Sentences with phrase «cold polar winter»

I hope you agree that it is quite simple to establish that the deep ocean is cold because of the cold polar winter atmospheres.

«Methane is volatile enough that it can only stick to the surface during the long, cold polar winters,» Will Grundy, lead author of the new study, told Space.com by email.

Not exact matches

For parents in cold climates, this means that it can be used under a winter jacket without making you feel (and look) like a polar bear.

«We have just come from the cold dark (polar night) winter just over a month ago, so the risk with beautiful weather is that many would rather go skiing in the sunshine.»

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

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.

Mori et al. identified two circulation patterns that drove winter temperatures in Eurasia from 1979 to 2013: the Arctic Oscillation (which confines colder air to the polar latitudes) and a pattern dubbed «Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central EuraCold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Euracold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurasia.

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

As we steel ourselves against the cold and curse the polar vortex for bringing these bitter winds upon us, its helpful to remember that winter can also be a magical time of fluttering snowflakes and beautiful evening skies.

The temperature of the stratosphere is one of the key factors in the springtime depletion of ozone above the Antarctic where in winter it gets colder than anywhere else on Earth, encouraging icy particles to form in polar stratospheric clouds.

• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

Charon's winters are cold, with polar temperatures only a few degrees higher than absolute zero (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius) at coldest.

When the strong winds that circle the Arctic slacken, cold polar air can escape and cause extreme winter chills in parts of the Northern hemisphere.

Since PSCs are very sensitive to temperature, cold winter vortex conditions often presage a large ozone depletion the following spring (note that polar ozone depletion only occurs in sunlight and so is a spring time phenomena in both hemispheres).

The unusually cold winter allowed WHOI engineers to do something they normally can't do: test equipment in polar conditions.

My thought is that the UK's temperate climate is primarily due to SWly prevailing winds blowing from the relatively warm ocean, as opposed to places on the eastern side of a large continent which will frequently receive cold polar continental airmasses in winter, because the mid-latitude westerlies will be blowing from a cold continental interior.

Like other polar vortex intrusions in this and other winters, the cold air is also being hermetically sealed off in the eastern U.S., leaving the West to roast.

There's a reason the folks who undertake «polar plunges» in winter months emerge from the frigid water with silly grins on their faces: giving your body a quick, cold shock stimulates deep breathing (which increases the oxygen in our bodies) and jump - starts circulation.

Since we're on the verge of another winter storm and polar vortex (OMG), thought I'd share some winter skin tips and some of my favorite cold weather essentials:

Figuring out what to wear when the polar vortex hits upon us is no easy task as options are limited, but here are 10 minimal winter outfit ideas to beat the cold in comfort and style.

SEE ALSO: A polar vortex is headed our way (again) so here's where to find winter jackets, boots, and other cold weather gear

When the polar vortex warms, the jet stream is pushed south leading to colder winters across the eastern United states and Europe.

Mid-latitude storms are most active during winter, i.e. cold season, when the Arctic experiences polar nights and there is stron temperature gradients.

During this time, the very short wavelength UV was 10 % lower than it was during time of high solar activity and now even the climate modelers are beginning to find that this can lead to negative polar oscillation and cold winters in the temperate lattitudes.

On the onset of spring, when the Sun comes up over the polar night but the air is still winter - cold, over the Arctic all conditions can suddenly be met to set the catalytic ozone breakdown reaction in motion: sunlight, moist, CFKs [yes, they're still around] and temperatures of -90 ºC (or colder).

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PJM's study will also focus on natural gas pipeline constraints during cold weather snaps like the 2013 polar vortex, or this winter's milder freezes, Orvis said.

The strength of the Icelandic Low is the critical factor in determining path of the polar jet stream over the North Atlantic In the winter the IL is located at SW of Greenland (driver Subpolar Gyre), but in the summer the IL is to be found much further north (most likely driver the North Icelandic Jet, formed by complex physical interactions between warm and cold currents), which as graphs show had no major ups or downs.

The strength of the Icelandic Low is the critical factor in determining path of the polar jet stream over the North Atlantic In the winter the IL is located at SW of Greenland (Subpolar Gyre) In summer the IL is to be found much further north (most likely the North Icelandic Jet, formed by complex physical interactions between warm and cold currents) These two run under two different regimes and two clocks (see the CET synthesis from 3 harmonics, one for each summer and winter, and one common — see the above link, bottom graph).

Therefore it is cold across the Eastern US, Europe and East Asia during winters when the polar vortex is weak.

This becomes silly because, evidently, the warmer deep ocean water is not too cold to provide warming in a polar winter, an environment that doesn't just cool water down, it freezes it solid.

The depletion is due to the intense cold of the polar winter, not to CFCs or HCFCs.

The latter marks the changeover from the cold winter polar cyclone to the warm summer polar anticyclone.

Environmental stress was exacerbated by frequent climate variations, and near - polar vegetation tolerated cold dark winters.

«In winter, the freezing Arctic air is normally «locked» by strong circumpolar winds several tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere, known as the stratospheric polar vortex, so that the cold air is confined near the pole,» said study co-author Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts Research in Germany, in a press release.

This year, more ozone has been lost over the Arctic due to unusually cold temperatures in the stratosphere, and these have been fed by a stronger circulation pattern called the polar vortex throughout the winter, according to Ross Salawitch, a professor at the University of Maryland, and one of Rex's collaborators.

If the ice cover is high, very little heat escapes from the warm ocean to the cold polar atmosphere in winter.

But if the winters were still cold enough to freeze the polar regions (it wouldn't matter whether the temperature was -20 degC or -22 degC for example) a cooler summer would thaw less of it and the ice cap would expand.

This past winter and spring saw an unusually strong polar vortex and an unusually long cold period.

You mean scientific publications like the one from Jennifer Francis on climate change impacting the polar vortex to cause colder winters?

Like the skeptics who put forth the hypothesis of polar amplification to explain the series of cold, snowy winters in the NH?

The polar jet stream and associated surface front that typically swings through the United States in late winter has been hovering close to the U.S. / Canada border, with intrusions of seasonally cold air into the central and eastern United States either absent or short - lived over the last few days.

To compound the bad luck, the polar vortex has crossed the Atlantic to inflict the U.K. with what's being billed there as the coldest winter in a century.

After all, at the same time the Arctic was melting, the Antarctic Ice Cap at the South Pole was setting a record for the greatest extent of polar ice in observed history and at the same time South America and much of the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing the coldest and longest winter in at least 50 years.

So, the most recent science shows 1) no observed relationship between global warming and winter severe weather outbreaks and 2) future «polar vortex» - associated cold outbreaks are projected to mollify — yet the White House prepares a special video proclaiming the opposite with the intent to spread climate alarm.

19 21.2 World Climates Humid Mid-Latitude Climates Humid Mid-Latitude With Severe Winters • A subarctic climate is found north of the humid continental climate and south of the polar climate; it is characterized by bitterly cold winters and short, cool summers.

• A subarctic climate is found north of the humid continental climate and south of the polar climate; it is characterized by bitterly cold winters and short, cool summers.

This «scenario is believed to have exacerbated the persistent warmth and drought in the western United States, along with cold spells in the east during the winters of 2013 - 2014 and 2014 - 2015 that were popularized as the ridiculously resilient ridge and polar vortex, Francis wrote in a new study.

During this year's extremely cold winter full of ice storms and the effects of a polar vortex, moments of warmth between strangers are created in a bus shelter.

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.