It is built around the discovery in 1991 by the Danish atmospheric physicist Dr Eigil Friis - Christensen that recent
temperature variations on earth are in «strikingly good agreement» with the length of the cycle of sunspots — the shorter they are, the higher the temperature (2).
As a result,
temperature variations on land are greater than on water.
This measure is available for the US from the BEST data set... The reconfirmation now of a strong sun - temperature relation based specifically upon the daytime temperature maxima adds strong and independent scientific weight to the reality of the sun - temperature connection... This suggests strongly that changes in solar radiation drive
temperature variations on at least a hemispheric scale... Close correlations like these simply do not exist for temperature and changing atmospheric CO2 concentration.»
SwRI says the mission will provide the clearest images ever of the Sun's outer atmosphere and the first thermal images of surface
temperature variations on Mercury.
As a result,
temperature variations on Mercury are the most extreme in the Solar System ranging from -183 °C -LRB--298 °F) to 427 °C (800 °F), although its average surface temperature is 167 °C (333 °F).
Nature 2013, 500, 54 — 58 — Nature News, News & Views Sensitive probing of
temperature variations on nanometre scales is an outstanding challenge in many areas of modern science and technology.
First of all, if one examines the complete geological record of global
temperature variation on planet Earth (as best as we can reconstruct it) not just over the last 200 years but over the last 25 million years, over the last billion years — one learns that there is absolutely nothing remarkable about today's temperatures!
The model simulation generally captured
the temperature variation on the decade to century timescale
That is the chief cause of short term
temperature variation on the intra and extra-decadal scales.
There is much greater
temperature variation on land than in the ocean, and a much greater variation on land which is distant from the ocean compared to the variation on land close to it.
Because the heat is ultimately lost via radiation, anything that reduces
temperature variation on the surface area by transporting hot spot heat elsewhere has a net warming influence.
Because the heat is ultimately lost via T ^ 4 radiation, anything that reduces
temperature variation on the surface area by transporting hot spot heat elsewhere has a net warming influence.
Torneträsk MXD does not show this «divergence problem» and hence produces robust estimates of summer
temperature variation on annual to multi-century timescales.
Empirical consequence: Having generated the hypothesis (H») that there might be a 60 - year wobble in the solar system capable of forcing much of
the temperature variation on 20th century Earth, Loehle and Scafetta set off to verify the physical existence of said wobble.
Not exact matches
Although, as stated above, the traditional way of serve this garlicky bread is at room
temperature, we sometimes switch things up a bit in North America and you will see a
variation above for a hot version that calls for mozzarella cheese sprinkled and melted
on the bread.
FLOUR FOR KNEADING: The amount of extra flour needed will vary depending
on the
temperature and humidity in your kitchen, as well as
variations in measuring the flour to begin with.
Layers aren't just for cakes...
On any given travel day, you could go through as many as 3 different climates, and the plane offers its own
temperature variations as well.
Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data from
temperature measurements and climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the reconstructed sea surface
temperature variations at different locations around the globe
on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.
On a millennial time scale, conventional climate models underestimated the
variations of sea surface
temperatures reconstructed from climate archives by a factor of 50.
Their model integrated the effects of
temperature on mosquito behavior and virus transmission, and looked at monthly
variation in
temperature rainfall, and vegetation throughout the year across Africa.
Ocean currents affect the surface
temperature of the oceans and thus the heat exchange with the atmosphere — eventually causing climate
variations on the adjacent continents.
In particular, it shows that it is the action of coastal winds that regulates surface
temperature variations off Peru,
on timescales of around two months.
To understand how users interact with smart energy systems, a team of researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton and the University of Zurich produced three different smart thermostats that automated heating based
on users» heating preferences and real - time price
variations: a manual one through which participants explicitly specify how the heating should respond to price changes, and two learning - based ones that employed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to automate the
temperature settings based
on learned households» preferences.
«We find many examples of these
variations in pre-industrial
temperature reconstructions» based
on proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, and lake sediment, Lovejoy says.
