Sentences with phrase «high north atlantic»

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

Not exact matches

Irma's continued trek west across the ocean was guided by a strong ridge of high atmospheric pressure over the Atlantic, which prevented the storm from curving north and away from North Amenorth and away from North AmeNorth America.

To accomplish this, Intelsat takes revenues derived from high - traffic routes (eg the North Atlantic region, USA to Europe) and subsidizes the less profitable traffic routes that interconnect geographically isolated and / or developing nations».

We drove through Acadia National Park and to the top of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the North Atlantic Seaboard.

Year - to - year changes in Greenland melt since 1979 were already known to be closely tied to North Atlantic ocean temperatures and high - pressure systems that sit above Greenland during the summer — known as summer blocking highs.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

These large Northern Hemisphere cooling events have previously been linked to a change in the Atlantic Ocean circulation that led to a reduced transport of warm water to the high latitudes in the North.

When the NAO is intense, a fair - weather ridge of high pressure dominates the north - central Atlantic.

The paper, «Recent enhanced high - summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three - century context,» by Trouet and her co-authors Flurin Babst of the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf and Matthew Meko of the UA is scheduled for publication in Nature Communications on Jan. 12.

Diffenbaugh There is also a high pressure center over the North Atlantic interacting.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

«The storms with the highest water levels usually followed a particular pattern, with low pressure from the Atlantic moving to the north of mainland Scotland or further north.

Countries ringing the North Atlantic Ocean, where the mercury concentration is among the highest recorded in the study, may be particularly vulnerable.

When the array reaches the Atlantic seaboard next year, it will begin collecting the final batch of data needed to complete the first high - resolution, 3 - D map of the 50 - mile - thick North American continent.

Besides central Appalachia, the report identified sites in the Chesapeake Bay lowland, the high Allegheny plateau, lower New England, northern Appalachia and the north Atlantic Coast.

Eventually, a high - pressure ridge moved from the North Atlantic into the United States, shutting down rainfall and setting the stage for a heat wave to emerge.

«Periods of very intense North Atlantic circulation and higher Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased the preservation of microfossils in the sediment cores, whereas those with slower circulation, when the study site was primarily influenced from the south, were linked with decreased carbonate ion concentrations at our core site which led to partial dissolution,» said co-author Dr Luke Skinner, also from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences.

Importantly, the NAO relates to changes in the strength and position of the North Atlantic jet stream - a band of very fast winds high in the atmosphere.

For the North Atlantic corridor, this figure may reach as high as 75 per cent, according to recent estimates by Jouke Peper of the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory.

In the main North Atlantic air corridor, a sharp difference also exists between the height of the tropopause north and south of the jet stream, a kind of natural high - speed wind tunnel in the upper atmospNorth Atlantic air corridor, a sharp difference also exists between the height of the tropopause north and south of the jet stream, a kind of natural high - speed wind tunnel in the upper atmospnorth and south of the jet stream, a kind of natural high - speed wind tunnel in the upper atmosphere.

Other people with high exposures to PCBs include those in Great Lakes states, as well as populations near the Baltic Sea, in the North Atlantic and in the Arctic.

Instead of a trough off the northeastern United States, we had this high - pressure ridge, and that kept the westerly winds far north of the tropical Atlantic storms.

Based on the volcanic record in and around Iceland over the last 56 million years and numerical modeling, Brown and Lesher show that high mantle temperatures are essential for generating the large magma volumes that gave rise to the North Atlantic large igneous provinces bordering Greenland and northern Europe.

The largest increase occurred in the high - latitude North Atlantic Ocean (north of 50 ° N; an increase of 2 — 6 annual eveNorth Atlantic Ocean (north of 50 ° N; an increase of 2 — 6 annual evenorth of 50 ° N; an increase of 2 — 6 annual events).

High concentrations of microplastics have been found in five oceanic gyres (the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, South Indian, North Pacific and South Pacific gyres).

«We have recovered two new high - resolution paleomagnetic records of the Laschamp Excursion (~ 41,000 calendar years B.P.) from deep - sea sediments of the western North Atlantic Ocean.

Model predictions from the North Atlantic have revealed that over 17 % of the seafloor area below 500 m depth will experience pH reductions exceeding 0.2 units by 2100 because of subduction of high - CO2 waters by thermohaline circulation (Gehlen et al., 2014).

