Sentences with phrase «into warmer regions»

The thermal gradient (badly named a lapse rate) allows heat transfer downwards by diffusion into warmer regions when the thermodynamic equilibrium is disrupted with new energy absorbed higher up.

The Arctic has transformed in recent years into a warmer region, a new government assessment concludes

Because it is compressed into the warmest region, biodiversity currently appears to be limited by less then optimal, too cool temps.

Not exact matches

The Kneipp Pool - separated into regions of warm and cold water with changing pressures - is not to be missed.

That collision between very warm, humid air at low levels of the atmosphere and cool air at higher levels creates the upward vertical winds within a thunderstorm that sometimes turn into a tornado, said Thomas Schwein, deputy director of the National Weather Service's Central Region, which includes Missouri.

Should ice in Arctic regions, such as Greenland, melt again, the globe may face a similar situation, sending Europe into a colder age despite warming taking place elsewhere.

While microbe and vector movement can be difficult to detect, modeling suggests that global warming will expand the reach of malaria to higher latitudes and into tropical mountain regions.

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

The study found that a rapidly warming climate would cause many species to expand into new regions, which would impact on native species, while others with restricted ranges, particularly those around the tropics, are more likely to face extinction.

Pusceddu's findings indicate that global warming could be putting slime production into overdrive; other scientists worry that overfishing and pollution in the region may contribute to the mucus by disrupting the local ecosystem.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

We usually interpret them as an insight into star - forming regions, with the illumination from young stars warming dust particles and water molecules until they start to glow.

This reflects the fact that while the warm colors and cool colors occupy a similar amount of space in a chart of the 80 colors used in the test, most languages divide the warmer regions into more color words than the cooler regions.

The Arctic has transformed over the last five years into a region that's warmer and greener, with larger patches of open water as sea ice recedes.

In Arctic areas, global warming is happening at roughly twice the average speed, which has allowed Alaska's trumpeter swans to expand their breeding grounds northward into regions that were previously too cold, according to a study published in Wildlife Biology in December.

«In this region, the same [storms] that have driven increased snowfall inland have brought warmer ocean currents into contact with West Antarctic's ice shelves, resulting in rapid thinning,» said Thomas.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

«It is likely to vary between seasons, regions and the warming versus cooling states, and nonlinear effects or additional factors must be taken into account.»

CarsonNow.Org December 7, 2017 With cold weather having settled into the region, five churches in Carson City have partnered this season to operate nightly winter warming shelters for the area's homeless.

Depending on the breed and how cold it gets in your region dog boots are definitely worth looking into to keep your pup healthy, safe and warm.

Even during warm months, in some regions, temperatures can fall into the chilly range at night, and many dogs need extra insulation in the form of a sweater or light cover to retain body heat.

Northeast: Mexicali stays warm during the day long after most other places in Baja, as the desert southwest flow continues to pump warm air into the region.

At CTRC, he joined forces with Audrey Palmer Hawks, then Director General of the Caribbean Tourism Association, to create a strong marketing programme to help propel the Caribbean region into the limelight as the leading warm weather destination in the world.

This process is part of what is called the «thermohaline» or «overturning» circulation and is associated with a significant amount of heat transport into the North Atlantic, which indeed keeps Britain and the rest of the North Atlantic region 3 to 6 degrees C warmer than they otherwise would be.

Is it just folklore that hurricanes (I think these are TC's) occur due to warm ocean water that causes air to rise over a region, drawing in air that then develops into circular winds?

Arctic researchers caution that there is something of a paradox in Arctic trends: while the long - term fate of the region may be mostly sealed, no one should presume that the recent sharp warming and seasonal ice retreats that have caught the world's attention will continue smoothly into the future.

Mark — What are your thoughts about the analysis by Ramanathan and Feng (PNAS, Sept 17,2008: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0803838105), in which they calculate the committed warming of cumulative emissions since the pre-industrial era as in the region of 2.4 °C (with a confidence interval of 1.4 °C to 4.3 °C), based on calculating the equilibrium temperature if GHG concentrations are held at 2005 levels into the future.

In a region where the ocean was already being heated, the same pattern would be seen but now since the skin SST was warmer, the skin - bulk difference would increase, causing more heat to go into the ocean.

In his media critique, Romm cites a March paper on evidence for expansion of malaria into highland regions of the world as a result of warming.

Scientists are still trying to decide how the poleward heat transport will be affected by global warming — but the rapid changes at the poles seem to involve a lot of heat transport into that region via both the atmosphere and the oceans.

However, the increased temperatures that result from the warm air that flows into the northern regions of the Arctic are not being measured.

Modeling teams that fed different plausible assumptions into their computers got somewhat different results for particular regions, although always overall global warming.

The atmospheric river of moisture streaming off of the record warm Pacific ocean is heavily aerosolized (as described above) which keeps much of the moisture from falling and broadcasts it out into massive regions of rainless (and toxic) cloud cover expanding out over the Western US.

The air temperature patterns were a result of low pressure on the Eurasian side of the Arctic (Figure 8), along with high pressure in the Bering Sea, which supported some warm air advection into the Chukchi and East Siberian seas region.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

They find about 0.25 °C less Arctic warming during the past decade than in the GISS analysis, a difference that they attribute to our method of interpolating and extrapolating data, especially into the Arctic Ocean regions where no station data are available.

But mapping with ice - penetrating radar has revealed a low - lying region cut by glacially carved channels that drop as far as 8,500 feet below sea level — perfect for guiding warm ocean water deep into the heart of the ice sheet.

Now we are (in my Geographic region) going into Winter, and temperatures are decreasing a bit, but in the last 2 of December we had a warm day like end of Spring.

The arctic air that moved into the eastern half of the region during January and settled in place across much of the region through February made the warm start of the winter season finish as one that was colder than average.

If these warm ocean temperatures occur in combination with abnormally warm conditions near Alaska, the extra heat from the Arctic can intensify the ridge, causing it to reach farther northward, become more persistent, and pump even more heat into the region near Alaska.

Holland says it is due to a change in the atmospheric circulation resulting in a change in the North Atlantic gyre which then has allowed warmer water into the South Greenland region.

A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.

Changes in the weather system across the Scandinavian region are pushing very warm, moisture - laden Atlantic air into the Arctic and very cold Arctic air into Northern Eurasia, leading much of Europe into a deep freeze this week.

«Some or all of these processes will be enough, Lovelock estimates, to tip the earth into a catastrophic hotter state, perhaps about eight degrees centigrade warmer in temperate regions like ours, over the course of a very few decades, and that heat will in turn make life as we know it nearly impossible in many places.

For example, if warming continued into the mid-21st century, they proposed, bears in the Central Canadian Archipelago, the Arctic Basin and East Greenland («Archipelago» and «Convergent» ice regions, gold and blue on the map) would likely do better because thick, multiyear ice would be replaced by first year ice.

There are many signs that the world is heading into a period of warming --- one that could melt glaciers, flood small islands and coastal cities, threaten some animal species and make crops difficult to grow in previously productive agricultural regions.

Storms help replenish warm water next to the ice, and help carry addtional heat into the melting region via atmospheric transport of warmer moist air.

Luterbacher et al. (13) estimated a return period for this type of extreme event as being about 100 y in the European region, taking climatic warming into account.

As we will see below, these siting biases seem to have also introduced a warming bias into the global warming estimates — at least for the U.S. region, which we studied.