Sentences with phrase «drive changes in atmospheric circulation»

Lamont's Ryan Abernathey and Richard Seager are studying how changes in the ocean cause sea surface temperature to vary, and how these anomalies drive changes in atmospheric circulation to create extreme weather events.

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The mechanism involves cloud changes in these major internally driven reorganizations atmospheric and ocean circulation.
Relatively abrupt changes in the climate of a particular location may be driven not by abrupt changes in the atmospheric circulation, but rather by otherwise slowly evolving changes in the circulation in regions of large horizontal gradients in surface weather.
Warming the ocean leads to changes in atmospheric circulation, and the existing heat distributed in the ocean, which changes the wind - driven ocean circulation.
Scientists expect rainfall extremes to change in Europe under future climate conditions responding to changes in large - scale atmospheric circulation driven by global warming.
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