Sentences with phrase «unusually warm temperatures»

Bleaching occurs when corals sit for too long in unusually warm temperatures.

And though atmospheric methane levels had been more or less stable in recent years, they have been observed to be increasing again, with unusually warm temperatures in Siberia being one of the culprits.

However, this enhanced level of atmospheric CO2 does not seem to have been accompanied by unusually warm temperatures in the tropics, and in fact may have been contemporaneous with high - latitude continental glaciation on Gondwanaland9, 10.

El Niños result in unusually warm temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and this warmth is significant enough to elevate overall global temperatures.

Almost all land surfaces on Earth experienced unusually warm temperatures in February 2016.

NSDIC said that these unusually warm temperatures «no doubt» played a role in the record low ice extent.

1998 saw unusually warm temperatures for a single year due to various factors such as El Nino conditions.

For example, unusually warm temperatures can affect the vapour pressure deficit (VPD)-- this is the difference between the water vapour contained in the leaf's interior and in the air surrounding it.

Studies examining different aspects of this drought point to the unusually warm temperatures that have affected California at the same time as both a cause and consequence of the extreme drought.

During the huge El Niño, parts of the Amazon experienced the driest conditions in at least 30 years as well as unusually warm temperatures.

Looking at historical records of drought in California, he and his colleagues found that a lack of precipitation in itself wasn't sufficient to set up a drought; that dryness had to overlap with unusually warm temperatures.

The drought in California has been building for more than four years, as winter precipitation deficits slowed streams to a trickle and sent reservoir levels dipping, while unusually warm temperatures increased water demand.

The unusually warm temperatures for December continue.

I live on the top floor of our apartment, so unusually warm temperatures are a real problem, even during the winter.

Not exact matches

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...

This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be «above normal,» with 12 to 18 storms, thanks in part to unusually warm ocean temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said yesterday.

Ecologists have watched in horror as unusually warm ocean temperatures have prompted corals to «bleach», or expel the symbiotic algae that provide much of their food.

Scientists blame unusually warm ocean temperatures this year for the mass devastation of the world's corals

During its positive phase the ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm and those outside this region to the north and south are often unusually cool.

NOAA routinely monitors ocean temperatures, and our colleagues there noticed unusually large and sustained warming early in the season around Bermuda.

And a large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including record high summer temperatures nationwide, droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, catastrophic Mississippi River flooding, Hurricane Irene and an unusually warm winter.

However, certain areas in the oceans could be unusually warm and skew the overall long - term average temperature results of some of those prior studies, Shuman says.

In 2007, temperatures were unusually warm, and the sky was very clear at the beginning of the summer when solar radiation is strongest.

And it finds that, while this winter's unusually strong Arctic Oscillation - which funnels cold northern air to the East Coast and pulls warm mid-latitude air up to the Arctic - is predicted as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, seasonal temperature anomalies associated with it aren't enough to blunt long - term warming trends.

The penguins once numbered around 2,000 individuals, but in the early 1980s a strong El Niño — a time when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm — brought their numbers down to less than 500 birds.

Unusually warm ocean temperatures, referred to as «the Blob,» encompassed much of the West Coast beginning about 2014, combining with an especially strong El Nino pattern in 2015.

Hard and soft corals are presently bleaching - losing their symbiotic algae — all over the coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to unusually warm ocean temperatures this summer.

In late 2010 and early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually warm sea - surface temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.

In recent months temperatures throughout the Pacific have been unusually warm.

However, extreme events may require the combined effect of increased prevailing winds and tropical storms guided by the strengthened blocking high pressure and nurtured by the unusually warm late - Eemian tropical sea surface temperatures (Cortijo et al., 1999), which would favor more powerful tropical storms (Emanuel, 1987).

The bright red area over Alaska corresponds to an unusually strong area of High Pressure bringing warmer - than - average temperatures.

India and parts of China were also unusually warm last month, in particular, parts of the Tibetan Plateau recorded exceptionally high temperatures.

We had an unusually warm December (when these photos were shot), but if you're in New England, you can easily swap out the flats for a pair of booties now that the temperatures have finally dropped.

Some areas of the country have been unusually warm, while others are experiencing cold temperatures and lots of precipitation.

Temperatures were in the low 80's, unusually warm for this time of year, and most days were extremely windy.

Compared to the average temperatures from the 1951 to 1980 period, the largest unusually warm areas over all of 2004 were in Alaska, near the Caspian Sea, and over the Antarctic Peninsula.

For much of British Columbia spring and early summer 2011 seemed unusually cold and wet at the same time that other parts of Canada were breaking warm temperature records.

Characterized by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures

An especially powerful El Niño cycle in 1998 is thought to have contributed to the unusually high temperatures that year, and Hansen's group estimates that there's a good chance 2010 will be the warmest year on record if the current El Niño persists.

Recovery is slower when conditions after a drought are unusually warm, the study notes, which suggests that recovery times will get longer as global temperatures rise.

The red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected the unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.

About 93 percent of corals in Great Barrier Reef are now experiencing some form of bleaching due to unusually high ocean temperatures that are linked to global warming as well.

Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected the unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.

Causality is always tricky to assign in cases such as this one, since it's entirely possible that the ridging itself has led to warm surface water though decreased oceanic mixing by wind and unusually high air temperatures.

Link to paper: Big Jump of Record Warm Global Mean Surface Temperature in 2014 - 2016 Related to Unusually Large Oceanic Heat Releases

«claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.»

Regardless, claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.

«Especially the Bering Sea, sea surface temperatures south of the ice is also unusually warm,» says Rick Thoman, climate science and services manager for the National Weather Service in Alaska.

This set up the very warm southerly winds from both the northern North Atlantic and the Bering Strait areas, pushing Arctic air temperatures to unusually high levels for brief periods in early December and near Christmas.

The unusually high sea ice surface temperatures reflect a shift in ocean circulation, enhancing the import of warm, Atlantic - derived waters into the Arctic Ocean.