Sentences with phrase «warming of the surface»

A sufficient warming of the surface will increase the loss terms to the point that the energy budget balances.

[Response: As far as warming of the surface goes, you can forget about solar absorption in the atmosphere.

El Niño is the name that climatologists give to warming of the surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

El Niño is an abnormal periodic warming of surface ocean water off the Pacific coast of South America.

The project was inspired, Graham says, by dramatic progress over the past 15 years in predicting El Niño, the periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean that affects everything from Indian monsoons to flooding in the midwestern United States.

Sunlight penetrating the surface of the oceans is responsible for warming of the surface layers.

An excellent example of this is the so - called «hiatus,» which has been mentioned several times: the slow warming of the surface temperature record over the last decade or so.

The WAIS itself requires ≈ 8 °C of local warming of the surface atmosphere at 75 — 80 ° S to reach the melting point in summer (37).

They found that volcanic activity, as measured by aerosol optical thickness data (AOD) has only caused between 0.02 and 0.04 °C per decade warming from 1979 through 2010 (Table 1, Figure 2), or about 0.06 to 0.12 °C warming of the surface and lower troposphere, repsectively, since 1979 (out of approximately 0.5 °C observed surface warming).

RKS: there is a GHE because by reducing surface emissivity, GHGs increase the impedance for the transfer to the atmosphere and space of the 160 W / m ^ 2 average solar warming of the surface.

At the same time, they point towards below normal ice extent in the Barents / Kara Sea, also compared to the record minimum in 2007, which they see coupled to oceanic processes and promoting further warming of surface waters in the region.

The researchers found that Mount Pinatubo's eruption still kept much of the world dry, even after taking into consideration the drying effects of El Niño an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific.

So - called «convective» clouds are formed when there is a significant warming of the surface and a sufficient amount of moisture.

But what eventually happened, is that the warm water reached a critical point, surged upwards to the surface, and contributed to the abrupt warming of the surface water and atmosphere,» says Ezat.

Some may even still have magma oceans today, whether because they are so close to their stars that silicate vaporizes at the equilibrium temperatures or through massive greenhouse warming of their surfaces.

After 1992 there is a sharp warming of both surface and troposphere.

Of these forcings, the only non-human-induced forcing that produces warming of the surface temperature is the estimated long - term increase by 0.3 W / m2 of solar irradiance since 1750.

Whereas this phenomena has been principally related to a natural extreme event, its impacts may very well forebode the impact that a projected warming of surface temperatures could have by the end of the 21st Century due to greenhouse gas increases.

There has been an overall warming of surface waters (in the Bellingshausen and Scotia seas) by ∼ 1 °C in the last 50 years, but so far there is no evidence of any biologically meaningful temperature change in waters below about 100 m deep.

It is these multiple lines of evidence that give the scientific community such strong confidence that humans are responsible for the recent unprecedented warming of the surface of the Earth.

«For example, we found that the increase in subsurface ocean temperatures preceded the observed warming of surface air and sea surface temperatures, which began in the 1970's.»

* The Global Coral Reef Alliance says global warming of surface waters is already killing large amounts of coral.

The rush to identify El Niño, characterized by the periodic warming of surface water temperatures off the northwestern coast of South America, as California's savior was based in part on the belief that a strong El Niño would bring as much rain as it did in the winters of 1997 - 1998 and 1982 - 1983.

Warming of surface ocean waters is well known, but how the subsurface waters are changing is less clear.

Although the rate of warming of surface air and lower troposphere temperatures appear to have slowed over the past few years, the same could be said at any virtually any point in time by cherrypicking short - term noise and ignoring the long - term trend (Figure 2).

Warming of surface waters of the ocean might cause a reduction of zooplankton, tiny shrimp - like animals, that many marine animals depend on for food.