Sentence examples for patterns of temperature from inspiring English sources

Even if the global mean temperature were to remain unchanged, if the geographic patterns of temperature and rainfall change, the consequences will still be potentially severe.

It is now understood to have far wider effects, leading to characteristic patterns of temperature, rainfall and drought around much of the world.

Remote-sensing techniques are being used increasingly to observe patterns of temperature in space and, in particular, to identify the thermal plumes associated with thermal pollution.

The data also include information on farmers' perception of the patterns of temperature and rainfall over the past 20 years.

A model for historical annual patterns of temperature and rainfall was established on the basis of seasonal proxies.

An associated hydrographic program periodically monitored synoptic changes in the spatial patterns of temperature, salinity, nutrients and bacteria.

Changes in elevation make for an intricate pattern of temperature variations, especially on the South Island, but some generalizations for conditions at sea level can be made.

The pattern of temperature change through the layers of the atmosphere, with warming near the surface and cooling higher up in the stratosphere, further confirms that it is the buildup of heat-trapping gases (also known as "greenhouse gases") that has caused most of the Earth's warming over the past half century.

The pattern of temperature increase with height in the stratosphere is the result of solar heating as ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength range of 0.200 to 0.242 micrometre dissociates diatomic oxygen (O2).

But the actual pattern of temperature change in each of the six ocean basins is different (see chart), and that diversity allowed Dr Barnett to test the idea that people, rather than natural phenomena, are the reason for the warming.

Through its impact on the earliest, most extreme moments of the universe, the physics of string theory may have left faint cosmological signatures for example, in the form of gravitational waves or a particular pattern of temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation that may be observable by the next generation of precision satellite-borne telescopes and detectors.