Sentences with phrase «altered storm patterns»

«Computer models by Hansen and others suggest that by the middle of the next century earth's average temperature may rise 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly altering storm patterns, making crops fail, and raising sea levels to flood low - lying coastal areas.»

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The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

Injecting particles into the atmosphere would deflect some of the sun's incoming radiation, but a new study predicts it would also likely alter tropical storm patterns in the Atlantic and increase the risk of drought in Africa.

She used one of the articles posted on Newsela «Arctic heat release may be altering paths of hurricanes, other storms» as student reading on weather patterns.

Where the trip goes is where the snow blows — Our partnership with dozens of accommodators along the Powder Highway route, allows complete flexibility of our travel plans and last minute capacity to alter the route with the changing weather patterns and storm tracks.

The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the continent could be altering the jet stream [3]-- and thus weather patterns — over North America, Europe and Russia, increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events and driving winter storms south.

Climate change also alters characteristics of the atmosphere that affect weather patterns and storms.

President Obama needs to be reminded that acts of Congress, the UN or the EPA can not alter storms or weather patterns.

A change in ocean heat content can also alter patterns of ocean circulation, which can have far - reaching effects on global climate conditions, including changes to the outcome and pattern of meteorological events such as tropical storms, and also temperatures in the northern Atlantic region, which are strongly influenced by currents that may be substantially reduced with CO2 increase in the atmosphere.

Changing climatic variables relevant to the function and distribution of plants include increasing CO2 concentrations, increasing global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and changes in the pattern of «extreme» weather events such as cyclones, fires or storms.

The changed atmospheric heating alters the jet streams and storm tracks and influences weather patterns for the duration of the event (Trenberth et al. 1998).