Sentences with phrase «brought warmer sea»

At the same time, the El Niño event brought warmer sea - surface temperatures, which have been shown to correlate with outbreaks of mosquito - transmitted diseases.

Not exact matches

The tahini infuses this warm hot cocoa with a silky smooth richness, and I prefer to also add a pinch of sea salt to bring out the rich chocolate flavor.

But climate change has brought milder winters, warmer sea temperatures and bigger storms, which create a vicious cycle that promises less sea ice and more wind and open water to generate ice - crushing waves.

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

The amount of warming that's already built in the system would bring Earth's temperature close to what it was when the sea level was 13 to 20 feet higher.

The penguins once numbered around 2,000 individuals, but in the early 1980s a strong El Niño — a time when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm — brought their numbers down to less than 500 birds.

Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).

«This research indicates that although sea - ice loss does intensify the negative NAO, bringing more days of cold easterly winds, it also causes those same winds to be warmer than they used to be.

If we thus want to know whether Harvey is a «harbinger» for the future of Houston, the attribution question addressing the overall likelihood of a hurricane like Harvey to occur, which includes many variables other than temperature and sea level rise that interact, needs to be answered by carefully estimating the likelihood of such hurricanes developing in a warming world as well as how much rain they bring.

Ananda Khalsa Jewelry Artisan «I am endlessly inspired by the colors of the sea and warm sun brought together.

Just one week after scientists warned of unprecedented change brought on by warming in the Arctic, President Obama announced permanent protection for 115 million acres of federal waters in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Even during the region's warmest months, sea surface temperatures can range from 80 down to below 70 degrees, and winter may bring chilly waters in the mid 60s, and occasionally as low as 58 degrees.

Against the eastern coast, the Caribbean Sea brings warm water and tropical breezes.

Bring family and friends for a warm - weather getaway or book the property for an intimate wedding on front of the Caribbean Sea.

Chic, warm and stylish, sea - inspired décor brings the serenity of the outside in with natural wood finishes and subtle shades of sea glass.

The series of large - scale woodcut prints will be exhibited locally and internationally, to bring attention to the impact rising sea levels due to global warming are having in Hawaii.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

The induced overturning of the water column will bring still more warmer water back down to the sea floor, adding another energy source.

«in Western Hudson Bay, the decline in population size, condition, and survival of young as a consequence of earlier breakup of the sea ice brought about by climate warming have all been well documented (Stirling et al., 1999; Gagnon and Gough, 2005; Regehr et al., 2005; I. Stirling and N.J. Lunn, unpub.»

Hurricanes stirr up the sea (mixing or Ekman pumping), and if there is a thin warm surface layer, colder water underneath will be brought up, and hence give rise to lower surface temperatures (SST).

The currents flowing across the sill bring warm Atlantic water into the polar sea, and although the net gain each year is tiny, over thousands of years it is enough to make the Arctic Ocean very much warmer.

If global warming (brought about in part by air travel) raises the sea level enough to put Los Angeles, New York, and Miami under water, just think: all of our journeys within the US borders will be much shorter.

The basic story of human caused global warming and its coming impacts is still the same: humans are causing it and the future will bring higher sea levels and warmer temperatures, the only questions are: how much and how fast?

So, the positive feedback between melt and velocities implies that more melt leads to higher velocities, which bring in more ice from cold regions to warm regions which increases the melt and hence the velocity etc, with as a final result a rapid loss of ice and hence an enhanced increased sea level.

THE WARMING OF THE COLD AIR OVER THE BARENTS - SEA APPEARS to bring cold winter winds to Europe.

Experts now predicted that global warming could bring not only rising sea levels but unprecedented droughts, storm floods, and other disasters.

For example, clouds can cool the sea by blocking the warming rays of the sun or reduce surface salinity by bringing rain.

This brings us to another oft - mentioned impact of global warming: sea level rise.

The team writes in Nature journal that the canyon is bringing more warm sea water to the ice sheet, hastening melt.

Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming.

