Sentences with phrase «air over that region»

At the same time, meteorologists noted several layers of smoke - filled air over the region that could be tracked back to fires set to clear agricultural lands for spring planting in eastern Mexico and Central America.

There's been a lot of warm air over that region — Alaska has had a lot of record temperatures and a lot of rain.

Not exact matches

Bourses in Europe closed mixed Friday after the U.S. fired cruise missiles against an air base in Syria, raising concerns over an escalating conflict in the region.

China reiterated its sovereignty over the South China Sea area in response to Western reports of China's anti-ship cruise missiles and surface - to - air missile systems in the Nansha Islands, with an analyst saying that the US» appearances in the region are the reason for China's defensive constructions.

Ensuring this is the fact that Alphabet has made great strides with Project Loon, with machine learning able to keep the balloons up in the air for over three months and further advances in artificial intelligence requiring less balloons to provide service to particular regions.

Chicago Open Air will feature performances by over 40 bands, an outdoor Gourmet Man Food selection incorporating local and regional cuisine, a craft beer village highlighting top brews from the region, and other entertainment and fan experiences.

If the region receives $ 500 million over five years under the initiative, $ 250 million, or half the state aid, would be invested to develop, among other things, an air traffic management system for unmanned aerial vehicles so they can be safely integrated into the nation's commercial airspace, members of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council said.

Meanwhile, average air temperatures in the region rose 1.5 °C over the past 5 decades, nearly twice the global average.

The NAO indicates the position of the jet stream — which is a giant current of air that broadly flows eastwards over mid-latitude regions around the globe — through a diagram which shows «negative» and «positive» spikes, similar to how a heart monitor looks.

It's known that when ice sheets start to melt, cooling the air in that region, the winds over the Southern Ocean strengthen, Toggweiler says.

«We found that elevated concentrations of these same chemicals were present at altitudes of 12 km over tropical regions, many thousands of kilometres away from their likely source, and in a region where air is known to be transferred into the stratosphere,» says Oram.

In this region alone, her institute spent $ 23 million over the past few years, mostly awarded to scientists investigating the connection between air pollution and an array of health effects.

The European flooding of the past few weeks was caused by a low - pressure system over eastern Europe drawing warm, moist air from the Mediterranean region.

«For example, in the Sierra and Lake Tahoe you may see a yearly pattern of humid air masses moving over the region, so plans should be made with these regional patterns in mind.

To check their results, the team collected air samples on six light aircraft flights over the San Joaquin Valley between Fresno and Visalia, a heavily farmed region within the Central Valley.

The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

The national average peak is June 12, but the peak in particular regions can be anywhere from early May to early July, when warm, moist air from over the Gulf of Mexico can venture northward and clash with other air masses, creating an unstable atmospheric environment.

Every April, it flies up to six Schweizer 300 piston - engine helicopters over the regions's strawberry fields to disperse low - lying cold night air that might give the young plants frost damage.

The warm ocean water evaporates, adds moisture to the air and falls as precipitation over nearby regions.

It's nothing a person would notice — a reduction barely more than one - tenth of one mile per hour — but on a large scale over an entire region, such a seemingly minor change has a profound effect on climate and air quality.

This region is where air heading east toward the Great Red Spot flows around it to the north, where it encounters a stream of air flowing over it from the east,» adds Orton.

Climatologists predict air temperatures in the region will rise 2 °C over the next century.

Using aircraft to measure air pollution over the Alberta tar sands region, the researchers found that tar sands production emitted between 55 and 101 metric tonnes of secondary organic aerosols per day.

Scientists have already linked aerosol emissions to increases in lightning over areas of the Amazon prone to forest fires (pdf) as well as regions of China with thick air pollution.

One such valley, Margaritifer Sinus, would have received less rain than some other areas due to the Tharsis bulge causing drier air to flow over that region, yet shows evidence of large amounts of water having flowed there.

Importantly, this observation demonstrates that there are other preferential air mass sources that supply wind flow when KD occurrence is low in Japan, and reinforces our conclusion that there is a KD source region over northeastern China.

While western states baked in abnormally warm winter and spring conditions fueled by a stubborn ridge of high pressure over the region, bouts of Arctic air kept the eastern half of the country in a distinct chill.

An example is the deadly Russian heatwave of 2010, which was the result of such a «stuck» high - pressure system that kept a large mass of hot, dry air parked over the region for weeks.

Buildings across both regions were built for the historical climate, which didn't require air conditioning, yet Colorado has seen average temperatures rise 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years.

Scorching summertime heat waves in Europe, Asia and North America, as well as extreme cold snaps in central Asia, have become more likely because of changes in the way air is flowing over those regions, a new study detailed in the journal Nature suggests.

This winter, that warmth reached astounding levels, with air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean ranging from 4 °F to 11 °F (2 °C to 6 °C) above average in nearly every region.

Much of that heat came early in the month, when a strong high - pressure system parked over the region brought in warm air from the southwest, according to Météo - France.

As it can be seen some of the air is flowing over the leading car's downwash region and some of the flow is coming from the diffuser carrying less energy and affecting the front wing performance.

In the owner's home region, the embedded SIM card allows these updates to take place automatically over the air via the mobile phone network.

We just got back from a hot air balloon ride over the fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, which was intensely beautiful and serene.

The leading airline in Central and South America and the Caribbean in terms of seats, Air France - KLM serves twenty - seven destinations in the region, and offers over 200 flights a week from Paris - Charles de Gaulle and its award - winning Amsterdam - Schiphol airport.

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Over the next 20 years, the region will need 12,820 new aircraft to accommodate a tremendous growth in air traffic, according to a statement by Boeing at the Singapore Airshow in February.

Is it just folklore that hurricanes (I think these are TC's) occur due to warm ocean water that causes air to rise over a region, drawing in air that then develops into circular winds?

Thus, small changes of global average air temperature are associated with very large changes in some regions, particularly over land, at mid - to high latitudes, in mountain regions.

A statistical forecast using a regression based approach with fall surface air temperature anomalies over the region as the main predictor was submitted by Tivy (Figure 4) for ice concentration anomalies in September.

This year, warm air has tended to flow northward over Spain, the UK, and along a region between Iceland and Scandinavia.

The «warming hole» is a region over the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland, where long - term temperature maps suggest air temperatures have been cooling slightly over the last century, rather than warming like most of the rest of the world.

As LST closely tracks air temperatures over the instrumental period, we can also infer that air temperatures in this region of East Africa varied in concert with the global average and thus were controlled primarily by the major forcings influencing temperatures over this timescale, both natural (solar radiation, volcanism) and anthropogenic (greenhouse - gas emissions; refs 19, 20).

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

The region is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the planet: Since 1950, air over the peninsula has warmed nearly 6 °C in winter.

The cold, strong storm from the Gulf of Alaska combined with warmer, moister, subtropical air over L.A., which caused hail around the region and heavy, intense rain on the south L.A. County coast.

The warmest weather occurred on the 8th and 9th, as moist tropical air was advected northward over the region ahead of an approaching cold front.

An analysis of data pertaining to the period 1861 — 1986 reveals that (1) a 1 °C rise in the mean annual air temperature of the British Isles has historically been associated with a 35 % drop in the percentage of days that the United Kingdom has experienced cyclonic flow, and (2) a 2 °C increase in the mean annual air temperature over the sea to the north has typically been matched by a 60 % drop in the percentage of days that the isles have experienced cyclonic flow originating from that source region.