Using data from earth - observing satellites and high - resolution climate models, the authors found a consistent decrease in
summer cloud cover since 1995.
Maybe just lying down looking at the sky
with summer clouds, letting your imagination soar.
During high season we are often just above the cool
thick summer clouds and below the sun - beating peaks.
Airy hydrangeas and white chamomiles float
like summer clouds against the olive background.
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has discovered that a marked decrease
in summer cloud cover during the last 20 years has significantly accelerated melt from the Greenland ice sheet.
Down the mountain slope, under shreds of
white summer clouds, the grasslands may be spangled with sunlight and shadows that move slowly over the land and melt into the distant ocean.
She's soft and fluffy as a
little summer cloud with eyes the color of clear mountain skies, and her name is Bonnie!
Brooks I. M., M. Tjernström, P. O. G. Persson, M. D. Shupe, R. A. Atkinson, G. Canut, C. E. Birch, T. Mauritsen, J. Sedlar and B. J. Brooks (September 2017): The Turbulent Structure of the Arctic Summer Boundary Layer During The
Arctic Summer Cloud - Ocean Study.
In contrast,
reduced summer cloud cover may lead to warmer, more equable climates (Kump and Pollard, 2008).
Since summer cloud cover is not monitored in the North Cascade region this parameter can not be examined.
Teal peonies swirl amidst cornflowers, airy hydrangeas and white chamomiles float
like summer clouds.
The research shows that a one percent reduction in
summer cloud cover is equivalent to 27 gigatons of extra ice melt on the Greenland ice sheet — this is roughly equivalent to the annual domestic water supply of the USA or 180 million times the weight of a blue whale.
Summers clouds the issue further by separating minorities into two groups, people of color and women.
Violet peonies swirl amidst cornflowers, airy hydrangeas and white chamomiles float like
summer clouds.
Porter (1977) and Tangborn (1980) demonstrated that
summer cloud cover is highly correlated with summer temperature, and is inherently included in the temperature record, and is not an independent variable.
The four primary climatic variables affecting North Cascade glaciers are ablation season temperature, accumulation season precipitation,
summer cloud cover and May and October freezing levels (Tangborn, 1980; Pelto, 1988).