«Yes, I know we live in Florida, but you really should have
snow coverage for this vehicle.»
Ice ages come on slowly as the albedo from greater and
greated snow coverage increases causing greater and greater cooling, but end rapidly as the melt back rapidly decreases the albedo.
Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level
of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.
This large temperature increase at high northern latitudes is caused by the loss of ice and reduced
winter snow coverage, exposing land and oceans which will absorb large amounts of incoming solar radiation (which will act to amplify the warming).
«Our model indicated that climate and skiing facilities are important factors,
with snow coverage and the number of ski resorts per head having a significant and positive impact on medal shares,» Broadfield and Zimmern noted.
But we can be reasonably confident that certain macroeconomic variables - like GDP or population - or specific factors,
like snow coverage, do have predictive power for future performance.»
No global boiling in oceans have been identified, and no
global snow coverage, so most temperature sensitive lifeforms have survived and evolved, and made it to layers and layers of sediments.
Years having equal or greater
January snow coverage include every year from 1974 - 1985, except the marginally lower years of 1976 and 1980.
I also like the
overall snow coverage in the N.H. and it looks like it will be going more above average within the next few days, from a level very slightly above average as of today.
31 should read... warmer temperatures due to less albedo from less than 100
percent snow coverage, which is unusual for late February in Minnesota.
The resort is also known for having the
best snow coverage in Europe and a long ski season that can last six months (December to May).
Eurasia contributed more to the positive monthly anomaly than North America did, but it also contributes 62 % of
the snow coverage of the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months.
This year
the snow coverage averaged 47.17 million km2.
That means it is time to look at
the snow coverage for the Northern Hemisphere for the entire winter as a whole.
What is most interesting is how very normal
the snow coverage has been.
From 2009 - current the average
snow coverage is normal.
That type of weather causes a higher variation in
the snow coverage in the fall and spring.
The only difference is that this was the earliest that
the snow coverage reached 44 million km2 this early since 1992.
The month of April has on average 10 million km2 less
snow coverage than March does.
April taken as a single month was the warmest on record for surface temperature, and
snow coverage was also unusual, «April 2007 snow cover extent for the Northern Hemisphere was the third lowest extent on record, and it has been below average in 15 of the past 20 years.»
Solid surface (ground and ice) heat absorption and radiation can be calculated taking into account seasonal effects on ice and
snow coverage.