Sentences with phrase «brings warm ocean temperatures»

A weakening in the trade winds across the equatorial Pacific brings warm ocean temperatures to the eastern Pacific, off the coast of South America.

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The exceptional strengthening of a high - pressure area in Siberia, which brought freezing temperatures to Finland in late February and early March, may be partly the result of atmospheric warming over the Arctic Ocean.

The El Nino weather pattern is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific and usually brings hot, dry, and often drought conditions to Australia.

The Gulf Stream, an ocean current that brings warm water from the equator toward the North Atlantic, has been credited with this observed variation in temperature for over a century.

Comparing disease statistics with climate data, he found that the outbreaks roughly coincided with El Niño, the warm Pacific Ocean current that brings higher temperatures and rainfall to this part of Peru.

These record temperatures have been assisted by a very strong El Niño event, which brought warm water to the ocean surface, temporarily warming global surface temperatures.

Global surface temperatures in the last few years have received a bump in recent years because of a large El Niñ0 event, which brought warm water up from the depths of the Pacific ocean and released the energy into the atmosphere.

Marine West Coast: Warm ocean currents bring mild temperatures and constant rainfall (Seattle, WA).

Stroeve and her colleagues are also starting to see evidence of Arctic amplification — the phenomenon by which the lower amount of ice in the summer leads the ocean to absorb more heat, which is then released in the autumn as air temperatures drop, bringing further warming.

As the Arctic melts, oceans rise and temperatures warm, bringing more moisture into the atmosphere, it's the intensity of storms that becomes a concern, not only their frequency.

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.