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.
Not exact matches
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.