Sentences with phrase «seasonal extremes»

Mora's models do show only average annual temperature — collapsing seasonal extremes into one number for the year.

But anyone who is considering setting up an outdoor enclosure needs to be cognizant that seasonal extremes dramatically affect animals that are unwittingly exposed to them.

Stated in another way, the late Pleistocene climate was more equable than that of the present day, one in which seasonal extremes in temperature and effective moisture were reduced.

Ensemble average results suggest that seasonal extreme runoff will increase in most regions in particular the Rockies and west of the Cascades.

The tilt of the Earth on its axis also favored increased solar radiation, and helped create seasonal extremes and prime conditions for fire in some parts of the world, increased monsoons (defined) in other regions, and sweeping changes in the biological makeup of the landscape.

«The U.S. temperatures in the summer of 2012 are an example of a new trend of outlying seasonal extremes that are warmer than the hottest seasonal temperatures of the mid-20th century,» NASA scientist James E. Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in a statement.

«It gives us hope to know that if we act quickly to reduce greenhouse gases, seasonal extremes might never enter a new normal state in the 21st Century at regional levels for the Southern Hemisphere summer and Northern Hemisphere winter,» Dr Lewis said.

In part 2 we'll see that seasonal extreme warm anomalies in 2009 - 2011 are well above the 1951 - 1980 base period typically used in GISTEMP analyses - indicative of global warming's role in heatwaves.

Similarly, his temperament reflected the seasonal extremes of «passivity and wildness» in the depression and mania that afflicted him throughout his life.

It sounds like you're interested in changes in monthly or seasonal extremes (highs and lows).