Sentences with phrase «changes in wind patterns»

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

When I asked Stefan Rahmsdorf at RC whether his work on Antarctic warming could be construed as support for (the key prediction of) polar amplification, his response was that it was more aligned with changes in wind patterns.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

«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.

Not exact matches

The sagging of these storms is the result of wind pattern changes induced by the rapidly warming Arctic, the researchers report online March 13 in Science.

The new hi - res composite images change that, suggesting instead that prominences could be one of the driving forces for the solar wind, since to create the smoke rings, and other patterns in the corona, they must be creating much larger atmospheric disturbances than previously thought, with a much longer range.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

Changing Arctic weather patterns suppressed winds that would have ventilated winter smog in China

They should lead to a dynamic modelling platform being set up for the ecosystem, integrating key parameters which are oxygen, wind patterns and Kelvin waves, allowing potential changes in fish stocks to be predicted, particularly anchovy stocks.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

One, again, is changing wind patterns; in July, NSIDC noted that a strong - low pressure pattern over the Amundsen Sea during June had brought lower - than - usual temperatures.

«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result of changes to wind and weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.

The pattern of wind change is complex, but variations in winds can help to explain some of the regional patterns in sea - ice formation [8].

These winds of change from old school thinking patterns to the current procedures being practiced today began with an important study conducted in 1987 which concluded that neutering dogs and cats much earlier than the traditional puberty or old age period had no ill effects.

Princen has also been known to reference scientific measuring systems, mapping, and amateur anthropology in his work, and his artistic practice has involved plotting ecological changes — water currents, wind patterns, and soil erosion, as well as the impacts of urban developments on the Dutch landscape.

Using elements he has drawn in sketching expeditions to Greenport, Friendship and Rockland harbors as raw material, he creates images of these working waterfronts, using lobster and fishing boats, docks, shanties, islands, reflections and wind on the water in an ever - changing matrix of patterns.

For the exhibition Op losse schroeven (On loose screws) organised by Wim Beeren and Edy de Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Boezem hung white bed sheets out of the first floor windows of the museum to function as a wind vane, to indicate the changing patterns of the wind and weather, but also to mock the Dutch habit of placing the bedding in the open window of one's house to dry.

Meteorological scientists warn that the changes in heat composition and air pressure over the Tibetan Plateau may have implications beyond Asia's river basins, as shifting dynamics of the atmospheric circulatory system over the plateau could change wind and monsoon patterns across much of the world.

«Our research reveals a change in the summer Arctic wind pattern over the past six years.

«West Coast sea surface and coastal air temperatures evolved in lockstep with changing patterns of atmospheric pressure and winds.»

Subsequent work indicated that the polar ozone hole (starting in the early 80s) was having an effect on polar winds and temperature patterns (Thompson and Solomon, 2002; Shindell and Schmidt, 2004), showing clearly that regional climate changes can sometimes be decoupled from the global picture.

(showing the temp rise has changed this or that wind pattern and / or water flow around Australia, etc, etc) As I mentioned in post # 20, I'm trying to sort through the hype and come to RC to help me do that.

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Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

There was an interesting study in Nature Geoscience last Sunday showing pretty clearly that the accelerating flow of the Jacobshavn glacier in recent years was most likely driven by an influx of warm deep seawater, and that shift was likely due to changes in pressure and wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean.

I have noticed a few things, winter is greatly milder in most parts of the Arctic, dominant winds have equally changed there, rain or precipitation patterns seem out of whack pretty much everywhere else on Earth as well.

According to new climate modeling data, the Northern hemisphere's wind farms could see a dramatic downturn in productivity over the next hundred years, as climate change disrupts some of the key drivers that shape the world's wind patterns.

The actor, who recently committed a faux pas by mistakenly attributing the common Canadian Chinook wind weather pattern to climate change, told the magazine that 2015 marked a «massive tipping point in the climate change struggle.»

That thinning in turn changes the temperature structure of the stratosphere, which then changes the dynamics of the lower atmosphere, especially wind and weather patterns.

And Andrew Russell of Brunel University agrees: he sees both wind pattern changes and ice shelf melting resulting in increased sea ice «which perhaps isn't what you'd expect but is consistent with our best description of climate change.»

But passengers won't just have to keep their seat belts locked, they may have to stay locked in for longer, as jet stream wind patterns change.

There are three large average surface wind patterns few know about: the tropical easterlies (tradewinds), the midlatitude westerlies and the polar easterlies, but variability results in significant weather changes.