Sentences with phrase «said global land surface»
«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.
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«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.
Not exact matches
NOAA said the combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January - October period was 0.68 °C (1.22 °F) above the 20th century average of 14.1 °C (57.4 °F).
«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.
AGW and models say that there will be an increase in the global temperature [air or sea or land surface, take your pick] if the CO2 increases.
It says the average land and ocean - surface temperature for 2001 - 2010 was estimated to be 14.47 °C, or 0.47 °C above the 1961 - 1990 global average and +0.21 °C above the 1991 - 2000 global average (with a factor of uncertainty of ± 0.1 °C).
In many ways, one might say Earth, generally has global temperature of 25 because about 70 % of surface is ocean area and 30 % is land area.
And Chris Fogwill, senior research associate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the study, says: «The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of cool freshwater to the ocean surface.
richardscourtney says: June 27, 2014 at 6:36 am «Each team that produces values of global average surface temperature (GASTA) uses a different definition; e.g. the weightings they apply to land and ocean differ and they compute gridding differently.»
«The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover around 10 % of the global land surface,» said Jon Hawkings, of the University of Bristol, UK.