-LRB-- NAO) This sea ice then melts in the Sub Polar Atlantic, releasing fresh water into the sub - polar Atlantic waters, which in turn impedes the formation of NADW, which slows down the thermohaline circulation causing warm air not to be brought up from the lower latitudes as far north as previous while in lessening amounts.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

For the sea of humanity that is increasingly feeing the changing conditions resulting from a warmer climate brought on by anthropogenic interference, it is clear what must be done — reduce emissions dramatically in the developed countries.

The environmental changes brought on by ocean acidification could pose a significant threat to Arctic ecosystems that are already facing challenges from changes in sea ice distribution, warming and increased freshwater discharge.

Evidence suggests that the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was driven in part by warm air (air warmed by the dramatic seasonal loss of Arctic sea ice) 9 as well as by changes in snow cover over Eurasia driven by climate change.10 This event is part of an emerging trend in which a warming climate may paradoxically bring colder, snowier winters to northern Europe and the eastern United States.11

Furthermore, researchers show the loss of sea ice reconnects the oceans with the winds causing a stirring effect that brings warmer water to the surface.

Global warming, blamed mainly on human burning of fossil fuels that produce heat - trapping carbon dioxide, is projected to bring more floods, droughts and to raise world sea levels.

But climate science is also aware of the certainty of some of the consequences that the continued increase in global warming will bring with respect to the global environment, ecology, and rising sea level.

Global warming of 2 ℃, the higher of the two Paris targets, would see current record - breaking temperatures become the norm in the future, potentially bringing heatwaves to both land and sea.

They agree global warming will bring higher sea levels and an increase in the frequency and severity of damaging storms (how much and how soon they don't know yet).

Rather than the AD pattern being relevant and impacting the Beaufort Sea, a key factor for sea ice loss in the last month is the strong continuing positive North Atlantic Oscillation pattern bringing warm temperatures to the North of Eurasia (Figure Sea, a key factor for sea ice loss in the last month is the strong continuing positive North Atlantic Oscillation pattern bringing warm temperatures to the North of Eurasia (Figure sea ice loss in the last month is the strong continuing positive North Atlantic Oscillation pattern bringing warm temperatures to the North of Eurasia (Figure 4).

Winds, for example, play a larger role in determining Antarctic sea ice extent, not only by bringing in warm air to melt ice but, more importantly, by jostling the ice loose, exposing more of the unfrozen ocean.

This has given rise to a pattern of winds bringing in warm air from the south over the coastal seas of eastern Siberia, fostering strong melt and tending to push ice from the coast into the central Arctic Ocean.

A pattern of high pressure set up over the Chukchi Sea, bringing warm southerly air into the region and pushing ice away from shore.»

The suit was brought by landowners in Mississippi, who claim that oil and coal companies emitted greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming that, in turn, caused a rise in sea levels, adding to Hurricane Katrina's ferocity.

That's brought a more complete understanding of how warmer air temperatures — projected to surpass those regularly experienced on Earth at any point during at least the last few million years — are affecting the sea level.

Prior research has suggested that a feeble AMOC brings more dryness to the Sahel, a region of Africa bordering the Sahara Desert; spurs sea - level rise in U.S. coastal cities; encourages patterns of increasingly cold winters in Europe and the northeastern U.S.; and prompts warmer summers across Europe.

The air can be warmer than the sea surface in some cases due to a combination of evaporation and radiation from the sea surface through the optical window direct to space on a clear night, removing energy faster than the air could add energy by conduction, or if winds bring in hotter air than the surface film from a different location.

Three fifty is the amount of carbon in parts per million that the atmosphere can handle safely without warming up and melting glaciers, raising the sea level, bringing on killer storms, destroying wildlife habitat, and all the other horrors that pop like mushrooms from your morning paper nearly every day.

The changing pattern of the western disturbances, a weather phenomenon that starts in the Mediterranean Sea and brings winter rains to the highlands of India and Pakistan, is leading to warmer Himalayan winters