Sentences with phrase «seasonal climate variations»

After all, people readily tolerate much larger regional and seasonal climate variations.

After all, people readily tolerate much larger regional and seasonal climate variations.

These were used to estimate a normal pattern of seasonal climate variation.

Not exact matches

If the effects of climate change weren't included in the model, the trends toward bigger seasonal variations in CO2 at Arctic latitudes disappeared, researchers report online today in Science.

Martin King hopes that renewed interest in the seasonal variation of El Niño tele - connections in Europe will contribute to further progress in climate predictions on monthly and seasonal scales.

In some cases, the foliage loss coincides with winter in temperate or polar climates, while others lose their leaves during the dry season in climates with seasonal variation in rainfall.

These orbital variations, which can be calculated from astronomical laws (Berger, 1978), force climate variations by changing the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation (Chapter 6).

«Seasonal variation is really important for climate,» says Pérez - Huerta, «and it one of the most difficult components to reconstruct from the geological records.»

Just like the rest of Fiji, Viti Levu has a tropical climate, meaning that the weather is nearly always warm and there is little seasonal variation in temperature throughout the year.

Since this does not include any climatic variations (not even the seasonal cycle), let alone a test period with a different CO2 level, this data test is unable to constrain the upper limit of the climate sensitivity range.

The variable A may represent a characteristic of the climate system (humidity, winds,...) or may characterize natural variations (e.g., in the seasonal cycle, or from year to year).

The U.S. military seems interested in climate variations / change on timescales from seasonal to scales out to about 30 years, a period over which natural climate variability could very well swamp anthropogenically forced climate change.

Furthermore, given the regular seasonal variation in climate, variations in climate are experienced on a monthly or seasonal basis, not an annual basis.

d) Michael D. Dettinger, Michael Ghil: Seasonal and interannual variations of atmospheric CO2 and climate, Tellus Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology [International Meteorological Institute, Stockholm], (February 1998) Volume 50, Issue 1, pages 1 — 24.

The use of anomalies avoids this seasonal / regional variation, because when the climate isn't changing, neither will be the anomalies except for local noise.

I also pointed out that there will be no one happier than us farmers when seasonal variations and climate cycles are better understood and therefore easier to predict.

Sugiura N., T. Awaji, S. Masuda, T. Mochizuki, T. Toyoda, T. Miyama, H. Igarashi, Y. Ishikawa, 2008: Development of a four - dimensional variational coupled data assimilation system for enhanced analysis and prediction of seasonal to interannual climate variations.

«Skeptics» have not produced GCMs so that they can evaluate its seasonal and regional variations before going on to climate change.

This paper aims to address the question of how the runoff extremes change in the future compared to the historical time period, investigate the different behaviors of the regional climate models (RCMs) regarding the runoff extremes and assess the seasonal variations of runoff extremes.

1) His findings on orbital movements are sound, but have no implications about climate without an albedo model to change the minor seasonal variations into a significant global variation;

An improved dynamical understanding of how the tropical Pacific Ocean transitions into hiatus events, including its seasonal structure, may help to improve future prediction of decadal climate variations.

We conclude that sub-regional spatial and seasonal variation can not be ignored when evaluating the direction and magnitude of climate change.»

Hall and Qu (2006) show that biases of a number of MMD models in reproducing the observed seasonal cycle of land snow cover (especially the spring melt) are tightly related to the large variations in snow albedo feedback strength simulated by the same models in climate change scenarios.

In «Too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry: Drivers and impacts of seasonal weather in the UK», the Met Office considered whether recent seasonal variations could be attributed to climate change, and to what extent this could be used to estimate likely future climate.

On the other hand, in Mediterranean climates with rainy winters... — of course, othere than given precipitation patterns, the potential problem with seasonal hydroelectric would be unacceptable or problematic reservoir variations — but I don't know a lot about that.

Observations of recent global warming, short - term cooling after major volcanic eruptions, cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum and other periods in the historical record, and the seasonal variation in climate, all provide some information which helps to determine the value of climate sensitivity.

Mintz et al. (1972); as cited by GARP (1975), p. 200; importance of the seasonal cycle to check climate models was noted e.g. in Wilson and Matthews (1971), p. 145; Manabe had a rough seasonal simulation by 1970 and published a full seasonal variation in 1974.

Zhai, C., J. H. Jiang, and H. Su, 2015: Long - term cloud change imprinted in seasonal cloud variation: More evidence of high climate sensitivity.

They used several simple indices, including the land - ocean contrast, the meridional gradient, and the magnitude of the seasonal cycle, to describe global climate variations and showed that for natural variations, they contain information independent of the global mean temperature.

Karen Liu shares her extensive knowledge of the impacts of green roofs and how they depend on climate differences, seasonal variations, and other factors.