Sentences with phrase «potential changes in clouds»

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The formation and properties of the aerosol cloud that sits above the monsoon are a major unknown in climate science, and their potential future changes represent one of the largest uncertainties in climate predictions.

The more innovative studies (e.g., [13,14]-RRB- try to tackle the many potential confounding factors clouding the signal of selection, such as demographic effects (i.e., changes in population size and the influence of migration).

The Cloud has offered significant potential in changing how education as an industry works from with the perspective of offering online programs so as to modify the traditional working ecosystem.

Secondly, if the potential cloud response is related to changes in circulation caused by the TSI or an ozone related change, then it isn't an extra forcing at all — it is part of the feedback, and should already be incorporated in models.

Thus it appears that, provided further satellite cloud data confirms the cosmic ray flux low cloud seeding hypothesis, and no other factors were involved over the past 150 years (e.g., variability of other cloud layers) then there is a potential for solar activity induced changes in cloudiness and irradiance to account for a significant part of the global warming experienced during the 20th century, with the possible exception of the last two decades.

Critics of this result might argue that the solar forcing in these experiments is only based on the estimated change in total irradiance, which might be an underestimate, or that does not include potential indirect amplifying effects (via an ozone response to UV changes, or galactic cosmic rays affecting clouds).

There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.

While it is difficult to reason through what any change to the equations would actually result in terms of radiation balance given all the nonlinearities, use of entropy potential temperature would tend to cooler upper troposphere and altered water vapor and clouds.

That's because of feedbacks in the climate system, such as Arctic ice melt and changes to cloud cover, as well as the potential melting of ice sheets.

Another potential contributor to amplified warming that's investigated is changes in cloud cover.

There are dozens of potential reasons; changes in clouds being my favorite.

«We are off to a great start collecting a timely and unique dataset to help better understand the potential influence of clouds on the Arctic climate as sea ice conditions change,» said William Smith, ARISE principal investigator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

So a process - oriented analysis of low - cloud variations in the present climate has the potential to lead to improvements in the representation of the low - cloud response to climate changes in models.

The IPCC acknowledges three potential drivers of climate change: (1) changes in incoming solar radiation (e.g. due to changes in the Earth's orbit or the Sun); (2) changes in reflected solar radiation (e.g. due to changes in low - level cloud cover); and (3) changes in outgoing longwave radiation (e.g. due to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations).

Due to the relative weakness of Earth's geomagnetic shielding in this region, cloud changes over such a location are tantalizing as FD events have the potential to induce maximum changes in atmospheric ionization.

The potential for changes in cloud cover as a result of the changes in sea ice makes the evaluation of the actual forcing that may be realized quite uncertain, since such changes could overwhelm the forcing caused by the sea - ice loss itself, if the cloudi - ness increases in the summertime.