Sentences with phrase «jet streams»

Jiacan has worked on several projects on climate dynamics, including the response of large - scale circulations in the warming climate, its effects on regional weather patterns and extreme events, tropical influence on mid-latitude weather, and dynamical mechanisms of sub-seasonal variability of mid-latitude jet streams.

You might have heard of the jet streams in Earth's atmosphere.

But if temperatures at the poles change more rapidly than those at the equator, the dual constraints on the jet streams become imbalanced.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

Large belts and zones form a consistent pattern of jet streams which give the planet its familiar striped appearance.

While most other planets in the solar system are known to have jet streams, nothing quite like the hexagon has ever been seen anywhere else.

Air travel is likely to get a lot bumpier as carbon dioxide levels rise and affect the jet streams

«The jet streams mark the edge of the tropics, so if they are moving poleward that means the tropics are getting wider,» explains John Wallace, Fus colleague at the University of Washington and coauthor of the report.

«Regardless of the cause,» the authors note, «the poleward shift of the jet streams and the associated subtropical dry zone, if it continues, could have important societal implications.»

«We estimate that the jet streams in both hemispheres have shifted poleward by roughly 1 degree latitude in both summer and winter seasons,» the researchers, led by Qiang Fu of the University of Washington, write in today's Science.

This warmer air expands the reach of the tropics and pushes the jet streams toward the poles.

They also suggest that some of the uncertainties that currently restrict the effectiveness of regional climate projections could be reduced through developing a better understanding of the stratosphere influence on surface - level jet streams, storm tracks and weather.

It has to do with a magnetic phenomenon called solar jet streams.

He and colleague Rachel Howe have been tracking the solar jet streams since the mid-1990s using a technique called helioseismology.

Hill and Howe discovered that the jet streams generated in 1996 have migrated more slowly than normal, taking 13 years to reach the critical 22 - degree latitude instead of the usual 11 years.

Weak jet streams have prolonged heat waves in Russia as well as parked downpours over Europe.

The ongoing disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic from elevated temperatures is a factor to changes in atmospheric pressure that control jet streams of air, explained James Overland, an oceanographer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.

According to some estimates, the available energy in the jet streams is about 100 times the current global energy demand.

Exploiting this energy will not be easy, not least because of the way the jet streams meander and change location, but several groups are developing ways to do it.

The first, tentative models suggest that extracting large amounts of energy from high - altitude jet streams would cool the planet, counteracting the effects of rising greenhouse gases.

That means a mass equivalent to about three Earths is moving around Jupiter in the form of jet streams,» he continued.

A second paper describes how these belts and zones manifest themselves as jet streams deep in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Saturn's storms are, surprisingly, more powerful than Jupiter's, and its supersonic jet streams are much faster.

«In total, Jupiter's jet streams contain about 1 percent of the gas giant's mass.

The strong stratospheric jet streams quickly accelerated the particles to a velocity of about sixty miles per hour, blowing primarily in an east - to - west direction.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

Jet streams can be helpful and detrimental to pilots, so the airline industry uses these water vapor images to adjust flight routes.

Jet streams occur at very high altitudes — 30,000 to 40,000 feet — which is why they were not definitively identified until World War II, when pilots noticed intense headwinds during long - distance military missions.

Finally, the Red Spot sits between two strong jet streams that flow in opposite directions and may slow down its spinning.

Winds and even the atmospheric jet streams caused by the rotation of the planet dissipate much of their energy via friction already.

Identification of jet streams is important for air travel.

The model also predicts a radial flow, which sucks winds from the high - speed jet streams toward the vortex center.

The edges of these dry slots often contain jet streams and turbulence between the air masses.

Gottschalck said this leads to more rainfall over Indonesia while weakening jet streams — fast - moving, high - altitude air currents — and pushing them further north.

With my huge perspective on jet streams, weather, and global currents, my visit became a job interview, with an immediate offer.»

Jupiter's atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep.

The planet is characterized most often by its powerful jet streams and Great Red Spot (GRS), the biggest and longest - lasting known atmospheric vortex.

When Cassini probed below the haze and into the troposphere, it revealed that the width of Saturn's bands alternates with latitude: narrower ones are darker and coincident with rapid jet streams, and the wider bands tend to be brighter, aligned with jets that are slower and maybe even stationary, relative to the general rotation of the planet.

Locals call it the «brain drain»: Homegrown entrepreneurs from Hawaii follow the jet stream to the mainland for school and pretty much never return.

As we have seen this year, companies are being awakened to the fact that the digital and social media storm has some jet stream wind behind it and is all the rage at the moment.

Like all hurricanes, this one tended to dissipate as it went north for reasons having nothing to do with religion or politics and everything to do with temperature gradients and jet stream wind shear.

You see, when a low - pressure system up north in Canada enters the jet stream, us Yankees down south will experience the warmer temperatures.

People are dying from the ice and snow.Perhaps what we need is the jet stream to flow over the CPAC conference and allow some cooler air to drown out the rightwing hot air.

The important stream was stationary for 10 days, and it was high in the hemisphere, stalling heat from the South.The stream has moved lower, and is allowing cooler air from Canada and the north to move into the states.But nobody on the tube really explains the behavior of the jet stream and how it is linked to climate change.It would be good if that attractive ABC meterologist Ginger Lee would explain it to us.

It has to deal with the jet stream.

Overall, Saturn's atmosphere seems fairly static over time — even the surprising hexagon - shaped jet stream over the north pole has changed little, Cassini showed, since Voyager first sighted it.

For instance, climate warming can alter the balance of heat between the Arctic and the tropics near Earth's surface, which in turn can influence the jet stream.

Cold back East and warmth out West is a jet stream pattern that has been in place for 4,000 years, according to new research

Disappearing sea ice can influence the jet stream, a study suggests, resulting in more frequent winter blasts in a warmer world

JET STREAM Tens of thousands of brine shrimp swimming upward in a laboratory tank produce a large jet of water the size of the whole group, mixing shallow water with deeper, saltier water.