-- It is virtually certain that increases in the frequency of
warm daily temperature extremes and decreases in cold extremes will occur throughout the 21st century on a global scale.
Not exact matches
What's more, O'Gorman found that there's a narrow
daily temperature range, just below the freezing point, in which
extreme snow events tend to occur — a sweet spot that does not change with global
warming.
«We show that at the present - day
warming of 0.85 °C about 18 % of the moderate
daily precipitation
extremes over land are attributable to the observed
temperature increase since pre-industrial times, which in turn primarily results from human influence,» the research team said.
Some influences are fairly robust, the panel says, particularly a
warming of
extreme daily maximum (and minimum)
temperatures.
«It is likely that anthropogenic influences have led to
warming of
extreme daily minimum and maximum
temperatures at the global scale.
An increase of
daily temperature variability is observed during the period 1977 to 2000 due to an increase in
warm extremes, rather than a decrease of cold
extremes (Klein Tank et al., 2002; Klein Tank and Können, 2003).