The phrase "decline in temperature" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which the temperature is decreasing over a period of time. For example: "The decline in temperature during the winter months has been gradual and steady."
We quantify the spatial functional response of maximum annual vegetation cover to temperature and show that the observed temporal decline in temperature limitation is consistent with expectations based on observed recent warming.
This rapid observed and expected decline in temperature limitation highlights the need for an improved understanding of other limitations to vegetation growth in cold regions3,4,6, such as soil characteristics, species migration, recruitment, establishment, competition and community dynamics.
We identify a 16.4% decline in the area of vegetated land that is limited by temperature over the past three decades, and suggest an expected large decline in temperature limitation under future warming scenarios.
In conclusion, a significant elevation in external auditory canal temperature was associated with estrus in beef heifers and was followed by a decline in temperature leading up to ovulation approximately 28 h later.
It showed a decline in temperature since 2003 which Ward said was contrary to the true measurements, and he said that by leaving out the temperature trend during the 20th century the graph obscured the fact that eight of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred this century.
Today's hearing should also cover allegations that: Scientists used a "trick" to "hide a decline" in temperature data derived from tree rings - this should be scotched as there is a perfectly good explanation Scientists tried to prevent the publication of papers that attacked their work - but were those papers too poor for publication anyway?
There is no conspiracy to "hide the decline" in temperatures.
At that time there was no suggestion of a decline in temperatures.
The decline being referred to was an apparent decline in temperatures shown in analysis of tree rings.
It would also look at the high profile statement that climate scientists used a "trick" to "hide the decline" in temperatures inferred from tree ring data.
Cheers Phil This, according to Sarah Palin and US senator James Inhofe, is a smoking gun that shows Jones trying to "hide the decline in temperatures" since 1998.
