Sentences with phrase «higher than the satellite data»

The surface data is still significantly higher than the satellite data, and the satellite data is still well below the IPCC forecasts.

Not exact matches

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

But ground - based coronagraphs have their own advantages — while they can only observe the sun in the day during clear weather, they can return data almost instantly, and at a much higher time resolution than satellite instruments.

Nathaniel Johnson and Shang - Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii studied satellite and rain - gauge data from the last 30 years and found that sea surface temperatures in the tropics now need to be about 0.3 °C higher than they did in 1980 before the air above rises and produces rain (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1008).

This was higher than at any time over the past two years, according to NASA satellite data, analysed by Global Forest Watch.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years ago, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

Further analysis [13] of the same data revealed intrinsic differences between the subjects, with the hyper responders starting with higher baseline numbers of satellite cells (the precursors to muscle cells) than both the moderate responders and especially the non-responders.

That depends on the data, so you need to look at variance for the particular record (a side note — satellite mid-tropospheric records have higher variance than surface records, and inherently require more data to make that determination), at auto - correlation, the scale of trend changes, all of those, to determine whether current trends are significantly different from the past.

This decade - long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.

Since this is 7Watts / m ^ 2 higher than the actual measured average and is more than a full Watt / m ^ 2 higher than any value measured in the past 31 years, if one were to criticize someone for violating science protocol it would not be Roy Spencer whose basic data and computations are readily available for scrutiny by anyone who whishes to do so; it is Trenberth for using contrived values for OLR in his energy balance computations instead of using actual physical data measured directly by satellites.

Ice extents appear to be consistent across datasets, ice areas derived from pre-1978 data may be significantly higher than those calculated from the satellite period.

Thicker clouds behave differently, hence Stephens» observations of an average 25 % higher optical depth for bimodal clouds than unimodal clouds in the satellite data.

However as Mongabay points out, new satellite data shows that deforestation is again increasing and may be even higher than current imagery indicates.Brazil's deforestation - tracking satellite system shows that in March and April 2010 nearly double the amount of forest was cleared (103.5 square miles) over the same period last year.

He found, as shown in the chart below, but as you can see for yourself visually in the satellite data, that surface warming is substantially higher over the last 25 years than warming of the troposphere.