Sentences with phrase «on a decadal basis»

It is also important to note that the models are not designed to project climate on a decadal basis, but on a centennial basis, where the effects of internal variability can more reasonably be expected to average out.

Perhaps even more remarkable is that despite these climate oscillations, temperatures on a decadal basis remain bounded within the tight limits noted of -1.3 to 0.8 C so giving a remarkable constancy of around 2 degrees C throughout the near 500 year record.

The modern warming (since 1980 if you like, but the oceans have been warming on a decadal basis for longer).

Of course, we know TOA fluxes must continue to warm globally on a decadal basis because we have OHC data.

As you can see in the first graph sudden and noticeable climate change on a decadal basis is very common.

Looking at the complete CET instrumental record we can note that the anomaly difference on a decadal basis in this temperate country ranges from around -1.3 C several decades after its instrumental start in 1659 to around plus 0.8 c around the year 2000 (i.e. total variability of some 2.1 degrees C).

Variability of our climate on a decadal basis is considerable and is even greater on an annual basis.

Some researchers took the news calmly: in a global climate that varied daily, seasonally, annually and on a decadal basis, there was no guarantee of an inexorably steady climb in global averages, they said.