Sentences with phrase «global land»

These adjustments, however they are made, tend to slightly increase the warming trends of global land temperatures compared to the raw data.

Around 11 % of global land surface is currently protected in this way.

The percentage of global land area hit by drought doubled between the 1970s and the early years of this century.

2014 was not a record year for global land area annual temperatures.

The overall and per class accuracy of these new global land cover products were estimated thanks to a widely accepted and independent validation process.

These two datasets are blended into a single product to produce the combined global land and ocean temperature anomalies.

The study was a collaboration between three teams who have independently devised economic models of global land use.

The pressures on global land resources are greater than at any other time in human history.

Today, the pressure on global land resources is greater than ever.

This is the largest margin by which an annual global land surface temperature has been broken.

Global land degradation is now so severe that hundreds of millions of hectares of land need to be restored back to health.

They say their results line up with previously published studies and suggest that the average global land temperature has risen by roughly 0.9 °C since the 1950s.

In each model, global land use develops according to assumptions about future trade, technology and world population.

Some people say the Snowball did cause global sea icecover, and essentially global land ice cover.

The year - to - date temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 2.05 °F above the 20th century average.

Confidence in precipitation change averaged over global land areas since 1901 is low prior to 1951 and medium afterwards.

Estimating historical changes in global land cover: croplands from 1700 to 1992.

A new publication, The Global Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factors.

The challenge will be settled using the NASA GISS mean global land surface temperatures for the conventional climate averaging period (defined by the World Meteorological Organization as 30 years) ending on December 31, 2016.

I downloaded the GISTEMP data for global land + sea temperature, and the results are: early 20th century: 1915 — 1940, 1.3 deg.C / century recent data: 1973 — 2005, 1.7 deg.C / century

This was the 34th consecutive June with global land temperatures above the 20th century average.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

As noted in my earlier reply, the annual variations in monthly global land surface temperatures are 4 times higher than those of TLT.

This value tied with 1998 as the highest July global land temperature in the 1880 — 2016 record.

As an introduction, Figures 1 and 2 compare the HADCRUT4 data (combined global land air plus sea surface temperature anomalies) to the two datasets from Cowtan and Way (2013).

This compares reasonably well with global land models.

This value tied with 2015 as the highest June global land temperature in the 1880 — 2016 record.

A group called the International Surface Temperature Initiative is dedicated to making global land temperature data available in a transparent manner.

The 3 most common are hadcrutv3, Giss Global Land and Ocean Index and NCDC / NOAA.

It illustrates Global Land Temp reconstructed by arithmetically adding CO2 (scaled to match the NOAA's GLT data) and data supported event of the most likely «natural forcing» (indirectly related to the solar output).

Chen, M. Y., Xie, P. P., Janowiak, J. E. & Arkin, P. A. Global land precipitation: a 50 - yr monthly analysis based on gauge observations.

New global land use datasets are being developed that indicate that human use of land may have been far more extensive at much earlier times - most of the terrestrial biosphere may have been transformed by humans long before the 20th century - maybe even by 3000 years ago!

Anthropogenic and natural external forcing combined are estimated to have caused 0.93 °C [0.61 - 1.24], consistent with the observed global land mean warming 1.09 °C [0.86 - 1.31

«In February, 2006 NCDC / NOAA transitioned to the use of an improved Global Land and Ocean data set.»

Assertions that U.S. biofuel production will cause large indirect land - use changes rely on limited data sets and unverified assumptions about global land cover and land use.

This data set, created by the GLAD (Global Land Analysis & Discovery) lab at the University of Maryland and supported by Global Forest Watch, is the first Landsat - based alert system for tree cover loss.

The findings are expected to bolster efforts to ensure that large - scale protection, restoration, and improved land management practices needed to stabilize climate change are achieved while meeting the demand for food and fiber from global lands.