Sentences with phrase «global circulation of»

As highlighted in the textbook, «The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere» (2007)

Significant changes in tree cover in Eurasia could cause an energy imbalance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, shifting the entire global circulation of the atmosphere, including the location of rainfall in the tropics.

Changing weather and climate — The causes, consequences of and responses to extreme weather conditions and natural weather hazards, recognising their changing distribution in time and space and drawing on an understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere.

8 global circulation of deep ocean currents transports warm water to colder areas & cold water to warmer areas efficient heat - transport system drives Earth's climate

Then the auroral heating alters the mean global circulation of the thermosphere.

in The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T Schneider and A Sobel, eds.

In The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T. Schneider and A. H. Sobel, Eds., Princeton University Press, 47 - 77.

The artists in the exhibition explore issues of the global circulation of culture and cultural producers, alongside of issues of alienation from the ideas of «home.»

Late Twentieth - Century: Splicing, Sampling and the Street in the Age of Appropriation By the end of the twentieth century, the emergence of multi-track sound recording, portable video cameras, instant photography and large - scale printing, in combination with the global circulation of images and objects, had shifted mashup methodology toward appropriation, détournement and inhabitation.

Fully inscribed within the Niger Delta while addressing the global circulation of energy capital, Saro - Wiwa develops narrative devices that render environmental and emotional ecosystems inseparable.

This, I tell my clients, is a quarterly magazine that enjoys a global circulation of four hundred thousand copies, «distributed free around the world.»

Included: The Quaternary period Evidence for climate change and advantages / disadvantages Human / natural causes of climate change Potential causes of climate change: extreme weather and sea level rise Global circulation of the atmosphere El Nino / La Nina Tropical storms, formation and distribution Causes of droughts / location Extreme weather case study caused by El Nino - The Big Dry, Australia

«This is probably due to the global circulation of the atmosphere.

Significant changes in tree cover in Eurasia could cause an energy imbalance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, shifting the entire global circulation of the atmosphere, including the location of rainfall in the tropics.»

Infection with one DENV only provides long - lasting protection against that serotype; sequential infection with multiple different DENV serotypes is therefore possible, and, because of the increasing global circulation of DENV, this has been occurring with increasing frequency in tropical areas of the world.

«Wave patterns in the images, revealed by UV absorption from ozone concentrations, are critical to understanding the wind patterns, giving scientists an additional means to study the chemistry and global circulation of the atmosphere,» writes NASA.

They help us to understand the global circulation of the atmosphere by explaining the mechanisms that drive some of the persistent or recurrent patterns (or features) of local weather and climate.

The resulting cold, dense water sinks and moves northwards, forming an important part of the global circulation of ocean water.

Gross says that the most important processes affecting day length are changes in the weather, especially unusual variations in the strength and direction of the winds, which bring on alterations in the global circulation of the atmosphere and ocean.

Not exact matches

This «would create a persistent layer of black carbon particles in the northern stratosphere that could cause potentially significant changes in the global atmospheric circulation and distributions of ozone and temperature,» they concluded.

The team will create a global free trade ecosystem by docking to all kinds of businesses of shelter and food as well as cakes and ale, so that LNC players can go to all parts of the world to pay for consumption, promoting the value of LNC in circulation.

On the other hand, the Fed's insistence on draining dollars out of global circulation would be facilitated by any European endeavours to enhance the status of Euro as a reserve petro - currency.

The Atlantic Ocean surface circulation is an important part of the Earth's global climate, moving warm water from the tropics towards the poles.

Its instruments were able to study Saturn's atmosphere at a wide range of altitudes, revealing its global circulation patterns, composition and vertical structure.

The timing of such uplift is important in helping scientists to understand how mountains form, how they erode and what impact this may have on global atmospheric circulation patterns and climate.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

And, in fact, the general circulation — the global system of ocean and air currents that we observe — results from this north - south imbalance.

The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.

Changes in polar vortex winds high in the stratosphere can alter the global conveyor belt of ocean circulation.

«Which of those is correct at this stage is unknown, but the droughts being driven by atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is in line with some of these global circulation models,» Lewis said.

The finding challenges previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global warming.

«We think, but have not yet been able to establish, that this is connected to independently observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation,» Emanuel says, referring to a large - scale pattern of global winds, which in recent years has also moved further poleward.

If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.

A recent analysis used global circulation models to study the future of more than 2,100 lakes.

Some environmentalists have argued that greater use of biochar could slow and perhaps ultimately reduce global warming by taking carbon out of circulation.

The new findings, based on detailed computer simulations using the best available global circulation models, are described this week in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of environmental engineering Elfatih Eltahir, MIT Research Scientist Eun Soon Im, and Professor Jeremy Pal at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

While this circulation is so slow that a blob of air may take decades to travel to the upper atmosphere, it impacts the chemical composition of the global atmosphere because many chemical properties are very different in the lower and upper atmosphere layers.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

The role of the tropopause — the layer of atmosphere that separates the troposphere from the stratosphere — in global air - circulation patterns is not well understood.

«This emphasizes the importance of large - scale energy transport and atmospheric circulation changes in restoring Earth's global temperature equilibrium after a natural, unforced warming event,» Li said.

«Melting Greenland ice sheet may affect global ocean circulation, future climate: University of South Florida and international scientists find influx of freshwater could disrupt the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, an important component of global ocean circulatcirculation, future climate: University of South Florida and international scientists find influx of freshwater could disrupt the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, an important component of global ocean circulatCirculation, an important component of global ocean circulationcirculation.»

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

The Southern Ocean plays a pivotal role in the global overturning circulation, a system of surface and deep currents linking all oceans and one of the fundamental determinants of the planet's climate.

This process provides a source of energy for the mixing of abyssal waters, which, in turn, hastens the global overturning circulation.

«Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation, climate: New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better global climate models.»

By analyzing these records, Knudson and Ravelo found that the strength of the overturning circulation in the North Pacific is inherently linked to global climate changes, but not in the way scientists had previously thought.

And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»