Sentences with phrase «area of high pressure»

Wind is the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of lower pressure.

The colors represent the pressure profile of the head; red indicates areas of high pressure.

The formation of large areas of high pressure in the lower atmosphere both lowers ozone levels, by squeezing the ozone layer above, and may provide the very cold conditions in which ozone destruction is greatest.

«One study (Bates and Meehl 1986) reports a reduction in blocking (defined as areas of high pressure anomaly which persist for more than seven days) in the southern hemisphere, and changes in the positions but not the intensity of blocking in the Northern Hemisphere though no information was provided on the statistical significance of the results.

«The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey is heavily influenced by blocking area of high pressure preventing the system from moving inland, concentrating the rainfall nearer the coast.

Using atmospheric data from the last 35 years, study author Daniel Horton, a Stanford University postdoc, and his colleagues found that persistent areas of high pressure in certain places were linked with extreme heat waves in Europe, western Asia and eastern North America.

The bright red area over Alaska corresponds to an unusually strong area of High Pressure bringing warmer - than - average temperatures.

In short, the clockwise flow around giant areas of high pressure over Alaska and west of Greenland have forced the atmosphere's steering currents to shove the vortex into the northern U.S.

The scientists also highlighted a correlation between the jet stream's altered path over the past decade — so - called jet stream «waviness» — and an increase during summer months in a phenomenon called Greenland high - pressure blocking, which represents areas of high pressure that remain nearly stationary over the Greenland region and distort the usual progression of storms across the North Atlantic.

24 Weather Maps — High Pressure Areas of high pressure indicate cold air sinking.

The hot summer of 1976 had the main area of high pressure over Southern Europe bringing a steady flow of hot equatorial air northwards.

In the Atlantic, storms often form in the Caribbean or the central Atlantic and move west, around the periphery of a broad area of High pressure that typically sets up shop each summer near Bermuda — known as the «Bermuda High.»

Charles Theis, a poet and an engineer who once studied Kentucky's geology by walking across the state, theorized that water moved in the Earth according to the same properties by which heat moved in a solid object — that is, it seeps from areas of high pressure to low pressure.

While the skyrocketing temperatures are a marker of a particularly strong area of high pressure, such record - breaking temperatures are more likely to happen in a warming world.

These same people, on the other hand, would dismiss the 2003 heatwave across western Europe (with well - publicised increases in the numbers of elderly people dying in France) as extreme weather caused by a blocked area of high pressure.

The culprit behind much of the extreme heat in each case has been large, strong, and persistent areas of high pressure, which have set up shop over these high latitude locations, keeping cooler weather and precipitation at bay.

Sunshine and warm temperatures are likely on Friday as an area of high pressure continues to be in control.

Earlier, Corbyn set out his view that people's fears about immigration could be allayed by greater funding for public services in areas of high pressure, rather than controlling the numbers of new entries.

Currently caught between two areas of high pressure and stalled over the Texas Gulf Coast, Harvey is expected to leave some areas in with 50 inches of rain by the time it moves north to Louisiana and Mississippi later this week.

39 Question 7 «Wind can occur when air moves from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.»

19 Wind When there is a difference in pressure between two air masses, air moves from the area of higher pressure to the area of lower pressure, creating wind.

When there is a difference in pressure between two air masses, air moves from the area of higher pressure to the area of lower pressure, creating wind.

For more than a year now, a giant blob of unusually mild waters has set up shop in the northeast Pacific and Gulf of Alaska, with an area of high pressure — or a «high pressure ridge» — forming above it.

[15] During the summer, this area of high pressure is pushed out closer to its Siberian and Canadian sides.

also known as an anticyclone - an area of high pressure with a system of winds rotating outwards.

As the winds travel from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure, a persistent onshore flow develops over large landmasses in the lower troposphere.

The Walker circulation usually brings areas of high pressure to the western Indian Ocean but, in years when El Niño occurs, this pattern gets shifted eastward, bringing high pressure over India and suppressing the monsoon, especially in spring when the monsoon begins to develop.

However, in areas of high pressure, with the air subsides, water vapour does not rise and no rain or clouds will form.

Bent the other way, the jetstream forms an area of high pressure called a ridge.

This track, thanks in part to the position of the area of high pressure, will ensure a tight snowfall gradient on the northern side of the storm, with New York City possibly picking up 6 to 12 inches and Boston seeing little to no snow at all.

The Arctic has had a mild winter so far, in part because of an area of high pressure in the North Pacific Ocean that has blocked the flow of weather systems like a stop sign at an intersection, forcing the jet stream northward over western Canada, and then back down to the southeast across the U.S..

Charts showing isobars are useful because they identify features such as anticyclones (areas of high pressure), depressions (areas of low pressure), troughs and ridges which are associated with particular kinds of weather.

Some poor decisions in child protection will always be present, they are unavoidable in an area of high pressures where child protection staff are over stretched, where children and families are vulnerable, where resources are inadequate and where the stakes, that is the lives of children, are high.