Sentences with phrase «polar regions where»

Biases in (detectable) cloud amounts have been reduced to ≲ 0.05, except in the summertime polar regions where the bias may still be ∼ 0.10.

Ice melt is not such a good indicator — only occurs a few months a year in the polar regions where most of it is, and sea ice is subject to motion.

Because the GISS analysis combines available sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices for the ocean data, showing that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.

The issue is where and how dense water is formed — today it is in the polar regions where you have freezing conditions and enormous heat fluxes to the atmosphere.

And that warmth is welcome in the cold polar regions where that poppy grows.

It lives in polar regions where life is quiet.

And there can be a transport of energy from the tropical Pacific to continental and polar regions where the Planck Response overwhelms positive, heat - trapping local effects.

The main reason for this is that warming enhances the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which then snows - off in the dry and cold polar region where it releases energy and warms the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

By coincidence, the south polar region of the moon - a 1,500 - mile - wide depression known as the Aitken Basin - is where the first permanent lunar base is most likely to be built.

The most dramatic advances should come from monitoring the mass of Earth's polar regions, where existing gravity maps are poor.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

The polar regions provide a window into space where high - energy solar particles arriving in the Earth's atmosphere can cause spectacular effects, such as the northern lights or aurora borealis.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

Real - time data transmission from remotely operated instruments is key in polar regions, where continuous climate data is particularly important and maintaining personnel in the Antarctic through the winter is expensive and hazardous, says Rita Colwell, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and another co-author of the NRC report.

The polar regions are where we can find frozen H2O and frozen volatile gases, solar power 24/7 for 80 % or more of a Lunar month, moderate non-crater surface temperatures that usually stay close to around a -55 degrees Centigrade, and a whole lot more.

«These chemicals enter the atmosphere at lower latitudes where they were used, and are then deposited down from the cold polar air, so Arctic animals are more highly exposed than animals in more temperate or equatorial regions,» University of Florida researcher Margaret James (who wasn't involved in the study) told New Scientist.

During the main Cassini mission in 2004 — 2008, which occurred in the southern hemisphere's summer, more clouds and lakes were observed in the northern polar regions, where it was winter.

Spectacular vertical granite peaks, immense rivers of ice, wind - swept plains and native beech forests define this spot of intense rugged beauty in the South of Chili and Argentina, where the Andes mountains are covered by the most extensive area of glaciers outside the world's polar regions.

The worst effects are taking place in the polar regions, where very few of us actually live.

As far as this historic period is concerned, the reconstruction of past temperatures based on deep boreholes in deep permafrost is one of the best past temperature proxies we have (for the global regions with permafrost — polar regions and mountainous regions)-- as a signal of average temperatures it's even more accurate than historic direct measurements of the air temperature, since the earth's upper crust acts as a near perfect conservator of past temperatures — given that no water circulation takes place, which is precisely the case in permafrost where by definition the water is frozen.

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

In the polar regions — where warming happens fastest — what happens more often?

Hank states,» In the polar regions — where warming happens fastest — what happens more often?

This sentence is not very clear, although I will agree where it is warmer, warming happens more often, I am not sure that you can definatively state «polar regions» since readings from antarctica and the arctic seem to be heading in opposite directions.

There tend to be a sharp temperature drop poleward of the polar fronts, and it is no coincidence that this is the same regions where the storm tracks lie.

October 1998: Baliunas on the failure of the computer climate models: «It should be right where the warming is felt first — for example, the polar regions, the Arctic.

Polar bears living in regions (such as Hudson's Bay and Svalbard) that were not ice covered all year round even before global warming spend the warmer months on land where they are a real danger (male polar bears are the only healthy carnivore that routinely stalks and hunts people).

To simply exclude the polar regions, especially the N. Pole, where every honest student of the subject knows that the earliest and most severe signs of global warming have long been forecast to be seen, is not honest.

The biggest change occurred in measurement methodology and scope, with the switch from tide gauges (which measure SL at various shorelines, where humans live) to satellite altimetry (which measures the entire ocean except polar regions and coastlines, which can not be captured by satellites).

They are particularly large in the polar regions, where the largest vortices are cyclonic: see the polar projections of the vorticity in the Jupiter and Saturn simulations.

The halocline usually lies near the surface, where evaporation raises salinity in the tropics, or meltwater dilutes it in polar regions.

That trough is in fact a chain of polar cyclones that originate in the region where the troposphere overlaps with the stratosphere.

The polar regions are where climate change is felt first, right?

Anomalies are shown in a globally complete Robinson projection, and in polar stereographic projections for the northern and southern hemispheres that do not encompass the regions of the deep tropics where precipitation anomalies are most uncertain.

A well - known example of this is the melting of land - based ice, which is contributing to sea - level rise (and adding to the effects of thermal expansion of the oceans), with implications for low - lying areas far beyond the polar and mountain regions where the melting is taking place.

Despite this natural variability - related switch pulling global temperatures down, NASA shows a globe in which few regions experienced below - average temperatures and where the highest concentration of record - warm temperatures are centered near the northern polar region.

In the polar regions, where few such storms occur, heating by greenhouse gases remains at the surface, and is exacerbated by the melting of bright sea ice that exposes more of the dark ocean surface and causes more sunlight to be absorbed.

In the northern polar regions, where water and land are interspersed, the polar easterlies give way in summer to variable winds.

Another pathway even less studied is caused by the energetic particle rain at polar regions, where HOₓ and NOₓ chemical species are created in the polar regions of the thermosphere and mesosphere and transported down to the stratosphere where they destroy ozone.

In 1946 British physicists Alan Brewer and Gordon Dobson [3] devised a model of very slow, convective, stratospheric ozone transport from the equator to the poles (Fig 1), explaining why more ozone is found in polar regions than near the equator where more solar radiation occurs.

The remote location of the Antarctic and Greenland polar ice sheets may leave us with the impression that developments in these regions have little effect on the climate and life in the temperate zones of the Earth, where most of us live.

The $ 500 billion geoengineering project to save the Arctic is seen to restore the ice level of the polar region to where it was two decades ago.

«A Discovery Channel / BBC co-production four years in the making, FROZEN PLANET will provide the ultimate portrait of our earth's polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet.

«Using the series as a tool to bring attention to the poles and the effect climate change has had on them, the organizations are planning various activities around the FROZEN PLANET premiere including: hosting sneak peek screenings for their members, where attendees will see the premiere episode Ends of the Earth before it's U.S. debut; engagement on Facebook, Twitter, GetGlue and other social media platforms; letter writing campaigns and other grassroots efforts to ensure our polar regions are protected for generations to come.

Barents Sea polar bears almost certainly survived those previous low - ice periods, as they are doing today, by staying close to the Franz Josef Land Archipelago in the eastern half of the region where sea ice is more persistent.

Furthermore, a study in November suggested the «pause» may be largely an illusion resulting from the lack of temperature readings from polar regions, where warming is greatest.

More recent documentation (Hansen et al. 2010) compares alternative analyses and addresses questions about perception and reality of global warming; various choices for the ocean data are tested; it is also shown that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions, where observations are limited.

Look at IPCC Figure 10.8 for example, where the greatest changes are expected in the NH polar regions.

We note, however, that the polar regions, where recent warming has been greatest, are overrepresented in the 9 % of the Earth's surface for which observed temperature trends are not available.

My preliminary analysis of both polar regions (where water vapor is the least) indicates that CO2 has not lowered OLR.