Sentences with phrase «temperature change we»

A general time - independent statement would only be reasonable if you are comparing the largest possible influence on temperature, i.e. the largest possible temperature change a factor can produce, and these are neither known nor discussed to my knowledge (even then, it would be timescale dependant).

Increasing temperature change over next several decades will accelerate, according to new research

Since we (you, me, the IPCC) all are in agreement as to the likelihood of the rate of (near) future temperature change, the real impetus in your call for a wager should be geared towards calling out the alarmists — those folks who entertain the idea that the IPCC extreme temperature change scenarios are the most probable.

Figure 2: NASA GISS Global temperature change in degrees Celsius.

In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

Since the IPCC contends that all emissions scenarios are equally likely, there should be equal likelihood that the rate of temperature change should fall within either of the two ranges I just defined.

Any temperature change (in °C) divided by any energy flux (in W / m2) will have the same unit and thus can be «compared».

The 2007 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography was awarded to Brian Dushaw of the University of Washington, Applied Physical Laboratory, Seattle, for his research on acoustic tomography to measure temperature change in the ocean.

The temperature change in any particular region will in fact be a combination of radiation - related changes (through greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone and the like) and dynamical effects.

That's the main finding of a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, which looked at the rate of temperature change over 40 - year periods.

Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Dr. Benestad states: «In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

For each 15 - year period, the authors compared the temperature change we've seen in the real world with what the climate models suggest should have happened.

One could assume that there was minimal global mean surface temperature change between 1750 and 1850, as some datasets suggest, and compare the 1850 - 2000 temperature change with the full 1750 - 2000 forcing estimate, as in my paper and Otto et al..

This study integrates the complementary information preserved in the global database of borehole temperatures [Huang et al., 2000], the 20th century meteorological record [Jones et al., 1999], and an annually resolved multi proxy model [Mann et al., 1999] for a more complete picture of the Northern Hemisphere temperature change over the past five centuries.

By measuring the bonds of prehistoric alkenones preserved in ancient layers of lake sediment, the team opened a window on Arctic temperature change since the end of the last Ice Age.

According to the AAAS What We Know report, «The projected rate of temperature change for this century is greater than that of any extended global warming period over the past 65 million years.»

The new paper uses alkenones from the Svalbard islands and is among the first studies that present Arctic summer temperature change over the period from the end of the last Ice Age some 12000 years ago.

This process, known as (de) saturation, is central to the approach used by van der Bilt and colleagues to reconstruct Arctic temperature change.

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.

The system also has potential applications in robotics, acting as electronic «nerves» for detecting touch, distortion, and temperature change.

«We now have a tool to control temperature on a cellular level, and we can study how biological systems react to temperature change,» says Peter Maurer, a physicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the team publishing the result today in Nature.

«However, the models do faithfully reproduce large scale patterns of temperature change,» added co-author Kai Kornhuber of PIK.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

Some of the most useful temperature proxies are insensitive to temperature change in the heart of the WPWP, which is already at the maximum temperature they can record.

«But even though the temperature change has not been great, the effect on organisms may be really, really big.»

In the classic heat - transfer equation, the rate of temperature change depends on how uniformly the thermal energy is distributed through an object.

The downside is that weak perturbations such as impurities, temperature change, or radiation can lead to uncontrolled charge redistributions and, as a consequence, to data loss.

Temperature sensors and pressure sensors would determine if airtightness was maintained inside and monitor temperature change.

«If we just pay attention to temperature patterns, that leads us to think we can ignore the tropics, because temperature change hasn't been very great there,» he said.

Their data were used to create a model that shows the potential effects of temperatures and temperature change on the transmission of dengue, chikungunya and Zika around the world, three diseases that are mosquito - vectored and increasing in the United States.

Those models will look at impacts such as regional average temperature change, sea - level rise, ocean acidification, and the sustainability of soils and water as well as the impacts of invasive species on food production and human health.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

In fact, temperature change offered a better prediction of impending conflict in the 40 countries surveyed than even changes in rainfall, despite the fact that agriculture in this region is largely dependent on such precipitation.

Electrocaloric materials are nanostructured materials that show a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field.

Such a quick temperature change would stop the hearts of most other animals, including humans.

«Fast population growth could create resource shortage problems, as well,» notes geographer David Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, who previously analyzed world history back to A.D. 1400 to find linkages between war and temperature change.

They used these factors to derive a simple model for resulting temperature change caused by the carbon dioxide and methane released by a particular plant.

In the initial proof - of - concept system «the temperature change or supercooling that we achieve for this thermal storage material can be up to 10 degrees C (18 F), and we hope we can go higher,» Grossman says.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

Victor and Kennel argue that global temperature change isn't a good way to measure planetary health.

By using all the data and new statistical approaches that can handle short records, and by using novel approaches to estimation and avoidance of systematic biases, we expect to improve on the accuracy of the estimate of the Earth's temperature change.

Executive Summary The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was created to make the best possible estimate of global temperature change using as complete a record of measurements as possible and by applying novel methods for the estimation and elimination of systematic biases.

«And what we found was that we got the right kind of temperature change and we got a dampened seasonal cycle, both of which are things we think we see in the Pliocene.»

In essence, the scientists evaluated the impacts associated with a given final level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but did so through the lens of temperature change.

Jowsey is researching methods to simplify current mathematical models used to understand the effects of temperature change — fire in his case — on building structures.

Determining the rate of temperature change is more difficult at a local and regional level because researchers have less data to average, so trends are not as evident because of «statistical noise.»

Dr. Isaak and his colleagues show that many mountain streams may be more resistant to temperature change than our models suggest and that is very good news.

Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton.

Those assumptions thwarted previous attempts to link temperature change and ancient extinctions on Seymour Island.