Sentences with phrase «changes in flow patterns»

Changes in flow patterns of warm Pacific Ocean air from the south were driving earlier spring snowmelt, while decreasing summer sea ice had the greatest influence on later onset of snowpack in the fall.

Not exact matches

Jonathan Westphal, with his view of the importance of contrasts and changing contexts in the visual perception of colour, and Margaret Masterman with her view of a reiterative flow in the auditory perception of spoken speech, were the two who were able to connect most closely with Whitehead's conception of sense - awareness of the patterned flow in the passage of nature.

a change in the baby's sucking pattern from a quick suck - suck to a rhythmic suck - swallow pattern as the milk begins to flow.

The pattern — a change in wave orientation that reflects a journey through differently aligned materials — hints that rock flows horizontally toward the base of the plume, then rises vertically toward the hot spot.

Lead author Dr Zhifu Mi, until recently at UEA's School of International Development, now at University College London, said: «The patterns of emissions embodied in China's domestic and foreign trade have changed since the economic recession but the interregional carbon emission flows in China and internationally in the post-financial crisis era have not been analysed thoroughly.

Using a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner, which detects changes in blood - flow patterns, the scientists monitored what was happening inside subjects» brains.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

Dams, big or small, have the potential to change a river's water flow, temperature, sediment, and ultimately the patterns in plant and animal diversity.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

Climate change may cause major changes in rainfall patterns and river flows in the coming decades, bringing more pressure for water - transfer schemes.

Changes in blood flow pattern, such as from plaque build - up in the arteries, initiate a cascade of conflicting signals.

This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of the heme oxygenase system in responding to changes in blood flow pattern and the possibility of using it to treat cardiovascular diseases, the researchers wrote.

The fast fMRI was able to detect the subtle and very rapid oscillations in cerebral blood flow in the brain's visual cortex as the volunteers observed the changing pattern.

Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis links the river's increasingly deadly floods to a widespread pattern of human - caused environmental degradation and related flood - mitigation efforts that began changing the river's natural flow nearly 3,000 years ago.

In the future, Conrad wants to use this new understanding of mantle flow patterns to predict changes in sea level over geologic timIn the future, Conrad wants to use this new understanding of mantle flow patterns to predict changes in sea level over geologic timin sea level over geologic time.

The flow of data between consumers and generators allows the power generation companies to match demand with generation, to spot patterns in changing demand on a day to day basis or through the changing seasons and more.

Previously, scientists proposed that changes in the circulation of molten material in Earth's mantle — the slow - flowing material that lies between our planet's core and its crust — pushed the terrain east of the Andes upward, thereby changing drainage patterns.

The study reports that glaciers flowing to the coast on the western side of the Peninsula show a distinct spatial correlation with ocean temperature patterns, with those in the south retreating rapidly but those in the north showing little change.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

When I explore this landscape I find myself connecting with the textures and patterns that nature provides, finding interest in detritus that washes ashore, both organic and in - organic, for even the smallest of objects contain the beauty of randomness and irregularity.We live in one of the most dynamic environments on the planet, where ocean meets land; ever changing, our lives are deeply connected to this place where tides ebb and flow revealing aggregate shapes, leaving imprints, and proving that time is both fast and slow.

(showing the temp rise has changed this or that wind pattern and / or water flow around Australia, etc, etc) As I mentioned in post # 20, I'm trying to sort through the hype and come to RC to help me do that.

There was an interesting study in Nature Geoscience last Sunday showing pretty clearly that the accelerating flow of the Jacobshavn glacier in recent years was most likely driven by an influx of warm deep seawater, and that shift was likely due to changes in pressure and wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean.

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

Blocking was a significant phenomenon in the weather patterns as the Circumpolar flow changed from Zonal to Meridional in 2013 - 14.

«But it turns out that removing forests alters moisture and air flow, leading to changes — from fluctuating rainfall patterns to rises in temperatures — that are just as hazardous, and happen right away.»

The report finds no proof to back up IPCC hysteria that blames CO2 for melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, disastrous changes in ocean circulation, or calamitous differences in precipitation patterns and river flows.

And anthropogenic greenhouse gases may in future perturb the climate system flow sufficiently to cause some or major change in the global pattern of coupled quasi standing waves.

In contrast, 2008 SLP patterns changed, with offshore flow from Alaska — opening up the Beaufort Sea — during early summer, rapidly shifting to offshore flow from Siberia in early August, initiating rapid melt in that sector (Fig. 3In contrast, 2008 SLP patterns changed, with offshore flow from Alaska — opening up the Beaufort Sea — during early summer, rapidly shifting to offshore flow from Siberia in early August, initiating rapid melt in that sector (Fig. 3in early August, initiating rapid melt in that sector (Fig. 3in that sector (Fig. 3).

«Forest loss is disrupting or changing the flow patterns in the atmosphere that is leading to a slightly different summertime climate in the eastern part of the country,» Swann said.

In this configuration the air will stabalise into a circulation pattern which can be measured for flow velocity and represents the energy flows from hot to cold via air thermal changes.

more carbon dioxide in the lower atmosphere means more little «point sources» for more absorbed EM in the infrared part of the spectrum, (infrared that re-radiated from the earth's surface after sunlight hit it and got absorbed); and since point sources radiate in a spherical pattern, that means more «back radiation» to earth, on balance... and this changes the «standing pattern» of energy flow in and out of the earth system, creating a time differential, so it starts to re-adjust...

The data to support this theory includes changing stream flow patterns across the Southwest, diminishing snowpack, increasing winter temperatures and the current drought, estimated to be the worst ever in California's recorded history.

In just a few million years from now, entire continents and oceans can be destroyed or created new, changing the flow of air and ocean currents and altering global weather patterns.