Sentences with phrase «on a decadal scale»

But VTG's numbers indicate that you made that statement even when the paper you was in the process of getting published indicates that ACO2 in fact dominated climate on a decadal scale over the past 6 decades or so.»

But, in contrast with the El Niño Southern Oscillation index [12], the NAO and PDO operate on decadal scales, causing extended periods of high or low population abundance [5], [7].

The researchers found that the rainfall predicted for East Africa on a decadal scale by models using the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole did not account for as much of the rainfall fluctuations as expected for the past 34 years.

Risk: E.g., if SL rises on a 5 - year doubling as has been hypothesized by Hansen, et al. as possible, and reinforced by the recent SLR analysis of corals off the Texas coast where SLR rose 1.5 or more meters on decadal scales...?

When this reinforces the anthropogenic change, it can cause RILEs [rapid ice loss events]-- but it can also counter that change and cause brief periods of near - stability (or even small increases on a decadal scale).

But I would suppose that equilibrium climate sensitivity [background] and even global mean surface temperature on a decadal scale could be better nailed down by model pruning and better ocean data.

I don't know if there may be something to accounting for surface / ocean trends on decadal scales, but I was interested in the possibility in light of the recent «haiatus» in surface temperatures.

Although the SIO focuses on summer seasonal Outlooks, recent information on decadal scales is relevant to near - term changes.

Variations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation are natural, probably even on decadal scales.

All of these elements are variable on decadal scales — including ocean heat.

Temperature variations at Lake Qinghai on decadal scales and the possible relation to solar activities, Hai Xu, Xiaoyan Liu, Zhaohua Hou, 01/2008, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics, Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 138 - 144

It insists on a snail's pace of 3mm / year, and holds steady on a decadal scale (it's going down at the moment).

The correlations improved when the time intervals were viewed on decadal scales and the data filtered accordingly.

climate impacts on decadal scale less important than population, land use and degradation (and how do you separate the four????); regions that adapt to current weather extremes and population will be better able to deal with any additional stresses from climate changes (apparently current stresses have nothing to do with climate)»

«The next El Nino, when it occurs in a year or so, may temporarily interrupt the hiatus, but, because the planetary heat sinks in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans remain intact, the hiatus should continue on a decadal scale»

These events occurred on the centennial scale, with 10's of centimeters of sea level falls and rises on the decadal scale.

Thinking about this on a decadal scale, how do we repay the ocean for having cleaned up our mess?

Internal variability will move energy between the ocean and the atmosphere, causing short - term warming and cooling of the surface in events such as El Nino and La Nina, and longer - term changes when similar cycles operate on decadal scales.