Sentences with phrase «variation in air temperature»

The tropics ocean doesn't have large variation in air temperature.

The variation in air temperature would mainly be at the poles and regions where the thermal mass is lower.

Each individual run was started with miniscule variations in air temperature.

«New urban heat island study shows surprising variation in air temperatures across Twin Cities: Results provide valuable insights into efforts to reduce heat - related harm in metro areas globally.»

Or put it this way, probably relativity little change that has occurred in terms maximum surface temperature, whereas there has been greater variations in air temperature.

In open Ocean SST tracks variations in Air temperature, but this is not the case near the transitional and mobile ice «boundaries».

Inversions also affect diurnal variations in air temperature.

Then, in another study of the 420,000 - year Vostok ice - core record, Mudelsee (2001) concluded that variations in atmospheric CO2 concentration lagged variations in air temperature by 1,300 to 5,000 years. . .»

Not exact matches

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

Surface air temperature variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula region.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

We could as easily conclude that snow cover, winter temperature and the frequency of cold air outbreaks in northern mid-latitudes is consistent with observational data indicating thickening ice sheets of Greenland, and Antarctica, cooler ocean temperatures, solar variation and burning books for warmth by the elderly in the UK, tra - la.

We propose that the recent disproportionate rise and fall in CO2 growth rate were caused mainly by interannual variations in global air temperature (which altered both the terrestrial biospheric and the oceanic carbon sinks), and possibly also by precipitation.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

The smallness of that variation from peak to trough of a single cycle has caused considerable doubt as to how significant changes in the air temperatures could occur at time scales of up to a century but the net energy delivery effect of a change of length does not appear to have been properly investigated.

On balance the evidence shows that solar and oceanic variations are more likely the cause of recent observations of warming in the air than increasing CO2 in the air but the issue can soon be resolved by observing the global air temperature changes that occur during and after the extended cycle 23 and the probable weak cycle 24.

It is no surprise there is significant disagreement over the amount of warming estimated — as James Hansen and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies explain7, there is no clear definition of what we mean by absolute surface air temperature and wide variation in the estimated mean surface temperature of the planet.

Demonstrate the last time natural variation actually cooled the surface air temperature of the earth in any significant way.

The indicator is nevertheless sensitive to longer - term variations in surface air temperature such as those associated with decadal and multi-decadal oceanic oscillations.

3 Affecting Surface Currents Wind — Caused by the uneven heating of the atmosphere, variations in wind temperature lead to variations in air density and pressure.

Surface air temperatures measured at a single location are known to show non-constant systematic errors over time because of variations in solar heating and wind - speed effects.

My thinking continues to be that the relative strengths must indeed be altered by variations in solar insolation to the oceans given that the oceans have such a profound effect on the temperature of the air masses above them.

Soon, W., 2005: Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations in the Arctic - wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years, Geophysical Research Letters32: doi.10.1029 / 2005GL023429.

The global warming rate at the stations used in the analysis, using all days» data, is the same as that reported using all available stations by Jones, P.D. and A. Moberg, «Hemispheric and large - scale surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2001», Journal of Climate 16: 206 - 223 (2003).

Well, when we combine 20th century global forcings with air temperature changes in smaller areas we get the climate sensitivities shown below (note: these estimates are intended only to show the range of variation.

Variation in surface air temperature of China during the 20th century, Willie Soon, Koushik Dutta, David R. Legates, Victor Velasco, WeiJia Zhang, 10/2011, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics, Volume 73, Issue 16, pp. 2331 - 2344.

Moreover the recent decline of the yearly increments d (CO2) / dt acknowledged by Francey et al (2013)(figure 17 - F) and even by James Hansen who say that the Chinese coal emissions have been immensely beneficial to the plants that are now bigger grow faster and eat more CO2 due to the fertilisation of the air (references in note 19) cast some doubts on those compartment models with many adjustable parameters, models proved to be blatantly wrong by observations as said very politely by Wang et al.: (Xuhui Wang et al: A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations, Nature, 2014) «Thus, the problems present models have in reproducing the observed response of the carbon cycle to climate variability on interannual timescales may call into question their ability to predict the future evolution of the carbon cycle and its feedbacks to climate»

And here we are at impasse as long as we do not come to a consensus on the question on «how the evaporation process is responding to the changes in both the diurnal irradiation and the diurnal variation of temperature and humidity of the air above».

Changing global temperatures induce air circulation changes as the air seeks to restore the sea surface / surface air temperature equilibrium and at the same time resolve ocean induced variations in the sun to sea / air to space equilibrium.

-- It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if we imagine the surface never emits that energy in the first place, - energy that is stored in the surface and just below, i.e. oceans, lakes, rivers, ground, and air, — just to mention a few, then any surface temperature change would be completely reliant on variations in Solar irradiation and advection mainly by Water Vapor (WV) but also by other GHGs that have the ability to contain more heat than the rest of the atmospheric gases.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if we imagine the surface never emits that energy in the first place, - energy that is stored in the surface and just below, i.e. oceans, lakes, rivers, ground, and air, — just to mention a few, then any surface temperature change would be completely reliant on variations in Solar irradiation and advection mainly by Water Vapor (WV) but also by other GHGs that have the ability to contain more heat than the rest of the atmospheric gases.

I have checked up on the diurnal variation in temperature and found this paper: Seidel et al., 2005 Diurnal cycle of upper - air temperature estimated from radiosondes.

Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations in the Arctic - wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years.Geophys.

Microwave imagery must allow for variations in surface emissivity and can not act as a surrogate for air temperature over either snow - covered (Peterson et al., 2000) or sea - ice areas.

The ENSO cycle refers to the coherent and sometimes very strong year - to - year variations in sea - surface temperatures, convective rainfall, surface air pressure, and atmospheric circulation that occur across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Summary: The paper concluded that between 1880 and 2002, surface air temperature trends in China were strongly influenced by natural variations in solar intensity.

Variations in SST due to variations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature dVariations in SST due to variations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature dvariations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature difference.

Air temperatures undergo significant daily variations, at times varying unpredictably by more than 20 °C in a given location within a few days.

Figure 1: Antarctic (Vostok) ice core records of temperature, CO2 (upper) and CH4 (lower) including time - scale adjustment to account for ice - gas age difference associated with the time for air bubbles to be sealed (Petit et al. 1999) and corrected for variations of climate in the water vapor source regions (Vimeux et al. 2002) as described in Supporting Text of Hansen and Sato (2004).

There is short - term information content in diurnal and seasonal air / sea temperature variation.

W. Soon, «Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations in the Arctic - wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years», Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi.10.1029 / 2005GL023429 (2005).