Sentences with phrase «record atmospheric heat»

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James McCarthy, professor of biological oceanography at Harvard, says this summer's record heat and dryness could have occurred with lower atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations — but it would have been highly unlikely.

Computer model finds historical patterns In order to learn that this atmospheric pattern exists in advance of heat waves, Teng and her co-authors had to look far back in the history of heat waves — from before weather records were kept.

Last year's scorching summer and record heat wave in Australia were attributed in part to an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases from to human activities.

The advantage of the ocean heat content changes for detecting climate changes is that there is less noise than in the surface temperature record due to the weather that affects the atmospheric measurements, but that has much less impact below the ocean mixed layer.

But your papers claim of a «bias» in the surface temperature record * if * it is used as a linear predictor of atmospheric heat content only makes sense * if * indeed people had used it in that sense.

You may now understand why global temperature, i.e. ocean heat content, shows such a strong correlation with atmospheric CO2 over the last 800,000 years — as shown in the ice core records.

Evaluating ocean and atmospheric observations with advanced modeling tools, scientists from NOAA and CIRES found that about 60 percent of 2016's record warmth was caused by record - low sea ice observed that year, and the ensuing transfer of ocean heat to the atmosphere across wide expanses of ice - free or barely frozen Arctic Ocean.

One of the top three strongest events on record, this particular warming of sea surfaces in the Pacific coincided with never before seen global heat as atmospheric CO2 levels spiked to above 405 parts per million on some days during February and March.

Unfortunately, there is no detailed instrument record of subsurface changes in Gulf Stream heat transport into the region over the past decades, so it's hard to say — and the atmospheric component?

(4) I suppose that temperature records are the only data we have that allow us to look back a century or more but it seems to me that total atmospheric heat energy is what we're really after, not temperature.

As indicated above, TMin is a poor proxy for atmospheric heat content, and it inflicts this problem on the popular TMean temperature record which is then a poor proxy for greenhouse warming too.

«and that the oceans are still heating up» Yes, the atmospheric record is inconvenient so you switch to a vastly inferior and shorter data set.

«With record - high atmospheric carbon concentrations and the rising threat of extreme heat, drought, wildfires and super storms,» the letter reads, «America's energy policies must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, not simply reduce our dependence on foreign oil.»

If you have good measurements of upper ocean and atmospheric temperatures, then if you had a good decade - long satellite record of the Earth's total radiative energy balance from space — say, if Triana has been launched to in the late 1990s — then you could use conservation of energy to calculate the rate of heat uptake by the deep ocean over the past ten years.