Sentences with phrase «very high latitudes»

At low angles it begins to reflect a significant portion of incident light but low angles only occur when the sunlight is weak to begin with (near dawn and dusk and at very high latitudes).

I wasn't aware how much error there was in cloud cover with far fewer clouds predicted by the physics models than the clouds actually observed, except in the very high latitudes where they predict far more than actually observed.

The June 2008 NSIDC web site entry mentioned that it is difficult to melt first year ice at very high latitudes.

In the very high latitudes of the north polar region the temperature change is declining with latitude rather than increasing.

Is an Arctic loss really worse than +1.5 Mkm ^ 2 gain down south if the Arctic loss occurs at very high latitudes with less solar elevation angle even at the solstice?

Arctic sea ice melts in summer to very high latitudes, and gains melt ponds and polynaya over its full extent.

As you can see, things get especially warm, relative to what the Earth is used to, as you enter the very high latitudes:

Clouds of star - forming material at very high latitudes away from the galactic plane are rare and, in general, are not expected to form stars.

Not exact matches

In some places and some groups, hundreds of species exist, whereas in others, very few have evolved; the tropics, for example, are a complex paradise compared to higher latitudes.

«At the higher latitudes of Great Britain, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, as well as Northern Germany and France, very little UVB light reaches the Earth, and it's the key wavelength required by the skin for vitamin D generation,» Elias said.

When Arthur Hinks, the Royal Geographical Society's cartographer, knew Scott was going south, he held a seminar on navigation, explaining that longitude doesn't matter very much at high latitudes because the effect on your course is minimal.

However, fish numbers are very high in the tropics but decline towards colder latitudes, while large invertebrates balance those patterns in the opposite direction.

The first dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago, but for the next 30 million years, all but the very smallest were restricted to the world's high latitudes, far from the equator — even though the continents were connected, with no barriers to prevent large dinosaurs from moving around.

Most of the low latitudes glaciers are necessarily at very high altitudes, and many have both high accumulation rate and very cold temperatures.

Thus, small changes of global average air temperature are associated with very large changes in some regions, particularly over land, at mid - to high latitudes, in mountain regions.

In the tropics, simple thermodynamics (as covered in many undergraduate meteorology courses) dictates that it should actually warm faster, up to about 1.8 times faster by the time you get to 12 km or so; at higher latitudes this ratio is affected by other factors and decreases, but does not fall very far below 1.

Increases in precipitation at high latitudes in both seasons are very consistent across models.

Since the time of the SAR, annual land precipitation has continued to increase in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (very likely to be 0.5 to 1 % / decade), except over Eastern Asia.

«They found that the increase in surface temperature is very small in the Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere in contrast to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where the increase is relatively large.»

«One is you have a very gradual decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting high latitudes in the summer.

In the case of the high latitudes in the Arctic there are very few current stations indeed (only three or four)... and Svalbard Luft is one of these.

As a result of this asymmetric distribution of solar heating, during the winter season the troposphere in the high latitudes becomes very cold.

As a result of the vigorous convective mixing of the atmosphere, the tropopause in the lower latitudes is often very high, located some 17 to 18 km (10.5 to 11 miles) above the surface.

All the above is not to say that CR have no effect on atmospheric conditions at all, for certain regions, principally at high latitudes and altitudes, there is an effect, however, averaged over the Globe their effect is very small.

He has been astonished to discover, «Both higher altitudes and higher latitudes have been systematically removed from the measured temperature record with very poor and biased interpolated results taking their place.»

It has been suggested that higher latitudes — Siberia, for example — may become productive due to global warming, but the soil in Arctic and bordering territories is very poor, and the amount of sunlight reaching the ground in summer will not change because it is governed by the tilt of the earth.

I would have thought the mechanism there is very clear: the Hadley cells transport heat from the warmer lower latitudes to the higher colder latitudes as per the second law of thermodynamics.

Well, here's a link that shows (or purports to show) that the vast majority of global warming in the past few decades has taken place in very high Northern latitudes — well North of anyplace with significant population.

High latitudes is where a very great deal of infilling takes place.

Did you ever see much forest growth at higher altitudes and latitudes where is is very cold?

Compared to, say, CO2 change, the stratospheric O3 forcing is not global in extent, being very small in the tropics and increasing from mid - to high latitudes; the O3 forcing also differs in its vertical structure, since the radiative forcings for CO2 change in both the troposphere and surface are of the same sign (WMO, 1986).

The main idea is that the existing compilations of the global average temperature are very data - sparse in the high latitudes.

I've never disagreed with the possibility of climate disruption from anthropenic activities I've only argued that disruption is very likely to be overshadowed by net benefits like modest warming when the earth has been in a ice age for 4 million years, more warming in the higher latitudes and less in the lower exactly where most people would wish for warming (or lack thereof), and fertilization of the atmosphere with CO2 (plant food).

actually the average temperature depends strongly on meridional circulation that transports a lot of heat towards the high latitudes — especially with oceans that are, to say the least, not very well described and understood.

«It is very likely that there will be continued loss of sea ice extent in the Arctic, decreases of snow cover, and reductions of permafrost at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere by 2016 — 2035.

Climate model simulations for the 21st century are consistent in projecting precipitation increases in high latitudes (very likely) and parts of the tropics, and decreases in some subtropical and lower mid-latitude regions (likely).

The magnitude and inter-model range of simulated warming over high northern latitudes are very similar in the high - end and non-high-end models, which indicates that the biases among the models are larger than the climate change signal.

Even though the planet is getting warmer, cold weather still happens in winter or at very high elevations or high latitudes year - round.

Just realize that the solar heated surface layer prevents bottom warmed water from reaching the surface, except at (very) high latitudes.