Sentences with phrase «from high latitudes»

Increased melting from high latitudes should produce an identifiable pattern of sea level change («fingerprints») that may provide evidence of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise.

Both Chang and Anthes note that cold surges of winds from high latitudes penetrate close to the equator only in the South China Sea, making an equatorial hurricane an unlikely surprise anywhere else on the globe.

Overall, the total amount of CH4 emissions that atmospheric scientists see from high latitudes is half of that in bottom - up estimates, and scientists are working to understand this discrepancy [Bruhwiler et al., 2014].

Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are therefore not responsible for the initial transmission of warming from the high latitudes to the southeast African tropics.

My major findings were that 1) raised temperatures increased the proportion of abnormal embryos, decreased larval lifespan and increased the rate of embryonic development, 2) coral embryos from higher latitudes possessed greater thermal tolerance ranges and 3) the mode of larval development and corallite size were predictors for the differences in coral cover between the Great Barrier Reef and Lord Howe Island.

It is possible that glacial periods other than those above, especially in the Precambrian, have been overlooked because of scarcity of exposed rocks from high latitudes from older periods.

And so far, the sources of methane from high latitudes are small, relative to the big player, which is wetlands in warmer climes.

Surges of higher pressure from high latitudes can enhance tropical disturbances along its axis.

The region of lower pressure brings cooler air from the higher latitudes into the eastern U.S.,» explained Singh.

Palmer and colleagues found that methane emissions from tropical wetlands mainly depended on variations in groundwater whereas emissions from higher latitudes were more strongly related to temperature changes.

The colder eastern boundary currents, which flow from the high latitudes toward the equator, are the slowest and most diffuse currents around the gyre.

If the added warming from the higher latitudes (focus on Arctic) is now dialed into global temperatures as this paper does, it presents a future dilemma.

Once Ulysses was in its scheduled orbit, it began observing the solar wind and magnetic field strength at high solar latitudes, finding that the solar wind from high latitudes was moving at about 750 km / s (slower than expected), and that there were large magnetic waves emerging from high latitudes which scattered galactic cosmic rays.