Sentences with phrase «while polar temperatures»

In the hothouse conditions of the mid-Cretaceous (80 - 100 My), tropical temperatures are thought to have increased relatively little (there is dispute about how much), while polar temperatures increased by a huge amount (maybe 20 °C).

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It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

However, don't let the Falkland Islands» polar location fool you: While it's geographically within the Antarctic zone, temperatures are milder than what you'd expect.

The you could focus on the ocean and avoid the land and polar amplification noise in the surface temperature see that while the NH oceans from 45N to 65N recovered quickly from the early 1900 volcanic activity, the equator and SH lagged that recovery by ~ 20 years.

By Paula Luu, Communications Manager January 24, 2014 While our weather - beaten friends in the Midwest and Northeast braced for near - record low temperatures and polar vortex snowstorms, Californians rang in the New Year with a rainless January.

While North America freezes under record polar temperatures, the southern hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever.

This paper, cosignated by Bard as last author, seems to be the paper too much, too much, trop trop trop for him; it has a smell of pine tree (or coffin) as that of the «scientific» carrier of M.Mann It looks a bit bizarre to me that it would be revolutionnary that temperatures of Northern Atlantic and tropical environments do not lag that of polar environments and ice, while the sun irradiates more the poles to the detriment of tropical latitudes; really, as long, as they do not demonstrate that CO2 does not lag temperature in ice cores, there is nothing new; and if they do, we are waiting for the explanations of vice président Jouzel to find the source of CO2 before the deep polar oceans started to moove

While this amount of sea - level rise will not happen overnight, it is sobering to realize how sensitive the polar ice sheets are to temperatures that we are on path to reach within decades,» Andrea Dutton, a geochemist with the University of Florida, said.

You had to elaborate your answer by saying that gases with non polar molecule symmetry do not absorb or emit energy within the temperature parameters with any application in engineering, e.g. O2, N2, H2..., while gases with polar molecule symmetries are significant absorbers and emitters of radiative energy, e.g. H2O, CO2, SO3... for engineering applications, depending of their density, temperature and pressure in a given environment.