Spatial Variation in Warming Asymmetry across the Diel Cycle between 1983 and 2017 (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

Spatial Variation in Warming Asymmetry across the Diel Cycle between 1983 and 2017

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Spatial variation in warming asymmetry across the diel cycle between 1983 and 2017. In total c.54% of the land surface has experienced warming asymmetry of >0.25°C, with more than twice the area of land warming more during the nighttime than the daytime. Driven primarily by changing levels of cloud cover this is associated with a wetting (increased nighttime warming) and drying (increased daytime warming) of the climate. The blue illustrates where the nighttime has warmed more rapidly, and red where the daytime has done so. The projection is Behrmann's equal area.

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