Sentences with phrase «higher regional warming»

In terms of power integrated over area, only northern Eurasia has a higher regional warming in absolute terms — which suggests to me that sea surface warming in the Arctic west of the Canadian archipelago might change the total sea energy balance by quite a bit.

Not exact matches

In the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Or, there may have been a higher latitude regional warming that year??

This would actually not be true at sufficiently high latitudes in the winter hemisphere, except that some circulation in the upper atmosphere is driven by kinetic energy generated within the troposphere (small amount of energy involved) which, so far as I know, doesn't result in much of a global time average non-radiative energy flux above the tropopause, but it does have important regional effects, and the result is that the top of the stratosphere is warmer than the tropopause at all latitudes in all seasons so far as I know.

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

Also, the term «global pattern of warming» implies regional temperature change, which pushes the climate system response discussion to a much higher level of complexity than when simply talking about changes in global - mean climate.

If I understood Armour's paper correctly, he claimed that all feed - backs were close to linear in response to temperature over time, but that different regional warming rates (specifically, slow warming at high latitudes) could make the feed - backs and sensitivity appear to increase with time.

It should not need to be stressed that there is no contradiction between these results and finding that regional warming may be continuing — particularly in high Northern latitudes and the Arctic.

Global mean losses could be 1 to 5 % of GDP for 4 °C of warming, but regional losses could be substantially higher.

The authors conclude that the there is a higher retreat - rate for marine terminating glaciers in the recent warm period; in the 1930s when there is a natural mode of variability active that caused regional temperatures around Greenland to be anomalously warm, there was a higher retreat rate for land - terminating glaciers (the lower retreat rate today is in part because they are currently smaller).

... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»

The warm early - Holocene climate around Svalbard was driven primarily by higher insolation and greater influx of warm Atlantic Water, but feedback processes further influenced the regional climate.»

But in terms of regional areas warming from cooler night time temperature to day time highs.

They show that CCS warm events are associated with a strong and southeastward displacement of the wintertime Aleutian Low, a weak North Pacific High, and a regional pattern of poleward coastal wind anomalies.

A (2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities... are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)... and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.

The regional atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic normally features a high over the Azores and a low near Greenland and Iceland — the westerlies are intense but the cold air from Canada is warmed before reaching Europe.

Increased snow cover last year, cooler temperatures, higher temperatures in the 1920's and 1930's, etc. are all discounted as regional or temporary, because of the fundamental belief that the earth is warming due to man - made causes.

The TAR noted that much of the regional variation of the annual mean warming in the multi-model means is associated with high - to low - latitude contrast.

These regional warm periods did not occur as coherently across regions as the warming in the late 20th century (high confidence).»

Modeled regional and global climate responses to simulated (107, 110, 111) and reconstructed historical land cover changes over the past century (112) and millennium (113) generally agree that anthropogenic deforestation drives biogeophysical cooling at higher latitudes and warming in low latitudes and suggest that biogeochemical impacts tend to exceed biogeophysical effects (113).

Global warming regional with more of it going to higher latitudes in colder seasons.

If there is a regional layer of high salt methane hydrate, shallow, at 70 - 150 meters and so susceptible to global warming, and if that layer is going to start to blow, then drilling to relieve pressure seems like a good idea, to me.

Because of the combination of high absorption, a regional distribution roughly aligned with solar irradiance, and the capacity to form widespread atmospheric brown clouds in a mixture with other aerosols, emissions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions.

It is possible that the regional patterns of warming in the high - end and non-high-end models are similar, but are simply larger in magnitude in the high - end models.

The high - end models project normalized regional warming, which is 0.2 — 0.6 °C per 1 °C global warming greater over much of the Northern Hemisphere land masses.