Assuming a full - glacial temperature lapse rate of -6 °C / 1000m, depression of
mean annual temperature in glaciated alpine areas was ca 5.4 ± 0.8 °C; it is similar to values of temperature depression (5 - 6.4 °C) for the last glaciation obtained from various terrestrial sites, but contrasts with tropical sea - surface temperature estimates that are only 1 - 3 °C cooler than present.
The clincher for me was when I went to look for the record highest
mean annual temperature in the world.
The corals lie within the Western Pacific Warm Pool, which at present has the highest
mean annual temperature in the world's ocean.
Kump and David Pollard, senior research associate, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, looked for another way to create a world where
mean annual temperatures in the tropics were above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and polar temperatures were in the 50 - degree Fahrenheit range.
Not exact matches
«We see this
in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, where seasonal
temperature variation is sufficient to form and sustain lakes even though
mean annual temperature is well below freezing,» Palumbo said.
These events took place within millennia — fairly quickly, on a climatic time scale — and resulted
in changes of up to 10 degrees Celsius
in mean annual temperatures.
In response, lakebed
temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter (3 feet) deep have warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the past three decades, and during five of the last seven years, the
mean annual lakebed
temperature has been above freezing.
«It is urgent because
in the last 10 years the
annual mean temperature on the Col du Dôme has risen by 1.5 degrees C, from — 14 degrees Celsius to — 12.5 degrees Celsius.»
«
In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climat
In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines
in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climat
in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases
in water temperature under changing climat
in water
temperature under changing climate.
For the change
in annual mean surface air
temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented
in the SAR with a maximum warming
in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum
in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake)(2)
Following its warmest year on record
in 2013 and third warmest
in 2014, 2015 remained warm
in Australia, with the country experiencing its fifth highest nationally - averaged
annual temperature in the 106 - year period of record, with a
mean temperature 0.83 °C (1.49 °F) higher than the 1961 — 1990 average, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
The kinder, gentler model from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
in the United Kingdom estimated a wetter, warmer future: Rainfall may increase 20 percent to 25 percent,
mean annual temperatures could increase 2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2030 and 4 degrees by 2100.
But again, as discussed above, the interannual variability is large even
in the
annual mean and it is difficult to decide if this calculation is the correct answer to the question about
temperature trend
in the stratosphere.....»
That is,
in 1698 the
mean annual temperature was 7.63 deg C following which, apart from a few exceptions, the
temperature increased year on year until 1733 when a
mean of 10.47 deg C was recorded.
Tsushima, Y., A. Abe - Ouchi, and S. Manabe, 2005: Radiative damping of
annual variation
in global
mean surface
temperature: Comparison between observed and simulated feedback.
To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these changes we compile various environmental records (and model - based interpretations of some of them)
in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes on Earth's radiative budget and, thus, on global
annual mean surface
temperature over the last 800,000 years.
The review by O'Gorman et al (3) reports that a 1C increase
in global
mean temperature will result
in a 2 % — 7 % increase
in the precipitation rate; the lower values are results of GCM output, and the upper values are results from regressing estimated
annual rainfalls on
annual mean temperatures.
Abstract:» The sensitivity of global climate with respect to forcing is generally described
in terms of the global climate feedback — the global radiative response per degree of global
annual mean surface
temperature change.
The
mean annual maximum
temperature for 2002 was 0.5 °C warmer than
in 1994 and 1.0 °C warmer than
in 1982.
One finds on the secular time scale that both of the X - and Y - component temporal,
annual - means profiles of the Earth's Orientation mimic exactly the Global Temperature Anomaly (GTA) annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual M
annual -
means profiles of the Earth's Orientation mimic exactly the Global Temperature Anomaly (GTA) annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual Me
means profiles of the Earth's Orientation mimic exactly the Global
Temperature Anomaly (GTA)
annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual M
annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual Me
means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations
in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD)
Annual M
Annual MeansMeans].
Greater numbers of plant species
in ruderal based environments were found
in equatorial areas where the level of water (represented by
mean annual precipitation) related variables are high, whereas competitive and stress tolerant based plant environments were found
in locations where energy (represented by
mean annual temperature) are expressed with greater weight acting on the distribution.
The
mean annual temperature is 80 °F (27 °C), fluctuating from a maximum of 85 °F (29 °C)
in June and August to 75 °F (24 °C)
in December.
The warming trends
in looking at numerous 100 year
temperature plots from northern and high elevation climate stations... i.e. warming trends
in annual mean and minimum
temperature averages, winter monthly
means and minimums and especially winter minimum
temperatures and dewpoints... indicate climate warming that is being driven by the accumulation of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere — no visible effects from other things like changes
in solar radiation or the levels of cosmic rays.
In the
annual mean values and particularly for the
temperatures since the Second World War, the corrections are minimal, as the following graph shows:
... Polar amplification explains
in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases
in CO2 concentration and global
mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface
temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged
temperature change,
in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the
annual cycle.
