Sentences with phrase «than the surface temperature record»

In fact, by the end of the 20th century, some are as much as 0.3 degrees cooler than the surface temperature record.

John Christy and Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama published a series of papers starting about 1990 that implied the troposphere was warming at a much slower rate than the surface temperature record and climate models indicated Spencer and Christy (1992).

In fact, by the end of the 20th century, some are as much as 0.3 degrees cooler than the surface temperature record.

But there is a further argument that there are other indications of warming other than the surface temperature record and these have continued to show that the earth is warming.

Jones was referring to the cooling shown by tree ring proxies after the 1960s, rather than the surface temperature record.

Not exact matches

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

With records dating back to 1880, the global temperature across the world's land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was 0.75 °C (1.35 °F) higher than the 20th century average of 15.6 °C (60.1 °F).

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

The annually - averaged temperature for ocean surfaces around the world was 0.74 °C (1.33 °F) higher than the 20th century average, easily breaking the previous record of 2014 by 0.11 °C (0.20 °F).

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

In August global sea surface temperatures reached record levels — the average temperature was 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average.

Most of Earth's land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

It is more striking for Ocean Heat Content which so far you have avoided, despite it being a considerably less noisy record than surface temperature.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

Jacob (and many, many others) seem to think that if model A, when run from 1900 to present, predicts the relatively flat, global average surface temperature record over the past decade, is a better match to reality than model B which does not.

More than 95 % of the 5 yr running mean of the surface temperature change since 1850 can be replicated by an integration of the sunspot data (as a proxy for ocean heat content), departing from the average value over the period of the sunspot record (~ 40SSN), plus the superimposition of a ~ 60 yr sinusoid representing the observed oceanic oscillations.

Large variability reduces the number of new records — which is why the satellite series of global mean temperature have fewer expected records than the surface data, despite showing practically the same global warming trend: they have more short - term variability.

The idea that the MSU record somehow provides more accurate or reliable temperature trends than surface measurements with thermometers, sometimes promoted by «climate skeptics», is scientifically untenable.

The advantage of the ocean heat content changes for detecting climate changes is that there is less noise than in the surface temperature record due to the weather that affects the atmospheric measurements, but that has much less impact below the ocean mixed layer.

Combined climate / ice sheet model estimates in which the Greenland surface temperature was as high during the Eemian as indicated by the NEEM ice core record suggest that loss of less than about 1 m sea level equivalent is very unlikely (e.g. Robinson et al. (2011).

An ominous sign considering that El Nino is the hot phase of atmospheric and surface temperature variability — which may mean that the next El Nino will drive a global high temperature departure even more extreme than 2014's record setting value.

European researchers, under the Copernicus Climate Service, using a slightly different method of analysing the surface temperature data than Nasa, also found that February 2016 was by far the warmest month on record.

We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

But the IPCC said the longer term trends were clear: «Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850 in the northern hemisphere [the earliest date for reliable temperature records for the whole hemisphere].»

Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»

«Sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England right now are at record levels, 11.5 C (21F) warmer than normal in some locations,» says Penn State climate researcher Michael Mann.

If we wanted accurate climate information, we would be better off getting our data out of old newspaper and scientific articles, than depending on GISS and other manipulated surface temperature records.

«Examination of a 140 - year record of observed and modeled temperature data revealed strong correlation between the two indices until the 1930s, after which the surface temperature trend increased much more than that of ngLOD.

Going forwards CO2 forcing is several times larger than the LIA solar forcing which was itself measurable in the surface temperature record, so we expect CO2 forcing to be measurable for sure, and yes, it will be accompanied by some effects of changing clouds too, but we don't know which direction they would push it.

«In the North Atlantic region, where tropical cyclone records are longer and generally of better quality than elsewhere, power dissipation by tropical cyclones is highly correlated with sea surface temperature during hurricane season in the regions where storms typically develop»

It led to a climate science site (may have been NOAA I forget exactly) where some scientist had given his opinion that «generally I expect the surface temperature record to be more accurate than the satellite».

There is no straightforward connection between hurricane strength and sea surface temperatures (Swanson, 2008) and when we look at past records, hurricanes vary much more coherently with natural climate oscillations than with increasing greenhouse gasses (Chylek and Lesins, 2008).

As Zeke Hausfather has noted, the land temperature adjustments in the early record are smaller than and in the opposite direction to the sea surface temperature adjustments.

Based on proxy records from ice, terrestrial and marine archives, the LIG is characterized by an atmospheric CO2 concentration of about 290 ppm, i.e., similar to the pre-industrial (PI) value13, mean air temperatures in Northeast Siberia that were about 9 °C higher than today14, air temperatures above the Greenland NEEM ice core site of about 8 ± 4 °C above the mean of the past millennium15, North Atlantic sea - surface temperatures of about 2 °C higher than the modern (PI) temperatures12, 16, and a global sea level 5 — 9 m above the present sea level17.

It's also worth noting that according to the instrumental temperature record, average surface temperatures for 1982 — 2012 have been about 0.2 °C hotter than the 1970 — 2000 average.

The original Escalator was based on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) data, which incorporates more temperature station data than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the record terminates in Temperature (BEST) data, which incorporates more temperature station data than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the record terminates in temperature station data than any other data set, but is limited to land - only data; additionally the record terminates in early 2010.

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has maintained global average monthly and annual records of combined land and ocean surface temperatures for more than 130 years.

So, yeah, «the broader issue of attribution» does indeed lie at the heart of my personal rationally skeptical concern much more so than the accuracy of the surface temperature record.

The El Niño peak in 1998 and La Niña trough in 2008 in particular are much more evident in the satellite data sets than in the surface temperature record.

The records are short, and subject to greater uncertainties than the surface temperature data.»

The Paleoclimatologic record suggests that when the sudden changes involve temperature, they are more probable during ice ages — i.e., intervals when the surface was covered with more snow and ice capable of mediating strong feedbacks than during interglacials.

independence of both the measurement errors and the uncertainties in satellite, radiosonde, and surface - based temperature records, which lends greater confidence to an assessment based on all three measurement categories than to an assessment based on any one of them in isolation.

This is achieved through the study of three independent records, the net heat flux into the oceans over 5 decades, the sea - level change rate based on tide gauge records over the 20th century, and the sea - surface temperature variations... We find that the total radiative forcing associated with solar cycles variations is about 5 to 7 times larger than just those associated with the TSI variations, thus implying the necessary existence of an amplification mechanism, although without pointing to which one.

I found that when LOD data is added to integrated sunspot numbers departing from the long term average, a curve can be produced which matches the sea surface temperature record from 1850 significantly better than the co2 curve does.

The strong influence of natural variability on surface air temperatures is the reason that climate researchers regularly point out that any record shorter than around 20 - 30 years is not useful for detecting long - term trends associated with anthropogenic warming.

The satellite temps are more sensitive (higher swings) to ENSO and yearly variation than the surface temperatures, and the 5 - year average for 1982 (1979 - 1984) is one of the highest peaks above trend for the UAH record.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the procedures of collecting and processing the satellite data to create a temperature record are extremely complicated, much more so than in the case of the surface record, and both satellite records underwent more than one revision already, all of those revisions increasing substantially the trend.

I agree, the surface temperature record (s)(from 1880 to present) is / are a heterogeneous mess simply because said origin of said records were never meant to be anything other than what they are,.....

The single highest land surface temperature (LST) recorded in any year, in any region, occurred there in 2005, when MODIS recorded a temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F)- more than 12 °C (22 °F) warmer than the official air temperature record from Libya.