Sentences with phrase «in wind circulation patterns»

Not exact matches

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

«We think, but have not yet been able to establish, that this is connected to independently observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation,» Emanuel says, referring to a large - scale pattern of global winds, which in recent years has also moved further poleward.

The UM Rosenstiel School researchers used historical observations of cloud cover as a proxy for wind velocity in climate models to analyze the Walker circulation, the atmospheric air flow and heat distribution in the tropic Pacific region that affects patterns of tropical rainfall.

«Wave patterns in the images, revealed by UV absorption from ozone concentrations, are critical to understanding the wind patterns, giving scientists an additional means to study the chemistry and global circulation of the atmosphere,» writes NASA.

«Such concentrations are clear evidence of strong irregularities in Mars» high altitude winds and circulation patterns,» says NASA in a statement.

The problem then is that in a warming climate, all other factors are not equal, such as wind shear and ocean circulation patterns.

Since the Eastern Tropical Pacific is not entirely decoupled from West Wind Drift given the general pattern of circulation in the SE Pacific, the question arises is the magnitude of the observed overall energy difference in the recently observed «extended» La Nina phase of ENSO condition relative to the the «more normal» ENSO comparable in magnitude to energy associated with the apparent increase in winds and potentially currents around the Antarctic?

«We think the recent snowy winters could be caused by the retreating Arctic ice altering atmospheric circulation patterns by weakening westerly winds, increasing the amplitude of the jet stream and increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere,»

In 1735 George Hadley used the wind patterns, recorded by English sailing ships, to create the first 3D diagram of circulation.

It was determined that a major cause of changes in the size and extent of the Antarctic ozone hole are the intense wind patterns and circulations associated with the extensive Antarctic high - pressure zone and the surrounding wind pattern known as the Circumpolar Vortex.

Two wind patterns in the Indian Ocean, known as the Hadley circulation and the Walker circulation, interact with the Indo - Pacific warm pool to drive sea level changes.

A hemispheric - scale circulation pattern defined by changes in the westerly winds at midlatitudes.

The circulation pattern described above — ascent in the equatorial trough, poleward movement in the upper troposphere, descent in the subtropical ridges, and equatorward movement in the trade winds — is in effect a direct heat engine, which meteorologists call the Hadley cell.

That would change the air circulation patterns resulting in the observed wind effect on the ocean surfaces but would itself have been caused by changes in the rate of release or absorption of energy from the ocean surfaces.

Some respondents note that atmospheric circulation played a role in 2007, but that it is not probable that such an unusual wind pattern will repeat itself in 2008.

General circulation model calculations show extra heating in summer warms the stratosphere, strengthening easterly winds and changing wind patterns.

Vector wind analyses were computed to explain the composite seasonal precipitation anomaly results in terms of different circulation patterns associated with these two wet groups.

The dominant ice - determining factors of the Arctic have shifted several ways, from the dominance of winds around 2000, to new patterns of cracking, to 70 % drop in volume in a quarter century, to new circulations.

The more traditional candidates included changes in ice and snow cover, ocean currents, or the pattern of wind circulation and storms.

In case you're curious about El Nino / La Nina: El Nino involves the weakening of the Walker Circulation, an equatorial atmospheric wind pattern.

circulation patterns, suggesting it was (as I recall) significant, and then went on to describe... potential purposeful alteration of synoptic scale weather in Europe by manipulation of a hypothetical wind power plant in the U.S..

This in turn helps explain how factors such as fresh water from melting ice or changes in global wind patterns might lead to large - scale changes in ocean circulation or climate in the future.

Recent records of wintertime extents (in 2012, 2013, and 2014) appear to be associated with patterns in air circulation related to the westerly wind regime.

Reichler and colleagues used weather observations and 4,000 years worth of supercomputer simulations of weather to show a surprising association between decade - scale, periodic changes in stratospheric wind patterns known as the polar vortex, and similar rhythmic changes in deep - sea circulation patterns.

A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable «Achilles heel» in the North Atlantic and changing mile - deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate.