Sentences with word «foehn»
The melt was driven by powerful, warm winds called foehn winds (that's German for hairdryer, by the way).
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However the positive AAO generated a wind regime that moved up and over the mountains, creating anomalous foehn storms on the eastern side of the peninsula.5 As the winds descend, temperatures adiabatically rise 10 to 20 degrees or more due to changes in pressure without any additional heat as depicted in Figure 2 above.
When the Southern Annular Mode is positive, it increases the odds of foehn wind events.
Periodically, southern California experiences extreme foehn - type winds locally called Santa Ana winds.
When adiabatically heated air reaches the ground we get foehn storms, and when it hovers a few hundred feet above the ground we get heat waves.
The following article discusses another two factors in melting of antarctic glaciers, including foehn winds and ocean currents: When warm winds blow in Antarctica's dark, freezing winter.
Hot air tends to get trapped between the two mountain and causes hot, dry foehn winds to flow into the valley.
The biggest melt episode occurred from May 25 - 30, 2016 when foehn winds caused temperatures to reach up to 55 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius) at the ice's surface.
Adiabatic warming of downward moving air produces the warm Chinook wind Chinook winds / ʃɪˈnʊk /, or simply chinooks, are foehn winds [1] in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest.
The heat was driven by westerly «foehn» winds, which formed as air sliding down the mountains of the peninsula compressed and warmed.
No one knows how often these foehn winds happen — but, Scambos says, «we could be missing some important facts.»
«Santa Ana» winds, or foehn winds, are hot winds... when one of them starts to blown, his assumption that wind will cool down the UHI gets blown out the window.
A föhn or foehn is a type of dry, warm, down - slope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
Overall, the scientists found that in Cabinet Inlet, up to 23 percent of all observed surface melt between 2015 - 17 was driven by these foehn wind episodes.