Sentences with phrase «including warm spells»

As discoveries on Mars, including warm spells and salty soil, raise the chances of finding life there, scientists are considering how best to look for it within their budget.

The paper also finds that several significant past climate fluctuations — including a warm spell that peaked around 1100 A.D. called the medieval warm period and the so - called little ice age from the 1400s through the 1700s — were global in scope.

Not exact matches

Two examples of climate extremes include periods of intense warm or cool temperatures and significant wet or dry spells across seasons.

Increased odds of warm weather has been forecast more often than cold weather, including a number of spells forecast to be all warm across the U.S.

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SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters)-- Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade - long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist [Peter Baines] said on Wednesday.

In particular, as even a brief perusal of Luning and Varenholt's sources shows, the warm periods shown in their sources are not aligned over a set period and include colder spells within their warm periods which may also not align.

Indeed, it has been suggested that global warming results in more extremes of every kind including exceptional cold spells.

On a regional scale, paleoclimatic data indicate that similar to the instrumental period, warm and dry spells often concur in the Southwest, including during this period (13).

Broecker and Donk (1970); Ruddiman & McIntyre too found evidence in deep - sea cores of faunal change (including one core where the warming was interrupted by a cold spell).