Sentences with phrase «ocean surface temperatures directly»

The authors propose that higher ocean surface temperatures directly cause the decline in cirrus clouds by changing the dynamics of cloud formation and rainfall.

But the fact remains that they are distinct, showing that rising global ocean surface temperatures directly influence UK winter rainfall.

Not exact matches

There's no satellite in space that's capable of directly measuring ocean acidity, but an international team of scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology described last week how satellite measurements of sea surface temperatures, salinity and plankton activity could be combined and used to estimate pH.

Long waves (infrared) light from the sun, GHGs, clouds, are trapped at the surface of the oceans, directly leading to increased «skin» temperature, more water vapor (a very effective GHG), faster convection (with more loss of heat to space in the tropics),... How each of them converts to real regional / global temperature increases / decreases is another point of discussion...

Insolation directly affects ocean surface temperatures (and longer term ocean heat content).

Ocean surface temperatures depend on ocean circulation currents like which vary like ENSO, that have intrinsic variations not directly affected by CO2, as well as Volcanoes and aeroOcean surface temperatures depend on ocean circulation currents like which vary like ENSO, that have intrinsic variations not directly affected by CO2, as well as Volcanoes and aeroocean circulation currents like which vary like ENSO, that have intrinsic variations not directly affected by CO2, as well as Volcanoes and aerosals.

«The fastest alterations occur at the surface, where the ocean is directly exposed to the rising carbon dioxide concentration and increasing temperature of the atmosphere.

For example, Peilke's argument that Ocean Heat Content is more meaningful and arguments that surface temperature is «meaningless» are not addressed directly.

And while many factors shape sea surface temperatures in a given place, the overall trend — directly linked to climate change — is toward hotter oceans.

With an avg surface temperature of the oceans of ~ 290K without atmosphere they would radiate directly to space ~ 400W / m ^ 2 (and start cooling down rapidly).

Spencer / Braswell and Lindzen / Choi look at the relationship between changes in ocean heat, cloud cover (directly affecting the amount of heat lost to space), and global surface temperature over recent decades.

It is not «conduction» but exchange of radiation; if you keep your hands parallel at a distance of some cm the right hand does not (radiatively) «warm» the left hand or vice versa albeit at 33 °C skin temperature they exchange some hundreds of W / m ² (about 500 W / m ²) The solar radiation reaching the surface (for 71 % of the surface, the oceans) is lost by evaporation (or evapotranspiration of the vegetation), plus some convection (20 W / ²) and some radiation reaching the cosmos directly through the window 8µm to 12 µm (about 20 W / m ² «global» average); only the radiative heat flow surface to air (absorbed by the air) is negligible (plus or minus); the non radiative (latent heat, sensible heat) are transferred for surface to air and compensate for a part of the heat lost to the cosmos by the upper layer of the water vapour displayed on figure 6 - C.

The oceans can impact global mean surface temperature in several ways; directly, through surface fluxes of heat, or indirectly, by altering the atmospheric circulation and impacting the distribution of clouds and water vapor.