Sentences with phrase «response to warming»

Its minimum summertime extent, which occurs at the end of the melt season, has been decreasing since the late 1970s in response to warming temperatures.

Together, the glacier and ice shelf form a stable system, but this system can lose its stability in response to warmer temperatures.

Other conditions remaining constant, the thickness of the active layer could be expected to increase in response to warming of the climate.

As fish populations change in response to these warmer waters, mother fur seals may have a harder time finding the food they need to nourish themselves and their pups.

Since 1990, the wide range in model - based estimates of equilibrium climate warming has been attributed to disparate cloud responses to warming.

Climate change is also creating problems for fisheries; for example, commercially valuable stocks move in response to warming seas.

Changes in the global water cycle in response to the warming over the 21st century will not be uniform.

But if past responses to warming are a guide to the future, this could change.

In the tropics which are prone to deep convection, the water vapor response to warmer temperature also promotes a less steep lapse rate owing to latent heat effects.

Another is lack of theory AND long - term data for other things that matter, like ice - sheet response to warming.

We can now see an 800 year lag in the CO2 response to warming temperatures.

How the myriad uncertainties in the physical climate system, and the human and ecological response to warming, can be incorporated into carbon pricing is a matter of research.

The physics - based approach to calculating climate change leaves calculations vulnerable to large biological or chemical responses to warming.

Your point that the world is awaiting an effective American response to the warming crisis is certainly correct, too.

Already there are numerous indications of substantial effects in response to warming of the past few decades.

The geographical distribution of many species of marine plants and animals shifts towards the poles in response to warmer temperatures.

There is already evidence that many coral reef fish and pelagic fish, like tuna, have moved in response to warmer ocean waters.

«Unprecedented levels of high temperature in the last decades (Barber, 2004) have led to nonlinear patterns of white spruce tree growth responses to warming at Alaska's treeline and temperature thresholds appear to be operating.

This nonlinear response to warming means that about 60 % more meltwater was released from the ice sheet over the past decade than would have been the case if the ice slope were uniform, scientists estimated in a recent paper.

On the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.»

This 1988 Shell report, discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent, shines light on what the company knew about climate science, its own role in driving global CO2 emissions, the range of potential political and social responses to a warming world.

No matter how well the world controls emissions of greenhouse gases, global climate change is inevitable, warn two new studies which take into account the oceans» slow response to warming.

We find that most peat - forming ecosystems have initiated since 2800 cal BP, in response to warmer summers and increasing summer insolation.

If the pictures are very similar despite the different forcings that implies that the pattern really has nothing to do with greenhouse gas changes, but is a more fundamental response to warming (however caused).

States that physical environment responses to warming have been reported, but not details of large - area temperate growing season impacts, or consequences for ecosystems and agriculture

«The Northern Rockies have shown the greatest response to warming in terms of snowpack decline,» said lead author Greg Pederson, a research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Rocky Mountain Research Center.

In response to the warm weather, pollen production goes up, and the presence of pollen in the air can leave even people with mild allergies sneezing, sniffling, and rubbing their itchy eyes through Labor Day.

Light It Up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over Artforum International; May 1, 2006; Meyer, Richard; 700 + words... The neon sculpture, titled Warm Broad Glow, 2005, is the last work, chronologically... seems an appropriate response to Warm Broad Glow, it is because the sculpture... contrary, the oblique address of Warm Broad Glow comprises part of its content...

Traditional ways of driving LES with prescribed SST miss these effects, leading to their distorted responses to warming.

The Cu cases also show strikingly different responses to warming with the two approaches (Figure 3).

In Tan et al. (2016b), we compare how the MBL and low - cloud responses to warming differ under the two approaches.

States that a number of important aspects of the hydrological response to warming are a direct consequence of the increase in lower - tropospheric water vapor

The new findings will aid the refinement of such modelling: more importantly, the data from the Pliocene show that parts of the EAIS are more capable of dynamic and radical responses to warmer climate conditions than was thought to be the case.

On page 101 of this issue, Melillo et al. (3) report on an intriguing 26 - year record of soil respiration responses to warming in a temperate forest.

This desiccation is consistent across most of the models and moisture balance variables, indicating a coherent and robust drying response to warming despite the diversity of models and metrics analyzed.

Secondly, fundamental physics also tells us that water vapor will be a positive feedback, increasing in response to warming according to the Clausius - Clapeyron relation.