Sentences with phrase «horizontal differences in temperature»

These, however, are superimposed on the much more sluggish circulation driven by horizontal differences in temperature and salinity — namely, the thermohaline circulation.

Not exact matches

Because of differences in vertical or horizontal distribution of forcings, some changes can have a more than proportional effect on temperatures.

Because of differences in vertical or horizontal distribution of forcings, some changes can have a more than proportional effect on temperatures.

That means saturation will not have occured; the OLR brightness temperature will be larger than the skin temperature, though the difference will be smaller for intensities in nearly horizontal directions — not just because the skin layer is colder but because some portion of the atmosphere below that is colder (the temperature will gradually approach the skin temperature going upward from the «photosphere» (effective emitting level) as you would call it in analogy with the sun).

The graph has horizontal lines drawn every 0.2 K, but the difference in temperature rise between these two data sets isn't clearly visible on the plot.