Sentences with phrase «temperature associated warm»

A new methodology (combined Pacific variability mode) is developed to objectively analyze how climate change may be synergistically interacting with Pacific sea surface temperature associated warm season teleconnections in North America.

Not exact matches

For example, when the room temperature was warmer (> 21 °C), fan use was associated with a 94 % decreased risk of SIDS (AOR, 0.06; 95 % CI, 0.01 - 0.52) compared with no fan use.

For example, fan use in warmer room temperatures was associated with a greater reduction in SIDS risk (AOR, 0.06; 95 % CI, 0.01 - 0.52) compared with cooler room temperatures (0.77; 0.22 - 2.73).

In MS patients, warmer outdoor temperature was associated with greater BOLD activation during performance of a simple sustained attention task.

The warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from El Niño have previously been associated with a higher likelihood of dengue outbreaks.

And it finds that, while this winter's unusually strong Arctic Oscillation - which funnels cold northern air to the East Coast and pulls warm mid-latitude air up to the Arctic - is predicted as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, seasonal temperature anomalies associated with it aren't enough to blunt long - term warming trends.

«We find that civil wars were much more likely to happen in warmer - than - average years, with one degree Celsius warmer temperatures in a given year associated with a 50 percent higher likelihood of conflict in that year,» Burke says.

«Looking at weather and dengue incidents over longer periods, we found a similar strong link between how increased rainfall and warmer temperatures resulting from the reoccurring el Niño phenomenon are associated with elevated risks of dengue epidemics.

Today's climate models predict a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change.

Their new analysis is based on a computer simulation of the changes in temperature of the atmosphere associated with greenhouse warming.

Professor Grant Bigg, from the University's Department of Geography, said: «Many people may associate warmer seas with the pleasant weather conditions they're used to experiencing while on holiday, but the fact of the matter is that an increase in sea temperatures is having a huge impact on the world's weather.

The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.

«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

Are the warmer temperatures associated with climate change drying Arctic sites?

As discussed elsewhere on this site, modeling studies indicate that the modest cooling of hemispheric or global mean temperatures during the 15th - 19th centuries (relative to the warmer temperatures of the 11th - 14th centuries) appears to have been associated with a combination of lowered solar irradiance and a particularly intense period of explosive volcanic activity.

Direct effects are impacts to trees that arise directly in response to changes in temperature and precipitation; indirect effects are secondary impacts, such as increased number of fires associated with warming temperatures, which then affect trees and forests.

In Montana, increased fire frequency is associated with warmer spring temperatures and drier summer conditions (Heyerdahl et al. 2008; Morgan et al. 2008), often associated with El Niño.

Gagliano says that as - yet - unpublished work shows that exposing adult reef fish to higher water temperatures and increasingly acid water — both of which are associated with global warming — increases the percentage of offspring born with asymmetrical otoliths.

The fact that more methane is released when temperature rises is a normal linear response, probably associated with a growing number of warm days in Arctic (which is probably partly due to a high AMO oscillation), but I see no sign of a feedback on methane curve.

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures.

While most people associate spring and summer with warming temperatures, blooming flowers and the world becoming more lush and green, for animal shelter workers, this is kitten season.

«The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn't show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming,» wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.

Much of the recent sea ice loss is attributed to warmer sea surface temperatures with southerly wind anomalies a contributing cause [Francis and Hunter, 2007; Sorteberg and Kvingedal, 2006], with thermodynamic coupling leading to associated increases in atmospheric moisture.»

The curves, displaying results using both Goddard's temperature data and those from the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction in England, show a much smoother trend toward a warmer world (with very clear drops associated with volcanic eruptions).

Again, as the temperature anomaly associated with this jump dissipates, we hypothesize that the climate system will return to its signal as defined by its pre-1998 behavior in roughly 2020 and resume warming.

