A professor emeritus at Tohoku University has unearthed evidence pointing to a strong relationship between the magnitude of mass extinctions and global temperature changes in geologic times.
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2022
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El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most dominant mode in interannual timescale. It generates atmospheric teleconnections that modulate the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) over the north tropical Atlantic ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2022
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest signal in interannual climate variation. El Niño increases the precipitation over the equatorial central-eastern Pacific, which releases more latent heat into the tropical ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2020
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A vigorous and continuous rise in sea surface temperature (SST) and land surface temperature has been caused by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations during the last century. Several studies have suggested that the direct ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2018
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East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is one of the most dominant climate systems in East Asia. The anomalous EASM can cause extreme high temperatures, floods or drought. And the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominating ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2017
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Individual perceptions of climate anomalies are largely immune to political bias, especially when people observe large and persistent departures from average conditions.
Environment
Oct 30, 2017
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It's widely known that the Earth's average temperature has been rising. But research by an Indiana University geographer and colleagues finds that spatial patterns of extreme temperature anomalies—readings well above or ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2014
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UN experts are expected to warn on Friday that global warming will hoist sea levels higher than was projected six years ago, threatening millions of lives.
Environment
Sep 25, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The science of climate change has led international EU-funded researchers to an area thought to be responsible for redistributing and controlling heat around the globe.
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2013
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(Phys.org) —For much of Asia, the pace of life is tuned to rhythms of monsoons. The summer rainy season is especially important for securing the water and food supplies for more than a billion people. Its variations can ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2013
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