Sentences with phrase «warm the land surface»

I find it hard to believe that the heat «decided» to stop warming the land surface area and focus primarily on the ocean.

Why did the heat suddenly stop warming the land surface?

The same forcing is more effective at warming the land surface because of its low thermal inertia.

Over the past 50 years, the oceans have absorbed about 90 % of the total heat added to the climate system while the rest goes to melting sea and land ice, and warming the land surface and atmosphere.

In any case Gavin admitted that the TLT should be at least 0.95 of the faster warming land surface record and left unsaid what the specific higher ratio to the heat - uptaking ocean's 70 % of the planet surface was.

Not exact matches

«Land use change has warmed Earth's surface.»

Warmer than average temperatures were evident over most of the global land surface, except for parts of western Europe, northern Siberia, parts of eastern Asia and much of central Australia stretching north.

Pielke, who said one issue ignored in the paper is that land surface temperature measurements over time show bigger warming trends than measurements from higher up in a part of the atmosphere called the lower troposphere, and that still needs more explanation.

That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming.

Land Only: The January - August worldwide land surface temperature was 1.82 °F (1.01 °C) above the 20th century average, the fifth warmest such period on recLand Only: The January - August worldwide land surface temperature was 1.82 °F (1.01 °C) above the 20th century average, the fifth warmest such period on recland surface temperature was 1.82 °F (1.01 °C) above the 20th century average, the fifth warmest such period on record.

Fewer dust particles translates to a warmer - than - usual land surface and cooler - than - usual water.

Warmer than average temperatures were evident over most of the global land surfaces, except for parts of the United States and western Europe, northern Siberia, parts of eastern Asia and much of central Australia stretching north.

June — August 2014, at 0.71 °C (1.28 °F) higher than the 20th century average, was the warmest such period across global land and ocean surfaces since record keeping began in 1880, edging out the previous record set in 1998.

June 2013 tied with 2006 as the fifth warmest June across global land and ocean surfaces, at 0.64 °C (1.15 °F) above the 20th century average of 15.5 °C (59.9 °F).

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.

However, for the globe as a whole, surface air temperatures over land have risen at about double the ocean rate after 1979 (more than 0.27 °C per decade vs. 0.13 °C per decade), with the greatest warming during winter (December to February) and spring (March to May) in the Northern Hemisphere.

They are seen in warming of the oceans, the land surface, and the lower atmosphere.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

«Moreover, our estimate of 0.27 C mean surface warming per century due to land - use changes is at least twice as high as previous estimates based on urbanization alone7, 8.»

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.

As the planet warms from climate change, there is more evaporation from both land and water surfaces.

Note the more spatially uniform warming in the satellite tropospheric record while the surface temperature changes more clearly relate to land and ocean.

Warming has occurred in both land and ocean domains, and in both sea surface temperature (SST) and nighttime marine air temperature over the oceans.

Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

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).

The former is likely to overestimate the true global surface air temperature trend (since the oceans do not warm as fast as the land), while the latter may underestimate the true trend, since the air temperature over the ocean is predicted to rise at a slightly higher rate than the ocean temperature.

Seasonal decreases in land precipitation since the 1950s are the main cause for some of the drying trends, although large surface warming during the last two to three decades has also likely contributed to the drying.

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 Aland 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 ALand & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.

Zebras in warmer areas have more stripes, for example, and biting flies such as horseflies avoid landing on black - and - white striped surfaces.

Some of the Earth's ecosystems host an exceptionally high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in warm semi-arid regions support 20 % of the world's plant species on 5 % of the land surface.

Since NOAA began keeping records in 1880, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January through April in 2010.

There is no longer any evidence of a pause in warming through present in any of the land surface temperature records.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

Much of the Northern Hemisphere experienced cold land surface temperatures, but the Arctic was exceptionally warm.

If the recent «slowdown» in global surface warming is reversing, the stronger land carbon sink seen in recent years may weaken again, and the rise in CO2 may quicken again.

The climate in most places has undergone minor changes over the past 200 years, and the land - based surface temperature record of the past 100 years exhibits warming trends in many places.

Any way you look it, from the Climate Prediction Center Outlook through May, to the ongoing warm anomalies in land and sea surface temperatures, much of the United States is likely to find above average temperatures in the coming months.

land surface air temperature) wouldn't cause the whole edifice of anthropogenic global warming to collapse.

On the whole, the Earth's land surface has «greened» in response to rising CO2 emissions and warmer temperatures, but these new results suggest there could also be a negative impact of climate change on vegetation growth in North America.

Rather, «land surface warming» is one of more than ten bricks supporting «global warming»; and with global warming established, there is a whole other set of bricks supporting «anthropogenic global warming».

This is because when the Earth warms, snow and ice melt, uncovering darker land and ocean surfaces.

The gasses, released by burning of fossil fuels and land clearing among other factors, trap heat in the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface.

The Earth receives radiation emitted by the sun that is absorbed by the land surface warming.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

I disagree as to whether this is a «key» issue for attribution studies, but as to when anthropogenic warming began, the answer is actually quite simple — when we started altering the atmosphere and land surface at climatically relevant scales.

But I thought that the lower atmosphere was expected to warm faster than the surface (when comparing global, land + ocean trends).

-- The December — February worldwide land surface temperature was 0.59 °C (1.06 °F) above the 20th century average, the 20th warmest such period on record.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)