Sentences with phrase «large warming spike»

1998 experienced an historic El Nino event (more than 2 standard deviations above the mean) which caused a large warming spike that year.

Not exact matches

Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from the El Niño, along with a devastated infrastructure and an influx of people into larger cities, likely caused the spike in Zika cases, Sorensen said.

The latest spike in sea lion strandings began before the current El Niño pattern took hold, and before the large expanse of warm water known as «the blob» began dominating West Coast Waters in 2014.

In mid-September, a surge of warm air caused a spike in surface melting in southern Greenland — one of the largest spikes to occur in September since 1978.

It's also home to some mysterious weather: Whereas the rest of the world has warmed, the region's summer temperatures have dropped as much as a full degree Celsius, and rainfall has increased up to 35 %, the largest spike anywhere in the world.

Rather, it is because the warmth in these different regions was not synchronous, which means that when you average over the whole hemisphere, you get a broad, diffuse bump rather than the more dramatic spike we get over the past several decades when most places have warmed with a large degree of synchronicity.

Note the large negative spikes when geoengineering is turned off: the land, adjusting to the sudden warming, spits out much of the carbon that it had previously absorbed.

Large temperature spikes like the current global warming would have shown up in the proxy record as changes in the type of plants growing in the mid latitudes as is seen with the northward shift of the growing regions at present.

Superimposed on the long - term trends are occasional global warming spikes, «hyperthermals», most prominently the Palaeocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at approximately 56 Myr BP [12] and the Mid-Eocene Climatic Optimum at approximately 42 Myr BP [13], coincident with large temporary increases of atmospheric CO2.