... a close temporal coupling between events in the tropical and high latitude North Atlantic during the last deglaciation [1].

Citation: V. Trouet, F. Babst & M. Meko; Recent enhanced high - summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three - century context; Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1); DOI: 10.1038 / s41467 -017-02699-3.

A blocking high pressure system in the North Atlantic creating consistent strong northeasterly flow would provide wave action that may have contributed to the chevron ridge formation in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

The robust increase of high pressure in the North Atlantic strengthens prevailing northeasterly winds blowing onto the Bahamas.

The recent dramatic swings between drought and flooding in the southeastern United States have been found to be linked to changes in the North Atlantic Subtropical High (also known as the Bermuda High), and these changes may be linked to global warming.11

Increased high pressure due to cooler high - latitude ocean (Fig. 20) can make blocking situations more extreme, with a steeper pressure gradient between the storm's low - pressure center and the blocking high, thus driving stronger North Atlantic storms.

NOAA has issued its annual forecast for the hurricane season, along with its now - standard explanation that there is a natural cycle of multidecadal (40 - 60 year) length in the North Atlantic circulation (often referred to as the «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» — see Figure), that is varying the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and that the present high level of activity is due to a concurrent positive peak in this oscillation.

«Enormous waves across the North Atlantic would eliminate ship traffic» because no ship is built to withstand 30 meter waves (100 feet high).

«The price and investment are too high to get any return» for even a limited run of the Atlantic, a concept luxury coupe with retro styling that was shown at the North American International Auto Show in 1995, Eaton said.

«The price and investment are too high to get any return» for even a limited run of the Atlantic, a concept luxury coupe with retro styling that was shown at the North American International Auto Show in 1995, Eaton said.In other news, Eaton said: - The company is developing one all - new vehicle, apart from the Prowler.

The hotel overlooks the bay, and guests on higher floors have the option of opening their windows to take a dive right into the North Atlantic.

Perfect for leisure and business travelers alike, the newly renovated Comfort Inn Atlantic City North features a fitness center, hot deluxe continental breakfast; free wireless high speed internet, warmly appointed guest rooms with spectacular bay view of the Atlantic City skyline, and friendly professional service.

Facing out into the North Atlantic, the whole coastline of Andalucia receives high quality swells that are frequently met by calm and sunny weather conditions, making this part of Spain an ideal surfing destination.

«Multidecadal variability of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity is observed to relate to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)-- a mode manifesting primarily in sea surface temperature (SST) in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic.

eg «These studies provide new insights on the sensitivity and response of meridional ocean circulation to melt water inputs to the North Atlantic high latitudes (e.g., Bamberg et al., 2010; Irvali et al., 2012; Morley et al., 2011) and their potential role in amplifying small radiative variations into large a climate response through dynamic changes in ocean - atmosphere interactions (e.g., Morely et al., 2011; Irvali et al., 2012; Morley et al., 2014).

The was a large so - called blocking high in North Atlantic that led to the polar outbreaks into Europe and so that is where the cold air went, making it warmer in behind.

The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.

The recent evidence for salinification provided by Hatun et al. has been interpreted by some as being inconsistent with the evidence for high - latitude North Atlantic freshening found in previous reports.

Further suggestions that D / O events in Greenland are generated by shifts in the North Atlantic ocean circulation seem highly implausible, given the weak contribution of the high latitude ocean to the meridional flux of heat.

«The IPCC Summary notes that there is evidence for increased hurricane intensity in the North Atlantic, which is correlated with higher sea surface temperatures.

Hatun et al. examined the possibilities that [i] a change in rain falling over the ocean (freshens the water) and evaporation (increases the salinity by removing water and leaving salt behind), [ii] increased salinity in the sub-tropical gyre (in the main part of the North Atlantic), [iii] increased salinity in the sub-polar gyre, or [iv] dynamical changes in the relative contributions from the two gyres could explain the high salinities in the in - flow regions.

We can check the current SST and see that this matches what is going on currently, except for the cold region near 50N 25W, which was there not too long ago, but has recently disappeared, so we appear to be in a phase of high deep - water convection in the North Atlantic.