Sentences with phrase «as jet stream»

Just as a jet stream in the atmosphere separates zones of higher and lower air pressure, the fast - moving Gulf Stream separates areas of differing MSL as it runs up the Atlantic coast.

Over very long time periods (hundreds of millions of years), a tectonic uplift can significantly alter their major elements, such as the jet stream, and plate tectonics may shift ocean currents.

The second feature is a very strong river of air, known as the jet stream, that flows from west to east in the middle latitudes of each hemisphere.

E. 7.3 Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents influence local weather in measureable terms such as temperature, air pressure, wind direction and speed, and humidity and precipitation.

In general, it is thought that heating at the equator drives the atmospheric circulation.In my view its ozone heating at the poles that is important in the acceleration of the zonal wind that begins as the jet stream.

Do these very small changes alter the temperature of the earth?Some claim that the Sun alters wind patterns such as the jet stream if it does then it is obvious that it will have some correlation with the length of day.How do you fit solar cycles so precisely to the length of day?

Reading the numerous references there is clear evidence of «blocking patterns,» perhaps as the jet stream shifts, or a high pressure takes up residence, feeding in winds from a certain direction which generally shape British weather.»

This is due in part to prevailing weather patterns, such as the jet stream, as well as recurring atmospheric processes, including El Niño and La Niña.

But passengers won't just have to keep their seat belts locked, they may have to stay locked in for longer, as jet stream wind patterns change.

This is a three - dimensional system, and the simple answer is that temperature differentials north - south and up - down determine the nature of the boundary we think of as the jet stream.

near the equatorial regions, as the jet stream model predicts.

The disappearing act could affect far - away weather patterns, as changes at the sea surface affect air currents that steer powerful weather - makers such as the jet stream.

As the jet stream slows down, it becomes wavier.

A second paper describes how these belts and zones manifest themselves as jet streams deep in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Polar jet stream Subtropical jet stream These fast winds are known as jet streams and they continuously circle the Earth.

The previous suggested reason was that climate change was shifting storms and the powerful air currents known as the jet streams — including the one that traverses the United States — toward the poles, which in turn were driving the movement of the clouds.

Not exact matches

The couple — who has been married since 2008 and have three children — earn their wealth primarily from music producing credits, album sales, live performances, and worldwide tours, as well as stakes in streaming service Tidal, a private jet company, and a luxury champagne brand.

As we have seen this year, companies are being awakened to the fact that the digital and social media storm has some jet stream wind behind it and is all the rage at the moment.

There is even the fantastic genre,» with «a wild boar, a hermit, several tombs, and a boat which detached itself alone from the shore, to lead you into a boudoir, where jets of water streamed over you as you lay on the sofa.»

Like all hurricanes, this one tended to dissipate as it went north for reasons having nothing to do with religion or politics and everything to do with temperature gradients and jet stream wind shear.

«It's possible the kinds of changes we are seeing with increased jet stream sinuosity might continue into the future as a result of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, although it's not a perfect comparison,» said Gabriel Bowen, a geochemist at the University of Utah and an author on the study.

As to why these shifts in the jet stream happen, Anderson said that is still an open question.

Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.

First, as pointed out by Masters, there was a big loop in the jet stream over the continent, funnelling warm air northwards from the Gulf of Mexico.

Cassini discovered a strange, long - lived hexagonal jet stream sprawled across Saturn's north pole, and watched as the world and its rings slowly tilted through the seasons in their glacial motion around the sun.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

As the monsoons were headed for Pakistan's northwest, from July 25 to Aug. 5 a portion of the jet stream was forced farther south than usual for this time of year by a system of blocking air that mysteriously developed over western China.

«If winters are not as cold, or if spring times are warmer, the location of the jet stream is most likely displaced north of where it has been in the past,» he said.

It gets swept westward by the jet stream where it mixes with a variety of other airborne particles such as sea spray and smoke.

Scientists have discovered the cause of the recent run of miserable wet summers as they begin to unravel the mysteries of the Atlantic jet stream.

From June through July 2015, that wavy jet stream had spun off an eddy, known as a «cut - off high.»

The reduced temperature difference between the Arctic and lower latitudes diminishes the jet stream as well.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

Weak jet streams have prolonged heat waves in Russia as well as parked downpours over Europe.

Fixed above Saturn's north pole is something as beguiling as Jupiter's Great Red Spot: a hexagonal storm kept in place by a peculiar jet stream.

The jet stream can then behave as if there is a waveguide — uncrossable barriers in the north and south — and a wave with large peaks and valleys can occur.

The researchers looked at real - world observations and confirmed that this temperature pattern does correspond with the double - peaked jet stream and waveguide patter associated with persistent extreme weather events in the late spring and summer such as droughts, floods and heat waves.

Disturbances then can not easily dissipate, and very large amplitude swings in the jet stream north and south can remain in place as it rounds the globe.»

Air travel is likely to get a lot bumpier as carbon dioxide levels rise and affect the jet streams

The jet stream races from west to east at speeds up to 275 miles an hour, undulating north and south as it goes.

This still image from an infrared movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the churning of the curious six - sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as «the hexagon.»

That heat is believed to be behind jet stream formation, as well as that of storms.

«We can explain it as an accelerating band of molten iron circling the North Pole, like the jet stream in the atmosphere,» said Dr Livermore, from the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

Why It Matters: As the grandest feature of atmospheric circulation over much of North America, the jet stream plays a key role in orchestrating weather systems that usher in the seasons.

Methods: To understand the dynamics of the jet stream, the PNNL team started with a simple configuration of the Earth as an aquaplanet covered only by ocean, using model versions that are spatially less - detailed and more - detailed.

As the Arctic warms like crazy, heat flow there slows, thus jet streams slow and are wavier; the same slowing and waviness increase happens with ocean currents.

Prevalent storm tracks along the northern branches of the jet stream typically cut to our west and / or redevelop as coastal storms to our north, and we are left either warm and rainy, or dry.

Meteorologists refer to the peaks in the jet stream as «ridges,» and the dips as «troughs.»