Countdown to Kyoto, Parts I-III: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, October 7, 9, and November 6, 1997, Volume 1; Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 |
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... Surface Measurements Is Climate Change Underway ? Answers to post - hearing questions submitted by Democratic Members : Validity of Ground Level Temperature Measurements and Climate Mod- Page 403 404 els 405 Water Vapor Feedback Loop ...
... Surface Measurements Is Climate Change Underway ? Answers to post - hearing questions submitted by Democratic Members : Validity of Ground Level Temperature Measurements and Climate Mod- Page 403 404 els 405 Water Vapor Feedback Loop ...
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... surface tempera- tures that we're now reading across the world lead us to some kind of scientific analysis that might be different from decades and cen- turies past . So I am interested in this scientific debate and very interested in ...
... surface tempera- tures that we're now reading across the world lead us to some kind of scientific analysis that might be different from decades and cen- turies past . So I am interested in this scientific debate and very interested in ...
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... surface , cooling the surface an average of 55 degrees Fahr- enheit , compared to a hypothetical Earth where evaporation and wind do not occur . This heat is carried into the upper troposphere by clouds where it warms the air by an ...
... surface , cooling the surface an average of 55 degrees Fahr- enheit , compared to a hypothetical Earth where evaporation and wind do not occur . This heat is carried into the upper troposphere by clouds where it warms the air by an ...
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... surface is far out of radiative balance . This latter fact is due to evaporation and convection processes , which absorb excess heat from the surface and transports it to the upper troposphere . This upper tropospheric heat can be more ...
... surface is far out of radiative balance . This latter fact is due to evaporation and convection processes , which absorb excess heat from the surface and transports it to the upper troposphere . This upper tropospheric heat can be more ...
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... surface and deep layer temperature trends can not be reproduced by current GCM's , which slave globally - averaged deep tropospheric temperatures to any surface temperature fluctuations ( e.g. Hurrell and Trenberth , 1997 ) . However ...
... surface and deep layer temperature trends can not be reproduced by current GCM's , which slave globally - averaged deep tropospheric temperatures to any surface temperature fluctuations ( e.g. Hurrell and Trenberth , 1997 ) . However ...
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