It could very well be that general warming along with high sea - surface temperatures have lengthened the tropical storm season, making it more likely that a Sandy could form, travel so far north, and have an opportunity to interact with a deep jet - stream trough associated with the strong block, which is steering it westward into the mid-Atlantic.

The climate change in this period is generally believed to be associated with precessional changes in the distribution of solar radiation, which primarily affect land - sea temperature contrast, and give only a regional warming, plus an enhancement of certain monsoonal circulations.

The warming of the world ocean is associated with an increase in global surface air temperature, downward longwave radiation, and therefore net heat flux.

Emanuel (2005) makes a compelling case that the warming ocean temperatures (and associated changes in atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles) are behind the increased TC intensity in the Atlantic.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

It remains to be seen whether a future return to a consistently strongly negative A.O. (typically associated with cooler temperatures and sequestered ice in the Arctic) would be sufficient to reverse the trend of the recent warming and ice decline.

The internal gains assumptions for this case exclude those associated with occupancy — with a minimal heating system (such as air heating) you need to be able to keep the house warm when away on a winter holiday, because otherwise it will take too long to bring the house up to a comfortable temperature.

The results are at best inconclusive, since three of the updated series, including Michael Mann's celebrated and controversial tree - ring reconstructions, do not refute the hypothesis, while the others quite significantly point to different dates of maximum temperature achievements into the past centuries, in particular those associated to the Medieval Warm Period.

If the most commonly cited temperature sets can not detect the easy changes in the climate, then how is it going to detect the subtle changes associated with the theory of global warming.

Finds that in the Northern Hemisphere there is no reduction in the sensible heat transport despite the reduction in the zonal - mean temperature gradient at low levels associated with polar amplification of the warming

With warmer temperatures associated with climate change, cyanobacteria are blooming in more northern latitudes.

And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).

When we associate years with warming, sea level, and city commitments, we are referencing the 21st century years when the commitments are established through cumulative emissions, not the years farther in the future when the commitments are realized through sustained temperature increases and SLR.

Among all the statistics about temperature increase, polar melting and sea level rise associated with a warming world, the impact on hundreds of millions of people forced to leave their homes due to climate change is often not fully considered.

The red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected the unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.

Previous large natural oscillations are important to examine: however, 1) our data isn't as good with regards to external forcings or to historical temperatures, making attribution more difficult, 2) to the extent that we have solar and volcanic data, and paleoclimate temperature records, they are indeed fairly consistent with each other within their respective uncertainties, and 3) most mechanisms of internal variability would have different fingerprints: eg, shifting of warmth from the oceans to the atmosphere (but we see warming in both), or simultaneous warming of the troposphere and stratosphere, or shifts in global temperature associated with major ocean current shifts which for the most part haven't been seen.

Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected the unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.

Previous studies have attributed the warming and cooling patterns of North Atlantic ocean temperatures in the 20th century — and associated hurricane activity — to the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation.

Compare the temperature increase between 1975 - 1998 natural internal variability associated accounting for significantly MORE than half of the observed warming.

As seen in Figure 2, a cool phase PDO is associated with cool sea surface temperatures along the Pacific coast of North America, but the center of the North Pacific ocean is still quite warm.

The United Nations Environment Programme is warning that for this region long associated with ice and snow, warming temperatures signify the demise of a popular ski industry, not to mention a cultural identity.

After all, the TCR is associated with the temperature change in response to increasing CO2, and Gillett et al. attribute essentially the entire observed global surface warming to the greenhouse gas increase.

Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) intensify due to three vertically interacting positive potential vorticity anomalies that are associated with warm temperature anomalies at the surface, condensational heating in the lower - level atmosphere, and stratospheric intrusion in the upper - level atmosphere.

The sea level high - stand was associated with the so - called Climatic Optimum or the Holocene Optimum, during 8000 to 4000 BC when average global temperatures reached their maximum level during the Holocene and were warmer than present day.

Our study suggests that these patterns may also exist in deseasonalized monthly means of the measured temperature record in the post industrial era, a period that is normally associated with global warming and climate change.