Sentences with phrase «affects ocean circulation patterns»

Glacial retreat affects ocean circulation patterns, fisheries and global sea level rise.

Not exact matches

The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

«If these waters no longer sink, it could have far reaching affects for global ocean circulation patterns.»

Each time a switch occurs, the changes to ocean and atmospheric circulation affect temperature and rainfall patterns across the globe.

Increases in freshwater flow into the ocean affect ocean circulation, ocean acidification (see AMAP's 2013 report on Arctic Ocean acidification), and biological productivity, and affect weather patterns far to the socean affect ocean circulation, ocean acidification (see AMAP's 2013 report on Arctic Ocean acidification), and biological productivity, and affect weather patterns far to the socean circulation, ocean acidification (see AMAP's 2013 report on Arctic Ocean acidification), and biological productivity, and affect weather patterns far to the socean acidification (see AMAP's 2013 report on Arctic Ocean acidification), and biological productivity, and affect weather patterns far to the sOcean acidification), and biological productivity, and affect weather patterns far to the south.

Yet, we explained there is also reasonable basis for concern that a warming world may at least temporarily increase tornado damage including the fact that oceans are now warmer, and regional ocean circulation cycles such as La Nina / El Nino patterns in the Pacific which affect upper atmospheric conditions appear to becoming more chaotic under the influence of climate change.

The issue is that differences in mineral content, salinity, density, and temperature all affect how the ocean reacts to, and drives, changes in weather patterns, climate variations over years or decades, ocean current circulation, etc..

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

That is because there are factors, like air and ocean circulation patterns, that affect both the rate and the intensity of the global warming.

Sea ice can strongly affect global systems, influencing ocean circulation patterns, levels of reflected radiation (10, 11), and rates of climate change (12).

The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.

Researchers also knew that global circulation patterns in the oceans — patterns caused mostly by variations in water temperature and saltiness — affect global climate.

A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable «Achilles heel» in the North Atlantic and changing mile - deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate.