Sentences with phrase «circumpolar north»

There was also a gathering of people from across the Circumpolar north in Inuvik, Canada.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is a Land, Sea, and Space Grant university and an international center for research, education, and the arts, emphasizing the circumpolar North and its diverse peoples.

With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north is arguably the last corner of the globe that is still almost entirely unexplored.

They're coming to nation's leading Arctic - research university to share the latest information on rapid changes under way in the circumpolar north.

Experts from the United States and other Arctic nations have developed the first safety guidelines for operating unmanned drone aircraft in international airspace around the circumpolar north.

Such a broad spectrum of diverse habitats occurring within a single protected unit is unparalleled in the circumpolar north.

Similar trends are reported in Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, and across the circumpolar north — the principal nursery for Northern Hemisphere marine birds.

Not exact matches

In the north, eight circumpolar cyclones surround a single polar cyclone.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

Possibilities include impacts on circumpolar circulation, which would impact moisture flowing over the continent from the north, and the Bermuda High, which would impact moisture flowing over the continent from the south.

The Aleut International Association, the Arctic Athabaskan Council, the Gwich «in International Council, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North and the Saami Council.

Vertical diffusion is slower, but happens over most of the oceans, while downward advection of anomalously warm water happens in fewer spots but is faster (the North Atlantic, «Mode» water formation regions north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf water formation in AntarctNorth Atlantic, «Mode» water formation regions north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf water formation in Antarctnorth of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf water formation in Antarctica).

New work on regional projections and emergence of the anthropogenic signal suggests that the two commonly predicted features of future regional sea level change (the increasing tilt across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the dipole in the North Atlantic) are related to regional changes in wind stress and surface heat flux.

This causes upwelling in the central Pacific — a lot of cloud near the dateline — and in this situation the Hadley Cell circulation distributes it into the mid latitudes and further north if the circumpolar jetstreams will allow it to (i.e. the winds aren't extending a long way south).

Richard, as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the ozone hole facilitates cooling in the southern polar region while the circumpolar vortex block warm air advection from the north.

The circumpolar current acts as a buffer preventing warm water from the tropics from transporting heat to the South Pole, a buffer that does not exist in the north.

North of the Polar Front, the moderately fresh, cool sub-Antarctic surface waters are separated from the more saline subtropical waters by the Subtropical Front, marking the northernmost extent of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current [5].

The circumpolar cyclone is not interrupted by land mass as it is in the north and constantly blow from west to east.

The AMO should be out of phase in the region of the Antarctic circumpolar ocean (21), where deep water from the North Atlantic upwells.

The mid-latitude storm tracks over the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and over the southern circumpolar ocean were also well simulated by the CCC GCM2 (Zwiers and Kharin, 1998).