Sentences with phrase «warming at the altitude»

If it's relatively warmer at altitude, does more remain?

It is measured by two independent methods (balloons and satellites) and they both show the warming at altitude is similar (indeed, slightly less) than at the surface.

A highly - absorbing aerosol reduces the solar radiation reaching the ground, but causes warming at the altitude the aerosol is located at.

The reason that the upper part of the troposphere is expected in the global average to warm more than the surface is that in the tropics is that one expects the lapse rate to closely follow the moist adiabatic lapse rate, which indeed implies more warming at altitude than at the surface.

So, what you must be proposing is that this amplification of warming at altitude relative to the surface happens to a greater degree than the models predict.

Alternately, I suppose you could argue that the models are correct (or overestimate the hot spot) for the tropics... but that they underestimate the warming at altitude (relative the surface) outside of the tropics by such a degree that the magnitude of the lapse rate feedback is still underestimated globally.

Allen et al. (2008) used upper - atmosphere wind speeds as a proxy for temperature and concluded that the projected greater rate of warming at altitude in the tropics is occurring in reality.

Not exact matches

Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.

It also has the advantage of being able to withstand warmer climates, preferring constant temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees, which enables it to grow at far lower altitudes than arabica.

Atmospheric dust may have a powerful effect on climate, absorbing sunlight and warming the atmosphere at some altitudes while shading and cooling underlying layers of air.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Lead researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty of French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).

At low altitudes, females born early under warm conditions have more time to grow large and produce offspring, so it is advantageous for these skinks» gender to be temperature - sensitive.

The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.

In the case of Scottsbluff, Vatistas and his team found that the temperature inside the tornado would have dropped from a comfortably warm background temperature of 27o C to a chilly 12o C. And at the tornado's centre, the researchers estimated the air density would have been 20 per cent lower than what's found at high altitudes.

A century of digging at lower altitudes and in the warm Ukrainian plains rarely yielded more than skeletons or jewelry.

Time is running out: if global warming continues at its current rate, glaciers at an altitude below 3,500 metres in the Alps and 5,400 metres in the Andes will have disappeared by the end of the end of the 21st century.

Even at their much colder temperatures, most of our solar system's gas giants also have warmer temperatures at higher altitudes.

Normally, titanium oxide in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters absorbs light and reradiates it as heat, making the atmosphere grow warmer at higher altitudes.

In the troposphere, the temperature is warmer at the bottom — ground level — and cools down at higher altitudes.

John Harte, professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley, reached this depressing conclusion after mimicking global warming with the help of infrared heaters suspended above an alpine meadow at an altitude of 2920 metres in the Rocky Mountains.

Vineyards planted at higher altitudes or near the ocean — such as those in Oregon and Washington and in Argentina's Mendoza Province — will be less affected by rising temperatures and may continue to benefit from the warming trend.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

In the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And since that time, researchers have discovered a spate of human genes that evolution has strongly favored recently, such as mutations that help highland Tibetans survive at high altitude, Yupik Eskimos to stay warm efficiently, Europeans to thrive on cereal grains, and East Asians avoid alcoholism.

At that altitude, the air is breathable and much warmer.

This warm air rises, cools and the moisture it contains condenses at higher altitudes, feeding the typical spiraling clouds associated with hurricanes.

The first one I looked at is an «own goal» for the contrarians, as it involves Phil Jones bemoaning the discrepancy between glacier retreat in high altitudes, and comparative lack of warming in the UAH troposphere record.

«In almost every session of these seven years we detected a layer at altitudes of 90 - 100 km that is 20 - 40 kelvins warmer than it should be,» says Belyaev.

Transmission of the parasite occurs at lower elevations where temperatures are warmer and drops off at higher altitudes.

We don't yet understand what causes the warming, but Venus» ozone layer is at this altitude.

Unseasonably warm weather with temperatures up to 77 degrees Fahrenheit across Switzerland let snow melt, even at Alpine altitudes.

At that altitude, temperatures are never warm enough for heartworms!

You obviously need good hiking boots and a warm jacket and sweater for the day at high altitude.

You should leave at least 2h30 to walk around the park and make sure you bring warm clothing as the park is at the altitude of 1500 meters.

Ollantaytambo is at least 600 m lower than Cusco and about twice closer to Machu Picchu, which means that a warm and spring - like atmosphere will definitely be a relief after the high altitude chill of the highlands.

Since Aguas Calientes is at a lower altitude, the weather is a little warmer in this town.

The climate is also warmer than Cusco due to the lower altitude at 2,800 meters.

Be sure to bring warm clothing with you, night's can be incredibly cold at the high altitude, in winter the temperature can go below negative 30 °C.

In warmer months, play an unforgettable high - altitude round at Golf Club Matterhorn, 6 miles away.

Layers: Most of your hiking days will be warm enough for short sleeves, but certain portions of each trek are at higher altitudes (especially during the Lares trek), so they will be colder.

Lower altitude portions can be warmed directly by year - round exposure to above - freezing air, but at higher altitudes absorption of sunlight ultimately supplies all the energy which sustains ablation.

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

The surface gets warmer because the thermal lapse rate, a structural element of the atmosphere *, is suspended from a higher altitude and thus intercepts the surface at a higher temperature.

In the wake of talks about Global Warming over here in Israel, Israelis who were hoping to spend their Hanukkah holiday skiing in Austria, were sadly disappointed to find out that the runs once suitable for mid-December skiing, at lower altitudes, are

In this explanation what is changing is the altitude at which emission occurs, and at higher levels it is colder, so this level needs to warm up to maintain the radiative balance; what would happen once the altitude of radiative emission reaches above the tropopause?

Please see / / chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/bamsmosquito.pdf, which depicts the biological «fingerprint» study (where data matches models) and the confluence of data on montane glacier retreat, upward migration of plant communities and, mosquitoes at high altitudes and warming at same.

Reminds me of his Senate testimony last July, in which he used the UAH Middle Troposphere (MT) product to claim that there's no warming at high altitude over the tropics.

At any given altitude, temperatures will be warmer.

This dependency to physical conditions is evident from how the temperature and precipitation vary from place to place: typically warmer at low latitudes and cooler at higher altitudes; more rain near the coast and less in the interior.