Sentences with phrase «atmospheric patterns due»

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But I believe there is little doubt that the record - breaking scale and potential destructiveness of Sandy is due in large part to the amplifying effects of warmer ocean temperatures, higher atmospheric moisture content, and unusual Arctic weather patterns.

Its findings suggest that changing storm patterns and the ensuing droughts are due to a southern shift in the Hadley cell, the large - scale pattern of atmospheric circulation that transports heat from the tropics to the subtropics.

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.

External processes such as the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and variability due to volcanic eruptions are also important for driving variability in atmospheric circulation patterns.

«Analysis of observations indicate that this heat wave was mainly due to internal atmospheric dynamical processes that produced and maintained a strong and long - lived blocking event, and that similar atmospheric patterns have occurred with prior heat waves in this region.

Although they may be thousands of miles apart, air conditions in the West Pacific directly influence those of North America due to atmospheric circulation patterns.

Abrupt climate change due to variations in the atmospheric circulation and its attendant patterns of climate variability can arise through two principal mechanisms: (1) through abrupt changes in the time - dependent behavior of the circulation; or (2) through slowly evolving changes in the circulation that project onto large horizontal gradients in surface weather.

The observed patterns of surface warming, temperature changes through the atmosphere, increases in ocean heat content, increases in atmospheric moisture, sea level rise, and increased melting of land and sea ice also match the patterns scientists expect to see due to rising levels of CO2 and other human - induced changes (see Question 5).

More heat in the Earth's system due to global warming is felt everywhere, and that includes the massive - scale patterns of atmospheric circulation that give us our weather.

The Potsdam Institute's research lists sixteen July and August periods since 1980 that have had extreme atmospheric flow patterns due to quasiresonance.

While on first thought this might seem undesirable because we are looking for a global number, it might make sense to separate them due to the large difference in land / ocean ratio and the fact that atmospheric circulation patterns isolate them WRT shorter term changes.

There is a discernible repeating pattern in the weather data, due to the Lunar declinational atmospheric tides that, also shows recognizable patterns of interference, that leaves the Earth homopolar effects mechanism, modulated electromagnetically from the effects of Earth passing through the concentrated magnetic field flux, extending from the sun out to that outer planet, that defines the pattern of magnetic field coupling of the solar wind into and through the magnetically permeable content of each planet.

On a related note, there has been a considerable amount of recent interest focused upon a possible increase in the frequency and / or intensity of high - amplitude atmospheric wave patterns (and associated extreme weather events) due to enhanced warming of the Arctic over the past 2 - 3 decades.

The heat wave was due primarily to a natural phenomenon called an atmospheric «blocking pattern», in which a strong high pressure system developed and remained stationary over western Russian, keeping summer storms and cool air from sweeping through the region and leading to the extreme hot and dry conditions.