Sentences with phrase «air masses south»

But the idea that a lack of sea ice sends swirling air masses south and smacks us with horrid, frigid winters has stirred controversy in climate science.

The air mass south of this boundary has been notably mild and humid, flowing northward after spending time atop sea - surface temperatures that are at record - warm levels for late February.

Not exact matches

The Holy Father's stay in South Korea has seen him give an open air mass to 50,000 Catholics, attend a youth festival and beatify 123 Korean's who died because of their faith.

Pope Francis has celebrated an open air mass with more than 50,000 Catholics at a football stadium in South Korea on the second day of his trip to the country.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

But when temperatures in the Arctic are higher, the cyclones weaken, allowing masses of cold air to move south.

But the new study posits that there are actually four distinct air masses, two north of the equator and two south.

... The finding indicates that the primary driver of climate like the south - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO evsouth - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO evSouth Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO events.

This allows the lower pressure and very cold arctic air mass to expand further south, chilling everything well down to Scotland.

This air mass affects Britain when pressure is high over northern or eastern Europe with surface winds between east and south drawing hot air from North Africa (see Figure 5).

The true cause of the extreme rains lies in the outflow of relatively cold air from the Indian subcontinent meeting with a warmer air mass to south, and Sri Lanka in the battle zone for several days.

It was caused by a weather front with a warm tropical air mass (it is currently high summer in South America) moving southward and meeting a somewhat cooler air mass.

It now appears clear that when the sun is active the jets are more zonal (east to west) with short lines of air mass mixing and less clouds whilst when the sun is less active the jets are more meridional (waving north and south) with longer lines of air mass mixing and more clouds.

Hot air masses from South Asia and Africa now sit over Siberia and the Russian Arctic (Pokrovsky) and in the first part of July low pressure has become more dominant in the central Arctic Ocean, which could set up northward drift along with warm air transport in the East Siberian and Laptev Seas (Maslanik).

North westerly winds then brought the hot air mass southeast at the start of this week, which is when we saw the impacts on South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales» Dr Trewin said.

It is just that larger masses of Arctic air mass are allowed to move South to meet the Tropical moisture in the mid-latitudes where it is now cold enough to snow, and the solid dry cold Arctic air masses prevent normal snowfall amounts in Northern Canada, Europe, and Russia.

Rather than flow around the arctic in a circular manner, the movement of the cold air becomes wavier, bringing the mass further and further south (see the pictures above).

If the jet stream dips south, for example, it takes the colder air masses with it.

When meridonal, the jet streams wander in loops further north and south, resulting in longer lines of air mass mixing at climate zone boundaries, which creates more clouds.

The sulphate content of air masses that travelled over industrial emission sources before reaching South African grassland was many times that of air that had travelled over areas with no industrial emissions.

Those Arctic air masses consistently blow south over North America during winter.

In contrast, with Gondwana centred over the South Pole, climate in the Southern Hemisphere must have been dominated by the interaction of cellular air masses over land and water.

This configuration will assist with robbing what cold air there is in the Arctic, and will push this air south in an almost perfect outline that will cover the land mass of the lower 48 states.