More meridonal jet stream tracks flowing around the world between the climate zones result in longer lines of air mass mixing at
climate zone boundaries.
When meridonal, the jet streams wander in loops further north and south, resulting in longer lines of air mass mixing at
climate zone boundaries, which creates more clouds.
Not exact matches
The paper is behind a paywall, but the Stockholm Resilience Center, which has led this work, has summarized the results, including the authors» conclusion that we're in the danger
zone on four of the nine
boundaries:
climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land - system change and alteration of biogeochemical cycles (for the nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen).
As the elevational lapse rate of summer air temperatures in the Polar Urals is 0.7 °C, the
climate - dependent upper
boundary of the
zone suitable for tree growth could ascend approximately 100 m.
When the
boundary between C (Mild Temperate / mesothermal
climates) and D (Cold winter / microthermal
climates) is increased to 32 F (not the 27 F suggested by Köppen), this creates a smaller C
zone located further southward.