Sentences with phrase «altitude air currents»

Gottschalck said this leads to more rainfall over Indonesia while weakening jet streams — fast - moving, high - altitude air currents — and pushing them further north.

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With help from Hiroshi Tanimoto, PhD, and colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Science in Tsukuba, Japan, the plane sampled at altitudes between two and three kilometers above Japan to avoid surface contaminants, and on days during the KD season when air currents originated only from northeastern China.

Key features of the lesson are: The lesson about how altitude, latitude, ocean currents, air masses and air pressure cells affect the climates of different places.

George Tselioudis, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in New York City, was interested in which air currents were shifting clouds at high altitude — between about three and a half and six miles high — toward the poles.

And that expansion causes the tropical air currents to blow into the high - altitude clouds, pushing them toward the poles, he said.

China Post: Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilizes air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.

The precise balance of these opposing effects depends on time of day, time of year, altitude, size of the water droplets and / or ice particles, latitude, current air temperature, and size and shape.

Packed with sensors like air pressure, magnetic compass, and altitude measurement tool, it has a dedicated button that brings up your current direction, sunrise and sunset times, as well as tide graphs for surfers on the go.