With this new energy density, their long lifetime, high power and tolerance to
temperature variations, these micro-supercapacitors could finally be used in wearable, intelligent,
on - board microsystems.
We show that at low
temperature T, the
variation of the net vacancy concentration should be as T4 and that the first correction to the specific heat due to this varies as T7; these are quite consistent with experiments
on solid helium - 4.
The article focuses
on the long - term impact
on temperature variation,» Artaxo said.
Collects data
on salinity,
temperature, and pressure — fundamental data
on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate
variations.
Infectious disease burden again came out
on top, although
temperature and distance from sub-Saharan Africa explained some of the
variation as well.
«According to our study, the Atlantic / Pacific
temperature difference shows pronounced
variations on timescales of more than 5 years,» explained Chikamoto, USU associate professor in the department of Plants, Soils and Climate.
«According to our study, the Atlantic / Pacific
temperature difference shows pronounced
variations on timescales of more than 5 years.
Of course, while short - term changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately based
on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average global surface
temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural
variation, in the system.
This process of smoothing the original water isotope
variations from precipitation is dependent
on the
temperature, as the water molecules in vapour form are more mobile at warmer
temperatures.
This can be done with a thermal imager that displays
temperature on a screen as colour
variations.
A periodic
variation in the number of solar neutrinos detected
on Earth may hold information about subtle changes in
temperature at the very centre of the Sun.
«Since oxygen concentrations in the ocean naturally vary depending
on variations in winds and
temperature at the surface, it's been challenging to attribute any deoxygenation to climate change.
Discussions
on whether
temperature or water availability is driving the strength of these
variations in the land carbon sink have been highly contested with these year - to - year changes of the carbon balance seemingly related to global or tropical
temperatures.
Solar irradiance modulation of Equator - to - Pole (Arctic)
temperature gradients: Empirical evidence for climate
variation on multi-decadal timescales
In this latest study, the team of researchers applied empirical and process - based models, to analyze local areas, as well as the global surface, and the effect of
temperature and water availability
variations on carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere.
Using occupancy modeling to control for
variation in detectability, we show substantial (∼ 500 meters
on average) upward changes in elevational limits for half of 28 species monitored, consistent with the observed ∼ 3 °C increase in minimum
temperatures.
Predicting the effects of future ocean warming
on biogeochemical cycles depends critically
on understanding how existing global
temperature variation affects phytoplankton.
Planck has been looking for
variations in the
temperature of the CMB, which emerged at around 3000 kelvin, but by now has cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero,
on average.
The subject of reconstructions of
temperature variations of the past millennium has been discussed many times before
on this site (see e.g. here, here, here, and here).
The «equilibrium» sensitivity of the global surface
temperature to solar irradiance
variations, which is calculated simply by dividing the absolute
temperature on the earth's surface (288K) by the solar constant (1365Wm - 2), is based
on the assumption that the climate response is linear in the whole
temperature band starting at the zero point.
Here too, one can expect that an increase of solar influence, based
on historical
variations of the last millennium, will lead to a decrease of the influence of CO2, again necessary to fit the
temperature trend of the last century in the
temperature equation.
The high
temperatures and frequent heat waves were the combined result of natural
variation and human influence
on the climate.
As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite
temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period»
on hemispheric or global mean
temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).
«By tuning the
temperature, our team manipulated chemical reactions to yield
variations in the molecular concentrations
on the nanoscale,» said Jennifer Curtis, an associate professor in the School of Physics and the study's lead author.
Here a reaction
on the main points about the natural (solar, volcanic) vs. man - made (GHGs, aerosols) sensitivity: — If there was a larger
temperature variation in the past millennium, the mathematical evidence is that an increase of one of the terms of the
temperature trend equation must go at the cost of one or more other terms of the equation.
Their analysis resulted in AGHG «forcing» effects
on global
temperatures 10 times that from
variations in the sun's solar activity.