Sentences with phrase «global atmospheric circulation»

This would have an impact on global atmospheric circulation and thus global climate.

However, if the loss of Arctic Sea ice has significantly changed global atmospheric circulation patterns, then we are dealing with a different system that has only been in existence since 2007, and we do not know how often to expect crop failures.

John M. Wallace is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington who studies global atmospheric circulation and climate variability.

According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, the U.S. government agency tasked with monitoring, assessing and predicting the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle (El Niño and La Niña), current global atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns are consistent with ENSO - neutral conditions in the tropical Pacific.

Most anthropogenic sources have been located at temperate northern latitudes, and global atmospheric circulation transfers to Greenland air masses from North America, Europe, and, to a lesser extent, Asia (46).

The timing of such uplift is important in helping scientists to understand how mountains form, how they erode and what impact this may have on global atmospheric circulation patterns and climate.

This «would create a persistent layer of black carbon particles in the northern stratosphere that could cause potentially significant changes in the global atmospheric circulation and distributions of ozone and temperature,» they concluded.

The temperatures in the central Pacific have the biggest impact on the global atmospheric circulation, and therefore the biggest impacts on global weather, says Timmerman, who has been warning that this El Niño is likely to be a record - breaker.

The global atmospheric circulation is characterized by air slowly rising in the tropics into the upper atmosphere and sinking at higher latitudes.

The Indo - Pacific warm pool (IPWP), Earth's largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and the hydrological cycle.

Climate models show the absence of a global atmospheric circulation pattern which bolsters high ocean temperatures key to coral bleaching

All that extra heat in the Pacific warms the air above, leading to more rising air than normal in that region, which affects the global atmospheric circulation.

The central Pacific cooling then strengthens the global atmospheric circulation anomalies.»

How does the concept of «teleconnections» help with our understanding of global atmospheric circulation?

The eastward displacement of the atmosphere overlying the warmer water results in dramatic changes in the global atmospheric circulation, which in turn force changes in the weather activity of regions far removed from the El Niño waters of the tropical Pacific.

a) How will the recovering ozone hole and rising greenhouse - gas concentrations affect regional and global atmospheric circulation and climate?

This pack of revision questions designed to allow pupils to revise the full specification content for Topic 1 Hazardous earth (Global atmospheric circulation and tropical storms) and tectonic and tectonic hazards sections.

Our estimate is based primarily on our review of a series of calculations with three - dimensional models of the global atmospheric circulation, which is summarized in Chapter 4.

The global atmospheric circulation has a number of preferred patterns of variability, all of which have expressions in surface climate.

«Our finding that convective features change drastically at resolutions of 2 kilometers or more opens up new avenues for research into the interactions between convection and global atmospheric circulation that would have been invisible at coarser resolutions.»

By Amber Bentley (Aged 11) In just 16 pages, this wonderful book covers the structure of the atmosphere, solar radiation, the water cycle, clouds, fronts, convection, air pressure, air masses, the global atmospheric circulation, making weather observations, forecasting, synoptic charts, hurricanes, regional climate, palaeoclimates and anthropogenic climate change.

The IPWP is Earth's largest region of warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), has the highest rainfall, and is fundamental to global atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle.

Due to the sheer size of the Amazon rainforest, the area has a strong impact on the climate in the Southern Hemisphere and is a primary driver of global atmospheric circulation.