Sentences with phrase «of land and ocean»

You have exaggerated the error ranges in the albedo by looking at the separate estimates of land and ocean albedo.

Surface air temperatures for the four individual seasons of 2017 were also higher than the averages for 1981 - 2010 over many areas of land and ocean.

While the primary contribution is in improving our ability to anticipate how earth system interactions will modulate the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the fact that the models require simulation of land and ocean ecosystems make them extremely valuable for a range of applications in ecosystem impacts and feedbacks as well.

They indicate that some regions of the Earth's surface may cool, and others warm, by amplitudes larger than the net global response, as a result of differences in solar heating of land and ocean surfaces.

During such episodes, the net uptake of anthropogenic CO2 (sum of land and ocean sinks) is temporarily weakened.

The study is the first to develop a plan to fulfill all of a state's transportation, electric power, industry, and heating and cooling energy needs with renewable energy, and to calculate the number of new devices and jobs created, amount of land and ocean areas required, and policies needed for such an infrastructure change.

Coverage maps for the three datasets, along with values for the proportion of the land and ocean area of the globe, are shown for the month of December 2010 in the following figure:

However, even though surface temperatures of land and ocean may experience feedback effects, there are few possible feedbacks posited for the level of the atmosphere where the net radiation to space takes place, and this means that the 1.2 degrees C heating effect must be absorbed within the boundaries of the atmosphere somewhere.

Measuring the global temperature is only reliably done by satellites, which circle the world 24/7 measuring the temperature over large swathes of land and ocean.

We have therefore started releasing temperature series based on separate reconstruction of the land and ocean data.

When winter storms have been violent, usually because of an increased contrast between the average temperature of land and ocean surfaces, you find a lot more dust and salt spray (indicates wind over oceans) in the cores.

Phil Jones and Tom Wigley (the second Director of the Climatic Research Unit) devoted significant portions of their scientific careers to the construction of the land component of the so - called «HadCRUT» dataset of land and ocean surface temperatures.

The most significant problem in the surface temperature is the divergence of the land and ocean records this century — see below.

The magnitude of the dimming was as large as 10 — 20 % (based on a monthly average) over vast areas of land and ocean regions.

The issue of land and ocean based oil spills are dwarfed however, when compared to the threat of global warming.

The researchers called for more work to be done to improve our understanding of the land and ocean CO2 sinks, so that global action to control climate change can be independently monitored.

Was the release of the land and ocean temperature data sets, which were documented in papers previously published, delayed to follow Karl's June press release?

As the distribution of land and ocean areas in the two hemispheres is markedly different the redistribution of heat via MOC leaves open the possibility of the world getting hotter in the first sense whilst the averaged temperatures only rise a little or stagnate.

«Somewhat counter-intuitively, a land — sea surface warming ratio greater than unity during transient climate change is actually not mainly a result of the differing thermal inertias of land and ocean, but primarily originates in the differing properties of the surface and boundary layer (henceforth BL) over land and ocean (Manabe et al. 1991; Sutton et al. 2007; Joshi et al. 2008 (henceforth JGW08), Dong et al. 2009) as well as differing cloud feedbacks (Fasullo 2010; Andrews et al. 2010).»

Using the vast spectrum of green - blue tones, shades, and gradations, Rocha Pitta creates abstracted views of land and ocean that burst with energy.

Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean.

That is because, by definition, cropland, grazing land and other metrics of land and ocean use can not exceed the planet's size, as even Rees and Wackernagel acknowledge.

Vast frontiers of land and ocean offered infinite resources.

Therefore Halley's traditional model for monsoons — that the different heat capacities of land and ocean surfaces cause these seasonal deluges — doesn't give a full picture.

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

And you still have the problem of how animals crossed thousands of miles of land and oceans to reach Noah's ark and then return to their homelands afterwards.

In defiance of more gloomy projections, he has also concluded that improving agricultural technologies and production methods will lead to a «great reversal» of the degradation of land and oceans.

If we are talking ppm, and consider a million marbles, it is hard to imagine how changing 100 of these marbles will have some short - term (decades) miraculously large effect on not only the other 999,900, but the surface of the land and oceans.

In the early twentieth century, the warming rates of land and oceans were pretty much in line.

The following sections explain the controls on these fluxes, with special reference to processes by which anthropogenic changes may influence the overall carbon balance of the land and oceans on time - scales from years to centuries.

The thermal mass of the land and oceans is enormous.

Yes, it seems huge compared effects of increasing CO2 Abstract: «The 340 nm LER is highly correlated with cloud and aerosol cover becauseof the low surface reflectivity of the land and oceans (typically 2 to 6RU, where 1RU = 0.01 = 1.0 %) relative to the much higher reflectivity of clouds plus aerosols (typically 10 to 90RU).

All the models agreed that as the world heated up, the ability of the land and the oceans to keep on absorbing carbon as efficiently as they have in the past 200 years gets appreciably worse.

As I understand it global temperatures are calculated as anomalies, thus removing seasonal swings, but that Heat Content is not, Now our dear planet has an elliptical orbit and is sometimes closer to the sun that others; sure, the shape of the land and oceans doesn't mean that the amount of incoming solar radiation falling on the oceans follows the Earths orbit, but it should be possible to work out the amount of incoming solar radiation each quarter.

Having retrieved the original article (Canadell et al., 2007, PNAS online) it's written (p. 3) that 65 + / -16 % of... d ² CO2 / dt ² (translation of «increase of atmospheric CO2 growth rate») is attributed to «the increase in the global economy», the remaining 35 + / -16 % being attributed to «the increase in carbon intensity in the global economy» and 18 + / -15 % to «the decrease in the efficiency of the lands and ocean sinks in removing anthropogenic CO2».

Not exact matches

I believe it will only be a matter of time before the virus lands in Europe and soon, across the ocean.

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

Roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.

About a month later, Dragon will bring back almost 2 tons of equipment and completed experiments, landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Connecting land - locked oil to an ocean is a great outcome for the Suncors, Shells, and Imperial Oils of the world, but what does it do for Canadians filling up at the pumps?

During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

The lack of available land will be difficult to overcome, given the region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the coastal mountains, the U.S. border and the Agricultural Land Reseland will be difficult to overcome, given the region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the coastal mountains, the U.S. border and the Agricultural Land ReseLand Reserve.

For these characters whose mother is willing to turn her back on them just a little, a lake becomes an ocean, its far shores another country, its collection of villagers, farmers, and charcoal burners natives to be approached cannily by intrepid explorers whose self - imposed summer's work is to map these unknown lands.

@islamistheanswer, Sure, while the poster seems to think that «parting» means the Big Bang, to me it seems silly to think that the Big Bang would come after heaven and already exist and likely was just and rationalization of where land came from, i.e. splitting the oceans from the sky.

There is no way in Hell (which there is one) you can convince any logical thinking person (myself included) that my ancestors crawled out of the ocean and somehow magically grew arms and legs from nothing and decided to live on land just «because».

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

Of those species, 6.5 million would be on land and 2.2 million in the ocean.

Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.