Sentences with phrase «cyclones which»

These super-typhoons, as we've seen this November, can go on to become extra-tropical cyclones which in turn can have extreme effects on planetary scale Rossby wave activity and global weather patterns.

Coincidentally, 2004 and 2005 marked the peak of a very active period for tropical cyclones which had begun in the mid-1990s.

A name of Chinese origin, meaning «great wind» applied to the intense tropical cyclones which occur in the western Pacific Ocean.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

The Pilbara Ports Authority has begun clearing large vessels out of the ports of Dampier and Ashburton, ahead of a cyclone which is expected to hit the Pilbara coast by tomorrow morning.

When you combine this with the North Pacific Anti cyclone which affects this region also, you will understand why the North West of Mexico can be somewhat desert like.

Namely a February cyclone which warmed up South Baffin to +5 to 9.5 C above zero (something like a +40 C anomaly), which stopped moving over Ellesmere, warming it up enormously before fading away.

Willis says: «What went wrong was the cyclone which happened to strike the reef, uprooting and destroying the huge porites corals which had survived the bleaching and generally causing massive damage, not only to Scott, but to other reefs as well.

What went wrong was the cyclone which happened to strike the reef, uprooting and destroying the huge porites corals which had survived the bleaching and generally causing massive damage, not only to Scott, but to other reefs as well.

There are three features of a tropical cyclone which are particularly devastating:

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.

Even this Famine is blamed on the ineptness of the British administration as well as a cyclone which destroyed the food crops over immense areas.

New India has paid a claim at Rs 200 crore in the case of J&K floods and Rs 490 crore in the case of Hudhud cyclone which include the amount of Rs 40 crore claim paid by the company to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd in Visakhapatnam.

Not exact matches

The DC01 was different from other cleaners because it had at its core Dyson's dual - cyclone technology, which uses two rotating barrels to create suction.

The cyclone is small in terms of area but has entered a climatic environment in which rapid intensification can occur, meteorologists said.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

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

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art.

The Cyclones wore black armbands the rest of the 1923 football season, and Coach Willaman posthumously awarded Trice a varsity letter, which he mailed to Jack's mother.

Karisma and Phillip were selected for a ceremonial puck drop (which would have been already extremely awesome) and then to make things even better, the Cyclones brought out their father.

Our simulations give the Cyclones a 45.4 % probability of advancing to the Sweet 16, which equates to implied odds of +120.

The greening of Sahara strengthens the West African Monsoon, which triggers a change in the atmospheric circulation over the entire tropics, affecting tropical cyclone activity.

It borrows an idea that is used to predict the movements of cyclones, which are far bigger.

Their plumes swirl like cyclones, which could explain why they have been seen spawning tornadoes and sheet lightning.

The hurricane's strongest sustained winds, at 185 mph, blew for more than 65 consecutive hours, something no other tropical cyclone has done in the modern satellite era, which began 50 years ago, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University.

Ocean temperatures between 82 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit seem to be «ideal for the genesis of tropical cyclones,» Emanuel says, «and as that belt migrates poleward, which surely it must as the whole ocean warms, the tropical cyclone genesis regions might just move with it.

A significant proportion of the loss is attributable to climate change, which has strengthened destructive tropical cyclones and made surrounding waters warmer and more acidic.

Plus, you can dig into a Classics issue on extreme weather, which includes 24 articles on weather — hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes — some dating back to 1880!

These cyclones — which reside in bizarrely stable and geometric patterns that defy most model - based predictions — remain unexplained.

«A variety of things, all of which are conducive to the formation and propagation of tropical cyclones, are in place this year,» Luettich says.

16 The largest known tropical cyclone was 1979's typhoon Tip, which stretched 1,400 miles across the northwestern Pacific — the distance from Dallas to Washington, D.C.

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

Given these two parameters, the researchers predicted that Neptune, which bears similar polar hotspots, should generate transient polar cyclones that come and go, while Jupiter should have none.

The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.

The science team obtained vital information about the physical characteristics within one large warm - water eddy, which likely originated from the North Brazil Current, and analyzed its potential influence on sub-surface ocean conditions during the passage of tropical cyclones.

The team's findings fit well with suggestions that more and more cyclones, which carry warm air, have been moving into the Arctic Circle.

Those patterns matched three rather dire climate model predictions: that storm tracks — the paths along which cyclones travel in the Northern and Southern hemispheres — would shift poleward; that subtropical dry regions would expand, and that the tops of the highest clouds would get even higher.

And the researchers suggest the cyclone shift may be linked to that growth, which is connected to more heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity.

Apart from Tropical Storm Andrea, which soaked Florida after moving ashore in the Panhandle in June, none of this year's cyclones has made a U.S. landfall.

In the Instant Expert on extreme weather, Jeff Masters states that tropical cyclones get their spin from the disorganised air systems off the African coast, which then move eastward towards the Caribbean (2 October).

All of which means that new regions will be at risk for stronger storms as tropical cyclones spread to higher latitudes.

The world's strongest recorded typhoon, cyclone or hurricane to make landfall was Hurricane Camille in 1969, which hit the southern U.S. state of Mississippi with 305 kph (190 mph) winds, said Weather Underground's Masters.

But another study by researchers in the United States and Taiwan found a similar association between slow earthquakes — which take places over hours or even days — and tropical cyclones in Taiwan.

That in turn may increase the severity of tropical cyclones, which throw more water into the stratosphere.

With winds over a punishing 300 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged the Philippines in early November, was the most powerful recorded cyclone that made landfall.

Hurricane Wilma — which at one point was the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin — was the last major hurricane to pummel the U.S., roaring ashore in Florida as a Category 3 storm on Oct. 24, 2005.

While the new formula, which accounts for both temperature and salinity, can be used to forecast tropical cyclone intensity in real time, it can also be applied to the results of climate modeling to provide scientists with a framework to evaluate changes in future tropical cyclone activity.

It is well known that El Nino events, such as the 2006 El Nino, tend to be associated with stronger westerly winds aloft in the tropical Atlantic, which is unfavorable for tropical cyclone development.