Sentences with phrase «rate of surface warming»

Meehl and Teng recently showed that when this is done, thereby turning a model projection into a hindcast, the models reproduced the observed trends — accelerated warming in the 1970s and reduced rate of surface warming during the last 15 years — quite well.

The global oceans comprise some 93.4 % of Earth's global heat reservoirs, and despite a slower rate of surface warming over the last 16 years, the atmosphere has still warmed and the oceans have warmed even more strongly than before.

More limited data suggest that stratospheric water vapor probably increased between 1980 and 2000, which would have enhanced the decadal rate of surface warming during the 1990s by about 30 % as compared to estimates neglecting this change.

The authors are referring to the slowed rate of surface warming since 2000.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

Referring to the 15 - year span from 1992 — 2006 when the rate of surface warming was greater than the long - term trend,

Until we clear up whether there has been some kind of accelerated warming at depth in the real ocean, I think these results serve as interesting hypotheses about why the rate of surface warming has slowed - down, but we still lack a definitive answer on this topic.

Each of the last three decades has been successively hotter than any decade on record, despite natural variations (including «pauses») in the rate of surface warming throughout this period.

Has the rate of surface warming changed?

The combined effect of all these changes is actually to reduce the rate of surface warming over the past 100 years compared to what we see in the raw temperature data.

Since the surface is not the climate system as a whole, only a small part of it, inter-decadal variability in the rate of surface warming can not be used as the basis for strong claims about climate sensitivity.

The historical trend since 1979 is heavily influenced by the recent slowdown in the rate of surface warming which is likely to be the result of natural variability overprinting the forced trend.