolff, 2011), Antarctic temperature (Parrenin et al., 2013), deep - ocean temperature (Elder eld et al., 2010), biogeochemical
conditions in the Northet al., 2008).
Whether the activity of TCs (TC - scale dynamics and cumulus convection together) is determined by the
global climatic
condition (SST,
atmospheric composition and general circulation).
The second order effect of increasing cloudiness caused by more GCRs when «
atmospheric conditions are suitable» for the formation of high clouds due to the other effects of
global warming should be warming.
I've been wondering, what's the lower thermal boundary
condition for full
Global Climate Models (GCMs),
atmospheric or, perhaps more importantly, oceanic?
Small changes in initial
conditions drive abrupt and nonlinear change evident in many of the
global ocean and
atmospheric indices — and indeed in the surface temperature trajectory.
Type 2 dynamic downscaling refers to regional weather (or climate) simulations in which the regional model's initial
atmospheric conditions are forgotten (i.e., the predictions do not depend on the specific initial
conditions), but results still depend on the lateral boundary
conditions from a
global numerical weather prediction where initial observed
atmospheric conditions are not yet forgotten, or are from a
global reanalysis.
That said, geophysics unequivocally demonstrate that in long - term
global contexts of (say) minimum 10 - million years, solar - driven
atmospheric - oceanic
conditions reflect the underlying reality not of «climate» but of plate tectonics.
Type 3 dynamic downscaling takes lateral boundary
conditions from a
global model prediction forced by specified real world surface boundary
conditions, such as for seasonal weather predictions based on observed sea surface temperatures, but the initial observed
atmospheric conditions in the
global model are forgotten.
«We see some trends that are linked with changes in
atmospheric conditions, such as more water content in the atmosphere due to
global warming,» Hoppe says.
«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño)
conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of
atmospheric convection, and
global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»
As the earth continues to recover from the abnormally cold
conditions of the centuries - long Little Ice Age, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant
atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for
global agricultural production.
It should be clear that this great and constant roar of
atmospheric air
conditioning is an important part of the
global energy budget should figure significantly into any model of the
global climate however the mighty creature overhead, along with all his cousins, is too small to show up in even the biggest and grandest
global climate models.»
The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average
global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold
condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random
atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.
The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in
atmospheric composition set
global climate on a trajectory toward warmer
conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).
Although atmosphere — ocean models have difficulty replicating Pliocene climate,
atmospheric models forced by specified surface boundary
conditions are expected to be capable of calculating
global surface temperature with reasonable accuracy.
In the context of models that include cloud processes, ranging from small - scale models of clouds and
atmospheric chemistry to
global weather and climate models, the unified theoretical foundations presented here provide the basis for incorporating cloud microphysical processes in these models in a manner that represent the process interactions and feedback processes over the relevant range of environmental and parametric
conditions.
In their paper «Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking,» Barnes and colleagues used various meteorological definitions of «blocking» along with various datasets of
atmospheric conditions to assess whether or not there have been any trends in the frequency of blocking events that could be tied to changes in
global warming and / or the declines in Arctic sea ice.
The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause
global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World
conditions or events.
We study climate sensitivity and feedback processes in three independent ways: (1) by using a three dimensional (3 - D)
global climate model for experiments in which solar irradiance So is increased 2 percent or CO2 is doubled, (2) by using the CLIMAP climate boundary
conditions to analyze the contributions of different physical processes to the cooling of the last ice age (18K years ago), and (3) by using estimated changes in
global temperature and the abundance of
atmospheric greenhouse gases to deduce an empirical climate sensitivity for the period 1850 - 1980.
«Yet, they know very well that there is not one «
global» climate, but a large variety of climates, depending on latitude, geographic
conditions, and
atmospheric dynamics.»
In the article «
Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements,» sciencemag.org, 49 authors concluded «Atmospheric aerosol nucleation has been studied for over 20 years, but the difficulty of performing laboratory nucleation - rate measurements close to atmospheric conditions means that global model simulations have not been directly based on experimental dat
Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements,» sciencemag.org, 49 authors concluded «
Atmospheric aerosol nucleation has been studied for over 20 years, but the difficulty of performing laboratory nucleation - rate measurements close to
atmospheric conditions means that
global model simulations have not been directly based on experimental dat
global model simulations have not been directly based on experimental data.....
According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, the U.S. government agency tasked with monitoring, assessing and predicting the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle (El Niño and La Niña), current
global atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns are consistent with ENSO - neutral
conditions in the tropical Pacific.
114, D19101, 12 PP., 2009 doi: 10.1029 / 2009JD011800 «
Global atmospheric downward longwave radiation over land surface under all - sky
conditions from 1973 to 2008» Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang
Moreover, since DLR varies widely according to
atmospheric conditions, it is very important to achieve enough coverage to be sure that we understand how the localized measurements can be generalized to the
global scale.
They also ran
atmospheric models that used observed
global sea surface temperatures, Arctic sea ice
conditions and
atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in 2010 to assess whether such factors might have contributed to the heat wave.
Scientists expect rainfall extremes to change in Europe under future climate
conditions responding to changes in large - scale
atmospheric circulation driven by
global warming.
Since forests are — in general — agencies that absorb
atmospheric carbon, and help cool the planet, any loss can only accelerate
global warming and create even more difficult
conditions for the surviving woodlands.
A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial
conditions that disrupted
global patterns of ocean and
atmospheric circulation.