Sentences with phrase «clouds over the region»

Hundreds of passengers are facing travel disruption after a volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent ash clouds over the region, forcing airlines to cancel flights to and from Northern Australia.

Not exact matches

Whiteface is almost always wreathed in a cloud that lays a mean, chill mist over the summit, even on days that are clean and golden across the rest of the region.

The resignations come as LPCiminelli — the region's biggest contractor — continues to operate under a cloud of scrutiny over the executives» alleged corruption tied to a $ 750 million state contract for the Buffalo Billion project to build a solar panel factory for SolarCity off South Park Avenue.

«A thunderstorm and rain - bearing cloud system located over the coast and middle sectors, is expected to persist and further affect places in the central, western and Brong Ahafo regions till noon.

Computer modeling and satellite observations suggest that these tiny particles can increase storm - cloud cover over certain regions of the North Pacific by 20 to 50 percent, enough to alter storm tracks in some cases.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

NEW DELHI — A giant cloud of pollution is hanging over large parts of South Asia, endangering the health of over a billion people who inhabit the region, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Over millions of years, one relatively dense region of the cloud begins to collapse in on itself.

For this to occur, outside forces would have to compress the gas clouds near the center of our galaxy to overcome the violent nature of the region and allow gravity to take over and form stars.

The Tarantula Survey is an ambitious ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch spectroscopy of over 1,000 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

FMI has been involved in research project, which evaluated the simulations of long - range transport of BB aerosol by the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS - 5) and four other global aerosol models over the complete South African - Atlantic region using Cloud - Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) observations to find any distinguishing or common model biases.

For example, in Earth atmospheric circulation (such as Hadley cells) transport heat between the warmer equatorial regions to the cool polar regions and this circulation pattern not only determines the temperature distribution, but also sets which regions on Earth are dry or rainy and how clouds form over the planet.

large areas of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)-- clouds in the ozone layer - were present over the Arctic region at altitudes between 14 and 26 km.

But they do at least have certain basic physical principles in their cloud representations — clouds over ice have less albedo effect than clouds over water, you don't get high clouds in regions of subsidence, stable boundary layers lead to marine stratus, etc..

When Cassini first encountered Titan, it observed a large outburst of methane cumulus clouds over Titan's south polar region.

Astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin found over decades of radio observations that the rotational velocity of clouds of ionized hydrogen (HII regions) in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way was not decreasing at increasing distance from their galactic cores, like the velocity of the planets around the Sun.

Low - altitude stratus clouds form over the cool water of the California Current, and spread overnight into the coastal regions of Southern California.

The low - altitude stratus clouds that make up the June Gloom cloud layer form over the nearby ocean, and are transported over the coastal areas by the region's prevailing westerly winds.

As players the world over prepare to re-enter the realm of Cloud, Lightning and of course, Chocobos, what better way for Square Enix to celebrate it's much loved franchise with some salivating screenshots from the Duscae region itself.

Since the result comes from measurements of absorption at infrared wavelengths, the results are strictly valid only for relatively cloud - free locations (cloud cover fraction over a 300 km region less than about 60 %).

In the case of this summer, to make it familiar, the NE North American Coast and most of Canada is cooler by extensive periods of cloud coverage, cooling caused by this region clashes with the US South extreme heat, given less bouts of clouds up North, the North American warming record would have been amazingly strong, but permanent cloud episodes over one region or another travel, never last forever, as such not causing a permanent shift in the temperature record (unless the clouds cover or not wide swats of the Polar regions).

The SSTs temperatures are used here, with success over certain regions of the globe, as a proxy and cross-check for cloud variability.»

large areas of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)-- clouds in the ozone layer - were present over the Arctic region at altitudes between 14 and 26 km.

The atmospheric river of moisture streaming off of the record warm Pacific ocean is heavily aerosolized (as described above) which keeps much of the moisture from falling and broadcasts it out into massive regions of rainless (and toxic) cloud cover expanding out over the Western US.

