Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean pattern»

The multi-decadal Pacific Ocean pattern can be seen in ENSO proxies for up to 1000 years (Vance et al, 2012).

Below, I'll discuss the growing prospect of record - breaking flooding along the Mississippi River, fueled in part by the Pacific Ocean pattern.

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Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched CalifornOcean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched Californocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

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.

Those weather patterns are linked to warmer surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, respectively, and correlated with the timing of observed floods on the lower Mississippi.

These sensors could reveal patterns that help explain why the tropical Pacific emits carbon dioxide, rather than absorbing it like most of the rest of ocean.

The ongoing La Niña pattern, where there are colder than normal sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, favors these types of conditions.

The team also identified similar patterns of ocean physics in the Yellow Sea of the Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Muifa, which also weakocean physics in the Yellow Sea of the Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Muifa, which also weakOcean during Typhoon Muifa, which also weakened.

The pattern isn't as evident in the northern Atlantic Ocean as it is in the southern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, but if the trend continues, it means more intense hurricanes in places of greater population.

University of Washington oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands — a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — to trace El Niño patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years.

«We found a really strong relationship between jet stream patterns over the Pacific Ocean and U.S. hail frequency,» Gensini said.

Deep water entering the Southern Ocean from the Indian and Pacific oceans follows a similar pattern.

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.

Certain disease outbreaks, including some of the worst pandemics of the 20th century, are linked to weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, according to new research.

In April 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the AzoOcean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azoocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

This variability includes the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a long - lived El Niño - like pattern of Pacific climate variability that works like a switch every 30 years or so between two different circulation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean.

The oscillation is a pattern of climate variability akin to El Niño and La Niña — weather patterns caused by periodic warming and cooling of ocean temperatures in the Pacific — except it is longer - lived.

A new study links the frequency of tornadoes and hailstorms in parts of the southern United States to ENSO, a cyclic temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean.

A new NASA visualization shows the 2015 El Niño unfolding in the Pacific Ocean, as sea surface temperatures create different patterns than seen in the 1997 - 1998 El Niño.

The ocean factors included upwelling of nutrient - rich water and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a large - scale marine temperature pattern.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

The El Nino weather pattern is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific and usually brings hot, dry, and often drought conditions to Australia.

And yet the best models had called for a quiet season because it was a year of El Niño, a recurring pattern of warm water in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The underlying pattern in this year's fire forecast is driven by the fact that the western Amazon is more heavily influence by sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, and the eastern Amazon's fire severity risk correlates to sea surface temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

They will look for evidence of temperature changes caused by ocean circulation patterns in both the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific Oceans, which drive precipitation in Tibet as well as the Indian monsoons.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

«There are characteristic patterns of increase and decrease, for example, in response to an El Nino event,» which is a cyclical climate event marked by warming waters in the western Pacific Ocean that has global impacts, Zwiers says.

The Kuroshio Current, similar to the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, is a crucial factor in fish migration patterns and can slow or speed international shipping in the Pacific Ocean.

By the time the water reaches this area and is taken up into seafood, radioactivity is probably well diluted below what is probably dangerous for human consumption, but marine biologist Nicholas Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York says that the study will be a useful baseline to understand how radiation is dispersed in the specific ocean patterns and sea life of the Pacific.

La Niña — the weather pattern that causes unusually cold ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific — has been blamed as the immediate culprit.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Most people in the general public now know the term, and they have a vague idea that it is some kind of pattern in the Pacific Ocean that means the U.S. will have a warm winter... or snowy winter... or hot summer — or something.

They showed that temperatures warmed in both the North Pacific and Greenland, likely due to changes in ocean circulation patterns.

The changes in MHW properties (Fig. 1b, e, h, k) also clearly indicate signatures of a negative PDO pattern (SST decreases in the central and eastern tropical Pacific and in the eastern extra tropical Pacific Ocean; Supplementary Fig. 2A) and of a positive AMO pattern (SST increases in the North Atlantic particularly away from the mid-latitudes; Supplementary Fig. 2B).

In the lower left panel of Figure 1, which shows temperature trends since 1979, the pattern in the Pacific Ocean features warming and cooling regions related to El Niño.

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

The recurring wave pattern of intense rain and thunderstorms, followed by a dry phase as the force moves across the cooler Pacific Ocean occurs every 30 - 60 days, giving this atmospheric wave its unique stamp on the climate.

Nieves said an example is the U.S. West Coast, where the phase of a multi-decadal ocean climate pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has helped keep sea level rise lower during the past two decades.

-- The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a pattern of ocean - atmospheric climate variability across the mid-latitude Pacific Oocean - atmospheric climate variability across the mid-latitude Pacific OceanOcean.

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«The warming of the northeastern Pacific Ocean in 2013 and 2014 was due to persistent wind and weather patterns.

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern defined by above - average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that affect weather patterns around the world, leading to a slight uptick in global temperatures.

By studying weather and ocean patterns, the German researchers and their Chinese counterparts realized it all hinges on the connection of two regions in the eastern Pacific.

Cai, W.J., and P.H. Whetton, 2000: Evidence for a time - varying pattern of greenhouse warming in the Pacific Ocean.

El Niño is a Pacific - driven climate pattern that features warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropics of that ocean basin.