Sentences with phrase «warm surface temperatures across»

This would warm surface temperatures across the globe, along the way altering weather patterns.

Not exact matches

In Martian summer, the combination of warm temperatures and a thin atmosphere make any liquid water on the surface boil, which can let dust hover across the ground

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

«The air might be warm, but if you walk barefoot across the sand, it's the searing hot surface temperature that's burning your feet.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

With ENSO - neutral conditions present during the first half of 2013, the January — June global temperature across land and ocean surfaces tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period, at 0.59 °C (1.06 °F) above the 20th century average.

Even if we focus exclusively on global surface temperatures, Cowtan & Way (2013) shows that when we account for temperatures across the entire globe (including the Arctic, which is the part of the planet warming fastest), the global surface warming trend for 1997 — 2015 is approximately 0.14 °C per decade.

Separately, temperatures were record warm across land surfaces as well.

With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).

Most of Earth's land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.

global warming The increase in Earth's surface air temperatures, on average, across the globe and over decades.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Warming was not uniform across the globe: sea surface temperatures increased by ~ 6 °C at high latitudes and ~ 4 °C at low latitudes, and deep - water temperatures increased by ~ 8 °C at high latitudes and ~ 6 °C at low latitudes.

That year Earth's surface temperature was 1.78 degrees F (0.99 degrees C) warmer than the average across the entire 20th century.

The algae may have initially spread across the western side of the lake because of windy weather, but calm weather and warm temperatures after the storm allowed green scum to build on the surface... The bloom now covers much of the western half of the lake.

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The warm expanse has been characterized by sea surface temperatures as much as three degrees C (about 5.4 degrees F) higher than average, lasting for months, and appears on large - scale temperature maps as a red - orange mass of warm water many hundreds of miles across.

When the intensity of ultraviolet light from the sun increases, temperature rises in this ozone rich air and weakens the downdraft, lowers the surface pressure and with it the strength of the trade winds that blow across the ocean to the low pressure zones that form over the warm waters that accumulate in the west.

«The scale of this difference across the globe and over the years is sufficient to add a warming of 0.03 C per decade to the HadCRUT surface temperature record.»

According to NOAA, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0.69 degrees Celsius, above the 20th century average, beating the previous record warm years of 2005 and 2010 by 0.07 degrees Fahrenheit.

During the El Nino, the discharge phase, warm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Paciwarm water that had been stored in the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical PaciWarm Pool sloshes to the east where it spreads across the surface, raising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific.

[later in the report:] Sea surface temperatures during June 2009 were warmer than average across much of the world's oceans, with the exception of cooler - than - average conditions across the southern oceans.

The consistent covariance of TLC reflection with surface temperature on timescales from seasonal to interannual and under global warming in climate simulations indicates that temperature is a key factor controlling TLC cover, and that similar processes likely govern the TLC response to warming across the timescales.

Also, as far as temperature changes across the year are concerned, in the polar regions right at the surface, the main warming will be in the winter months.

Cowtan & Way (2013) evaluated global surface warming across the globe using a statistical method known as «kriging» and using satellite data to fill in the gaps where there are no temperature stations.

That year Earth's surface temperature was 1.78 degrees F (0.99 degrees C) warmer than the average across the entire 20th century.

You are unable to demonstrate based on empirical data that these temperatures will be harmful — and there are some indications that a slightly warmer temperature (especially in the higher latitudes, where GH warming is supposed to oiccur) will increase arable land surface across N. America, and Eurasia, lengthen growing seasons and result in higher overall crop yields.

During November 2017, warmer - than - average temperatures dominated across much of the world's land and ocean surfaces, with the most notable temperature departures from average across the Northern Hemisphere.

General: El Niño episodes (left hand column) reflect periods of exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures across the eastern tropical Pacific.

Specifically, the study found that» [d] uring much of last year's hurricane season, sea - surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic between 10 and 20 degrees north... were a record 1.7 degrees F above the 1901 - 1970 average,» «global warming explained about 0.8 degrees F of this rise,» while» [a] ftereffects from the 2004 - 05 El Nino accounted for about 0.4 degrees F,» and a natural cycle in sea - surface temperatures «explained less than 0.2 degrees F of the rise.»

These records have been driven by the strong El Niño and record - warm sea surface temperatures across large parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Global warming is predicted to give us longer, hotter summers, drier conditions across the US, more record temperatures, thinner arctic ice, and having it cover less surface area of the Earth.

Every percentage point difference is a few degrees warmer or colder surface temperature if the difference is lasting across a number of years.