Sentences with phrase «land and ocean»

These two datasets are blended into a single product to produce the combined global land and ocean temperature anomalies.

The year 2010 tied with 2005 in all three global - scale components: the global land temperature, the global ocean temperature, and the global land and ocean surface temperature.

But there do seem to be significant discrepancies in differential rates of warming between land and ocean in the three surface data sets.

The graphs on the right show the mean carbon uptake by land and ocean for each latitude line corresponding with the adjacent maps.

Plants on land and the oceans absorb CO2, reducing the amount of warming we experience.

Key climate targets might not be met if future land and ocean sinks weaken in ways we can not now predict.

The range would be pushed even higher if climate - greenhouse gas feedbacks from land and ocean carbon sinks were also included.

About half of the current carbon dioxide emissions are taken up by land and ocean carbon sinks.

First, what meaning can be derived from the difference between land and ocean anomalies?

However, as the snow and ice melts, it's replaced by dark land and ocean, both of which absorb energy.

The following figure shows land and ocean temperature changes relative to the average from 1850 to 1900.

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

Warming has occurred in both land and ocean domains, and in both sea surface temperature (SST) and nighttime marine air temperature over the oceans.

The following table lists the global combined land and ocean annually - averaged temperature rank and anomaly for each of the 16 (two tied at # 15) warmest years on record.

Changes in the ocean, ocean chemistry and biology on land and ocean need a lot of study.

Particularly, the explosive land and ocean floor - altering nature of this specific carbon feedback makes it especially troubling.

Raw combined land / ocean temperatures were estimated by averaging raw land and ocean temperatures weighted by the percent of the globe covered by each.

Of course land and ocean temperature data tell a different story.

Temperature anomalies for land and ocean are analyzed separately and then merged to form the global analysis.

The temperature that climate scientists typically reference and care about with regard to climate change is «the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas».

Surface air temperatures for the four individual seasons of 2017 were also higher than the averages for 1981 - 2010 over many areas of land and ocean.

About half of the emissions of CO2 each year remain in the atmosphere; the other half is taken up by the ecosystems on land and the oceans.

The ocean is retaining heat at the right amount to explain the difference between land and ocean warming rates.

A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.

Since the emissions today are three times higher than they were in the 1960s, this increased uptake by land and ocean is not only surprising; it's good news.

With two months remaining, the 2017 global land and ocean temperature will likely end among the three highest in the 138 - year record.

But overall, land and ocean temperatures were several degrees above normal.

First, what meaning can be derived from the difference between land and ocean anomalies?

Decay of a CO2 excess amount of 5000 PgC emitted at time zero into the atmosphere, and its subsequent redistribution into land and ocean as a function of time, computed by coupled carbon - cycle climate models.

Nothing to do with land and oceans at all — raising the flag to see if anyone salutes — and certainly nothing like your simplistic and misguided algebra.

The average atmospheric water vapour content has increased since at least the 1980s over land and ocean as well as in the upper troposphere.

As a suppmentary question I have always been unsure whether the «Ocean» in Global Mean Surface Temperature based on Land and Ocean means the air about a metre above the surface as it does for land, i.e. taken from small islands, buoys and ships, or is it the the temperature of the ocean water at the surface?

The issue of land and ocean based oil spills are dwarfed however, when compared to the threat of global warming.