Sentences with phrase «is the sea level pressure»

In addition, there is a sea level pressure (SLP) ridge over Greenland that drives strong northerly winds through the Fram Strait, facilitating ice export.

Figure 1 (below) is the sea level pressure field for June and July 2009, showing the Dipole / negative Arctic Oscillation pattern with high pressure on the North American side of the Arctic.

The H5ftotxt is outputting the Observed Pressure, you are correct that the NCEP Type will tell you if this is Sea Level Pressure (ship observations) or Surface Pressure (station observations).

Not exact matches

Shreyas added that most people aren't aware that when a plane is cruising, «the air pressure in an airliner is equal to about 8,000 feet above sea level (6,000 ft in a Dreamliner).

It was a disappointing result, putting a lot of pressure on the return game in Quito, 2,800 metres above sea level.

For now, Rep. Todd Akin remains in the race, though the pressure being brought on him to drop his Senate bid in a state that's hotly contested at the presidential level is surely enough to crush a deep - sea subamarine.

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

And the atmospheric pressure is only half a percent of what it is at sea level, threatening to shrivel cells into freeze - dried corpses.

At sea level on Earth, sunlight's «radiation pressure» is about 50 million times smaller than atmospheric pressure.

(One bar is slightly less than the average atmospheric pressure at sea level.)

There's often intense local pressure to rebuild communities as they were, he said, even if the future risk from sea - level rise or other climate risks suggests it's not the most prudent path.

This sea level rise is then concentrated to the north or south by the NAO, which is a measure of the atmospheric pressure difference between Iceland and the Azores.

This beast can simulate the mind - boggling conditions on the surface of Venus: it is able to create pressures of 1,350 pounds per square inch — 90 times Earth's air pressure at sea level — and temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Blobfish live at depths of between 600 and 1,200 meters where the pressure is several dozen times higher than at sea level, and they can grow up to 12 inches in length.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

A new study in Geophysical Research Letters uses historical climate model simulations to demonstrate that there has been an Arctic - wide decrease in sea level pressure since the 1800's.

Because Mars» atmospheric pressure at ground level is comparable to that of Earth's atmosphere at 100,000 feet — a mere 1.4 percent of Earth's air pressure at sea level — an aircraft that can fly in such conditions will help engineers learn how to design aircraft to roam Martian skies.

Lowest atmospheric pressure (lower is stronger) Wilma: 882 millibars Gilbert: 888 Katrina: 902 Typical pressure at sea level: 1013

Then again, with the surface of Venus being at almost 900 °F (500 °C) under more than 90 times the air pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level, with occasional showers of acid, it's not easy to test the properties of materials under Venusian conditions.

Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life At the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thriving.

Looking at two different measures of wind intensity (the East - West difference in sea level pressure and the depth of the thermocline) over the time periods involved, they conclude that trade winds were diminishing over the course of 1950 to 1990, but then picked up from 1990 to 2010.

Their DNA is packed into the capsid so tightly that the pressure it exerts on the capsid wall is about 50 times greater than the pressure Earth's atmosphere exerts at sea level.

As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.

At a pressure of circa 2.5 Giga - Pascal (GPa), more than 25,000 times the average pressure at sea level, and a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius, the super-hydrated phase was observed.

Air pressure decreases with an increase of altitude - about one millibar (0.03 inches of mercury) per 27 feet (8.23 m) close to sea level.

The sea level time series is rich in physical phenomena such as tides (caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun), meteorological signals (high and low pressure), and signals from climate change.

At 1 bar, the pressure at sea level, NiDOBDC was able to take up significant amounts of xenon and release all of it when the conditions were right.

The pressure is some 90 times that of Earth's at sea level.

Freshwater injection into the North Atlantic and Southern oceans increases sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decreases it at polar latitudes (Figs. 20, S22), but the impact is different in the North Atlantic than in the Southern Ocean.

Using Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis, we detect multidecadal North Atlantic sea - level pressure anomalies, which are significantly linked to the NAO during the Modern period.

(d) The PDO is an aftereffect of ENSO and the sea level pressure of the North Pacific.

At altitudes of 5000 m and higher, life is not easy here: the atmospheric pressure is much lower than at sea level, and oxygen is scarce.

This is the result of adiabatic warming, where air is compressed from low pressure (at the top of a mountain) to high pressure (at sea level).

Temperatures at the core - mantle boundary hover around 4,000 Kelvin (6,740 degrees F, or 3,727 degrees C), and the pressure is nearly 140 gigapascals — 1.4 million times greater than standard air pressure at sea level.

For comparison, the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level is 1,000,000 microbars (or 1 bar).

At 1 bar (the same pressure as at sea level on Earth) Saturn's atmosphere is only 134 K. Saturn has as much mass as 95 Earths would have — and this massive, cold planet rotates fully around every 10.7 hours!

By contrast, there has been a detectable human influence on global sea level pressure.

The AMO is likely to be a driver of multi-decadal variations in Sahel droughts, precipitation in the Caribbean, summer climate of both North America and Europe, sea ice concentration in the Greenland Sea and sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 200sea ice concentration in the Greenland Sea and sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 200Sea and sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 200sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 2006).

When add in a environment like the top of Everest where the atmospheric pressure and inspired oxygen pressure fall roughly... 30 % of the sea level value at 8900 m which is the height of the summit of Everest.

From the fear of almost missing your flight, from the intra-cabin air pressure to food and the general discomfort of being 39,000 feet above sea level.

Same as water boiling at sea level at 100C (212F) but at lower temp at high altitudes because pressure is less, same rule applies to refrigerant.

With hyperbaric therapy, a patient is placed in the chamber and inhales 100 % oxygen at pressures greater than sea level.

This approach may not be useful for quantitative reconstructions of past spatial patterns of climate fields, e.g. surface temperature, sea level pressure, drought, etc..

The new research is a regional climate study of historical sea level pressures, winds and temperatures over the eastern Pacific Ocean and draws no conclusions about climate change on a global scale.

The effects can also be felt as far away as Antarctica where a «dipole» of sea level pressure between the Bellinghausen and Weddell Seas is highly correlated to the ENSO phase and can have important effects on sea ice and Antarctic ecology.

This updated dataset includes more data sources than the HadSLP v1.0 and is updated to April 2006, this dataset is documented in an upcoming J. Climate manuscript (Allan, R. and T. Ansell: A new globally - complete monthly historical gridded mean sea level pressure data set (HadSLP2): 1850 - 2004.

Patterns of anomalously high sea levels are attributed to El Niño — related changes to atmospheric pressure over the Gulf of Mexico and eastern Canada and to the wind field over the Northeast U.S. continental shelf.

Here we analyze a series of climate model experiments along with observational data to show that the recent warming trend in Atlantic sea surface temperature and the corresponding trans - basin displacements of the main atmospheric pressure centers were key drivers of the observed Walker circulation intensification, eastern Pacific cooling, North American rainfall trends and western Pacific sea - level rise.

I'm thinking that ice floats (esp in salt water, I suppose), and since this glacier bed is below sea level, and if sea water were to get into it (or even at front edge points where it meets the sea), a rising sea level might put even more upward pressure on the glacier.

An illustration shows the volume of all the world's liquid water if put in the form of a sphere (green) and the volume of the atmosphere (pink) if the air were all at sea - level pressure.