Sentences with phrase «impact decadal trends»
For his part, Karl acknowledges that it is important to investigate how short - term effects might impact decadal trends, but says that these short term trends do not necessarily elucidate the long - term effects of rising greenhouse - gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
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# 8220; This multi-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation «cool» trend can intensify La Niña or diminish El Niño impacts around the Pacific basin,» said Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «The persistence of this large - scale pattern [in 2008] tells us there is much more than an isolated La Niña occurring in the Pacific Ocean.»
You may think these are unimportant at the decadal scale, but this is exactly the topic of Cohn and Lins paper, and, getting back on topic, the Tsonis paper — these larger scale variations have a huge impact on how we perceive climate in the 20th century, particularly in the interpretation of trends.
But stratospheric water vapor variations apparently do have a sizeable impact on decadal - scale trends.
thingsbreak: And CW13 certainly does have a large impact on the 1998 - 2013 trends, it doubles the decadal rate.
That there are multiple factors involved is the entire point of the discussion I was having with James And CW13 certainly does have a large impact on the 1998 - 2013 trends, it doubles the decadal rate.