Sentences with phrase «of high northern latitudes»

For example, if he knows a way of growing millions of tons of corn on recently thawed - out permafrost bog with the sunlight constraints of high northern latitudes, then he should let the rest of the world know!

Peoples of the high northern latitudes (Greenland, Alaska, Russia, and Canada) were the first to invent wood - or whale bone - framed boats covered with a watertight skin.

Because of the poor quality of data in general and the obligatory smearing of the nether regions, the much lower average temperature / energy is of the highest northern latitudes and land areas above 30N have their own erratic warming trend.

Not exact matches

A key Atlantic Ocean current that carries warmth into the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere has slowed down by 15 % since the mid-20th century and hit a «new record...

Many moms - to - be — especially those with darker skin or who live in northern latitudes — don't get enough vitamin D, and deficiency is associated with higher rates of prenatal infections, preeclampsia, preterm birth and Cesarean section.

We have since found many bodies of liquid methane of varying sizes; for some reason, they mostly inhabit the high northern latitudes.

Still, because organisms at northern latitudes have evolved in a world of high ozone, «they may be susceptible to even a few percent increase in UV,» Newman says.

These large Northern Hemisphere cooling events have previously been linked to a change in the Atlantic Ocean circulation that led to a reduced transport of warm water to the high latitudes in the North.

«At the higher latitudes of Great Britain, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, as well as Northern Germany and France, very little UVB light reaches the Earth, and it's the key wavelength required by the skin for vitamin D generation,» Elias said.

They found that about half of the change is a result of rising temperatures, particularly in areas at northern middle and high latitudes.

A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of consideration for protection as sea ice recedes and industry poises to enter the increasingly accessible high northern latitudes.

These events are characterized by drastic temperature changes of up to 15 °C within a few decades in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

The beginning of the last glacial period was characterized in the Northern hemisphere by significant accumulation of snow at high latitudes and the formation of a huge polar ice sheet.

For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptake)(2)

During the last deglaciation, and likely also the three previous ones, the onset of warming at both high southern and northern latitudes preceded by several thousand years the first signals of significant sea level increase resulting from the melting of the northern ice sheets linked with the rapid warming at high northern latitudes (Petit et al., 1999; Shackleton, 2000; Pépin et al., 2001).

Professor Chronis Tzedakis (UCL Geography) said: «The basic idea is that there is a threshold for the amount of energy reaching high northern latitudes in summer.

Isotopious @ 43 — It is generally agreed that orbital forcing [at high northern latitudes] is the cause of the changes between the three states of interglacial / interstade (mild glacial) / stade (full glacial).

Another seemingly useful clue is that, during a period of methane doldrums (no rise) from 1999 - 2002, the N / S gradient of methane relaxed a bit [Dlugokencky et al., 2003], suggesting that the doldrum was due to a decline in a methane source in the northern high latitudes.

«Yes, sea ice seems to behaving as the consensus of the climate models have been projecting — more rapid and larger response in the northern high latitudes than anywhere else, flat to possible increase in [southern hemisphere] sea ice as warming takes hold,» he wrote.

Above, you see the amplification in the high northern latitudes; in the figures of this paper you see the heat collecting in the southern latitudes.

According to the post on the mid-Holocene Optimum, it was likely restricted to the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and the tropics may well have been colder.

Also, the difference in annually averaged CH4 between Arctic and Antarctic latitudes is a sensitive indicator of changing CH4 emissions at high northern latitudes.

I believe that we are already seeing higher temperature anomalies, compared to the rest of the globe, in the northern latitudes just from increased in CO2.

«Higher northern latitudes are getting warmer, Arctic sea ice and the duration of snow cover are diminishing, the growing season is getting longer and plants are growing more,» said Ranga Myneni of Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment.

``... a unique century - long SAT dataset focused on the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

«The basic idea is that there is a threshold for the amount of energy reaching high northern latitudes in summer.

The Atlantic Ocean circulation that carries warmth into the Northern Hemisphere's high latitudes is slowing down because of climate change - and is at its weakest point in the past 1,600 years.

Since the time of the SAR, annual land precipitation has continued to increase in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (very likely to be 0.5 to 1 % / decade), except over Eastern Asia.

See e.g. slide 31 of http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/FACULTY/POPP/Lecture12.ppt E.g. a decreased insolation at high northern latitudes would cause ice sheets to grow.

This work was broadened in 1998 using a network of over 300 tree - ring records across high northern latitudes (Briffa 1998).

In northern Europe and in other high latitudes, in contrast, the cool stage at the beginning of the 1st century ce may have been drier and more continental, as evidenced by dune building.

And for a little historical perspective: «It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.

This WP aims to improve the resolution of ocean models, as well as the representation of physical and biogeochemical processes, in key regions of the world's oceans (particularly tropical coastal regions, the Southern Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in ESMs.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

The majority of the warming in the last 150 years has been in high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere with the most amount of warming occurring on the Greenland ice sheet which is the same pattern of warming that occurred in past D - O cycles.

By this time of year, the intense summer growing season in the Northern Hemisphere has spread to high latitudes.

Some of these northern high latitudes experienced monthly averages 10 - 15 °C (18 - 27 °F) above normal.

«They found that the increase in surface temperature is very small in the Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere in contrast to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where the increase is relatively large.»

The Arctic System Reanalysis (ASR), a high - resolution regional assimilation of model output, observations, and satellite data across the mid - and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for the period 2000 — 2012 has been performed at 30 km (ASRv1) and 15 km (ASRv2) horizontal resolution using the polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the WRF Data Assimilation (WRFDA) System.

Warming is expected to be greatest over land and at most high northern latitudes, and smallest over the Southern Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Figure 2.24: Variation of winter storm frequency and intensity during the cold season (November - March) for high latitudes (60 - 90 ° N) and mid-latitudes (30 - 60 ° N) of the Northern Hemisphere over the period 1949 - 2010.

Dr. Ballard: The Northern Hemisphere is the location of most of the land mass on the Earth and much of it (Canada, Alaska, Siberia) lies at high latitudes.

The intensification of the Northern Hemisphere circulation is reflected in the positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), associated with higher - than - normal surface pressure south of about 508 N and lower - than - normal surface pressure over the high northern laNorthern Hemisphere circulation is reflected in the positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), associated with higher - than - normal surface pressure south of about 508 N and lower - than - normal surface pressure over the high northern lanorthern latitudes.

The reconstruction (hereafter Ljungqvist 2010) covers the past 2000 years for the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

The models show large underestimates of CO at middle and high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, while typically performing reasonably well elsewhere (see figure).

As we shall examine shortly, the source of «the decline» come from temperature reconstructions calculated from tree - ring density at high northern latitudes (Briffa 1998).

Gesturing to an indelible deep green hue streaked across the United States and Europe viewers were told, «in the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere emissions were less than absorption levels.»

The Royal Society ``... a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated....

AGW is on the order of 0.05 C / decade globally and it's a good thing because it is largely delivered to high northern latitudes in the winter which benefit from milder winter temperatures.

In the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia are pressed closer together.