Sentences with phrase «change in wind patterns»

The changes include changes in wind patterns — so those are going to change how, where, and when and how much changes about how the upper ocean waves mix surface water.

In a new study, just published in Nature Climate Change, we show that the increased frequency of Beijing winter severe haze is not just due to pollution from China's rapid economic development, but also because of changes in wind patterns caused by a warming climate.

This trend is thought to be caused by changes in wind patterns due to ozone depletion over Australia.

Nationwide, electricity generated using wind and solar varies by the month and is highest in the spring partly because of seasonal changes in wind patterns and daylight hours.

Monsoon season usually happening in January and February may see changes in wind patterns and bring less settled surface conditions that can affect itineraries.

Thorne, L.H. et al., (2016) Effects of El Niño - driven changes in wind patterns on North Pacific albatrosses.

We discussed the climatic reasons for the decline, which were very cold decades in northeastern North America and changes in wind patterns pushing cold dense waters of the Labrador Current much further south into the cod fishing grounds of the Grand Banks.

According to Francis Chan, a marine ecologist at OSU, this recurrent dead zone is just another sign of global warming's harmful impact on ocean ecosystems around the world — prompted by unprecedented changes in wind patterns and water currents.

The first is to emphasize your point that degassing of CO2 from the oceans is not simply a matter of warmer water reducing CO2 solubility, and that important additional factors include changes in wind patterns, reduction in sea ice cover to reveal a larger surface for gas escape, and upwelling of CO2 from depths consequent to the changing climate patterns.

A change in wind patterns suggests the wind industry may face challenges from El Nino, other climate patterns

Price believes the lightning may be caused by a change in wind patterns (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / NGEO477).

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

The change in salinity encouraged sea ice to form which in turn created a change in wind patterns, leading to intensified monsoons.

The ocean has been calm (I sense a change in wind patterns) and there were just too many good days to just float around and not worry too much about waves.

Winter 2009 - 2010 showed a new connectivity between mid-latitude extreme cold and snowy weather events and changes in the wind patterns of the Arctic; the so - called Warm Arctic - Cold Continents pattern.

I must say I'm a little frustrated, though, that even though you have stated on several occasions that, according to your sources, last year's massive melting was caused not by «global warming» but by a change in wind patterns which forced more ice through the Framm Straights, the warmers here have yet to acknowledge that.

Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey calls the freshwater concept «plausible» but thinks there are also plausible alternative explanations for the increase in sea ice around Antarctica, among them changes in the wind patterns that might deliver blasts of colder air to the surrounding seas.

Changes in wind patterns can be particularly influential.

You are shifting the cause to a decrease in cloud cover, or a change in wind patterns, but those both require causes themselves — just because something is «natural» does not mean it has no cause.

(Warm water currents, mechanical breakage into smaller and meltable components, changes in wind patterns and... oh, yeah!

«But this past summer, it stayed in place because of a change in wind patterns.

And because the Arctic is the fastest - warming region on Earth, and because atmosphere and ocean influence each other, the steady loss of sea ice each year has forced a change in wind patterns.

Moreover, changes in wind patterns, especially in relation to seasonal migration timing, could help or hinder migration (Butler et al., 1997).

The low thermal expansion coefficient at the cold temperatures of the high southern latitudes, changes in wind patterns and transport of the heat taken up to lower latitudes are all possible explanations.

But nothing like the catastrophe we have been led to believe, with many alarmists claiming there would be an ice - free arctic last summer due to global warming (in fact, much of the big decline in 2007 was due to changes in wind patterns, not temperature).

Climate models do not predict an evenly spread warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the distribution of heat, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while others cool at first.