Sentences with phrase «observed energy budget»
The observed energy budget is just one of them.
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However, radiation changes at the top of the atmosphere from the 1980s to 1990s, possibly related in part to the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, appear to be associated with reductions in tropical upper - level cloud cover, and are linked to changes in the energy budget at the surface and changes in observed ocean heat content.
The researchers investigated the thermodynamic forces within this wave by performing an energy budget analysis on simulations of two MJO episodes observed during the winter of 2007 - 2008.
The Holy Grail of climatology has always been to ascertain whether, and if so how, the sun might affect the Earth's energy budget to cause the climate swings observed throughout history despite the apparent inadequacy of the tiny variations in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) that occur from one series of solar cycles to another.
The results of several current climate model simulations fail to predict this large observed variation in tropical energy budget.
The rate of sea - level rise is the hockey - stick blade; the relative stability of sea - level since Roman times is the hockey - stick shaft; and sea - level satisfies the NASA / JPL V&V of being a multiply - observed, experimentally robust, globally integrative measure of the earth's energy budget.
An energy budget calculation shows that the energy trapped by clouds accounts for little of the observed climate variations.»
More than that, he is lamenting that our «observing system» is inadequate to be able to accurately balance the planet's energy budget.
The analysis by Trenberth and Fasullo (2010) of the total energy budget, which reveals missing energy in recent years because the ocean heat content has not kept up with the excess of incoming radiation at the top of atmosphere, reveals shortcomings in the total observing system.
The whole idea of dealing with global mean temperatures and averaged - out energy budgets is by itself crude, and one commenter at least has noted that when an observed global warming of the order of 1C is small compared to the coarseness and sensitivity of such back of an envelope calculations, we need to look elsewhere to resolve disputes.
Chen, J., 2005: Understanding the Observed Tropical and Midlatitude Radiative Energy Budget in the Context of Long - Term Climate Variations.