Sentences with phrase «measure global heat content»

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For a long time now climatologists have been tracking the global average air temperature as a measure of planetary climate variability and trends, even though this metric reflects just a tiny fraction of Earth's net energy or heat content.

Secondly, unlike the global average surface temperature trend, which has a lag with respect to radiative forcing, there is no such lag when heat content is measured in Joules (see http://blue.atmos.colostate.edu/publications/pdf/R-247.pdf).

Because minimum temperatures in the stable boundary layer are not very robust measures of the heat content in the deep atmosphere and climate models do not predict minimum temperatures well, minimum temperatures should not be used as a surrogate for measures of deep atmosphere global warming.»

Dana, I think you are pushing in the right direction with this; heat content is a much more direct measure of the underlying changes to the climate system than average air temperatures and climate science communicators should make heat content their first response to the suggestion that global warming is something that waxes and (allegedly, recently) wanes.

The demonstrated ability of GRACE to measure interannual OBP variability on a global scale is unprecedented and has important implications for assessing deep ocean heat content and ocean dynamics.

Arguably, the most appropriate single variable in the Earth's system that can be used to measure global warming is ocean heat content - from the surface to the seafloor.

«In summary, given the lack of observational robustness of minimum temperatures, the fact that the shallow nocturnal boundary layer does not reflect the heat content of the deeper atmosphere, and problems global models have in replicating nocturnal boundary layers, it is suggested that measures of large - scale climate change should only use maximum temperature trends.»

«If you aren't measuring heat content in the upper ocean, you aren't measuring global warming.»

The paper Cooling of the global ocean since 2003 (Loehles 2009) looks at ocean heat content as measured by Argo.

For example, if you could get a futures contract up and running which paid off against say an index of ocean heat content which is probably the best measured and by far the most important global metric available, you would find out in short order what the market really thought about AGW.

If we could land a man on the moon, why can't we measure the damn ocean heat content, before turning over control of the global energy economy to R. Gates, fan and Jim D?

«Global Warming» can be much more accurately monitored in terms of an increase in the global annual average heat content measured in JGlobal Warming» can be much more accurately monitored in terms of an increase in the global annual average heat content measured in Jglobal annual average heat content measured in Joules.

You get much scarier headlines with threats of 6C increases in «global average temperature» than you do in whatever the measure is of the total climate system's heat content.

Ignores ocean heat content accumulation, which is the key measure of global warming.]