Sentences with phrase «rising surface temperatures»

A survey of trends in dispersed and concentrated sea ice extent in the Arctic in the northern summer and northern winter and in the Antarctic in the southern summer and southern winter for the period 1979 - 2015 shows a negative trend in dispersed and concentrated sea ice extent in the Arctic in the northern summer amid rising surface temperature in the northern hemisphere.

Interestingly, the troposphere as a whole tends to lag behind rising surface temperatures, Christy said.

Furthermore, rising surface temperatures trigger melting ice, particularly in the sprawling ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica.

Evaporation increases with rising surface temperature, decreasing relative humidity, and increasing surface wind speed.

One pressing question involves how global climate change will influence fog and how fog may be affected by rising surface temperatures and secondary effects such as coastal wind strength, inland marine layer intrusion, and increased evaporation.

Additionally, you need to show why the energy that has been accumulated thus is staying in the system, so that each following El Nino rises surface temperatures further.

And in terms of the correlation being actually observed in our atmosphere, it was Guy Callendar in 1938 who first published a paper showing rising surface temperature linked to rising levels of CO2.

Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man - made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

The study, detailed in the July 29 issue of the journal Nature, found that rising surface temperatures were associated with declining phytoplankton in eight of 10 regions.

As the effects of our changing climate, such as extreme weather events, poorer air quality, and rising surface temperatures, are becoming more apparent, it is key to provide accurate and timely information to those in need.

Rising surface temperatures are just one manifestation.