Sentences with phrase «warm sunlight throughout»

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In the year with strong wave energy, by contrast, the lower stratospheric warming in July and August leads to reduced ozone losses throughout the Southern Hemisphere spring, when the sunlight that powers ozone depletion chemistry returns to the polar regions.

Even in the absence of such an index, I believe it's well established that tree / plant area has increased in the last 30 years or so, in which case land use forcing (or at least the albedo part) would have been getting less negative for the period, adding to the warming trend; and that's without counting asphalt which obviously has greater sunlight absorption than the average land it replaces (and asphalt - covered surface has kept growing throughout this period).