Sentences with phrase «predict atmospheric temperatures»

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They thrived in temperatures of up to 21 °C and atmospheric CO2 concentrations of up to 780 parts per million — beyond predicted rises for the next century (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0811143106).

Indeed, the team estimates that this cooling effect could reduce by two - thirds the predicted increase in global temperatures initiated by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

And it finds that, while this winter's unusually strong Arctic Oscillation - which funnels cold northern air to the East Coast and pulls warm mid-latitude air up to the Arctic - is predicted as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, seasonal temperature anomalies associated with it aren't enough to blunt long - term warming trends.

Even if all greenhouse emissions were to stop today, atmospheric carbon dioxide will remain high for millennia, and ocean surface temperatures will stay elevated even longer, a new study predicts.

Other studies which have assessed the importance of the Montreal Protocol have used models to predict atmospheric winds and temperatures and have looked a few decades into the future.

«It would be like trying to predict El Niño with a sophisticated atmospheric model, but with the Sea Surface Temperatures taken from external, independent projections by, for example, the United Nations,» said Kalnay.

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

Here I'm going to examine some graphs that Lord Monckton commonly uses to show that the IPCC has incorrectly predicted the recent evolution of global atmospheric CO2 concentration and mean temperature.

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

George E. Smith says: «Did I get that correct; it WAS you who recently posted at WUWT to the effect, that Clausius - Clapeyron, predicts a 7 % increase in atmospheric water content for a one deg C Temperature rise; as found experimentally by Wentz et al..»

Did I get that correct; it WAS you who recently posted at WUWT to the effect, that Clausius - Clapeyron, predicts a 7 % increase in atmospheric water content for a one deg C Temperature rise; as found experimentally by Wentz et al..

It is predicted that if our current emissions stay the same, our atmospheric temperature will increase by another 3.21 degrees Celsius by 2050 (3).

This prediction failure has been due to the climate models assuming that minimum temperatures (nighttime temps) are driven by atmospheric CO2 levels, resulting in predicted minimum temperatures that are too high.

Salter estimates that a fleet of up to 40,000 of these hi - tech Mary Celestes would be required to offset the temperature rise predicted to result from a doubling in atmospheric CO2.

No, you miss the point about the Trenberth «Travesty» statement, it means that the claims in the field that they had detected the relationship between atmospheric [CO2] and temperature, and from this could predict that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 would cause catastrophic warming were unsupported by the evidence.

The radiative absorption capability of CO2 allows atmospheric molecules to reach a higher temperature than that imparted to them by energy at the surface so they rise to a higher location than would be predicted from their weight and their individual gas constants.

That is the reason why the surface must be warmer than the temperature predicted by the S - B equation and it is all about atmospheric mass held off a surface within a gravitational field and irradiated by an external energy source.

To have to admit that you can't predict the temperature response unless you can match ENSO and atmospheric teleconnection factors.

And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).

Allen and Sherwood predicted that measuring thermal winds, which are tied to fluctuations in temperatures, would be a more accurate gauge of true atmospheric warming than the thermometers.

Decades ago, both men correctly predicted how much the Earth's temperature would rise due to increasing atmospheric CO2.

Tom — You raise valid points about the challenge of model development for predicting long term trends such as temperature responses to a continued rise in atmospheric CO2.

m (that's the computer - predicted radiative forcing on a doubling of atmospheric CO2) is only enough to increase the mean global surface temperature by 0.68 degC at a baseline temperature of 288K according to the Stefan - Boltzmann law.

So the prediction from Vostok is for a natural temperature response about the same as IPCC predicts for man doubling atmospheric CO2 content after turning off the on - going natural processes.

Beginning around 1 / 10th the air pressure of the Earth at sea level, Jupiter's atmospheric temperature rises and easily exceeds its predicted blackbody temperature of 110 Kelvin.

If scientists of the past had known that the temperature of every planet with a sufficient atmosphere rises along with atmospheric pressure, and always exceeds its predicted temperature, do you think they would have come up with a theory that attributed extra heating to the presence of certain trace gases that occupy less than 1 percent of the Earth's atmosphere?

In a comparison of 17 computer models of world climate, all predict global warming will kick in over Antarctica, and most indicate temperatures in the interior of the continent will rise faster than in the rest of the world, said Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

One more thing: By the end of this century, the global mean atmospheric temperature is predicted to increase, due to increasing CO2 - induced warming, by some 4C according to the warmist - catastrophic cli - mythologists.

When NASAâ $ ™ s James Hansen sounded the alarm in Congress 20 years ago, he predicted that rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, or CO2, would drive global temperatures higher by 0.34 degrees Celsius during the 1990s.

It is our belief that «theory leads experiment» on climate change because all well - accepted atmospheric models predict a temperature rise.

It will always come back to the fact that, nominally, it's all about the Sun — e.g., Farmers Almanac is predicting another cold wet winter despite the increase over the years in the amount of atmospheric CO2: No region will see prolonged spells of above - normal temperatures; only near the West and East Coasts will temperatures average close to normal.

Once the enhancement of the surface temperature required to mechanically maintain atmospheric height is deducted from the observed surface temperature then the surface can be seen to be at the temperature predicted by the Stefan Boltzmann Constant.

«This H2O negative - feedback effect on CO2 is ignored in models that assume that warm moist air does not rise and form sunlight - reflecting clouds, but remains as humid air near sea level, absorbing infrared radiation from the sun, and approximately doubling the temperature rises predicted from atmospheric CO2 increases.

General circulation models predict that, for a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, mean annual air temperatures may rise several degrees over much of the Arctic.

Other hypotheses, predict the opposite — that the atmospheric response will counteract the CO2 increase and result in insignificant changes in global temperature.

Change of surface temperature between 1990 and 2090, as predicted by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) GCM forced by the anticipated change in atmospheric gas composition.

An overall increase in global - mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human - induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping «greenhouse gases.»

If, however, the carbon from these reserves were burned wantonly without the government applying any brakes, scientists predicted an intolerable rise in atmospheric temperatures, triggering potentially irreversible global damage to life on earth.»

But the important problem for modern climate science is to predict and to measure the response of other atmospheric variables (temperature, humidity and cloud) to a climate forcing.

Mr. Nordhaus also omits any mention of the fact that the modelers had to insert fudge factors for atmospheric particle concentrations to induce the models to predict the observed falling temperatures between 1940 and 1960.

A study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research also predicts that warmer oceanic and atmospheric temperature caused by climate change will produce even fiercer hurricanes in the future.

Science News - January 23, 2002 Antarctica is getting colder... For years, many climatologists have been predicting that world temperatures will rise because of atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases released by human activities.

Another study suggest that the EAIS has melted once before, during the Pliocene Epoch some 5 to 2.5 million years ago, a period that is comparable in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global temperatures to those predicted for the end of this century.

Rather than focusing on temperature gradients, which are often a consequence rather than cause of the circulation, one should investigate the conditions when condensation is likely to occur to predict changes in atmospheric circulation.