Sentences with phrase «since satellite»

It is easy to show a) that temperature has risen in several multi-decadal spurts since modern measurements started in 1850, b) that atmospheric CO2 has risen since measurements started in 1958, c) that Arctic sea ice has shrunk since satellite measurements started in 1979, d) that sea level has risen, again in multi-decadal spurts, since tide gauge records started in the 19th century, etc..

In the Arctic, the lowest year of summer sea ice «since satellite measurements began» was 2007.

Another cherry pick for the Arctic is «since satellite measurements began».

The rate of sea level rise has been about a foot per century since the satellite era.

Underscoring their point, the agencies added, «The six lowest maximum events since satellite monitoring began in 1979 have all occurred in the past six years (2004 - 09).

According to a statement released by the Brazilian government, the latest figures on the rate of deforestation in the world largest rainforest show a drop to the lowest levels since satellite monitoring began in 1988.

The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice cover this winter was the second - lowest since satellite record - keeping began, researchers said Friday.

Until recently, most computer models failed to capture the precipitous decline in Arctic sea ice that has occurred since satellite observations began in 1979.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage — a long - sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

Since this satellite wasn't launched — the fossil fuel lobby managed to block funding for Triana with some political assistance — you'd instead have to rely on the stitched - together records of near - Earth satellites.

The satellite data set needs to be reprocessed, since the satellite data integrity has evolved with time also.

The average decadal extent of Arctic sea ice has decreased in every season since satellite observations commenced in 1979.

Furthermore since the satellite records do not include much of the polar regions they can not be considered to have global coverage either.

«Day 258 of 2012 is the highest for this date since satellite scanning of Antarctic ice areas commenced 33 years ago» the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition announced today.

eadler2 ``... satellite data in the fast warming Arctic, where there are few surface stations, shows a trend of 0.175 + / - 0.045 DegC / decade since the satellite era began.»

Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979.

``... fast warming Arctic, where there are few surface stations, shows a trend of 0.175 + / - 0.045 DegC / decade since the satellite era began.

The global stratospheric aerosol concentrations in 2005 were at their lowest values since satellite measurements began in about 1980.

Satellite data is not direct measurement of temperature, but since each satellite is measuring each spot of the Earth the same error would apply to the whole measurement.

Keep in mind, also, that 2010 was tied for Earth's hottest year on record, and the amount of energy coming from the sun during 2009 - 2010 was the lowest since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

If» a warmer world will have an atmosphere with more water vapor,» why has atmospheric water vapor declined since satellite measurements began in 1983, and why has tropospheric relative and specific humidity declined since 1948?

Last year tied 2005 for the hottest since official records began, which is weird because 2010 also indicated «the deepest solar energy minimum since satellite measurements of the sun began in the 1970s.»

Since the satellite era, satellite measurements of ocean skin surface temperature have supplemented the other technologies, and continue to demonstrate the upward trends.

Since satellite records began in the late 1970s, Arctic sea ice has disappeared at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade.

Of course, we all know that Arctic sea ice has been on a downward trend since satellite records started in 1979, reversing a growing trend from the 1940s to the 1970s, which was observed by other means by mostly Russian records.

There's no evidence solar variability is the sole cause of warming in the past century, and certainly not since satellite measures above TOA began to be compared to global temperatures.

Between March 20 and September 16, 2012, the Arctic lost ice covering 11.8 million square kilometers — an area larger than the United States and Mexico together, and more than in any year since satellite measurements began in 1979.

NSIDC 5 day averaged Antarctic sea ice extent is now at a record low level for the date, since satellite measurements began in 1979:

And in Greenland, the ice sheet continued to lose mass this year, as it has for every year since satellite - based measurements began there in 2002, according to the report.

Now the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent ever recorded for January (since satellite records began).

The March 24, 2016 maximum sea - ice extent was estimated at 5.6 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), which set a new record for the lowest maximum extent since satellite monitoring began in 1981.

(Since satellite monitoring of atmospheric temperatures began, the cumulative growth of CO2 ppm levels has been over 18 %.)

According to NOAA's 2012 Arctic Report Card, the duration of melting at the surface of the ice sheet in summer 2012 was the longest since satellite observations began in 1979, and the total amount of summer melting was nearly double the previous record, set in 2010 (satellite records of melting go back to 1979.)

Sadly they have not maintained it since the satellite failed in February so that record looks like a dead end now.

Since the satellite record began in 1979, summer sea ice cover has fallen by around 13 % per decade, with rising temperatures playing a large role in the decline.

In 2012, Arctic sea ice hit its lowest point since satellite monitoring began in 1979, with recent ebb and flow in ice extent now known to be the result of giant storms, ocean currents and high pressure days.

In September 2007 sea ice extent reached its lowest level since the satellite record began in 1979; the monthly extent, 4.28 × 106 square kilometers, surpassed the previous sea ice minimum record (set in 2005) by 1.28 × 106 square kilometers [Stroeve et al., 2008].

... [M] ost of the trends observed since satellite climate monitoring began in 1979 CE can not yet be distinguished from natural (unforced) climate variability, and are of the opposite sign [cooling] to those produced by most forced climate model simulations over the same post-1979 CE interval.»

Incoming solar radiation is measured by satellites; the recent minimum set records for the reduction in solar radiation since satellite measurements began in the 1970s.

The so - called minimum sea - ice extent in «07 was at that time the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, covering an average of 1.65 million square miles.

Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.

This topped the previous record set in 2013 and all other years since satellite measurements began in 1979.

We know that global cloud cover has decreased about 4 % since satellite measurements became available in 1985.

But there is also the tropospheric data record since the satellite era.

It marks the end of a record breaking 7 month stretch where the lakes were covered in at least one ice cube, which is the longest period since satellite records began back in the 70's.

For example, this year in March the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent, * but it was the lowest maximum extent ever seen since satellite records began in 1979.

In 2009, Arctic sea ice extent hit its 3rd lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979.

Since satellite data seemed free of many of the errors that affect surface measurements, these results were seized on by global warming «sceptics».

Shown below is the declining sea ice trend for the month of January since satellite measurements began, in 1979.

Since the end of the study, which took observations up to the year 2012, Arctic ice has reached a record low, shrinking to its sixth - lowest level since satellite tracking started in 1979.