Sentence examples for estimates of climate from inspiring English sources
The OECD's findings represent a marked increase on previous estimates of climate finance flows.
The estimates of climate sensitivity come out of the complex computers models used to project warming into the future.
There is no evidence that current estimates of climate sensitivity produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre have changed.
They have long pushed implausibly low estimates of climate sensitivity, below two degrees Fahrenheit in some cases.
They thus note, "Using short records with uncertain forcings of the Earth system that is not in equilibrium does not (yet) produce reliable estimates of climate sensitivity".
So this allows us to bridge the gap between the various estimates of climate sensitivity and converge on a value around 3°C".
However, in its new report the IPCC has lowered its estimate of climate sensitivity, partly because of a 15-year pause in the rising trend of surface temperatures.
Here's a snippet: In the final report from CLIMSENS Berntsen et al has calculated their best estimate of climate sensitivity to be 1.9°C.
In review: Skeie et al. A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity using updated observations and detailed radiative forcing time series, In review in Journal of Climate.
We will initiate a glacier-monitoring program in an attempt to quantify the response of existing glaciers to ongoing climate change; determine how Bhutan's glaciers have responded to past climate switches; and reconstruct changes in past temperatures using tree rings, providing us with an independent estimate of climate change to which glacier-based climate records can be compared.
While this example explains how the downscaling can improve the gridded estimates by incorporating the determinism that location and elevation may lend to the estimate of climate parameters, this may not always be the case, depending on whether the PRISM estimate closely matches the measured data and whether the topography is flat or very spatially variable.
