Sentences with phrase «small decrease in temperature»

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Consistent with observed changes in surface temperature, there has been an almost worldwide reduction in glacier and small ice cap (not including Antarctica and Greenland) mass and extent in the 20th century; snow cover has decreased in many regions of the Northern Hemisphere; sea ice extents have decreased in the Arctic, particularly in spring and summer (Chapter 4); the oceans are warming; and sea level is rising (Chapter 5).

Even the small amount of heat involved in pasteurization decreases the whey protein concentration of milk, but ultra-high temperature (UHT) pasteurization and sterilization cause the worst declines.

Droplets can persist for months to years leading to small decreases in global atmospheric temperatures.

It could be smaller than that or larger, depending on the way that temperature varies with height; but it will not be larger than twice that, provided that a temporary saturation doesn't happen and then significantly reverse in the span of a single doubling — in other words, provided that the process of any temporary saturation and following reversal (wherein BTc0 increases, halts, and then decreases, or in the opposite order) can be sufficiently resolved by the fractional change in CO2.

The relative simplicity of the curve of the long - term data — a decrease in temperature from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, followed by a relatively steady increase to present — is extremely unusual for such a small area of the globe.

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»

While SO2 emissions may have had some small role in that period, they can't have a role in the current standstill, as the increase of emissions in SE Asia is compensated by the decrease in emissions in the Western world, thus there is hardly any increase in cooling aerosols while CO2 levels are going up at record speed and temperatures are stalled.

And while temperature should decrease the total amount of carbon in the upper layer of the oceans, we see an increase in carbon (and a decrease in 13C / 12C ratio)- Ice cores, tree carbon and coralline sponges all give small 13C / 12C variations over the Holocene, but all show a steady and ever faster decline since about 1850.

Recent trends in the mid - and low latitude foE and foF1 are a slight increase, and in foF2 in day - time a very small decrease, probably due to changes in minor constituent chemistry and various temperature - dependent reactions and loss rates.

That has now switched, and the small decrease in the global temperature between about 2002 and 2008 seems to reflect that.

Mike, I have long felt that a decrease in cloudiness better explains such things as glacier retreat than the small increase in global average temperature.