In contrast, the positive phase of the Southern
Oscillation occurs during La Niña episodes, and refers to the situation when abnormally low air pressure covers Indonesia and the western tropical Pacific and abnormally high air pressure covers the eastern tropical Pacific.
Other researchers found that such daily
oscillations occurred in other animals and humans.
Such
oscillations occur naturally as the irregular nucleus rotates about its spin axis and reflects different amounts of sunlight during a rotation cycle.
Specifically, they want to find out if neutrino
oscillations occur over short distances (less than 65 feet).
When all Monsoon producing
oscillations occur at the same time, you have floods and death, but water loving crops thrive.
Recent shifts in
this oscillation occurred in 1946, 1977, and 2006.
For example, Willis is discussing the Pacific oscillations, but similar
oscillations occur in the other oceans — the difference is the size and amount of local and global influence.
Peaks of
the oscillation occurred in 1942 and 2008.
For example, about 800,000 years ago a shift of the dominant periodicity from a 41,000 yr to 100,000 yr signal in glacial
oscillations occurred (called the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, see e.g., Clark et al., 2006), and while a lot of ideas exist for why this should be the case, there's no bulletproof answer to this.
In general,
oscillations occur most readily for large values of κ v, when the mean state of the ocean is characterized by a strong meridional overturning circulation.
However, the parameter range over which
oscillations occur is smaller than when the ocean is coupled to full atmosphere.
Not exact matches
This trade wind strengthening, which
occurs during a the negative phase of a phenomenon called the Interdecadal Pacific
Oscillation (also known as the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation), pushes warm water westward and and changes Pacific Ocean circulation.
The collective
oscillation, called a plasmon,
occurs at a frequency that depends on the material's density, explains Matthew Mecklenburg, a physicist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles who was not involved in the work.
There is another significant meteorological phenomenon above the planet's equator and which could affect the winds: the Semi-annual
Oscillation (SAO), which
occurs about 50 km above the cloud deck and which causes the temperatures to oscillate and the winds to change direction and strength from East to West.
Kersten and Smirnov, however, show that this decoherence effect does not have any impact on the experimental measurement of the
oscillation probability for each neutrino flavour; they only demonstrate this result in cases that are similar to, albeit simpler, than what happens in a supernova, where collective effects
occur.
Research done by Dr. Christopher Pack, from McGill University, who looked at such waves
occurring in a region of the visual cortex of the brain, suggests these
oscillations could have a role in resetting the sensitivity of neurons after eye movements.
The combined effects of El Niño (ENSO) and the North Atlantic
Oscillation (NAO), both of which are naturally
occurring climate processes, drove the recent hot spot, according to the study.
New research has shown that similar Kelvin - Helmholtz waves also frequently
occur in Earth's magnetosphere and allow particles from the solar wind to enter the magnetosphere to produce
oscillations that affect Earth's protective radiation belts.
But in 1998, scientists discovered that neutrinos frequently change from one flavor into another — a process called neutrino
oscillation that can only
occur if neutrinos do, in fact, have mass.
Researchers found that some of these
oscillations are linked with blood pressure, but are generally slower,
occurring at lower frequencies, which have been shown in previous studies to be related to
oscillations in vascular motion and blood oxygenation.
We've all heard about circadian rhythm, the roughly 24 - hour
oscillations of biological processes that
occur in many living organisms.
Slow
oscillations in brain activity, which
occur during so - called slow - wave sleep, are critical for retaining memories.
«Importantly, the sound stimulation is effective only when the sounds
occur in synchrony with the ongoing slow
oscillation rhythm during deep sleep.
Such
oscillations can
occur similarly to the way in which the rotating beam of a lighthouse increases in intensity as it passes by an observer.
The El Niño - Southern
Oscillation, or ENSO, is a naturally
occurring climate cycle in which sea - surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean fluctuate.
Those who woke during REM sleep and successfully recalled their dreams were more likely to demonstrate a pattern of EEG
oscillations called theta waves in frontal and prefrontal cortex areas — the parts of the brain where our most advanced thinking
occurs.
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).
The peak of the pulse envelope may
occur at the same time as a crest of the carrier, but it may also be shifted to any other stage of the
oscillation.
