Sentences with phrase «long weather records»

This NWS weather record for Barrow has data stretching back to 1901, making it one of the longest weather records available for the Arctic.

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Additionally, investors looking to invest in this space should seek out companies with a long track record and a healthy balance sheet that would be capable of weathering a sustained period of above - average catastrophe claims.

Less lift means an aircraft can carry less weight, but it also means an airplane — especially a weighty one — needs a longer runway in hot weather, a restriction that can lead to flight delays or cancellations like those caused by record - breaking heat in Phoenix last month.

The costly disaster follows on the heels of a record - breaking year for devastation wrought by the vagaries of the weather and longer - term climate conditions.

Also, historical weather records are not reliable for long enough to make strong statistical connections.

The researchers compared this long fire record with weather patterns: the well - known El Nino and La Nina cycles that occur every two to seven years, as well as longer cycles called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

Suomi NPP's job is to collect environmental observations of atmosphere, ocean and land for both NOAA's weather and oceanography operational missions and NASA's research mission to continue the long - term climate record to better understand Earth's climate and long - term trends.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in global warming — caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.

Tethered moorings and platforms are designed to reliably collect, record, and transmit accurate data while submerged in corrosive saltwater and exposed to extreme weather conditions for long periods of time.

In 2012, for example, longer - than - normal fire weather seasons across an unprecedented 47.4 % of the vegetated area of the US (Fig. 4, 2012) culminated in a near - record setting ∼ 3.8 MHa of burned area.

Los Angeles» weather - related woes aren't finished.On Monday, the area reported a record - breaking heatwave in Long Beach, Santa Ana and Newport Beach,... Read More

Manchester Airport saw a 6.2 per cent year - on - year increase in passengers last month, breaking its all - time record in the process — thanks partly to the poor weather in November 2014 and the rise in long - haul traffic.

Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN / VHS» quiet, small works show — which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media — focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City's artist - run SP Weather Station....»

In conjunction with the exhibition Featured Artist Project: SP Weather Reports (2008 - 2013) on view from January 17 — March 29, we are pleased to announce the publication of Six Years of Weather, which compiles tables of all weather data recorded at the SPWS station base in Long Island City since the project began.

Featuring long takes of the weathered modules surrounded by the encroaching jungle, and environmental recordings layered with a composition by electronic musician Karl Fousek, Hartt's piece offers a study of this unrealized experimental project — and the optimism from which it was conceived — recontextualized within the political and economic struggles of contemporary Puerto Rico.

In this case, they have the long records from the weather stations, and the relationship of the wider temperatures to those stations over the satellite period, and this is what you get when you put that together.

Well my point is that a model that is tuned to match a climate signal only, should not track, accurately, a record that is both a climate and weather signal especially when we know that these medium term effects can be quite strong, even if they cycle out in the longer term.

You might be aware of the myriad weather records that were smashed in queensland last year, again due to blocking highs causing record long periods of extreme temps to hover over us for weeks.

Secondly, through the copious use of station weather data, a number of single station records with long term cooling trends are shown.

thus, it will take longer and longer for cold / cooler weather records to be broken, whereas hot / warmer records will be broken more and more frequently.

With record - breaking temperatures year after year and escalating extreme weather and climate impacts, the need for adaptation has long been apparent.

No local weather data have been collected for several years, and without a long - term record it is difficult to spot trends that might indicate a return of drought conditions, said Dr. Barlow at Columbia.

It possible that by understanding the possible warming bias and inaccuracies in surface weather stations that can gain more confident in using these records, thereby have longer accurate record of average temperatures.

You can see the full list of 150 locations with long - standing weather data and their records here.

Science Corrupted: It's «the hottest year on record», as long as you don't take its temperature — Activist James Hansen's claims based on «pure conjecture» — Hansen's Climate Con: «The parts of the world which GISS shows to be heating up the most are so short of weather stations that only 25 per cent of the figures are based on actual temperature readings»

They compared historical weather records, an 1,800 - year - long simulation of the climate pre-Industrial-Revolution, and 40 simulations of climate change from 1920 to 2100 (assuming high future greenhouse gas emissions).