Overall, ecosystem - driven changes
in chemistry induced climate feedbacks that increased global
mean annual land surface
temperatures by 1.4 and 2.7 K for the 2 × and 4 × CO2 Eocene simulations, respectively, and 2.2 K for the Cretaceous (Fig. 3 E and F).
Abstract:» The sensitivity of global climate with respect to forcing is generally described
in terms of the global climate feedback — the global radiative response per degree of global
annual mean surface
temperature change.
There is a strong correlation between
annual mean temperatures (
in the satellite tropospheric records and surface analyses) and the state of ENSO at the end of the previous year.
This can be done a number of ways, firstly, plotting the observational data and the models used by IPCC with a common baseline of 1980 - 1999
temperatures (as done
in the 2007 report)(Note that the model output is for the
annual mean, monthly variance would be larger):
Yu Kosaka & Shang - Ping Xie, as published
in Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7467/full/nature12534.html): «Despite the continued increase
in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the
annual -
mean global
temperature has not risen
in the twenty - first century1, challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming.»
The time series of the 30 - hPa
annual mean temperatures (Â °C) at the North Pole is shown
in Fig. 19.
Since leaving NWS, I created plots for
annual mean temperature plots at 19 stations
in Alaska (about half inland and half near coastal waters / ice).
See the observations
in Roemmich & Gilson (2009)-- The 2004 - 2008
mean and
annual cycle of
temperature, salinity, and steric height
in the global ocean from the Argo program.
In Fig. 8, I have digitized the outer bounds of the model runs in Fig. 7, and also plotted the HadCRUT3 global annual mean temperature anomaly over the same perio
In Fig. 8, I have digitized the outer bounds of the model runs
in Fig. 7, and also plotted the HadCRUT3 global annual mean temperature anomaly over the same perio
in Fig. 7, and also plotted the HadCRUT3 global
annual mean temperature anomaly over the same period.
Observational errors on any one
annual mean temperature anomaly estimate are around 0.1 deg C, and the errors from the linear fits are given
in the text.
In 2001 Hansen et al. published the following: «The U.S. annual (January - December) mean temperature is slightly warmer in 1934 than in 1998 in the GISS analysis (Plate 6
In 2001 Hansen et al. published the following: «The U.S.
annual (January - December)
mean temperature is slightly warmer
in 1934 than in 1998 in the GISS analysis (Plate 6
in 1934 than
in 1998 in the GISS analysis (Plate 6
in 1998
in the GISS analysis (Plate 6
in the GISS analysis (Plate 6).
The term «climate sensitivity» refers to the steady - state increase
in the global
annual mean surface air
temperature associated with a given global
mean radiative forcing.
Alan, the black line represent
annual mean temperatures from 1880 — 2008, that's why the graph contains 2008
in its title.
«
In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.&raqu
In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase
in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.&raqu
in the
annual mean global
temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»
The average location therefore has NOT actually experienced an increase
in mean annual temperature clearly outside the range of normal variation for that location.
Figure B shows the scenario for the change
in annual mean temperature per 1 C global warming using this method for 248 meteorological stations.
By comparing modelled and observed changes
in such indices, which include the global
mean surface
temperature, the land - ocean
temperature contrast, the
temperature contrast between the NH and SH, the
mean magnitude of the
annual cycle
in temperature over land and the
mean meridional
temperature gradient
in the NH mid-latitudes, Braganza et al. (2004) estimate that anthropogenic forcing accounts for almost all of the warming observed between 1946 and 1995 whereas warming between 1896 and 1945 is explained by a combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing and internal variability.
Tropical Atlantic (10 ° N — 20 ° N) sea surface
temperature annual anomalies (°C)
in the region of Atlantic hurricane formation, relative to the 1961 to 1990
mean.
As ECS showed
in their paper (Table 1), the high - frequency correlations with NH
mean annual temperatures after 20 - year high - pass filtering is only 0.15.
The reason I am persisting with this is that I think there has been no plateau
in Global warming over the last 10 years, as every year has been above average thus the average of the population is increasing,
meaning Annual Global Average
Temperature has been increasing.
««Removing the
annual emissions traced to 90 major carbon producers from the best estimate full historical forcing case shows that the combustion of their products from 1880 to 2010 led to a 0.4 (± 0.01) °C increase
in [global
mean standard
temperature]...» This claim is absolutely bogus.
Interestingly the highest
mean annual temperature observed anywhere on the earth is a salt desert
in Ethiopia near the equator (34.4 C).
An analysis of data pertaining to the period 1861 — 1986 reveals that (1) a 1 °C rise
in the
mean annual air
temperature of the British Isles has historically been associated with a 35 % drop
in the percentage of days that the United Kingdom has experienced cyclonic flow, and (2) a 2 °C increase
in the
mean annual air
temperature over the sea to the north has typically been matched by a 60 % drop
in the percentage of days that the isles have experienced cyclonic flow originating from that source region.
Figure 1, above: Global
mean annual average
temperature in the simulations with time - varying long - lived species only (top) and due to short - lived species (bottom).
Their «SAT» refers to
mean annual surface air
temperature in the zone from 70 to 85 degrees N for the years 1900 to 2007