Sentences with phrase «air circulation patterns»

That warm water transfers heat to the atmosphere overhead, which shifts around the normal air circulation patterns.

Alternatively, the loss of ice may have changed air circulation patterns above the Arctic in ways that have similarly «locked in» the change.

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.

Though promising, the model needs more data regarding air circulation patterns and vegetation types to support it, Sheil notes.

The topography of the rolling hills and unique air circulation patterns help protect crops from damaging frost, while the rich gravelly loam is ideal for fruit trees.

These in turn can affect typical air circulation patterns like the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

The researchers suspect warmer temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean amplify warming at high elevations in the Arctic by changing air circulation patterns.

Furthermore, it changes the air circulation patterns throughout the Amazon area during the dry season.

They track visible clouds and air circulation patterns, while radar measures rain, wind speeds and precipitation.

The researchers suspect warmer temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean amplify warming at high elevations in the Arctic by changing air circulation patterns.

So, again, any increase in greenhouse gases will result not in a change in air temperature but an imperceptible shift in the air circulation patterns.

We would not expect to see any effect on weather or climate other than that the air circulation patterns would be in very slightly differing (but still ever changing) positions than if we had made no difference at all.