Sentences with phrase «changes in wind patterns pushing»

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.

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Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

Pokrovsky finds that the surface wind patterns have not changed much from previous months and that this is reflected in the position of the ice edge, pushing ice north of the median ice edge.