Sentences with phrase «stronger albedo effects»

But much stronger albedo effects (a measure of how much sunlight is simply reflected back out into space) might be generated by the high winds of the glacial era, giving 10 °C temperature changes rather than the 1 °C excursion of the Little Ice Age.

Not exact matches

Should we have anomalously strong southerly winds this summer like last summer, that would trigger another big ice - albedo effect, leading to a big summer ice retreat again.

The net effect is a much stronger albedo feedback in the NH than in the SH, enhance because the large land mass in the NH results in larger temperature fluctuations in any event.

Ice albedo feedback change is mainly limited to high latitude NH * land * during deglaciation, and its effects — though strong — are limited compared to those of a radiative forcing over the global ocean.

For truly boreal systems (further north than Adirondacks), my understanding is that there is enough evidence for a strong warming albedo effect of forests (counter-acting the cooling effect of C sequestration) that we probably should not attribute carbon offsets to boreal reforestation based simply on carbon accounting of tree biomass.

Increases in forest cover generally cause cooling in the tropics where the ET effect dominates (Claussen et al. 2001) and warming in mid - and high - latitudes where the albedo effect is strong (Betts 2000).