Sentences with phrase «persistent warming»

By this, I imply that some sort of negative feedback may prevent the planet from persistent warming, thus making «global warming» innacurate.

Greenland surface air temperature trends, including at the Summit site, have not shown persistent warming since 1930 in contrast to global average surface temperature (23).

This new study supports an alternative hypothesis that persistent warm water was confined to the subsurface and many erosional features were carved during brief periods when liquid water was stable at the surface.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

He and William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto used climate models and other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing the final stages of a 50 - million - year transition from a planet with a persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly expanded ice sheets at both poles.

And this means that the El Niño event is responsible for the persistent warming (or cooling for a La Niña event) in the North Atlantic.

«Rarely have we seen the Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year,» said Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program.

The year showed «a stronger, more pronounced signal of persistent warming than any other year in our observation record,» he said.

This so - called «North American dipole» (highlighted by Wang et al., 2014) has resulted in persistent warm / dry anomalies along the West Coast and persistent cool / wet anomalies over the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard.

The most commonly accepted definition of an El Niño is a persistent warming of the so - called «Niño3.4» region of the tropical Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii, lasting for at least five consecutive three - month «seasons.»

«Rarely have we seen the Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year,» Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program, said in a statement.

Last winter also showed a change from the previous two winters when cold plunges over the USA distorted the jets and gave us persistent warm wet south westerlies so we did not then share in the general slow cooling trend.

Results of the analysis revealed that despite a persistent warming trend of ~ 0.18 °C per decade over the past seven decades, there has been no consistent trend in flooding.