Sentences with phrase «cyclone forms»

But, if an ordinary cyclone forms over a warm ocean, then the cyclone can suck up some of the warm water high into the atmosphere.

The researchers found that whether a polar cyclone forms depends on two parameters: the energy within a planet's atmosphere, or the total intensity of its thunderstorms; and the average size of its thunderstorms, relative to the size of the planet itself.

Here's another finding, courtesy of Juno: Unlike Saturn's enigmatic hexagonal (six - sided polygon) cloud structure over the ringed gas giant's north pole, Jupiter's northern cyclones form an octagonal (eight - sided) grouping.

About two weeks ago, we had simultaneous formation of two cyclones (Gamede and Humba) in the Indian Ocean and currently we have George tracking across the Kimberley and a yet - to - be-named cyclone forming near Christmas Island.

The NATL cyclones form primarily from easterly waves, while those in other regions do not.

Cyclones form where waters are 26 degrees C or warmer.

It is important to stress that this is only a theory, and despite on - going research, we still don't know exactly how and why tropical cyclones form and what decides their intensity — the technical term for this subject is «tropical cyclogenesis».

Aside from this, the results in our papers also offer new insights into why the jet streams exist, why tropical cyclones form, weather prediction and a new theory for how ozone forms in the ozone layer, amongst many other things.

It also explains why tropical cyclones form, and provides new insights into why high and low pressure weather systems occur

This has important implications for a number of important phenomena related to the atmosphere, e.g., ozone formation, the locations of the jet streams, and how tropical cyclones form.

Tropical cyclones form over water, and rising water levels make their storm surges even higher, posing a greater threat to coastal regions.

Not exact matches

The Cordillera Central mountain range that forms the spine of the island of Puerto Rico acted as a juicer for Hurricane Maria, Huffman explained, rapidly squeezing out 20 to 36 inches of rain from the cyclone.

Prices could yet rise further as a cyclone begins to form off the coast of Western Australia, potentially threatening supply from the iron - rich pilbara region

Tropical cyclones — which are called typhoons, cyclones, or hurricanes depending on where you are — form in tropical regions the world over.

But for a century now people have realized that poverty is not a fate, not of the same nature as cyclones, but the result of forms of social and economic organization.

On Earth, similar structures, known as baroclinic waves, can appear in the atmosphere when cyclones are forming.

Similar waves — called baroclinic waves — sometimes appear in Earth's atmosphere where cyclones are forming.

Even if the number of tropical cyclones that form in the Atlantic increases, that doesn't guarantee that the number making landfall will also rise.

The team also explored conditions in which planets would not form polar cyclones, even though they may experience thunderstorms.

Such warming provides stronger fuel for the furious storms called tropical cyclones that form over open waters (known in the Atlantic as hurricanes).

These particular changes are prominent in the eastern Bay of Bengal where the strongest tropical cyclones have traditionally formed.

The models all concurred that as levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise, low pressure systems, or cyclones as they're called, become stronger but form less often.

Summer thunderstorms that do manage to form on the coastal basin are typically associated with the North American Monsoon and / or tropical cyclones, or downburst winds, which can bring enough tropical heat and moisture to overcome the cool marine layer, destabilizing the atmosphere.

These areas are still recovering form cyclone Feyi.

The clear seasonality in TCs («hurricane season») with highest activities during the summer is one of the strongest pieces of empirical evidence that higher temperatures give more favourable conditions for tropical cyclones (After all, TCs only form in the warm tropics...).

When the Corals of the Barrier Reef die out in toto circa 2040 - 2050 then this 2,300 kilometres of coastline WILL DEFINITELY LOSE it protective barrier to Cyclones, and the predominant winds that forms SURF 24/7, and ocean swells, and storm swells from the Tasman Sea and the Coral Sea that operate pretty much 24/7/365 to varying degrees of Force along the entire QLD coast.

I wonder if the fact the higher SSTs will lead to somewhat longer seasons (and 2005 certainly had that), and larger sea - surface area where TCs might form, would serve to counteract the effect you describe, and still lead, net - net, to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones with higher SSTs.

Concerning your Wilma questions: tropical cyclones do not form when «the Sun is loud» as you apparently think.

Adding icing on the cake is the tendency for so - called «nor» easters,» such as the «bomb cyclone» that struck on Jan. 4, to form along the East Coast when the trough's southwest winds align along the Atlantic Seaboard.

The US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed to improve understanding of interannual variability and trends in the tropical cyclone activity from the beginning of the 20th century to the present and quantify changes in the characteristics of tropical cyclones under a warming climate.

For example, as I mentioned in the earlier post, wind shear can cap the rising air in a cyclone, choking it off, preventing a full - blown tropical cyclone from forming — this is one reason we've seen fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic this season.

Resettling in the Ganges / Brahamputra Delta — Bay of Bengal The issues cyclone storm surge and of sea level rise are greatest in the Bay of Bengal where Bangladesh's growing population and effort to resettle Rohingya refugees is pushing them onto newly formed low lying islands.

The US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed in January of 2011 to coordinate efforts to produce a set of model experiments designed to improve understanding of the variability of tropical cyclone formation in climate models.

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

That Arctic cyclone sucked a LOT of energy out of that water which helps form new ice in the gaps between the broken bits.

Tropical cyclones are low pressure systems that form over warm tropical waters and have well defined wind circulations of at least gale force strength (sustained winds of 63 km / h or greater with gusts in excess of 90 km / h).

But something that is less well understood is how climate change should influence the number of cyclones that form each year.

Two camps formed, with one arguing that the 1995 - 2005 period of high cyclone activity was just part of natural variability, and the other arguing that it was due to man - made global warming.

Moreover, in our «Physics of the Earth's atmosphere» Paper 2, we suggest that tropical cyclones are formed when the altitude at which «multimerization» occurs changes rapidly — see this essay for an overview.

However, until now, it had been assumed that tropical cyclones were formed at sea level.

We suggest that the initial cyclone which leads to the more powerful tropical cyclone is actually formed much higher, i.e., at the tropopause, and that it is a result of multimerization.

This apparent link has led some researchers to propose that the intensity of a tropical cyclone depends on the temperature of the oceans over which it forms.

This is the storm that had formed in the Bay of Bengal while cyclone Megh was in the Arabian Sea, heading for Yemen.

We suggest cyclones occur when the «vacuum» formed by multimerization is filled by «sucking» air up from below, rather than sucking from the sides as happens with the jet streams.

2013: The first cyclone only formed in earnest by May 25th after which the cyclonic weather pattern dominated most of the remaining melting season.

While computer models suggested that global warming should cause an increase in cyclone intensity, e.g., Evans et al., 1994 (Open access), the historical data showed no obvious link between the intensity of a tropical cyclone and the temperatures where it formed, e.g., Evans, 1993 (Open access).

Similarly, as we mentioned in Section 2, Evans, 1993 (Open access) was unable to find any obvious link in the historical data between the intensity of a tropical cyclone and the temperatures where it formed.

The largest storm by area of any storm on record we can confirm by instrumental observations is Sandy, the first of the frankenstorms formed as a result of the merging of a tropical cyclone and an intense arctic low.

Hurricanes (all global cyclones)-- do not form spontainiously for the sheer pleasure of a spin.

While the mechanism that occasionally develops synoptic - scale westerlies may perhaps involve contributions from intense condensation events such as cyclones, the recurved trade winds that form a seasonally persistent SW monsoon in many NH regions are the product of intense continental heating during the boreal summer.