Sentences with phrase «atmospheric cycle»

And, say scientists from Australia's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, one of these is a slow - moving oceanic and atmospheric cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), which blows hot and cold and then hot again, every decade or so.

«Our instrument has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of the atmospheric cycling of mercury and increase understanding of the global impact of mercury on human health.»

The Southern Oscillation is an atmospheric cycle of fluctuating high and low pressure cells.

As the air rises and moves poleward, it dries, cools, sinks, and returns back to the surface completing this atmospheric cycle both north and south of the equator.

The new analysis suggests that a little more than a century of warming in the Pacific Northwest, and in a maritime region stretching out to Hawaii and Alaska, has been the happenstance result of natural variation; a consequence of the waxing and waning of powerful oceanic and atmospheric cycles.

While some scientists believe this trend is just part of natural ocean and atmospheric cycles, others argue that rising sea surface temperatures, as a side effect of global warming, is the primary culprit.