Sentences with phrase «high cloud variability»
abstract postscript pdf Pierrehumbert, RT 1996: Anomalous scaling of high cloud variability in the tropical Pacific.
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«This study examines variability in zonal mean surface - observed upper - level (combined midlevel and high - level) and low - level cloud cover over land during 1971 — 1996 and over ocean during 1952 — 1997.
Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.
The higher correlation values were achieved by the use of 12 - month smoothing, as the short - term (< 1 year) variability in the data was dampened, indicating that the higher (but still non-significant) correlations arose from the long - term variations: this is problematic to the MS00 hypothesis of a causal CR - cloud explanation for their results for reasons which will be outlined in the remainder of this section.
In addition, the variability of the SW flux is shown to be closely related to the variability of the middle and high cloud covers.