Sentences with phrase «influence atmospheric flow»
North - south - oriented mountain barriers, such as the Rockies and the Andes, and large massifs, such as the Plateau of Tibet, also influence atmospheric flow.
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Researchers have long known the region is crucial in the uptake of atmospheric CO2 and that biological processes in the Southern Ocean influence the global ocean system via northward flowing currents.
The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.
In sensitivity experiments the influence of removed orography of Greenland on the Arctic flow patterns and cyclone tracks during winter have been determined using a global coupled model and a dynamical downscaling with the regional atmospheric model HIRHAM.
The atmospheric flow will also have an influence, as strong vertical wind shear can inhibit cyclogenesis (spawning of cyclones).
At the same time — research is showing a solar UV / ozone chemistry influence in modulating atmospheric flows and polar pressure fields.
-- Stephen, I would suggest that external factors influencing atmospheric pressure variations (& hence flow AND CLOUDS), which operate on more than one timescale, are largely responsible for what many choose to ascribe to «ocean cycles».
Tides influence not only magma flows, but ocean currents and even atmospheric circulation and perhaps even the sun's activity cycles.
To be short on this: reservoirs have not the slightest influence on other reservoirs (including the atmospheric reservoir), if there were no flows / cycles between them.
Other proposed mechanisms confine the Arctic's influence on large - scale circulation changes to the troposphere, in which a warmer Arctic favors a wavier flow and more persistent atmospheric blocking, which often spawns extreme weather events58, 59.