Suddenly, a drought - stricken African region could benefit from a Sahel monsoon, with climate change storm clouds breaking over Chad and Mali.

Complete cloud coverage over tropics will still make conditions in tropics warmer than they are now [at earth distance], but complete cloud coverage over regions which do not have sun directly overhead [high latitude, winter] will cause cooler conditions then than Venus distance tropics.

Notably, by studying the clouds over a limited region of the atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean, as well as over nearby land masses, the team at the university's International Pacific Research Centre have declared themselves firmly in the latter camp, warning that, as temperatures continue to creep steadily upwards over the next 100 years, cloud cover will become thinner and more - sparse, thereby serving to exacerbate the problem.

In July the TOVS temperatures are approximately 6 K too cold over ice - covered regions owing to poor retrievals when cloud cover exceeds 95 %.

The suggested hypothesis, is that in regions devoid of dust (e.g., over the large ocean basins), the formation of cloud condensation nuclei takes place from the growth of small aerosol clusters, and that the formation of the latter is governed by the availability of charge, such that charged aerosol clusters are more stable and can grow while neutral clusters can more easily break apart.

Changes in global cloud cover are dominated by changes in Pacific cloud over the eastern upwelling regions.

A small direct current is able to flow vertically between the ionosphere (maintained at approximately 250 kV by thunderstorms and electrified clouds) and the Earth's surface over fair - weather regions because of GCRSecond

«Sometimes when that curtain is pulled, as in the case over the North Atlantic ocean in the winter months, this reduces the overall cloud cover» in the lower mid-latitudes, the temperate regions outside of the tropics, Tselioudis said.

However, another source of uncertainty in the monthly mean zonal cloud radiative effects comes from the low frequency of clear - sky occurrence, when averaging over regions that correspond to the spatial resolution of general circulation models.

7 July, 2017 — Suddenly, a drought - stricken African region could benefit from a Sahel monsoon, with climate change storm clouds breaking over Chad and Mali.

The most significant changes in the new D - series cloud datasets are: 1) revised radiance calibrations to remove spurious changes in the long - term record, 2) increased cirrus detection sensitivity over land, 3) increased low - level cloud detection sensitivity in polar regions, 4) reduced biases in cirrus cloud properties using an ice crystal microphysics model in place of a liquid droplet microphysics model, and 5) increased detail about the variations of cloud properties.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

(2) Alternatively, FD events might only result in dynamic effects over winter cyclogenesis regions, and therefore may not necessarily produce direct changes in cloud cover (Tinsley & Deen 1991).

Due to the relative weakness of Earth's geomagnetic shielding in this region, cloud changes over such a location are tantalizing as FD events have the potential to induce maximum changes in atmospheric ionization.

Sensors provide total column water vapor data over large regions and are not highly influenced by clouds.

Kristjánsson et al. (2008) adapted this idea to an investigation of FD events, performing a survey of cloud changes detected by MODIS over aerosol - impoverished oceanic regions.

Asmall direct current is able to flow vertically between the ionosphere (maintained at approximately 250 kVby thunderstorms and electrified clouds) and the Earth's surface over fair - weather regions because of GCRinduced atmospheric ionization.

Typically, stratus clouds occur over regions of low atmospheric pressure.

Examining the structure of the global cloud field one can see, a long line of bright, dense clouds near the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), more clearly evident over the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific oceans.

The researchers found that cumulus cloud towers produced less cirrus clouds when they moved over warmer ocean regions.

In high clouds, such as cirrus, cirrostratus, and deep convective clouds, there is some evidence that dust particles over wetter regions south of the desert provide surfaces for ice crystals to form around.

However, where the SAL extends over low marine clouds, the dust (since it is darker than cloud) might have an opposing effect to that seen in clear sky regions, although this is hard to quantify.

Polar Stratospheric Clouds Large, diffuse, ice - particle clouds that form in the stratosphere usually over polar regions.