Sentences with phrase «global mean»

As a consequence, there is low agreement on the sign of the net change in global mean temperature as a result of land use change.

The strength of the radiative heat loss to space per unit warming of global mean surface temperature is a key quantity of interest, as usual.

This is related to determining the uncertainty in an estimate of global mean sea surface temperature, or of a trend over multiple years.

We might expect «global warming» (i.e., an increase in average surface air temperatures over a few decades) to lead to a rise in global mean sea levels.

The results presented here contribute to our understanding of the likely range under different amounts of global mean warming.

For those who question whether the series on global mean temperature are themselves products of a scientific conspiracy, here is yet a further check.

This fact proved sufficient to obtain useful estimates for global mean temperature changes.

It is virtually certain that near - surface permafrost extent at high northern latitudes will be reduced as global mean surface temperature increases.

CO2 emission has nothing to do with global mean temperature as its patterns before and after mid 20th century, before and after wide spread use of fossil fuel, are nearly identical.

The results presented are global mean values, every ten years from 2000 to 2100, for a range of scenarios.

The results indicate that these mechanisms could significantly raise sea level forecasts for high - emission scenarios, including nearly doubling the median projections of 21st century global mean sea level rise by 2100.

This study seeks to explain the effects of cloud on changes in atmospheric radiative absorption that largely balance changes in global mean precipitation under climate change.

In reality, the correlation between global mean temperature and carbon dioxide over the 20th century forms an important, but very small part of the evidence for a human role in climate change.

A convention has then been applied for the whole time series so that the averaged global mean sea level during the year 1993 is set to zero.

A central conclusion of the report is that it is more effective to assess climate stabilization goals using global mean temperature change as a primary metric, rather than atmospheric concentration levels.

Because of these disadvantages, calculating global mean sea level rise from the limited tide gauge network has proven to be difficult.

Whereas emphasis to date has been on how these climate forcings affect global mean temperature, the report finds that regional variation and climate impacts other than temperature deserve increased attention.

How do you explain an eight year global mean temperature decline in the face of an increasing human CO2 increase?

Global mean SST has increased by about 0.1 [degrees Celsius per] decade since 1951 but has no significant trend for the period 1998 - 2013.

Depending on the assumed size of the eruption and the processes included in the models, the maximum global mean cooling was 8 - 17 °C.

The rate of change of the trend - line will likely become negative within the next 20 years, reaching the lowest global mean trend - line temperature in almost 40 years.

Are long tide gauge records in the wrong place to measure global mean sea level rise?

If species can move freely to new locations then the risk of local extinction decreases from around 25 % to 20 % with a 2 °C global mean temperature rise.

While global mean temperature provides the canvas, the details of future changes will emerge at regional levels.

Also interesting in the sensitivity test array is one using only global mean temperatures, which produces nearly identical results to the full test involving spatial patterns.

It might be that a basket of vital indicators includes global mean surface temperature along with other indicators.

All values are expressed as the fraction of the total global mean net flux into the atmosphere.

Global means world - wide, so global warming is a warming all over the earth.

The graphs, therefore, give a fair indication of whether global mean temperatures at or near the surface have been rising or falling over the past five or ten years.

If as suggested here, a dynamically driven climate shift has occurred, the duration of similar shifts during the 20th century suggests the new global mean temperature trend may persist for several decades.

Could they be the reason for the nearly flat global mean surface temperature for the last ten years.

The total global mean surface forcing [5] is very likely negative.

Three of the four global average temperatures indeed are decreasing in their trends (although the actual global mean temperatures are still warmer than the previous decades).