Sentences with phrase «global weather phenomenon»

That's down to natural fluctuations that temporarily boost or dampen the speed of warming, such as the global weather phenomenon known as El Niño, the paper notes.
In addition, the new scheme notably improves the forecasting of monsoon timing during years affected by the global weather phenomenon El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO), particularly in its La Niña phase.
He cites a global weather phenomenon, called atmospheric blocking, as an example of a planet - wide occurrence that is has already affected his forensic micrometeorology endeavors.
Fueled by people's pyromania and the El Niño global weather phenomenon, carbon dioxide concentrations reached 409.44 parts per million on April 9 at an air - sampling station atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a rise of more than five ppm since the same date last year.
It highlighted a series of global weather phenomena that resulted from this stratosphere - troposphere «coupling» — such as the cold European winters and occurrences of extreme temperatures over eastern North America.

Not exact matches

As Cobb explained, the tropical Pacific, through phenomena like El Niño, plays a very large role in precipitation and global weather patterns like monsoons today.
The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most powerful phenomena controlling global weather.
With a changing global climate, the panel members said, what seem to be abnormally frequent, intense or otherwise extreme weather phenomena may become the new «normal» at the same time that humans, expanding to populate more geographical nooks and crannies, become increasingly vulnerable to these events.
The results will help to better understand how this important weather phenomenon affects global climate and how it may change in the future.
These high - resolution images — 2,000 x 2,000 pixels - document Earth's global weather patterns and other climate - related phenomena.
The volcanic events associated with these intervals caused global weather and climate phenomena and are often used by climate modelers as well to understand volcanic sulfate loading on the climate.
This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.
Having said that, it seems that people are linking recent weather phenomena with the concept of global warming.
For Trenberth, after AR4 successfully convicted man of a trivial amount of global warming, man is guilty until proven innocent (by his new null hypothesis) of ALL unusual weather phenomena.
Discussion from the Viewpoints of the Numbers of Typhoons That Develop, Approach, and Hit Japan, and Their Intensities The present paper examines the theory that global warming causes abnormal weather phenomena involving typhoons, focusing on the numbers of typhoons that develop and hit Japan and their intensities.
Phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña — which warm and cool the tropical Pacific Ocean and cause corresponding variations in global wind and weather patterns — contribute to short - term variations in global temperatures.
«Myth 4» was that extreme weather phenomena are increasing because of global warming.)
It's probably more scientifically meaningful on a global and longer term level than about immediate weather phenomena, which might be why there's actual scholarship about it (thanks MMM).
To lessen an alleged threat from catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) and stronger extreme weather phenomena that has never been shown to exist.
Scientists just now are starting to understand how these phenomena affect global weather patterns.
The weather phenomenon El Niño and global warming fueled the spread of the Zika virus in South America, scientists at the University of Liverpool say.
LONDON, 1 February, 2015 − El Niño, the cyclic Pacific weather phenomenon that periodically brings global devastation in its wake, is not the only thing likely to grow more extreme with global warming.
This NOAA experiment should be expanded to other continents and countries since it is now obvious that the combined older technology and substandard weather station sites have well overstated the global warming phenomenon.
Climate scientists have warned of wild weather in the year ahead as the start of the global «El Niño» climate phenomenon exacerbates the impacts of global warming.
I think we can be fairly certain that ANYONE claiming there is such a thing as a «global» weather phenomenon (usually called «warming» by such «scientists») is either:
Physical causes controlling the influence of the main cosmic factors on the state of the ionosphere and, further, on weather and climatic phenomena, including the global warming, are investigated.
Climate News Network: El Niño, the mysterious meteorological phenomenon that periodically upsets global weather patterns, bringing catastrophic flooding to the arid lands of North and South America, and forest fires to South - east Asia, turns out to be more complicated than anyone had thought.
Haiti's third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food - insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.
The return of the global - weather - shifting Pacific Ocean phenomenon known as El Niño has been officially declared.
The following are a couple of extreme weather phenomena and how global warming can exacerbate them.
-- modelling procedure requires crude approximations over large grid cells, ignoring local climate and weather phenomena as large as hurricances — model projections are demonstrably unreliable at regional and local level: even those that appear to simulate the evolution of global temperature do so only by averaging hundreds of more or less wrong results for the grid cells.
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