Sentences with phrase «surface air temperature change»
Climate sensitivity is a measure of the equilibrium global surface air temperature change for a particular forcing.
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Climate sensitivity is a measure of the equilibrium global surface air temperature change for a particular forcing.
Summer surface air temperature change relative to the present over the Arctic (left) and ice thickness and extent for Greenland and western arctic glaciers (right) for the last interglacial, approximately 125,000 years ago, from a multi-model and multi-proxy synthesis.
Red curve: estimated global surface air temperature change based on deep ocean temperatures and assumption that LGM - Holocene surface temperature change is 4.5 °C.
Figure 3: Black curve: calculated surface air temperature change for climate forcings in HS12 and climate sensitivity 0.75 °C per W / m2.
«Fs», the fixed SST forcing, is a combination of the flux change at the top of (and throughout) the atmosphere and of the global surface air temperature change after the forcing and with observed sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice (SI) held fixed.
Surface air temperature change relative to 1880 - 1920 in 2055 - 2060 based on climate simulations assuming ice melt increases with a 10 - year doubling time.
Figure, at right: Surface air temperature changes from 1890 to 2000, from aerosol direct (top), indirect (middle) and BC - albedo (bottom) effects.
Very little happening in summer itself (as expected) as the melting ice surface and heat sensible heat gain in the mixed layer limit the surface air temperature change.
Aerosols altered the surface air temperature changes most in winter, even though effects on snow / ice and cloud cover were greatest during summer.
Surface air temperature change in winter and summer when using doubled CO2 sea surface temperatures as calculated in the GISS (DBL CO2) and GFDL (ALT) models circa early - mid-1980s.
Multi-model mean of annual mean surface warming (surface air temperature change, °C) for the scenarios B1 (top), A1B (middle) and A2 (bottom), and three time periods, 2011 to 2030 (left), 2046 to 2065 (middle) and 2080 to 2099 (right).