Those
oscillations also prove that neutrinos have mass, as they can
occur only if the neutrinos have different masses.
These mutual collective
oscillations of protons and neutrons
occur with quite a high frequency, therefore with quite a high energy.
Until now, most sleep research has focused on global control of sleep, which
occurs when the entire brain is awash in slow waves —
oscillations of brain activity created when sets of neurons are silenced for brief periods.
Slow
oscillations also
occur during coma and general anesthesia, and are associated with decreased arousal.
Elucidation of the molecular basis of mood changes
occurring with an infradian (longer than a day) rhythm has been hampered by the lack of an animal model that exhibits spontaneous behavioral changes related to the infradian
oscillation of mood.
The slow -
oscillation upstates are theorized to provide a window of opportunity for memory consolidation, and memory reactivation underlying consolidation may
occur preferentially during these times.
High frequency
oscillations in the λ 13C composition of long chain fatty acids during MIS 3 appear to coincide with Dansgaard / Oeschger variability in high latitude ice cores, with positive (negative) excursions
occurring during stadial (interstadial) periods.
Stellar - mass black holes also often feature paired X-ray
oscillations that
occur in a 3:2 frequency ratio.
Similar fluctuations in OMZ intensity have
occurred during the Dansgaard - Oeschger (D - O) events (millennial - scale abrupt climate
oscillations) during the last glacial period (Cannariato and Kennett, 1999; Schmittner et al., 2007).
Naturally
occurring interannual and multidecadal shifts in regional ocean regimes such as the Pacific El Niño - Southern
Oscillation, the North Atlantic
Oscillation, and the Atlantic Multidecadal
Oscillation, for example, are bimodal
oscillations that cycle between phases of warmer and cooler sea surface temperatures.
Large interannual variability in snowpack can be nested within Pacific Decadal
Oscillation (and Pacific North American) driven patterns (e.g., see the high snow years of 1996 and 1997 that
occurred during a 25 - year period of below average snowpack).
In order to see if
oscillation has
occurred during the neutrinos» 500 - mile journey, the detector at Minnesota measures the relative fraction of mu and electron neutrinos.
«Similarly, if
oscillations did not
occur, scientists expected to see only one electron neutrino appearance (due to background interactions).
Under certain conditions, theta - like
oscillations can be induced in hippocampal or entorhinal cells in the absence of septal input, but this does not
occur in intact, undrugged adult rats.
Based on evidence from electrophysiological studies showing that both synaptic plasticity and strength of inputs to hippocampal region CA1 vary systematically with ongoing theta
oscillations (Hyman et al., 2003; Brankack et al., 1993), it has been suggested that the theta rhythm functions to separate periods of encoding of current sensory stimuli and retrieval of episodic memory cued by current stimuli so as to avoid interference that would
occur if encoding and retrieval were simultaneous.
oscillation A recurring cyclical pattern in global or regional climate that often
occurs on decadal to sub-decadal timescales.
High frequency combustion instabilities are periodic
oscillations of combustion that
occur due to the coupled interaction between unsteady heat release from combustion, acoustic fluctuations within the combustor, and perturbations of the incoming propellant.
Throughout the record, they found that a combination of two naturally -
occurring climate patterns — the El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) and the North Atlantic
Oscillation (NAO)-- were associated with «hot spots» of sea level rise along the Eastern seaboard, including the southeastern hot spot from 2011 to 2015.
But in this most recent event, the merging
occurred relatively quickly and no additional
oscillations were observed, meaning the two black holes were likely not spin - aligned and probably didn't form together.
``, glycemic variability (also known as «GV») refers to blood glucose
oscillations that
occur throughout the day, including hypoglycemic periods and postprandial (after a meal) increases, as well as blood glucose fluctuations that
occur at the same time on different days.
This
oscillation between light and shadow also
occurs in Nicolas Robbio's work in which a projection of a window blind occupies a section of the wall, an imaginary threshold that is both an image and a physical presence in the room.
A new important concept, the «center of
oscillation,» now
occurs to take into account the moment of inertia for the entire plumb bob and arm structure (and assumed frictionless pivot point.)