Sentences with phrase «variations over large areas»

«The Folland and Parker bias estimates have been shown to compare well to coastal land temperature stations and used to drive atmosphere only GCMs that have reproduced the land temperature variations over large areas of the world».

The Folland and Parker bias estimates have been shown to compare well to coastal land temperature stations and used to drive atmosphere only GCMs that have reproduced the land temperature variations over large areas of the world (See Folland et al. 2005 for more details, copy here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadsst3/references.html).

An apparently small change in just one aspect of the ocean's behaviour can produce major climate variations over large areas of the earth.

Not exact matches

Including emission along a path (Schwarzchild's equation), a flux will approach saturation as the optical thickness becomes large over scales where the temperature variation is small; at smaller optical thicknesses, the temperature distribution may vary and larger temperature variations make the nonlinearity of the Planck function important, but over short distances, the temperature variation can be approximated as linear and the associated Planck function values can be approximated as linearly proportional to distance for small temperature changes, so the flux will approach an asymptotic value as a hyperbolic function (the difference between the flux and the saturation value of the flux will be proportional to 1 / optical thickness per unit distance (assuming isotropic optical properties (or even somewhat anisotropic properties), it will have that proportionality for all directions and thus for the whole flux across an area).

southern oscillation a large - scale atmospheric and hydrospheric fluctuation centered in the equatorial Pacific Ocean; exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding areas

Greater variation with distance from the equator Energy spread out over a larger area Radiation has to penetrate a greater depth of atmosphere.