Sentences with phrase «warming over land»

It's ironic that, despite all the noise contrarians make about GISS being untrustworthy because its director is «alarmist», it actually underestimates the warming over land.

Two studies cautioned that simplified calculations used to process observational data could result in incorrect predictions of evaporation due to warming over land.

This of course raises the concern that maybe other features of the climatic data are equally suspect, including some of the warming over land since 1980.

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO, and, on the second hand, the fact that the rate of warming over land is larger than it is over sea (and also that the shallow (0 - 700m) ocean layer never actually cools).

Presumably CO2 increases surface warming over land (something I've never disputed) which presumably tends to increase the incidence of environmental lapse rate exceeding dry adiabatic lapse rate.

«A well - known feature of global warming scenarios is the land — sea contrast, with stronger warming over land than over oceans.

Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20 °C.

Their analysis revealed that almost two - thirds of the listed impacts related specifically to the warming over land and near the surface of the ocean could confidently be attributed to human - generated emissions.

In general there is more warming over land than the oceans and more warming at the poles than in the tropics.

For example, McKitrick and Michaels claimed in 2007 that about half of the recent warming over land is due to urban heat island effect, although this result was disputed by Schmidt in 2009.

Consistent with the global transfer of excess heat from the atmosphere to the ocean, and the difference between warming over land and ocean, there is some discontinuity between the plotted means of the lower atmosphere and the upper ocean.

Warming over land is greater than the mean except in the southern mid-latitudes, where the warming over ocean is a minimum.

And why is there so little reduction of the warming over land during the pause?

As Muller notes, the original BEST results confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperture record, finding 0.87 °C global surface warming over land during the past 50 years (Figure 1).

(2) There seems to be much more warming over the land in the northern hemisphere than in the south.

This is about 10 times smaller than the rates of global warming over land since the late 1970s reported in the IPCC 4th Assessment.

This warming over land was also accompanied by warming of UK coastal waters [Source: UKCIP, 2002].

All parties agree that the warming over land would be much higher than the global average, and the warming in the Arctic would be higher still.

Averaged over the five - year period 2016 - 2020, forecast patterns suggest enhanced warming over land, and at high northern latitudes.

Predictably we see more warming over land than water and more when temperature is freezing than not freezing.

Thus we find the most global warming over land not over water.

There's less water over land than ocean so look for more warming over land than water.

More ocean in the SH, more land in the NH, water absorbs more solar, more warming over land, land use impact?

Warming over land is rapid and pronounced.

Longer records now available show significantly faster rates of warming over land than ocean in the past two decades (about 0.27 °C vs. 0.13 °C per decade).

In response to increased trace gases, all replicated the qualitative response seen in other coupled ocean - atmosphere models: greater warming over land than ocean and maximum warming at high northern latitudes in winter.

Greater warming over land and in the Arctic regions, and less warming in the sub-polar oceans, are what we expect from our understanding of climate physics, and this is what we observe.»

Warming over land can have multiple effects, including melting of mountain glaciers, spread of deserts in continental interiors, greater flooding, more frequent heat waves and other extreme weather patterns.

We conclude that the fact that trends in thermometer - estimated surface warming over land areas have been larger than trends in the lower troposphere estimated from satellites and radiosondes is most parsimoniously explained by the first possible explanation offered by Santer et al. [2005].

These have shown about a 0.7 C warming over land during the last century, with somewhat less increase indicated over oceans.

Warming over land is amplified relative to global mean by a model - dependent amount that is often around 50 %.

The observed patterns of warming, including greater warming over land than over the ocean, and their changes over time, are only simulated by models that include anthropogenic forcing.

Not exact matches

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

Receiving mail from home while at sea is especially warming, but to have folks from all over this great land wish these men a «Merry Christmas and Godspeed «is overwhelming.

Similarly, a suggestion to build a compacted snow runway at McMurdo might prove unworkable due to climate change — seasonal warming over the last three seasons has made it difficult for wheeled aircraft to land there.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.

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.

Sea levels have been rising worldwide over the past century by between 10 and 20 centimetres, as a result of melting land - ice and the thermal expansion of the oceans due to a planetary warming of around 0.5 degreeC.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

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.

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.

I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included.

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.

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.

The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for global warming, including temperature over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting ice.

Warming, particularly since the 1970s, has generally been greater over land than over the oceans.

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