That includes accelerated warming,
effects on weather at lower latitudes, and associated impacts on plants and animals in the region.
Meteorologists and climatologists who study the Arctic pay attention to the Arctic Oscillation, because its phase has an important
effect on weather in northern locations.
As a result they have a direct
effect on the weather of all the planets in our solar system, and the Earth's own magnetic field.
During an El Niño, the ocean releases its energy into the air, warming surface temperatures, having a knock -
on effect on weather patterns around the globe, including weaker monsoons in India and more hurricanes over the Pacific.
Known as the Roof of the Earth, the Tibetan Plateau rises to altitudes of up to five miles and as well as a mystical magnet for travelers of all sorts it has a
major effect on the weather of much of Asia.
But when we speak of growth of Gross Domestic Product we do not subtract the
negative effects on weather and water supply or the loss of recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual values.
Two of the study's authors, climatologist Judah Cohen of the Massachusetts - based climate and weather risk assessment group Atmospheric and Environmental Research and atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, have long been proponents of the hypothesis that the warming Arctic is having
profound effects on weather at the midlatitudes (SN: 3/12/15), from severe snowfalls to heat waves.
«Distant tropical storms have
ripple effects on weather close to home: Researchers describe a breakthrough in making accurate predictions of weather weeks ahead.»
It also has
large effects on weather outside the tropics, triggering and strengthening hurricanes, monsoons, and heat waves in higher latitudes.
Differing from the majority of scientists, meteorologist Bastardi presented his «global cooling» theory in a December AccuWeather video arguing that carbon dioxide is a trace gas that has
less effect on weather than forces such as the sun.
The jet stream is strongest in winter, when it has the
greatest effect on weather in more densely populated parts of North America and Eurasia.
Humans are changing the atmosphere in many different ways — emitting greenhouse gases, aerosols and smoke, changing the reflectivity of the land, and so on — each of which has
different effects on the weather.
In addition to the direct impacts of rapid Arctic warming — most notably the loss of sea ice — scientists also think that it could be having an
indirect effect on weather patterns in the mid-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere.
The atmosphere S6E4a: Demonstrate that land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates and explain the
resulting effects on weather patterns.
The two that come to mind related to the «blacktop»
effect on weather station reporting (higher ground temperatures in the immediate vicinity of urban weather stations that were only at or immediately near ground level due to urban development) and problems with ocean surface temperature measuring methods.
It's well documented that solar activity has a direct
effect on weather here on Earth, and that comet activity has a direct effect on solar weather.
The British Isles are not only tucked beside a vast Atlantic Ocean whose temperatures have a
powerful effect on our weather, they are also at the receiving - end of the jetstream.
Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has
significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»
From the world of the physicist Freeman Dyson, we learn of the butterfly effect: a butterfly, taking off from a flower in Beijing, has
an effect on the weather patterns of mid-America.
In quiet solar years, the storms are shifted to the south, but it remains unclear exactly how solar activity has
these effects on the weather.
The new study shows that, in Europe,
the effect on weather is still stronger in fall.
If the Arctic region becomes warmer in the future, do you think that will have —
no effects on the weather where you live; minor effects on the weather where you live; or major effects on the weather where you live?
2 Bad astronomy: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, but it is just one 10 - billionth as bright as the sun and has
no effect on our weather.
The loss of sea ice does not directly raise global sea levels, but it is already affecting us all through
its effects on the weather.
Year by year, it's slipping into a new state, and it's hard to see how that won't have
an effect on weather throughout the Northern Hemisphere,» Ted Scambos, an NSIDC lead scientist, said in a statement.
They have also concentrated on
the effects on weather during winter, when the Arctic warming signal is strongest.
That finding was a certainty given that the Act defined «welfare» to include «
effects on weather and climate.»
Climate is always changing and always having
an effect on the weather.