Sentences with phrase «limited ocean measurements»

But so far, limited ocean measurements show the AMOC to be far more capricious than the models have been able to capture.

Not exact matches

On - site measurements in the Southern Ocean still require enormous efforts, so they are quite limited,» says Dr. Martin.

That is a question climate scientists have so far been unable to answer because of limited opportunities to take robust ocean - atmosphere measurements around the planet and because of inherent challenges in existing computer models.

These monitors provided detailed local measurements but due to their limited range, oceans and low - population areas were poorly represented.

Note that this sampling noise in the tide gauge data most likely comes from the water sloshing around in the ocean under the influence of winds etc., which looks like sea - level change if you only have a very limited number of measurement points, although this process can not actually change the true global - mean sea level.

The team estimate that the extent of warming in the southern hemisphere oceans since 1970 could be more than twice what has been inferred from the limited direct measurements we have for this region.

Because the GISS analysis combines available sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices for the ocean data, showing that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.

My limited understanding is that if I take a temperature measurement at a ship on the Pacific Ocean (Surface Temperature) then fly up to the Lower Troposphere some 8 to 15 Klms above my position the Temperature measurement will be cooler.

While measurements of deep - ocean temperatures existed further back in the past, they were taken only in limited locations until 1999, when Argo buoys were widely deployed.

Briefly, there are so many known unknowns on the measurement of ocean pH, especially those from years ago, that the error limits are quite wide.

For detail on the ocean measurement system and its limits, then I guess start with Von Schuckmann and La Treon.

I suppose we would need to know more about ocean temperatures before the 1950s to confirm that, but based on the limited timespan of measurements it's an interesting possibility.

However, our understanding of how the ocean impacts the global mean surface temperature is strongly limited by available observations, which historically have consisted primarily of sea surface temperature (SST) measurements.

Unlike IR measurements, which are limited to cloud - free areas, microwave retrievals provide a largely uninterrupted view of the surface temperature over the world's oceans.

QuikSCAT measurements are also limited to a spatial resolution of 12.5 km and are not routinely made closer than about 30 km from land.26 Many in the microwave breakout group argued that high priority should be given to a sustained, more capable, next - generation scatterometer program that can meet these requirements while at the same time continuing the ocean surface vector winds CDR established by QuikSCAT.

Such field measurements are sparse, however, and the record of remotely sensed ocean color observations — the chief source of global biogeochemical data today — is limited to the sea surface and does not include a number of key variables.