Sentences with phrase «circulation patterns around»

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

A strong El Niño heats up the atmosphere and changes circulation patterns around the globe, especially the jet stream over the Pacific, which becomes stronger and dumps more frequent and intense storms over the western U.S., especially California.

Not exact matches

The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

All around the tropics is a pattern of rising and sinking air — like a vertical loop — called the Walker Circulation.

That shift alters where heat from those waters is released into the atmosphere, which in turn knocks circulation patterns out of whack, creating a cascade around the planet.

Natural factors contributing to past climate change are well documented and include changes in atmospheric chemistry, ocean circulation patterns, solar radiation intensity, snow and ice cover, Earth's orbital cycle around the sun, continental position, and volcanic eruptions.

Although most aerosols are carried up by the same atmospheric circulation patterns, their chemical and physical properties determine whether or not they become «cloud condensation nuclei,» which are the points around which droplets form before they become cloud droplets.

Vuillard's interest in patterned surfaces and domestic intimacy led him to produce many of his most compelling works around 1900 in two radically different formats: on the one hand, large - scale paintings, conceived as decorative ensembles and commissioned for private, domestic spaces; and, on the other, intimate color lithographs, produced in series and destined for broader circulation.

«It is believed that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, freshwater and sea ice accumulated in the Beaufort Gyre as a consequence of the prevailing Arctic atmospheric circulation patterns (anti-cyclonic around an Arctic high pressure center.)

Since the Eastern Tropical Pacific is not entirely decoupled from West Wind Drift given the general pattern of circulation in the SE Pacific, the question arises is the magnitude of the observed overall energy difference in the recently observed «extended» La Nina phase of ENSO condition relative to the the «more normal» ENSO comparable in magnitude to energy associated with the apparent increase in winds and potentially currents around the Antarctic?

This assumes that the main atmospheric circulation patterns don't change much (or is second order, as seems to be the case) and so the moisture that is evaporated into atmosphere and is lying around gets transported to where it already rains and away from the areas where it doesn't.»

Many previous publications noted the rather sudden and decisive change in the circulation patterns and upwelling characteristics in the Pacific that began around 1976 and continued to 1998.

The loss of the normal ocean circulation could cause drastic shifts in weather patterns, and continued loss of ice in Greenland will lead to the continued rise in sea level, threatening coastal cities around the globe.

In 2016 unusually dry and hot conditions triggered massive fires in Tasmania's World Heritage forests, while ocean circulation patterns have moved unprecedented underwater heatwaves around the world, driving the tragic coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.»

The dominant ice - determining factors of the Arctic have shifted several ways, from the dominance of winds around 2000, to new patterns of cracking, to 70 % drop in volume in a quarter century, to new circulations.

Even seemingly small changes in global temperature have far - reaching effects on sea level, atmospheric circulation, and weather patterns around the globe.

Ocean circulation, in turn, is a major driver for weather patterns, both in the Arctic and around the world.»

The atmosphere, too, has gotten its act together this time around — and is exhibiting a more strongly El Niño - like circulation pattern than has ever been observed previously during the summer months.

Gyre - Basin - scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100 - 200 km wide) boundary current on the western side.

A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor - like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet.

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Atmospheric circulation patterns interpreted for an early Silurian summer in the Northern Hemisphere indicate high pressure over the polar ocean with a zone of low pressure around 60 ° N latitude.