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For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake) evident in the zonal mean for the CMIP2 models (Figure 9.8) and the geographical patterns for all categories of models (Figure 9.10).

Also, most of the projected surface warming is the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, along with the direst impacts (melting of arctic sea ice and greenland, release of methane from permafrost, etc)

«With a high scenario for future greenhouse gas emissions, the largest warming occurs over the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, but all land areas warm dramatically,» remarked Field

Diverging trends between tree - ring chronologies and temperature in the late twentieth century have been observed across the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (see D'Arrigo et al. 2007 and references therein).

«It is very likely that there will be continued loss of sea ice extent in the Arctic, decreases of snow cover, and reductions of permafrost at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere by 2016 — 2035.

When a particular combination of the orbital elements is reached, high latitudes of the northern hemisphere begin to experience year round snow.

Finally, in the middle and high latitudes of both hemispheres one can see the comma - shaped storm clouds familiar from the everyday weather reports.

The negative phase is associated with a westward retraction of that jet stream toward eastern Asia, blocking activity over the high latitudes of the North pacific, and a strong split - flow configuration over the central North Pacific.

Such changes are observed in many places, especially over land in middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, leading to increased rains but reduced snowpacks, and consequently diminished water resources in summer, when they are most needed.

For years, researchers have examined climate records indicating that millennial - scale climate cycles have linked the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere and the subtropics of the North Pacific Ocean.

In the very high latitudes of the north polar region the temperature change is declining with latitude rather than increasing.

It is likely that large rapid decadal temperature changes occurred during the last glacial and its deglaciation (between about 100,000 and 10,000 years ago), particularly in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

My eyeballs tell me that he's heavily weighted towards the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, moreso than it appears at first glance at his Figure 1.)

Credit: NASA] The study notes that the world's warming is greatest at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and it is larger over land than over ocean areas.

Due to the high latitudes of these countries, solar is only a significant contributor to electricity and heat production in Germany.

Gesturing to an indelible deep green hue streaked across the United States and Europe viewers were told, «in the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere emissions were less than absorption levels.»

The reconstruction (hereafter Ljungqvist 2010) covers the past 2000 years for the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

The Arctic System Reanalysis (ASR), a high - resolution regional assimilation of model output, observations, and satellite data across the mid - and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for the period 2000 — 2012 has been performed at 30 km (ASRv1) and 15 km (ASRv2) horizontal resolution using the polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the WRF Data Assimilation (WRFDA) System.

«They found that the increase in surface temperature is very small in the Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere in contrast to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where the increase is relatively large.»

Meridional circulation patterns were an important factor in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic during the early climatic fluctuation.

The majority of the warming in the last 150 years has been in high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere with the most amount of warming occurring on the Greenland ice sheet which is the same pattern of warming that occurred in past D - O cycles.

Since the time of the SAR, annual land precipitation has continued to increase in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (very likely to be 0.5 to 1 % / decade), except over Eastern Asia.

``... a unique century - long SAT dataset focused on the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

According to the post on the mid-Holocene Optimum, it was likely restricted to the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and the tropics may well have been colder.

In the future, there will be more precipitation in the high latitudes of the NH and less precipitation in the mid-latitudes.

«Multidecadal variability of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity is observed to relate to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)-- a mode manifesting primarily in sea surface temperature (SST) in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic.

In the future, there will be more precipitation in the mid-latitudes and less in the high latitudes of the NH.

Meteoric freshwater (MW), derived from terrestrial runoff and direct precipitation, has negligible salinity (S ≅ 0) but is relatively 18O - depleted in the high latitudes of the Arctic (δ18O ≅ — 20 ‰).

Increases in snow and rain falling onto the ocean contribute to the freshening of the ocean surface in the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean.

Cosmic dust in the high latitudes of the Milky Way could account for the entire swirl pattern that had been presented as proof of a leading Big Bang theory, according to a new data analysis from the Planck satellite.

For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake)(2)

Mean MHW duration between the 1982 — 1998 and 2000 — 2016 periods increased across 84 % of the global ocean, with significant increases of up to 20 days in the mid - and high - latitude regions of all ocean basis, up to 30 + days in the central tropical Pacific Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig. 1h).

A midnight sun illuminates the high latitudes of Antarctica.

These events are characterized by drastic temperature changes of up to 15 °C within a few decades in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

A key Atlantic Ocean current that carries warmth into the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere has slowed down by 15 % since the mid-20th century and hit a «new record...

«At the higher latitudes of Great Britain, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, as well as Northern Germany and France, very little UVB light reaches the Earth, and it's the key wavelength required by the skin for vitamin D generation,» Elias said.

However, spatial sampling is still an issue in the higher latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, and ensuring the homogeneity of these data in the face of urbanization and changes incontinue

In the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia are pressed closer together.

In the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere, in the southern tips of South America, southern Africa, Australia, and Antarctica, tidal ranges are not increased.

Warming at higher latitudes of the Northern hemisphere may be greater than the global average, as high as 4 to 7 °C between 2000 and 2100 (ACIA, 2004).

Instead, a moderate weakening of the thermohaline circulation might occur that would lead to a dampening of surface warming — rather than actual cooling — in the higher latitudes of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Not exact matches

Black is the original or «normal» skin color for humans — lighter skin colors evolved in the last few tens of thousands of years as populations adapted to higher latitudes.

And an experiment conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health suggests that contemporary Americans tend to slip back into a two - phase sleep pattern when (1) they are denied access to artificial lighting and (2) find themselves living under conditions that simulate winter at high latitudes.

However, if you live in a part of the world that makes sun exposure difficult, either because of higher latitudes, cold or because baby is required to be in several layers of clothes, then it is recommended that babies be given a Vitamin D supplement.

Many moms - to - be — especially those with darker skin or who live in northern latitudes — don't get enough vitamin D, and deficiency is associated with higher rates of prenatal infections, preeclampsia, preterm birth and Cesarean section.

We have since found many bodies of liquid methane of varying sizes; for some reason, they mostly inhabit the high northern latitudes.

The water concentration reaches a maximum average of around 500 to 750 parts per million in the higher latitudes.

But Alaska had the aurora borealis, the natural display of colored lights created at high latitudes as charged particles hit the atmosphere.

Most mysteriously, orbiters overhead have glimpsed the outlines of what seem to be belts of buried glaciers girdling the globe at high latitudes.

High mountains and latitudes were once thought far too bleak for ancient humans, but as icy patches melt they are revealing a rich world of human history