Sentences with phrase «likely atmospheric heat»

That means it's likely atmospheric heat rather than lack of snow is driving the glacier retreat.

Not exact matches

Of course, the extra heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is likely to play a bigger role than raindrop friction in any atmospheric changes.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

Gray believes that the increased atmospheric heat — which he calls a «small warming» — is ``... likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.»

It will also increase vital heat transfer about the planet too, helping resist atmospheric collapse likely on the permanently cold night side of any synchronous planet.

Black et al. (15) analyzed basic factors that likely contributed to the summer 2003 European heat wave, examining large - scale atmospheric flow, regional heat budget at the top of the atmosphere, and sea surface temperature.

Not all at once of course, but as mentioned above, when the PDO goes positive, we can likely expect a significant change in the atmospheric heat content as heat energy is transferred from the deep oceans back into the atmosphere.

More likely, Earth's continuing decline in atmospheric temperatures will resume after the current minor rising blip is over, just as the Sun, our source of heat and light, is signaling and consistent with the continuing cooling of Earth through a significant portion of its long history.

Elsewhere on this site there is a graph of overall ocean heat content which is building indicating that while the sst is decreasing slightly the overall ocean is warming, It is likely that this overall ocean warming which has nothing to do with changes to the atmospheric temperature because it is the sea surface and not the deep ocean that is in contact with the atmosphere is what is resulting in the overall rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration which is currenly increasing at 2ppmv / year.

Much of the warming in the Arctic in the 20s and 40s, as well as in recent decades was likely due to increased ventilation of ocean heat after sea ice was reduced by intruding warm water and the altered atmospheric circulation.

The detrimental effect of extreme summer heat is likely to be further exacerbated by increased atmospheric moisture.

For Europe specifically, it is estimated that the CO2 flux from land vegetation contributes to reduce the global net flux associated with atmospheric growth of CO2, but the relative magnitude of this sink has been decreasing since the 1990s (from capturing 40 % of the global growth previously, to about 20 % now), likely further to changes in the atmospheric transport of heat and humidity over Europe.

However, it is likely that at night (when there is no incoming solar energy) or at other times when atmospheric conditions are such that there is a temperature inversion, any LWIR that has been delayed has sufficient opportunity to radiate to space there by meaning that no excess heat is «trapped» (ie., the heat in the atmosphere does not build up).

If we can increase atmospheric CO2 without rich nations suffering, say, killer heat waves, then it's more likely that we'll just continue burning all the coal'til it's gone.