Sentences with phrase «mean annual temperature in»

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 climatIn 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 climatin mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climatin 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 Mannual - 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 Memeans 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 Mannual 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 Memeans 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 MAnnual 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 perioIn 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 perioin 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 6In 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 6in 1934 than in 1998 in the GISS analysis (Plate 6in 1998 in the GISS analysis (Plate 6in 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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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
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