Sentences with phrase «of warmer air temperatures»

From the Southwest to the Great Lakes, temperatures have been so high and rainfall so low that the drying effect of warmer air temperatures far exceeded what little precipitation there's been, resulting in moisture being drawn out of soils.

From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. — An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that some ecosystems may be resilient to certain aspects of climate change.

Also at New York Times (though what to make of «scientists said the ice sheet was not melting because of warmer air temperatures, but rather because of the relatively warm water, which is naturally occurring, from the ocean depths»...?)

Although the climate conditions of the Antarctic continent are colder and drier than in the Peninsula, ice shelf thinning could be caused by a warmer ocean instead of warmer air temperatures.

Factors contributing to the accelerating erosion appear to be a combination of warmer air temperatures and reduced summer ocean ice cover.

At the end of the day, the discussion about a single calendar year obscures the more important long - term trend of warming air temperatures, warming and acidifying oceans along with melting ice sheets, all of which are hallmarks of manmade global warming.

Trusel's study is the first to comprehensively study the sensitivity of warming air temperature on the stability of ice shelves in Antarctica, which are the floating extensions of glaciers and act to constrain the glaciers» speed.

Not exact matches

Warmer air increases the evaporation rate of water, and for every degree Celsius increase in temperature, a parcel of air can hold 7 percent more water.

Tip # 2: You will need to store the tahini in a BPA - free air - tight container in the refrigerator, and it may become hard (due to the coconut oil), but just leave it out on your counter top at room temperature before using, or put it in a bowl of warm water to soften it up.

These apple cider caramels are my love letter autumn in my city, my attempt, as I wrote in the book, to «pack everything I love about New York City in October — the carpet of fiery leaves on the ground from the trees I didn't even know we had; the sky, impossibly blue; the air, drinkably crisp; the temperature finally delicious enough that it implores you to spend hours wandering around, sipping warm spiced apple cider from the Greenmarkets — into one tiny square.»

In warm tropical climates where coconuts grow, and where air temperatures are almost always above 75 degrees, coconut oil is a liquid most of the time, hence the term «coconut oil.»

Air temperatures reached 19C on the fifth day of pre-season testing and the track warmed up to around 30C.

Air flows in and out of the window, keeping your child at a comfortable temperature during warm weather.

Such programs, geared for children ages 6 to 36 months, prohibit total submersion and call for water temperatures of 82 to 85, with air temperature 3 degrees warmer, to protect little bodies from hypothermia.

The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke more cold temperature records in several cities — although a warm - up is coming today.

The first week of 2017 will bring warmer - than - seasonal temperatures, followed by a return to colder air by midweek.

While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount of snow will be limited by the direction of the wind and relatively dry air in the upper atmosphere.

He thought he might know the reason: Thermometers often hung outside on north - facing walls, where reflected sunlight might warm the devices slightly above the temperature of the surrounding air.

With documented warmer air temperatures in eastern Canada since the 1970s, there has been a trend of earlier ice melting and less ice in general, explained Lavery.

They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

Researchers found an overall warming trend in air temperature of 0.023 C (0.041 F) per year, and in water temperature of 0.028 C (0.050 F) per year over 51 years.

The correction brings air temperatures into line with measurements of steady warming at the ground, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

In all regions, the researchers attributed some of the increase in atmospheric ammonia to climate change, reflected in warmer air and soil temperatures.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

Mori et al. identified two circulation patterns that drove winter temperatures in Eurasia from 1979 to 2013: the Arctic Oscillation (which confines colder air to the polar latitudes) and a pattern dubbed «Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurasia.

The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

Air conditioning in the hospital was kept between 20 and 22.5 °C while the temperature outside was up to 13 degrees warmer for much of the year.

In the case of Scottsbluff, Vatistas and his team found that the temperature inside the tornado would have dropped from a comfortably warm background temperature of 27o C to a chilly 12o C. And at the tornado's centre, the researchers estimated the air density would have been 20 per cent lower than what's found at high altitudes.

Because air temperature significantly alters atmospheric dynamics, which in turn affects moisture transport, scientists speculate that this increase of high altitude moisture may be tied to global warming.

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

The second examines what can be done to strengthen commitments between now and 2020 to increase the chance of limiting global warming to a target of 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures (see «Emissions up in the air?»).

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

The warm air increased the temperature of the soil by 1.5 to 2 °C.

Warmer air temperatures due to climate change could thaw much of the existing permafrost layer in the northern hemisphere.

These dramatic changes appear to be the result of a combination of warmer air and ocean temperatures and the topography of the ocean floor at the head of the glacier.

Despite the strong warming trend of the past 15 years, worldwide temperatures have risen less than models predict, given the build - up of carbon dioxide in the air to 25 per cent above pre-industrial levels.

In addition, the structure of the snowpack is changing: it is being transformed by increasingly warmer air temperatures and / or altered by rain - on - snow events.

In late 2010 and early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually warm sea - surface temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.

The distance that sound travels before it becomes too weak to hear depends on a number of factors, including its frequency and the temperature and humidity of the air: In general, higher frequencies are more quickly stifled in warmer air.

There's been a lot of warm air over that region — Alaska has had a lot of record temperatures and a lot of rain.

Complementary information to the Arctic warming analysis would be using DWT's of the few left Upper Air stations in the Circumpolar zone and crunch up temperature trends of the entire atmosphere, when variances from year to year are very small, but are mostly for the warmer.

By analyzing global water vapor and temperature satellite data for the lower atmosphere, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler and his colleagues found that warming driven by carbon dioxide and other gases allowed the air to hold more moisture, increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over...

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)

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.