Sentences with phrase «including changes in the jet stream»

Solar has its largest influence in the lower stratosphere (including changes in jet stream position), CO2 in the lower troposphere.

Not exact matches

Those changes may include the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and changes in the jet stream and the pattern of El Niño and La Niña weather cycles.

The changes in the atmospheric circulation include things like a stronger subtropical jet stream.

As I describe in that article the weather systems on Earth (primarily the jet streams and the high pressure cells either side of them) ramp up their thermal efficiency in tune with the scale of any positive or negative energy input changes from any source including that from human CO2.

The previous suggested reason was that climate change was shifting storms and the powerful air currents known as the jet streams — including the one that traverses the United States — toward the poles, which in turn were driving the movement of the clouds.

Further adding to the divide within the climate science community is the fact that many of the climate models that Trenberth and others often use do not show the sorts of changes in the jet stream that the new study and others like it have pointed to, including the more frequently stagnated or «blocked» weather patterns that Francis cited.

While climate change does not affect Earth's tilt, it does have potential implications for many of the other factors that influence winter weather in the US, including Arctic sea ice, the polar jet stream, the polar vortex, and El Niño.