Sentences with phrase «cyclonic storms»

"Cyclonic storms" refer to powerful weather systems characterized by rotating winds. They are also known as cyclones, hurricanes, or typhoons depending on the region where they occur. These storms form over warm ocean waters and bring strong winds, heavy rainfall, and increased waves. They can cause significant damage to coastal areas and pose risks to human lives, homes, and infrastructure. Full definition
However, at latitudes poleward of 40 ° in winter, positive correlations dominate as the water - holding capacity of the atmosphere limits precipitation amounts in cold conditions and warm air advection in cyclonic storms is accompanied by precipitation.
«Although hurricane tracks have gradually moved northwards away from the western Caribbean, rising sea surface temperatures could promote the development of cyclonic storms within the western Caribbean,» says co-author of the report James Baldini, an Earth scientist at the University of Durham.
Post-monsoon season severe cyclonic storms were first observed over the Arabian Sea in 2014 and 2015.
In 2012, the basic pattern of this new regime was given a «kick» by a large cyclonic storm in early August.»
The study concludes that the growth of the Mauna Kea glacier caused by the AMOC current changes was a result of both colder conditions and a huge increase of precipitation on Mauna Kea — triple that of the present — that scientists believe may have been caused by more frequent cyclonic storm events hitting the Hawaiian Islands from the north.
Hundreds are injured in Maryland and Virginia as rare cyclonic storms, more common to the Midwest, inundate the region
The grid is so large and crude they can't include major weather features like thunderstorms, tornados, or even small cyclonic storm systems.
-- Susan Solomon, Nature The Long Thaw is written for anyone who wishes to know what cutting - edge science tells us about the modern issue of global warming and its effects on the pathways of atmospheric chemistry, as well as global and regional temperatures, rainfall, sea level, Arctic sea - ice coverage, melting of the continental ice sheets, cyclonic storm frequency and intensity and ocean acidification.
Hurricanes are intense cyclonic storms that develop over the warm oceans of the tropics (Figure 7u - 4).
«It has happened before» should not be forgotten: alternation of hot and cold, alternation of dry and wet, episodic fires, episodic cyclonic storms and ice storms.
Latest scientific research seems to be pointing at global warming and climate change for the increasing intensity of cyclonic storms over the Bay of Bengal
The roughly factor of two increase in speed shown is partly due to decreases in ice thickness and strength, but it is safe to predict that if cyclonic storm events like this one ending 2015 continue penetrating the eastern Arctic Ocean, they will increase ice export and reduce summer 2016 ice extent.
Persistent low pressure and repeated cyclonic storms in the Siberian side of the Arctic tended to disperse the pack and move it away from the coast.
But wider expanses of open waters in the summer mean vast areas where winds can whip up large waves and (as we have seen this year) where huge cyclonic storms can be generated.
The recurring theme, though, is difficulties in conducting agriculture: drought in Central America, Pakistan, the western US or Australia, more monsoonal precipitation extremes in India, and strengthening cyclonic storms add up to a projected net global food deficit at 2.5 C.
«In Bangladesh floods, cyclonic storm surges are major killers as well as cause of most direct and indirect damage.
If one is born in the Atlantic Ocean or east of the international date line in the Pacific, it's called a hurricane; in the northwest Pacific, it's a typhoon; in the Southwest Pacific and Southeastern Indian Ocean, it becomes a severe tropical cyclone; in the north Indian, it's a severe cyclonic storm; and in the southwest Indian, it is referred to as a tropical cyclone.
The 1993 North American storm complex, also known as the (Great) Blizzard of 1993, or the Storm of the Century, was a large cyclonic storm that occurred on March to March 15, 1993, on the East Coast of North America.
When they reached Queensland Waters, a cyclonic storm snapped the tow chain and the Maheno drifted helplessly onto Fraser Island's ocean beach.
After the war, the ship was towed to Japan to be sold for scraps and it was during the towing that she was caught in a cyclonic storm.
«hurricane» (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E) «typhoon» (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline) «severe tropical cyclone» (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E) «severe cyclonic storm» (the North Indian Ocean) «tropical cyclone» (the Southwest Indian Ocean)(Neumann 1993).
Possible future changes in cyclonic storms in the Bay of Bengal, India under warmer climate The aim of this paper is to study the model's simulated frequency, track, intensity and location of cyclonic storms (CSs) and severe cyclonic storms (SCSs) in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), India.
Ice sheets and cyclonic storms (low pressure cells) have a complex interaction.
Cyclonic storms, blizzards, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes form where warm and cold air meet, which is most dramatic along the boundary generally known as the Polar Front (shown in Figure 1).
There's one other caveat: if the storm forms or moves through the southwestern Pacific Ocean or portions of the Indian Ocean, it's a cyclone or cyclonic storm.
In more recent years over 1970 - 98, cyclonic storms and floods killed more than 4.6 hundred thousand and 41 thousand peoples respectively.
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