Sentences with phrase «climate patterns»

The beginning and end of a glacial period are clearly times of global climate change, but there are also periods of abrupt change in climate patterns within those periods.

The explanation he gave last week was that the impact from greenhouse gas emissions covers a broad «disruption» of climate patterns ranging from precipitation to storms to hot and cold temperatures.

This is not a doom and gloom book, but one that encourages a balanced view of what is actually happening on our planet in terms of changing climate patterns.

Global warming is shifting climate patterns in ways we find difficult to predict.

Both are natural climate patterns that influence ocean surface temperatures and wind patterns, two critical ingredients in creating hurricanes.

The rest of the decrease is due to a shifting climate pattern over the past 40 years.

However, there are other equally or more important climate forcings in terms of altering climate patterns such as droughts, floods and extreme weather.

A growing number of scientists have predicted that, if present trends continue, there will be significant alterations in climate patterns from the beginning of the twenty - first century onward.

Many climate models are generally satisfactory in predicting future climate patterns.

The disruption of the planet's climate patterns by the combustion of fossil fuels is among the most urgent and critical challenges facing humanity.

It will cause changes in clouds, rain, albedo, temperature and wind in ways that will alter climate patterns differently than solar visible light effects.

Finding: The past several decades of historical regional climate patterns commonly used by transportation planners to guide their operations and investments may no longer be a reliable guide for future plans.

This provides a baseline to compare historical climate patterns, and gives an overall picture of what the weather has been doing for three or more decades.

You seem to be suggesting that this slightly different warming pattern would lead to wind and ocean current changes, leading to different climate patterns.

And that could lead to major changes in weather and climate patterns around the globe.

The warmer atmosphere triggers climate change, or shifts in normal climate patterns.

For the moment, such efforts face challenges, including the persistent inability of computer climate simulations to reliably replicate climate patterns at the scale of states and cities.

Using that approach, managers can adjust their strategy as climate patterns become clearer.

That means exposure to climate hazards will greatly increase in many places even if climate patterns don't change at all.

The data prove a close correlation between climate patterns and solar activity — not human activity — over the last few hundred years.

Climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them.

They found that during that time there were several decades that exhibited similar climate patterns as the 1990s.

When they compared the dates of these outbreaks with tree ring data, they did not find a correlation with European climate patterns.

I've sent a query around to a range of researchers working with climate simulations and observed climate patterns and will add their thoughts as they come in.

Fortunately, however, several climate patterns are known which strongly control the overall seasonal hurricane activity, and they often last for entire seasons, sometimes for decades at a time.

We can recreate the 20th century global climate patterns pretty well and we know why that is.

For the first time, several researchers have been able to reproduce a consistent climate pattern and confirm how it works.

So, when we look at Global climate patterns it's best to think of each year as part of a very long sequence of, more or less, repetitive events.

Will communities facing risks from shifting climate patterns and rising seas benefit from pledged billions, even if the money flows?

In their models of climate patterns, scientists have long suggested that the northern polar region would be affected earlier and more seriously than the southern region.

Because it contains greenhouse gases from a time before human emissions complicated the picture, the ancient air offers scientists clues to future climate patterns.

How changes in regional climate patterns will be felt elsewhere is harder to predict.

Changes in the ocean impact the atmosphere and climate patterns around the globe.

This trend, combined with the expectation of some events becoming more extreme because of changes in climate patterns, challenges the human capacity to adapt.

The researchers plan to apply the model to study other species to determine if climate patterns have had a similar effect on other species as well.

It may also have unforeseen impacts on the water cycle — which can in turn alter climate patterns.

Thomas Crowley (now in Edinburgh) has sent me a note essentially challenging you to develop your own time series [of past climate patterns](kind of a «put up or shut up» challenge).

However identifying ecoclimate teleconnections that link terrestrial disturbance to global climate patterns with explicit consideration of impacts to remote ecosystems has rarely been considered (excepting [12], [13]-RRB-.

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Ni ± a, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

Of course, the occurrence or severity of a particular drought or flood in a particular location depends on a lot of things, including natural climate patterns like El Nino.

An unusual marine heat wave off the West Coast known as «the blob» combined with an El Niño climate pattern reduced pup production and survival, with thousands of malnourished pups stranding on Southern California beaches.

Since 1995, the natural climate pattern called the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) has been in a phase in which temperature, wind, and rainfall patterns favor stronger hurricane seasons.

In the past several years, researchers have used AI systems to help them to rank climate models, spot cyclones and other extreme weather events — in both real and modelled climate data — and identify new climate patterns.