Sentences with phrase «importance of air temperature»

Detailed studies of the energy balance and ablation of the Zongo and Chacaltaya glaciers support the importance of air temperature increase, and identify the increase in downward infrared radiation as the main way that the effect of the warmer air is communicated to the glacier surface [Wagnon et al. 1999; Francou et al, 2003].

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As one of a series of papers to address several relevant contributors to surface air temperature bias from the project, this study identifies the relative importance of surface energy budget biases in causing the temperature bias.

c) the increase of the temperature of the skin is thus of no importance as to the magnitude of the heat flow from the bulk to air;

These results demonstrated to what extent the use of air conditioning could enhance street air temperatures at the scale of a city like Paris, and the importance of a spatialized approach for a reasoned planning for future deployment of air conditioning in the city.

Since the planet is showing obvious signs that it is the other way round in practice — surface temperature drags the low level air temperature along with it — we are arguing about something that appears to be of rather low importance.