Surely, there's got to be some other global warming indicator that shows a long - term global warming trend...» Remarkably, aside from the weather station record estimates, almost all of the so - called «global warming indicators» are short - term estimates...

In fact, a major rationale for doing reanalysis at all was the possibility to create long records of weather, using modern analysis / forecast systems, and without the operational discontinuities.

For Barrow's long term weather record, we have to instead rely on the National Weather Service (NWS) weather station which is located in the middle of the town.

The thermometer - based estimates only cover a century or so, so if the proxy - based estimates do not even agree with the weather stations during the short period in which both records overlap, how confident can we be in the proxy records for longer periods, such as the last millennium?

Comparison between temperature trends for two of the longest weather station records for the Arctic.

Then, it might be possible to make some meaningful estimates of long - term global temperature trends from the weather records.

Tony Brown's «Long Slow Thaw» based on CET records and later supported by C Loehle's multi proxy climate study, cross references voluminous empiric data on weather across regions, UK and Europe eg frost fairs, crop failure data, famine reorts and farmers» accounts of seasonal shifts in planting times.

This is incorrect for the modern record and even more inaccurate for the long - term pattern of weather and climate on the prairies.

Perhaps the sub-decadal escalator steps we see like the ones http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:101/mean:103/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:29/mean:31/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1979/to:1988/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1987.5/to:1995.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1996.5/to:2001.5/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2003/to:2008/trend/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:72/trend from ’79 to» 88, ’87 to» 95, ’96 to» 01, ’03 to ’08 and in the last six years all forming part of the longest and sharpest sustained rising global interpolated surface weather station temperature rise on record tell us not to be overly interested in a short - term variation in what is, after all, much less measured and much more difficult to measure?

Jeff Knight said: «Our analysis shows that climate change likely did make a contribution to the record rainfall in 2013 - 14 through a long - term increase in UK winter rainfall that is not associated with changing weather patterns.

The record snows across the United States this winter may be seen as a harbinger of the extreme weather expected from global warming, but figuring out how much the planet is warming and what the impact might be will take long - term studies.

Not only does this low - pressure area, or cyclone, look bigger, more intense and longer - lasting than the one from last year, the ice also seems to be in a weaker state than ever, as evidenced by the fact that 2012 trend lines on both sea ice area and sea ice extent graphs track lower than previous record years, despite weather that until recently would completely stall the decline.

It underscored the lack of long detailed weather records and that became the focus of a doctoral thesis.

The Bremen team says that the natural variations of weather can no longer account for this continuing trend to record minimums.

Logic also says if numerous weather reporting stations from the former Soviet block are no longer reporting the previous records ought be removed.

OZ, India, USA etc have experienced very extreme long periods of drought and flooding over the paleoclimate record and at present we are fortunate that we live in a modern era with better monitoring and forecasting of weather, backed up with modern technology plus the ability (if we have the brains) to quickly use more R&D.

Most mainstream scientists would show the more reliable and longer temperature record based on weather stations -LSB-...]»

Long - term, independent records from weather stations, satellites, ocean buoys, tide gauges, and many other data sources all confirm that our nation, like the rest of the world, is warming.

Pierre Potin, ESA's Manager of the Copernicus Sentinel - 1 Mission which was used in the study, said: «We will continue to use Sentinel - 1's all weather, day - night imaging capability to extend the long term climate data record from European satellites.»

Finally, unlike precipitation, for which long and reliable historical records exist in some parts of the world, records for other aspects of weather are too short to detect trends or contain observational biases that render trends meaningless.

He pointed to extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy, the longer Western wildfire season, and temperature records over the last decade.

Records show that current weather extremes are well within long - term natural variability.