Sentences with phrase «as weather patterns»

As weather patterns are often unpredictable, it is highly recommended that you secure protection against disasters.

Once a conservation success story, the rare Haleakalā silversword plant is dying off as weather patterns shift on Maui.

For example, satellite data provides estimates of the sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean as well as weather patterns over the Arctic.

Maintaining this level of productivity has been quite a challenge in recent years and is likely to become more difficult over the next few decades as weather patterns, available water and growing seasons shift further and threats of invasive weeds, pests and pathogens rise.

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds, -LSB-...]

«Some of their nations could disappear entirely, and as weather patterns change, we might deal with tens of millions of climate refugees in the Asia - Pacific region.»

As the weather patterns shift, they claim them as evidence of their theory.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

The city will have a day / night cycle as well as weather patterns using the CryEngine.

Canadian buyers will appreciate the fact that the sure - footed X5 is equipped with BMW's venerable xDrive all - wheel - drive system as the weather patterns in this country can be very unpredictable at times.

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds,

New research suggests that as weather patterns changed some 30,000 years ago in Australia, megafauna went extinct

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

As weather patterns wreak more havoc, a Pandora's box of microbes enters new terrain, stressing global public health systems.

Because as the weather pattern changes, Dr Rubin says we can't ever determine when mosquitoes start and finish each year, leaving 12 - month prevention to be the only way to clean up this disease.

Not exact matches

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

The world - wide phenomenon of climate change, and the devastatingly dangerous weather patterns and storms it produces, must be our fault as well.

Although some Christ - followers find it increasingly difficult to ignore the environmental impact of their lifestyles and are beginning to feel a holy stirring as they wake up to crazy weather patterns, smoggy skylines and disappearing forests, others are uncomfortable with «environmentalists» and even less comfortable with their «agenda.»

In a recent article from Bloomberg Businessweek, contributor William Pesek identifies the culprits: Surprisingly, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has as much a role to play in the increase as recent devastation from La Nina weather patterns.

In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.

Well D and I frequently seem to forgot about weather patterns and seasons and seem to find ourselves traveling south into South America straight into winter, as the seasons here are complete opposites.

Rainforests also act as the world's thermostat, regulating temperatures and weather patterns.

Just as the Earth experiences volatile weather patterns, the trends of winning and losing across the NBA make unpredictable, dramatic swings.

The floods have been triggered by the weather event known as El Nino, a warming of surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc on weather patterns every few years.

a) No oceans exist ever, b) the temperature rockets as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, and c) the apparent azure sky actually comes from a deadly weather pattern: rain made of molten glass.

«People should know you can use the weather as an instrument to uncover patterns of human behavior that are otherwise hard to elicit,» he says.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

This lack of diversity threatens the potential of commercial chickpea stock as the conditions in which farmers attempt to grow it — hotter, with a changing palette of pests, diseases, and weather patterns — become less and less like the conditions in which it was originally domesticated.

As Cobb explained, the tropical Pacific, through phenomena like El Niño, plays a very large role in precipitation and global weather patterns like monsoons today.

«As climate changes, and even with many of our weather patterns, [it] directly affects the distribution of disease,» Ford says.

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England — First it was birds and now it is bees that are finding their numbers under increasing pressure from sources as diverse as habitat loss, insecticide use and changing weather patterns.

Even if certain patterns can be dimly discerned, our ability to do so diminishes with time, exactly as for the weather.

But it also says changed weather patterns — possibly due to climate change — are altering flowering times as well as causing droughts and floods.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

«Space weather patterns: Plasma in near - Earth space was twice as heavy around 1958 and 1970.»

Watson said his team still needs to determine which substances would work best at reflecting light, how much is needed to have an effect, and the possible unintended consequences of injecting the particles into the atmosphere, such as acid rain, ozone depletion or weather pattern disruption.

And there could be unforeseen downsides, the researchers say, such as a decrease in stratospheric ozone or a shift in tropical weather patterns that could end up aggravating droughts in arid regions.

Coastal communities are being affected by rising seas, drought - prone areas are arid for longer periods and, as our report shows, infectious agents are taking advantage of these more extreme weather patterns.

World weather patterns will also start to change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

She became a public figure in 2012, when an influential paper by Francis and Vavrus came out in Geophysical Research Letters just as the United States was in the midst of some unusual weather patterns.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

The study compared weather patterns during low sea ice conditions as seen in recent years to weather patterns during high sea ice conditions typical of the late 1970s.

«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The researchers compared this long fire record with weather patterns: the well - known El Nino and La Nina cycles that occur every two to seven years, as well as longer cycles called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

The record - low winter maximum doesn't necessarily herald a record low end - of - summer minimum come September, as summer weather patterns have a large effect on sea ice area.

By combining scanning electron microscopy with x-ray computer tomography to examine the bead's microstructure and chemistry, a British research team determined that the iron possessed a structural and microchemical signature known as the Widmanstätten pattern that is unique to weathered iron meteorites.

Many natural phenomena, like changing weather patterns, are nonlinear in nature — as are human - made systems, like financial markets.