Sentences with phrase «than the ocean»

The resulting picture shows that ice volume has changed much more dramatically than ocean temperatures in response to changes in orbital geometry.
In this worst case scenario, atmospheric warming (rather than ocean warming) will soon become the dominant driver of ice loss.
Likewise surely the atmosphere can not be warmed by the ocean to a temperature higher than the ocean.
The tendency for land averages to increase more quickly than ocean averages is clearly visible.
We have a massive source of CO2 to the atmosphere, other than the oceans.
River boats, which can hold up to 190 passengers, are substantially smaller than ocean cruise ships — many of which can carry well over 6,000.
Land regions have warmed at a faster rate than the oceans.
Temperature gains are larger at the sea surface, which heats faster than the ocean as a whole.
Totally different than ocean cruises, river cruising allows you to get up close to all your destinations.
Their protected positions offer a quieter, more relaxed, picnic atmosphere than the ocean beaches and they are not dominated by shops catering to tourists and visitors.
Which means that we are removing more fish from the ocean than the ocean can replace.
The variations are stronger because of the northern hemisphere's larger fraction of land, which has a lower heat capacity than the ocean and thus responds more quickly to variations.
Actual «white noise» is the best rather than ocean waves or sounds of trains, birds, etc..
Less is known about them, and similar formations, than the ocean floor or even outer space.
The net forcing is negative as the atmosphere is cooler than the ocean skin layer, but approaches zero under cloudy conditions.
Air freight wins for today's «need - it - now» philosophy, but it is typically 12 to 16 times more expensive than ocean freight.
The northern hemisphere has warmed faster than the southern because there's more land in the north than the south, and land has far less thermal inertia than ocean.
The atmosphere can not warm / cool more than the ocean SST changes, so it should also respond more strongly than the atmospheric response.
They are fairly rare on the dry beach around here, probably because the local winds are very erratic and the sand is less sticky than ocean sand.
These are far more critical factors than the ocean being warmer.
Is the atmosphere adding more mass than the ocean is taking away or is it the other way around?
That's surprising, because lakes are far easier to measure than oceans.
Additionally, continents generally warm and cool more readily than the oceans.
I am no expert in this and don't know much about terrestrial ecosystems except that they are generally considered to be substantially more complex than ocean ecosystems.
Set just a little further back than the ocean front condos, these one - bedroom condos still have a great view of the ocean and the same square footage.
If you think they do, then you should explain why they are a better proxy than ocean heat content, and over what timeframe you think they are a better proxy.
Here the land temperatures warm and cool faster than the ocean sea surface temperatures.
The first is greater warming over land than ocean and greater warming at the surface of the sea than in the deeper layers.
There are periods when the ocean heats up more quickly than the surface, and other periods when the surface heats up more quickly than the oceans.
The atmosphere is colder than the ocean, so really, it's the ocean (and land) that heats the atmosphere.
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