Sentences with phrase «global average surface air temperature»

Global average surface air temperatures only reflect the heat present in the atmospheric layer immediately above the land / ocean surface.

Current global average surface air temperature is warmer than that for all but a small fraction of the past 11,300 years.

Unfortunately using global average surface air temperatures as a measure of total warming ignores the fact that most of the heat (more than 93 %) goes into our oceans, which continue to warm without any sign of a pause, as you can see below.

«The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 — 0.2 degree Celsius, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001,» wrote Australian researcher led by Matthew England of the University of New South Wales.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual Arctic Report Card, released December 12, showed that ground - level air in the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average surface air temperature.

From the abstract: «Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001.»

Global average surface air temperature is one of the most well - recognized metrics of contemporary climate change — hence the term «global warming».

The slowdown or «hiatus» in warming refers to the period since 2001, when despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady, warming by only around 0.1 C.

In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases.

Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth's global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001.

One dataset, produced by ECMWF, shows that the global average surface air temperature exceeded 14.7 °C, making 2017:

In fact Australian and global average surface air temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001 (e.g. Nature Climate Change, volume 4, pages 222 - 227).

The global average surface air temperatures for each of the four seasons in 2017 were all higher than the respective averages for 1981 - 2010.

The global average surface air temperature for 2017 was 0.53 °C warmer than the 1981 - 2010 average, making it the second warmest calendar year in this record.