Sentences with phrase «carried poleward»

On the surface, it releases more heat than normal, which is carried poleward by normal atmospheric processes.

Conversions of that kind must play some role in the 9.4 W / m2 of total energy carried polewards by the Hadley circulations, though I'm not clear as to what.

Not exact matches

The ocean currents carry this sunlight - warmed water to the west and then poleward.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Most models reasonably represent the poleward increase of reflected shortwave radiation in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, presumably because part of this is carried by the influence of specified surface features such as the Saharan desert and Tibetan Plateau.

But climate models show a consistent tendency for areas such as the southwest U.S. to dry out in the 21st Century as the sinking branch of the tropical Hadley circulation expands poleward and carries drier air down to the surface [8].

We could end up in a configuration where the ocean currents are carrying less heat poleward and wind takes up the slack.