Sentences with phrase «varying temperature differentials»
The oceans control the background rate of energy flow from ocean to air via The Hot Water Bottle Effect and it is the energy flow from ocean to air (supplemented to a miniscule extent by the greenhouse effect) that drives the rate of evaporation by creating varying temperature differentials between sea surface and air at the surface.
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As Houghton and Hansen have both pointed out, we are looking for a small differential in an ill - defined temperature which is very difficult to measure accurately anywhere and which varies naturally over time, both randomly and systematically.
However, satellite records, such as the RSS temperature trends at varying altitudes, agree with the radiosondes that the warming differential is not occurring: they show that not only absolute temperatures but also warming rates decline with altitude.