Sentences with phrase «occur over land»

The largest increase in precipitation will occur over land in the tropics where the atmosphere is warming quickest.

Although substantial interdecadal variability is present in the time series, long - term decreases in upper - level cloud cover occur over land and ocean at low and middle latitudes in both hemispheres.

Importantly: That same phase change occurs over land in temperate climates, especially the wide flat expanses of the center of North America.

While this is categorically false (the last decade was the warmest on record and 2005 and 2010 are generally considered tied for the warmest year), scientists do admit that warming hasn't occurred over land as rapidly as predicted in the last ten years, especially given continually rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Tisdale is too focused on the messy ocean surface variability to think about the simpler, but more relevant, things occurring over the land.

-- That a reduction on cloud cover over this period resulted in 2.3 Wm - 2 added warming of the Earth's surface — That most of this occurred over land, the northern hemisphere and over the North Atlantic Ocean (including Greenland).

By holding that an act can only attract the «future act» processes if it occurs over lands or waters where a determination of native title has already been made, this decision ensures that the future acts regime would never operate in regard to registered native title claimants.

Not exact matches

Occasional remarks are found such as «before there reigned any king over the children of Israel» (Genesis 36:31), which seem to imply that from the standpoint of the writer the monarchy had already been established; and «the Canaanite was then in the land» (Genesis 12:6, 13:7), which implied that it was being written after Hebrew occupation; and finally repeated instances of the use of the phrase «on the other side of the Jordan,» in reference to events occurring in the lifetime of Moses, which led scholars to doubt if Moses could have been the author at least of the whole of the Pentateuch.

Once they land, scientists will begin analyzing data from the men to study changes that occurred in their bodies over an extended stay in space.

First, the geographic differences in concentrations reveal that sources occur predominantly over land in the more heavily populated Northern Hemisphere.

Many scientists question his interpretations: Impacts are most likely to occur over the ocean, and small ones that happen over land are most likely to affect unpopulated areas.

Another aspect that Beach is studying is whether Mayan practices of clearing upland wetland land for farming and using central reservoirs and canals «could be part of this broader increase of methane that has occurred over the later Holocene.»

Theirs is the first study investigating land - atmosphere interactions to determine both the strength of the predictive mechanism between variables and the time scale over which these links occur.

«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.

The biggest temperature changes were projected to occur over needleleaf forests, tundra and agricultural land used to grow crops.

Warming has occurred in both land and ocean domains, and in both sea surface temperature (SST) and nighttime marine air temperature over the oceans.

The abstract includes the statement: «Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land.»

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

Once the parachute is deployed the pilot has little control over where landing occurs.

Battles aren't broken up into stages, but various battles that correspond to the era will occur all over the land, which you will participate in.

Wild et al., using measurements over land, report brightening since 1990, [13][32][33] and Pinker et al. [34] found that slight dimming continued over land while brightening occurred over the ocean.

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

In the summer months, land temperatures are higher than sea temperatures and the heaviest showers occur over eastern England.

Diurnal temperature range (DTR) has decreased over land by about 0.4 °C over the last 50 years, with most of that change occurring prior to 1980 (Section 3.2.2.1).

For the twenty - first century, warming of 3.2 — 4.0 °C (2.4 — 2.6 °C) over drylands (humid lands) could occur when global warming reaches 2.0 °C, indicating ∼ 44 % more warming over drylands than humid lands.

Although previous studies have offered a general global overview of water circulation between the oceans and land, this traditional two - region model does not take into account the considerable precipitation that occurs over tropical coastal regions, including the Indonesian maritime continent, the Indian subcontinent, and the Bay of Bengal.

A long - term decline in the magnitude of estimated shortwave CCRF occurs over low - latitude land and ocean, but comparison with ERBS all - sky reflected shortwave radiation during 1985 — 1997 suggests this decrease may be underestimated.»

From the article:... Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human - caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century, a study has found.

So perhaps less than 1 m / s over ocean and so some number closer to 10 m / s occurs over smaller the surface area of land.

Flooding is made worse when extreme rainfall occurs over impervious land (such as roads and buildings) and the rain can not soak in.

Environmental groups within RSPO tried to mandate that future oil palm expansion can only occur on land with net carbon storage lower than oil palm (less than 40 tons of carbon per hectare averaged over the 25 - 30 year lifespan of an plantation).

«Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land.

The oceanic influence has occurred through hydrodynamic - radiative teleconnections, primarily by moistening and warming the air over land and increasing the downward longwave radiation at the surface.

The global warming century trend that was observed from 1906 to 2005 was 0.74 °C (with a 90 % uncertainty range of 0.56 °C to 0.92 °C), with more warming occurring in the Northern over Southern Hemispheres, and more over land compared to oceans.

If emission analyses consider empirical data reflecting the progressive degradation that occurs (often over decades) before and independently of agriculture market signals for land use, as well as changes in the frequency and extent of fire in areas that biofuels help bring into more stable market economies, then the resulting carbon emission estimates would be worlds apart.

Winds quickly drive CO2 away from the sunny regions where it is being released so it is easy to envisage Henry's Law applying in a particular location but if the CO2 rich air is being constantly removed then more outgassing can then occur in the same region and it is not hard to envisage an accumulation of CO2 downwind or over land masses where the wind flow slows down.

Insignificant forcings from non-atmospheric anthropogenic factors (like the dramatic changes to land use that have occurred over the past 100 years).

«Observed DTR over land shows a large negative trend of ~ 0.4 °C over the last 50 years that is very unlikely to have occurred due to internal variability.

Integrating all changes that may occur on a watershed with the potential to impact coastal pH downstream (e.g. changes in land use, nutrient export, changes in runoff, changes in industrial and urban exports of alkalinity, mining activities) over a century timescale is challenging.

Indeed, the most exhaustive research I know on how land use affects travel behavior found that location — measured by, among other things, the distance from the regional center — is by far the most significant determinant of how much household driving will occur, over time, from a given location.

Therefore, any theoretical possibility of changes like those in LU run 1 occurring in the real world seems irrelevant when estimating the effects of land use change on deriving TCR and ECS values from recorded warming over the historical period.

«With a high scenario for future greenhouse gas emissions, the largest warming occurs over the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, but all land areas warm dramatically,» remarked Field

So whilst most of the radiation losses (over land) within the atmospheric windows will occur during the period between mid morning and early evening, radiation at wavelengths around the absorption peaks will be pretty constant during any given 24 hours.

Looking at the year in terms of monthly averages, the largest anomalies in sea ice tend to occur during the winter months, in contrast to values over the whole of the Arctic, where winter ice is largely land - locked and the largest anomalies tend to occur in summer.

The accident occurred at 11:20 a.m. Police determined that the accident occurred as a 1999 Land Rover headed south, crossed over the median at a high speed and crashed into a 2013 Lexus that was driving northbound.

Police determined that the accident occurred as a 1999 Land Rover headed south, crossed over the median at a high speed and crashed into a 2013 Lexus that was driving northbound.

The producers of La La Land accepted that an error had occurred, didn't whine or delay, and with considerable grace and no hesitation handed over the statues.

Once the parachute is deployed the pilot has little control over where landing occurs.

By our silence we have allowed this suffering to occur and continue, through the removal of children from their natural parents and environment, and by taking over the land without recognition of the nature of the relationship of Indigenous people to the land, or proper consideration of the impact on Indigenous people and their culture.

Determining extinguishment did not require the breakdown of this community title into its constituent parts, but rather occurred where there was an assertion by the Crown, through legislation or executive act, to exercise permanent adverse dominion over the land.