Sentences with phrase «ocean cycles appears»

External factors, like decreased solar and increased volcanic activity, have also played a role in the slowed surface warming, but internal variability due to ocean cycles appears to be the main culprit.

For example, every few years an ocean cycle appears in the Pacific ocean either as an El Niño and La Niña with global temperature and regional precipitation pattern changes.

Not exact matches

Through comparison of the sea - surface temperature data extending back to the 1860s, it has been determined that the Earth's ocean temperature appears to pass through a 10 - year cycle as well as the 3 - year to 4 - year cycle.

Other big differences are removing AQUA and NOAA - 15, which appeared to have an evolving bias based on comparisons to other satellites, especially over oceans where we don't expect diurnal cycle problems to be big.

Yet, we explained there is also reasonable basis for concern that a warming world may at least temporarily increase tornado damage including the fact that oceans are now warmer, and regional ocean circulation cycles such as La Nina / El Nino patterns in the Pacific which affect upper atmospheric conditions appear to becoming more chaotic under the influence of climate change.

The longer ocean cycles also appear to be close integer multiples of the solar cycle, similar to the resonance we see in orbital cycles.

While the warming of global surface temperatures has slowed somewhat, that appears to primarily be due to changing ocean cycles, particularly in the Pacific.

The fact is that there appears to be an ocean driven cycle from MWP to LIA to the Modern Warm Period and we need to bridge the gap from your ENSO work to that longer term cyclical phenomenon.

You wrote, «The fact is that there appears to be an ocean driven cycle from MWP to LIA to the Modern Warm Period and we need to bridge the gap from your ENSO work to that longer term cyclical phenomenon.»

Inspection suggests that the ocean oscillations appear to follow a 60 - year cycle, with approximately 30 years» warming followed by 30 years» cooling.

Strongly fluctuating snow cover in Switzerland appears to be coupled to ocean cycles By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P Gosselin) For those who love snow, there are supposedly dark clouds on the horizon.