Sentences with phrase «temperature histories of»

Surface - based temperature histories of the globe contain a significant warming bias due to the urban heat island effect.

Using mapped surface geology, geophysical data, and thermochronology (i.e., time - temperature history of the rocks), Fitzgerald and colleagues have determined that much of Alaska's uplift and deformation began some 25 million years ago, when the Yakutat microplate first started colliding with North America.

The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic.

Using a cutting - edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.

Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature record from Lake Malawi

The annual temperature history of the United States during the 20th century shows three distinct periods of change: warming from 1900 until about 1940, cooling from 1940 to 1969, and warming from 1970 to the present.

Paul from VA writes: ``... the obsession with finding «natural cycles» to explain the recent temperature history of the Earth»

On reading that article, I can't help but notice the intriguing similarity between the Ptolemeic solar system and the obsession with finding «natural cycles» to explain the recent temperature history of the Earth such as those referenced 2 articles ago on this very site.

A 2000 - Year Temperature History of China's Animaqin Mountains http://www.co2science.org/articles/V20/feb/a15.php … No unusual warming past 150 years.

By calculating the running total departing from this figure in a simple integration I found that combined with the ~ 60 oceanic cycles (also solar influenced), I could reproduce the temperature history of the last 150 years quite accurately.

But it was impossible to even see it as long as that fake late twentieth century warming covered it up.The temperature history of your period now involves the short warming from 1976 to the beginning of the satellite era, followed by eighteen years of no warming at all until the super El Nino arrives.

While such comparisons are, indeed, important for determining what might be the true temperature history of Antarctica, they have absolutely nothing to do with the criticisms advanced in our paper.

Arrhenius reasonably well describes the temperature history of the last 50 + years (since good CO2 numbers were available).

Dr. Anderson sums up saying; «It is now perfectly clear that there are no reliable worldwide temperature records and that we have little more than anecdotal information on the temperature history of the Earth.»

This week on their Web site, CO2Science.Org, the Idsos review a study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, that attempts to reconstruct the temperature history of the Antarctic Peninsula from ikaite crystals (an icy version of limestone) in marine sediments.

Some people believe that it is the air bubbles trapped in the ice that tell the temperature history of the Earth and others believe that the ice cores tell the temperature history of the location that the ice core came from.

Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: reconciling proxies and models

The Bristlecone Divergence Problem Ultimately the most relevant test of the «relationship between proxies and temperature» is whether updated proxies can reconstruct the temperature history of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

If I've read Mann correctly, the proxy is blindly scaled to the temperature history of the calibration interval.

SO I think we're in the position to say / resolve somewhat more than, frankly, than Keith does, about the temperature history of the past millennium.

Not exact matches

«Over the history of the earth there has been about a 10 degree dynamic range of temperature,» he explained.

The decade we've just come through was the warmest on record in human history: it saw record incidence of floods and drought (both of which you'd expect with higher temperatures).

With an average temperature of 77.6 degrees, 3.3 degrees above the 20th century average, the drought that has plagued the Midwest all summer has now landed its place in history.

In a report that surprised virtually nobody, researchers declared last month to be the hottest in U.S. history, beating out 1936's Dust Bowl that had held onto the top spot despite the past two decades of gradually warming temperatures.

Grant, however, is uniquely positioned to enter the market given its six - decade history of creating scientific equipment focused on precision temperature control.

Located just north of San Diego County, California, the Festival has a successful history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures, and rolling vineyards.

The festival has a successful 33 year history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies, dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures and rolling vineyards.

El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...

A descendant of cabbage, kale's history stretches back to the Stone Age, when it was an important form of nutrition and valued for its ability to withstand cold temperatures.

The temperature this morning is hovering in the high 30s as pouring rain is doing work to ensure both runners and spectators alike leave one of the most storied races in American history with hypothermia.

From Qatar's summer temperature to human rights issues, and from the country's lack of football history to the number of workers who have so far died in making the tournament possible, the decision has been met with uproar.

You can also keep track of your child's temperature by browsing the history.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

Even the updated 30 - year normals will mask some of the temperature changes of recent history.

6 As the crystal grows around that speck, its shape is altered by humidity, temperature, and wind; the history of a flake's descent to Earth is recorded in its intricate design.

A graph of the warming trend largely replicates the so - called «hockey stick,» a previous reconstruction that showed relatively stable temperatures suddenly spiking upward in recent history.

Despite birds» long history of infidelity, extreme temperature fluctuations appear to be intensifying the effect.

For the first time in history, a generation was able to know the thrill of watching temperatures climb toward 100 degrees over the course of a sweltering summer.

On August 24, 2003, a fortnight after the temperature in London had climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history, D. E. Maggs of Kingswood Avenue, Queens Park, walked into the British Natural History Museum carrying a small glahistory, D. E. Maggs of Kingswood Avenue, Queens Park, walked into the British Natural History Museum carrying a small glaHistory Museum carrying a small glass jar.

«What we take for granted on this planet, such as oceans and continents, would not exist if the internal temperature of Earth had not been in a certain range, and this means that the beginning of Earth's history can not be too hot or too cold.»

«Temperature was a key cause of reef collapse and modern temperatures are now within several degrees of the maximum these reefs experienced over their 6,750 year history,» said Lauren Toth, the study's lead author, who was a graduate student at Florida Tech during the study.

The system is based on the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR) score, which includes the following parameters: pain in right iliac fossa, history of vomiting, rebound tenderness or muscular guarding, body temperature, white blood cell count, proportion of neutrophil granulocytes, and C - reactive protein concentration.

In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.

«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.

«Therefore magnetite rocks, which carry signs of temperature fluctuations, are indeed a reliable source of information about the history of the earth,» enthuses Almeida.

«Our results show that Earth has had a moderate temperature through virtually all of its history, and that is attributable to weathering feedbacks — they do a good job at maintaining a habitable climate,» said first author Joshua Krissansen - Totton, a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences.

The resulting graph of CO2 levels and temperature over Earth's history was remarkable.

An analysis of temperature through early Earth's history, published the week of April 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports more moderate average temperatures throughout the billions of years when life slowly emerged on Earth.

Now, geologists at MIT have traced part of Mercury's cooling history and found that between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, soon after the planet formed, its interior temperatures plummeted by 240 degrees Celsius, or 464 degrees Fahrenheit.

«We have known that populations of these crabs can explode following periods of warmer temperatures,» says Nathaniel Evans of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.