Sentences with phrase «how global patterns»

E. 7.3 Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents influence local weather in measureable terms such as temperature, air pressure, wind direction and speed, and humidity and precipitation.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are moving closer to understanding how the global pattern of the skeleton of mammals is formed during development.

Not exact matches

How does global green coffee growth compare with growth patterns for the U.S.?
That will depend on how ready people are to reshape their spiritual inheritance in response to the new global culture, for in the coming global era, new terms and concepts will be created, along with new rituals and patterns of social behavior.
A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.
Oceanography postgraduates, for example, might study how coastal dynamics affect amphibious warfare, or how decreasing polar sea ice might influence global climate patterns.
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.
Although no single fire, no matter how severe, can be concretely linked to global climate change, the climatic conditions seen in Colorado this year fit the kind of pattern scientists expect to see in the future.
He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.
Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.
And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»
The experiment will run until early 2017 and help climate modelers determine how warming at Earth's poles could change global weather patterns.
They then projected how global warming would alter these patterns over the coming century.
Understanding how communities and ecosystems recovered from the previous five global extinction events sheds light on how extinctions shape broad patterns of biodiversity.
A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.
A chapter of the study, led by Professor Grant Bigg and Professor Edward Hanna from the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, has revealed how this increase in sea temperatures has changed global weather patterns.
In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.
«It is very important to understand how global warming affects circulation patterns in the atmosphere,» says co-author Dim Coumou from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Further research is needed to determine how global warming impacts these circulation patterns.
The climate data from these samples are a boon to scientists who aim to understand how the Arctic environment is changing today, and how global climate patterns will continue to shift in the coming century.
She has long been interested in how text has come to form its own global migratory pattern in abbreviated phrases across P.A. systems, message boxes that appear as warnings on our computers, oddly translated instructional panels, and clips of news, talk radio, and the conversations of passers - by heard peripherally as we direct our activities throughout each day.
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.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
My hobby of late has become one of trying to determine how global warming could be changing the weather patterns.
Every meteorologist trying to extend predictions must privately ache for the Pacific to settle in to its La Niña or El Niño pattern, given how hard forecasts become in the absence of those big influences on global patterns.
(I don't know how you could scientifically use data on village movements without comprehensive spatial and temporal data on other sites to determine a general pattern for permafrost wrt global warming, but I thought it might interest you.)
For many years, one of the most popular metaphors for describing how global warming will influence patterns of extreme weather events has been a progressive loading of dice.
Although our global models demonstrate that long - term environmental norms are very successful at capturing chronic fire probability patterns, future work is necessary to assess how much more explanatory power would be added through interannual variation in climate variables.
What's important here, and remains important, scientists say, is how the patterns of atmospheric and climatic change reveal the most about the involvement of greenhouse gases, not simply the change in global temperature.
Climate alarm depends on several gloomy assumptions — about how fast emissions will increase, how fast atmospheric concentrations will rise, how much global temperatures will rise, how warming will affect ice sheet dynamics and sea - level rise, how warming will affect weather patterns, how the latter will affect agriculture and other economic activities, and how all climate change impacts will affect public health and welfare.
There are global pattern correlations that affect how effective these aerosols are, and these correlations are completely missed by the one - dimensional models that Lewis still seems to favor.
I would say that's weather not climate change but I already got the lecture on how global warming causes freezing in the prairies by disrupting wind patterns so more cold air gets drawn down from the arctic warming it more so ice melts more, or some such folderol.
Wills et al. (2016) present an analysis of how circulation changes influence the global pattern of change in net precipitation (precipitation minus evaporation, P — E).
I documented this pattern in a book published one year ago this month, subtly titled «Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.»
It is therefore essential to understand how energy use patterns affect the growth and structure of the global human population [1].
A new method for projecting how the temperature will respond to human impacts supports the outlook for substantial global warming throughout this century — but also indicates that, in many regions, warming patterns are likely...
Scientists just now are starting to understand how these phenomena affect global weather patterns.
According to AMEG, here's how climate change in the Arctic has changed weather patterns: Over the past three decades, snow cover has been reduced by 17 - 18 % per decade and sea ice is declining fast because of human - induced global warming.
The pattern of warming that we have observed, in which warming has occurred in the lower portions of the atmosphere (the troposphere) and cooling has occurred at higher levels (the stratosphere), is consistent with how greenhouse gases work — and inconsistent with other factors that can affect the global temperature over many decades, like changes in the sun's energy.
Let's look back on the past few months, to see how much February — April global temperature and rain patterns reflected those expected (temperature, rain) during La Niña!
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Using software program Sketch Engine, I looked at how frequently the key corporate terms «climate change», «greenhouse effect», and «global warming» were used in each year to reveal how patterns of attention changed over time.
Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked «planetary - scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict».
Now let us look at the key claim that Tselioudis and other climate scientists make about how global warming will affect circulation patterns.
The interesting thing is how these patterns correspond to changes in global average temperature.
There are plenty of diagrams that show how global circulation patterns work (in fact, I have included one more below).
To gain a clearer understanding of how the El Niño Southern Oscillation (as the overall climate pattern is called) affects the climate as a whole, Aharon wants to see how the process worked in the time before humans were adding carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and impacting the global climate.
This briefing launched the latest report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills» Foresight programme, examining how the profound changes in natural and human environments across the world will influence and interact with patterns of global migration over the next 50 years.
The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.
Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.
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