Sentences with phrase «circulation patterns»

• How are the mechanisms controlling sea ice extent and volume changing and how are they related to changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns in lower latitudes?

On the left is an image of the global circulation pattern on a normal day.

Another possibility might be that pollutants could cause changes in wind circulation patterns on a weekly basis.

Recent scientific studies increasingly question whether human activities have contributed to observed shifts in natural circulation patterns.

However, we now know that climate change is already affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape local extreme weather.

In the first of two studies, two approaches for high - resolution modeling produced uncertainties in circulation patterns due to the sensitivity of precipitation representations to model resolution.

There are two main circulation patterns that are affected.

That shift changes where heat is pumped into the tropical atmosphere, disrupting its typical circulation patterns.

It's all about circulation patterns in the ocean.

Our results build on previous modeling efforts and show that regional scale forest loss impacts global climate circulation patterns, and extends the implications of these climate impacts to consequences for remote ecosystems.

The effects on sea circulation patterns and weather are complex and difficult to tease out from natural variation, requiring long - term observation.

Such a change could alter both ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns around the world.

The major circulation patterns are about large surface and bottom currents.

But maps of sea level pressure can also be averaged over several months or years, to show the average circulation patterns in the atmosphere.

On the right is the image of the global circulation pattern when extreme weather occurs.

Because of atmospheric circulation patterns, whales living in areas far from industrial centres may contain more environmental pollutants than species near such centres.

The sparse proxy data failed to predict modern large - scale ocean circulation patterns.

That warm water transfers heat to the atmosphere overhead, which shifts around the normal air circulation patterns.

This can only result in major changes to the earth's climate, oceanic circulation patterns, etc..

However, we now know that climate change is already affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape local extreme weather.

Data collected by ship and model simulations suggest that increased Pacific Winter Water (PWW), driven by circulation patterns and retreating sea ice in the summer season, is primarily responsible for this OA expansion, according to Di Qi, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student of Liqi Chen, the lead PI in China.

Climate models show the absence of a global atmospheric circulation pattern which bolsters high ocean temperatures key to coral bleaching

Also, recent research has tied 20th century temperature fluctuations in northern California, and much of the Pacific Northwest, to naturally occurring atmospheric / ocean circulation patterns over the Pacific Ocean.

Vector wind analyses were computed to explain the composite seasonal precipitation anomaly results in terms of different circulation patterns associated with these two wet groups.

These in turn can affect typical air circulation patterns like the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

These aspects of precipitation generally exhibit large natural variability, and El Niño and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns such as the North Atlantic Oscillation have a substantial influence.

Joint Base Langley - Eustis is located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, an area where natural subsidence, low - lying topography, and changing ocean circulation patterns contribute to above - average rates of sea level rise.

One of the recent hysteria's has been that global warming will cause the Gulf Stream to collapse as Atlantic circulation patterns are radically altered, thus leading to the freezing of Europe.

This means that the uplift of the Andes probable effected large scale atmospheric circulation patterns at least 4 million years before previously thought.»

A study says the haze lasted much longer because the melting ice and increased snowfall altered wind circulation patterns.

This leads to thermohaline circulation patterns.