Sentences with phrase «variation than the surface temperatures»

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.

Not exact matches

Some scientists believe that as they meander around the world, their activities can be better weather predictors than variations in sea surface temperatures.

Since we know that the earth's surface is significantly warmed by geothermal heat, that geothermal heat is variable, that truly titanic forces are at work in the earth's core changing its structure and alignment, and that geothermal heat flux has a much greater influence on surface temperatures than variations in carbon dioxide can possibly have, it makes sense to include its effects in a compendium of global warming discussion parameters.

The attached figure shows the tropospheric temperature trends versus the surface temperature trends in units of K per decade for 1979 — 2004: the tropospheric temperature trends are astonishingly uniform along the equator with a variation of about a factor of 5 smaller than that in the surface temperature trends.

But if the optical thickness in that band is sufficiently smaller than in another band (depending on wavelengths), adding some absorption to the optically - thinner band would tend to result in warming of the colder layers (as there would be less temperature variation over height in radiative equilbrium for that band, given the same surface (+ tropospheric) temperatures.

But it does say; «Natural climate variations, which tend to involve localized changes in sea surface temperature, may have a larger effect on hurricane activity than the more uniform patterns of global warming...»

While working for estimation of IWV using GPS, I learned that the diurnal variations in GPS - IWV can be obtained if we use high resolution (better than 6 hours i.e. 3 hourly) surface temperature and pressure values.

The results are shown in the second part of Figure 4 (click the «from UAH button»), and show the same pattern but with a rather muted signal - this is because the geographical variation in LT temperature anomalies is rather smaller than for surface temperatures.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

The lack of buffering is why airless bodies and the skins of spacecraft display much greater temperature variations than the surface of planets like the Earth.

The higher cloud density near the tropics would result in variation in ocean surface temperatures more in the tropics than in temperature regions.

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.

http://www.agci.org/docs/lean.pdf «Global (and regional) surface temperature fluctuations in the past 120 years reflect, as in the space era, a combination of solar, volcanic, ENSO, and anthropogenic influences, with relative contributions shown in Figure 6.22 The adopted solar brightness changes in this scenario are based on a solar surface flux transport model; although long - term changes are «50 % larger than the 11 - year irradiance cycle, they are significantly smaller than the original estimates based on variations in Sun - like stars and geomagnetic activity.

Alternatively, Solomon et al. claim that the Global Temperature Increase of 0.7 oC between 1900 and 2000 (i.e. 0.007 oC p.a.) was enough to increase evaporation and thereby [H2O] by more than any annual variation in solar SURFACE radiation.

-- 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.

Paleo - climate * There is a problem, 2nd Half 20th Century climate variation is unique: — Last 50 - yrs temperature increase unprecedented — Coincides with increased ACO2 concentrations — CO2 is a major GHG — CO2 higher today than in last 650,000 years — Surface temperatures higher today than in the last 1,000 possibly 2,000 years

As noted in my earlier reply, the annual variations in monthly global land surface temperatures are 4 times higher than those of TLT.

the annual variations in monthly global land surface temperatures are 4 times higher than those of TLT.