Sentences with phrase «atmospheric teleconnections»
"Atmospheric teleconnections" refer to the way weather patterns in one part of the world can affect weather in another part of the world. It's like a long-distance relationship between weather systems. Changes in temperature, pressure, or wind patterns in one place can have ripple effects and impact weather conditions in different regions far away. Full definition
This article evaluates the ability of state - of - the - art climate models to reproduce the low - frequency variability of the mid-tropospheric winter flow of the Northern Hemisphere in terms of atmospheric teleconnection patterns.
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States that several interlinked processes have been suggested as contributing to the warming, including stratospheric ozone depletion, local sea - ice loss, an increase in westerly winds, and changes in the strength and location of low — high - latitude atmospheric teleconnections
Explanations for the recent «pause» in SST warming include La Niña - like cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, strengthening of the Pacific trade winds, and tropical latent heat anomalies together with extratropical atmospheric teleconnections.
In the tropics, these Atlantic / Pacific differences modulate the global Walker circulation on decadal timescales and then affect the low - frequency variability of the high - pressure ridge off the California coast through atmospheric teleconnections.
There has been much discussion recently regarding the potentially competing influences of long - distance atmospheric teleconnections from El Niño in the tropical Pacific and effects of the closer - to - home northeastern Pacific «Blob» of warm water off the Washington and Oregon coastlines.
Reductions in regional rainfall might lead to atmospheric teleconnections affecting the climate of remote regions (Werth and Avissar, 2002).
Given these numerous potential climate impacts of the AMV at decadal timescales, it is crucial toimprove the knowledge of atmospheric teleconnections and their mechanisms associated with the AMV.
However, atmospheric teleconnections — long - distance links between climate phenomena, often spanning thousands of kilometers — are an exceedingly tangled web.
Data show that changes in one region of the atmosphere also affect another region in what is called as «atmospheric teleconnections».
Oliver Frauenfeld Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Specialties: Climate change, surface - atmosphere interactions, high - latitude climate, land cover / land use change, atmospheric teleconnections, quantitative methods