Sentences with phrase «net planetary energy»

The resulting net planetary energy imbalance for the six years 2005 — 2010 is +0.58 ± 0.15 W / m2.

The resulting net planetary energy imbalance for the six years 2005 — 2010 is +0.58 ± 0.15 W / m2.

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This net loss / gain of planetary energy during El Niño / La Niña is ishown in figure 3 for the tropics (a) and the global situation (b).

Smaller contributions to planetary energy imbalance are from heat gain by the deeper ocean (+0.10 W / m2), energy used in net melting of ice (+0.05 W / m2), and energy taken up by warming continents (+0.02 W / m2).

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.

A better metric to gauge to real planetary effects of the TOA GHG induced imbalance is of course to combine combine troposphere anomalies with ocean heat content anomalies, as well as cryosphere anomalies, to get a net Earth system energy imbalance.

A slower growth rate of the net climate forcing may have contributed to the standstill of global temperature in the past decade, but it can not explain the standstill, because it is known that the planet has been out of energy balance, more energy coming in from the sun than energy being radiated to space.10 The planetary energy imbalance is due largely to the increase of climate forcings in prior decades and the great thermal inertia of the ocean.