Sentences with phrase «sufficient warming of the surface»

A sufficient warming of the surface will increase the loss terms to the point that the energy budget balances.

Not exact matches

So - called «convective» clouds are formed when there is a significant warming of the surface and a sufficient amount of moisture.

Due to the heating of the surface in connection with sufficient humidity, a warm updraft is released in the atmosphere.

This string of record - breaking months is coming to a close now that El Niño has faded, but it is sufficient to give a very high likelihood that 2016 will be a record warm year in the surface records.

... a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

Abstract:... Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

With the impracticality of massed reindeer - peeing playing a role (from aerial images the site is clearly on a regular grazing route) I'm left wondering just what gas presssure would be needed for clathrates to form after a notional influx of hot geological methane melted out a pingo, with sufficient surface warming penetration then causing their destabilization.

Hence, for GHG forcing in general, stratospheric cooling (assuming either that the cooling extends to the base of the stratosphere or that the stratosphere has a sufficient band of wavelengths with significant but not large optical thickness, etc...) reduces the tropopause level forcing downwar, while tropospheric - surface warming reduces the stratospheric cooling.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

The evolving radiation balance of the earth as seen in the satellite data shows that the energy added by the CO2 and feedbacks is more than sufficient to explain the observed warming surface temperatures.

In case you're interested in knowing what I think (as someone not smart enough or knowledgeable enough to debate the science)-- I would say that global mean (surface) temperatures are an indicator (or measure) of global warming — but they are only one measure of such, but not sufficient as a complete measurement.

The impact of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs released vast amounts of CO2 from vaporising carbonate - rich rocks, pushing atmospheric CO2 levels up to approx 2,300 ppm resulting in a climatic forcing of +12 W - m -LRB--) 2 that would have been sufficient to warm the Earth's surface by 7.5 °C, in the absence of counter forcing by sulfate aerosols.

«The scale of this difference across the globe and over the years is sufficient to add a warming of 0.03 C per decade to the HadCRUT surface temperature record.»

The runaway greenhouse effect has several meanings ranging from, at the low end, global warming sufficient to induce out - of - control amplifying feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates, to, at the high end, a Venus - like hothouse with crustal carbon baked into the atmosphere and a surface temperature of several hundred degrees, a climate state from which there is no escape.

In summary, your argument pointing to the lacking statistical significance of the temperature trend estimate for a time period is not sufficient empirical / statistical evidence or scientific justification for the claim that there was a «pause» of global surface / troposphere warming.

Natural Variability Doesn't Account for Observed Temperature Increase In it's press release announcement, NASA points out that while there are other factors than greenhouse gases contributing to the amount of warming observed — changes in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 1880.