The role of ocean — atmosphere coupling in the zonal -
mean atmospheric response to Arctic sea ice loss.
Not exact matches
The climate sensitivity classically defined is the
response of global
mean temperature to a forcing once all the «fast feedbacks» have occurred (
atmospheric temperatures, clouds, water vapour, winds, snow, sea ice etc.), but before any of the «slow» feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.).
The climate sensitivity classically defined is the
response of global
mean temperature to a forcing once all the «fast feedbacks» have occurred (
atmospheric temperatures, clouds, water vapour, winds, snow, sea ice etc.), but before any of the «slow» feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon cycle etc.).
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Response: Depends a bit on whether you
mean basic
atmospheric physics, or of - climate - change.
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Response: In this context it
means the downward branch of the
atmospheric Hadley circulation which exists in the sub-tropics to balance the upward mass flux that occurs near the equator.
This
means that if the
mean atmospheric pressure varies from year to year (or seasonally) there is a detectable
response.
DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would
mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in
response to a doubling of
atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.
This
means it will take centuries to millennia for deep ocean temperatures to warm in
response to today's surface conditions, and at least as long for ocean warming to reverse after
atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations decrease (virtually certain).
Both values are projected global
mean surface temperature changes in
response to doubled
atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations but on different timescales.»
However, considerable evidence (8 ⇓ ⇓ — 11, 31 ⇓ — 33) simultaneously suggests that the
response of northeastern Pacific
atmospheric circulation to anthropogenic warming is likely to be complex and spatiotemporally inhomogeneous, and that changes in the
atmospheric mean state may not be reflective of changes in the risk of extreme events (including
atmospheric configurations conducive to precipitation extremes).
An overall increase in global -
mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in
response to human - induced increases in
atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping «greenhouse gases.»
Scientific term ##### Public
meaning ##### Better choice enhance ######### improve ########## intensify, increase aerosol ########## spray can ######### tiny
atmospheric particle positive trend ####### good trend ####### upward trend positive feedback ##### good
response, praise ##### vicious cycle, self - reinforcing cycle
Modeledzonal
mean atmospheric temperature change (ºC per century, 1890 - 1999) in
response to five distinct forcings (a-e), and to all five forcings combined (f).