Sentences with phrase «response to increased»

«EA [East Antarctic] dynamic thickening [of the ice sheet] of 147 Gt a — 1 [Gt / year] is a continuing response to increased accumulation (> 50 %)[of snow & ice] since the early Holocene.»

Understanding the climate distribution and forcing for the Pliocene period may help improve predictions of the likely response to increased CO2 in the future, including the ultimate role of the ocean circulation in a globally warmer world.

Recently there have been some studies and comments by a few climate scientists that based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade, estimates of the Earth's overall equilibrium climate sensitivity (the total amount of global surface warming in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) may be a bit too high.

Applying the foregoing to «Climate Science», we have, IMO, an old paradigm based on classical thermodynamics that predicted warming in response to increased CO2.

, when he showed that, among the 4 GCMs for which outputs were available, there was no relationship between their sensitivity to the negative forcings of the LGM state, and their response to increased CO2.

Shindell, D.T., 2001: Climate and ozone response to increased stratospheric water vapor.

What literature are you relying on that has established such a delay in Earth's response to increased radiative forcings?

Perhaps again you would like to point to the literature that has established the timeline of Earth's response to increased forcing.

The models describe the modelers» idea of global warming in response to increased anthropogenic CO2 quite well.

Q3: Assuming a positive answer to Q2, wouldn't a simpler and more plausible answer to Q1 be that the plant was merely «sweating» more in response to the increased heat of a drought?

Interestingly, most weeds are of the C4 variety, which show somewhat lower response to increased CO2.

EA dynamic thickening of 147 Gt a — 1 is a continuing response to increased accumulation (> 50 %) since the early Holocene.

2) Human fingerprints - there are a number of climate changes we expect to see in response to an increased greenhouse effect.

For there to be no temperature rise in response to increased CO2, the feedback would have to be infinitely negative.

We find that the expected 95 % range of future climate trends induced by NAO fluctuations estimated from the observed statistics of the NAO and the modeled response to increased GHGs is largely similar to that obtained from the CESM - LE directly, attesting to the fidelity of the model's representation of the NAO and the utility of this approach.

Second, I've long wondered if the arctic melts as a response to increased amounts of warm water getting pumped in from the tropics, allowing this «hot» water to cool directly to space.

Source: Nature, Reduced Calcification of Marine Phytoplankton in Response to Increased Atmospheric CO2, Issue 407 p. 364 -367

While «strip - bark» samples should be avoided for temperature reconstructions, attention should also be paid to the confounding effects of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition (Vitousek et al. 1997), since the nutrient conditions of the soil determine wood growth response to increased atmospheric CO2 (Kostiainen et al. 2004).

Finally, Bazzaz found that different plant species vary dramatically in their response to increased carbon dioxide.

So a pronounced response to increased RF from, say, insolation in the early C20th is evidence that the climate system will also be sensitive to increased RF from CO2.

It is a response to increased forcing to just warm up.

A land surface will warm in response to increased CO2.

Climate response to increased greenhouse gas forcing is not linear.

Further, the negative RFTOA: INST lasts only a few days following the im - posed perturbation, and rapidly disappears as the stratosphere cools in response to increased CO2.

CO2's effect on surface temperature is negligent where there is water free to evaporate in response to the increased downwelling mid-infrared radiation.

Because the effect is temporary, recent global warming should be interpreted as a short - term response to increased carbon emissions, which is expected to be reversed in the future

It is found that trees are growing faster for the past thirty years or so, sequestering CO2 naturally, perhaps in response to the increased «plant food» available.

Not surprisingly, the Frame and Stone result is very similar to our evaluation of the FAR projections, finding that they accurately simulated the global surface temperature response to the increased greenhouse effect since 1990.

We know the planet will warm between about 1.5 and 4.5 °C in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide (the «climate sensitivity»).

Atmospheric convection and coupled tropical circulation Precipitating deep convection is central to many aspects of the tropical climate and its probable response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations.

In response to increased trace gases, all replicated the qualitative response seen in other coupled ocean - atmosphere models: greater warming over land than ocean and maximum warming at high northern latitudes in winter.

Knowing the change in the non-radiative cooling of the Earth surface is as important as knowing the change in the radiative cooling, for computing the climate response to increased DWLWIR.

Climate sensitivity is the estimate of how much the earth's climate will warm in response to the increased greenhouse effect if we double the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

On page 58, there is a calculation of cloud feedback, assuming that the change in cloud cover is solely a response to increased forcing.

The main points of that solution are to show that (1) for making temperature increase with height, it's not enough to have a stratospheric absorber; you need one with the right vertical profile, and (2) you can get stratospheric cooling in response to increased IR opacity because you get rid of more of the absorbed solar locally.

Even at equilibrium though the land response to increased GHGs is expected to be higher than over the ocean.

Quantum physics is only part of the story — classical fluid dynamics controls the response to the increased infrared energy.

The section's rather poorly written and there's nothing explicit embedding the statement in a «logarithmic response to increased CO2» context.

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

Part of its growth has been in response to increased interest from the museum's visitors, including those from Asia, who come to the Met wanting to see how curators tell the different stories of Asian art.

The expansion of Viking's business comes as a response to increased traveler demand for destination - focused cruises.

«The demonstrated pullback is likely a response to the increased ratio of below - prime consumers issued credit in recent years and the associated uptick in credit card delinquencies,» said Siegfried.

Our Spanish Language School was founded by a group of professional teachers in response to the increased demand for Spanish in the last years.

According to the hotel company, the openings are in response to increased demand, highlighted by a 13 per cent rise in year on year RevPAR rates within its own extended stay - portfolio, as well as increased demand from the region's Gen Y demographic.

The rabbit's response to the increased dust in the environment is to produce copious amounts of mucous, as evidenced by some wetness near the nostrils.

The goal was to increase rabies vaccination rates in response to increased dog bite incidents.

'' wait until condo owners take more of their condos off the rental market in response to not being able to raise rates in response to increased costs.»

Having sufficient cash on hand is a necessary first requirement for PTR, if they expect the market to ultimately close some / all of the gap to intrinsic value, either due to improved sentiment and / or in response to increased production and / or reserves.

In response to increased activity in many vacation markets, Asset Preservation has created a brand - new Vacation Home Handbook that covers many tax issues related to the ownership and sale of a vacation or second home.