Sentences with phrase «in storm tracks»

«The shift in storm tracks over North America was linked to the formation of these columns of warmer air over areas of reduced sea ice.»

Weiss reviewed evidence that a rapid change in storm tracks in the North Atlantic — yet to be satisfactorily explained — dried out the Tigris and Euphrates valley 4,200 years ago.

Huang, and M.A. Cane, «Changes in storm tracks and energy transports in a warmer climate simulated by the GFDL CM2.1 model,» Clim.

There is no physical theory that can parse an O - 18 series to separate paleo - temperature trends from from the effects of paleo - variations in storm tracks.

Using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, Jascha Lehmann from Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and colleagues rolled climate forward to 2100 and looked at the change in storm tracks under a high carbon - dioxide - emissions scenario.

The paper's introduction has one sentence on the observational evidence for a poleward shift in storm tracks reported in earlier papers (McCabe et al. 2001; Fyfe 2003).

It was the difference in storm tracks that determined Sandy's higher storm surge and the higher cost.

Previous research has pointed the finger at a southward shift in storm tracks and weather systems during the late 20th century.

(In the last few days, the trend in storm tracks for Hurricane Irene has been ever more to the east, leading to a chance the storm will end up skirting the East Coast.

This would suggest a systematic change in the storm tracks.

Inhibition of eddies by strong horizontal shears plays a role, as well as shifts in storm tracks.

It should also be clear that for any one locality, a shift in the storm tracks (associated with phenomena like the NAO or the sea ice edge) will often be more of an issue than the overall change in storm statistics.

So looking for both increased rainfall in wet areas and a shift in storm tracks away from the equator helped the researchers separate the signal of climate change from the noise of natural variability.

... or is any AO / NAM trend driven partly by changes in storm track positions themselves being forced by other changes besides specifically AO / NAM (reduced static stability at higher latitudes, reduced lower tropospheric temp gradient, increased gradient in upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, increased humidity, variations in all those with latitude and longitude...)??

Rasmussen hopes to conduct follow - up studies that account for shifts in the storm track, which was not reflected in her most recent study.

The difference between a huge impact for NYC and what actually happened was a difference of about 25 km in the storm track, which is not a level of accuracy that you can expect from a weather forecast model.

* This is consistent with previous work by other researchers, and highlights the fact that such extreme values are usually linked to a northward shift in the storm track, which directs storms away from California.

Interesting similarity, too, in the storm track's sudden hard left turn, to that of Hurricane Sandy.

But California is a bit unique in the sense that it lies near the southern margin of the Pacific jet stream, and is therefore quite susceptible to relatively subtle shifts in the storm track.

An associated shift in the storm track makes some regions wetter and some − often nearby − drier, making for complex patterns of change.

However, shifts in the storm track are likely.

Not exact matches

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

With so much devastation, one may wonder whether anything can be done to stop these storms in their tracks.

We published our findings about Operation Pawn Storm in October 2014, in a research paper titled «Operation Pawn Storm: Using Decoys to Evade Detection» and we've been tracking its movements and developments since then.

Since the beginning of the season, Klotzbach has been obsessively keeping track of the storms in a way, he says, that straddles the line of work and hobby.

That's the challenge meteorologists have predicting how scattered storms will impact a single point or, in this case, a track on that grid.

They stormed into the straight three wide, and when Ayres looked a certain winner deep in the stretch, Big John loomed up in the middle of the track, closing fast.

And so has the Broncos mindset --- even a 62 - minute weather delay due to a storm late in the first quarter did not throw them off track.

I really hope Arsenal start to see the Ramsey that took the Premier League by storm and put us on track for the title, but he is under pressure and has sometimes tired too hard in those circumstances.

Elinor Barker stormed to the points race champion title in a race dominated by the home nations, with Katie Archibald and Neah Evans riding to silver and bronze respectively for Scotland - Wales's first gold medal on the track since 1990.

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As Hurricane Sandy heads steers toward New York, forecasters in the Buffalo Niagara region are continue to track the massive storm as it approaches the coastal regions.

Mail delivery is getting back on track this week in areas hit hard by last week's storm.

The GPS enhancements will allow for real - time monitoring during plowing operations, including route tracking, air and pavement temperature and deicing material application rates for each truck engaged in storm response.

Industry data shows the difference insurers make With: 9.4 million paid everyday over life, income protection and critical illness insurance in 2014 Over # 1bn in claims paid to households and business affected by the winter 2013/14 floods and storms And tracking of motor and household premiums

As of last night, the storm was on track to break the 30 - inch accumulation mark in Binghamton.

Cuomo said around 1,000 track workers will be deployed during the storm in addition to 800 station workers to keep stairs and platforms clear of snow.

But she also warned that spending cuts enacted by Congress threaten NOAA's ability to produce detailed hurricane forecasts and track storms in the future.

Biologists have tracked dust storms over Africa spreading all the way to the Amazon in South America.

Computer modeling and satellite observations suggest that these tiny particles can increase storm - cloud cover over certain regions of the North Pacific by 20 to 50 percent, enough to alter storm tracks in some cases.

About 8 years ago, geographer Kam - biu Liu of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge realized that finding such layers of storm - driven sand in old sediments offered a way to track hurricanes that came ashore thousands of years ago.

It monitors changes in Earth's magnetic field, providing data that help NOAA and the U.S. Air Force track magnetic storms due to solar activity.

Climate modelers, in contrast, do not attempt to predict weather or track individual storms years into the future.

The location is on track toward a target to reduce storm water runoff by 75 percent in summer and 40 percent in winter, he added.

In the five simulations conducted by Lau and his colleagues at NASA Goddard, two hurricanes followed the same track as Sandy, hooking westward and merging with the mid-latitude storm as they hit the coast.

«If we do take rapid action to counter global warming and slow the rise in temperatures, southern storms tracks are likely to return to a more northerly position.

An increase in the width of the tropics could increase the area affected by tropical storms (hurricanes), or could change climatological tropical cyclone development regions and tracks.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

Meanwhile, GOLD's position 22,000 miles above Earth will give it the chance to track changes in the ionosphere as they move across the globe, similar to how a weather satellite tracks a storm.