Sentences with phrase «kinds of heat waves»

The researchers conducted a laboratory experiment in which they exposed the larvae of these three species to various kinds of heat waves, which varied in duration and intensity, by increasing the temperature of the water where they were growing.

Note also that under hot conditions a stream of water vapor may not form clouds, but will instead act as an infrared blanket that amplifies the heat wave (this kind of heat wave is seen in California, fed by marine moisture from Baja).

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I am a daughter, a mom, a sister, a tax payer, a dog walker, a garbage taker - outer, a complainer of heat waves (and cold snaps), a tryin» - not - to - eat - too - many - carbs - except - this - one last - plate - of - wings - and - fries and... a prayer, a reader of scripture, a tither, a really bad singer of really good blue grass gospel music, a cryin» - every - time - I - take - communion - and - sometimes - when - I - preach kind of gal.

While trying to decide what kind of recipe to share today, that incorporated lots of fabulous cherries, I decided that with all these heat waves across the country, this is really the perfect excuse to create a new ice cream flavor!

Been making a lot of salads with veggies, salsa, guac and nutritional yeast (+ some kind of animal protein) during this heat wave and they pretty much get the job done

This kind of gazpacho is sustaining, packed with that good - good olive oil fat, enough veggies to make you feel like it's a meal, and enough vinegar - y acidity to cut right through the stupefying haze of an August heat wave.

Researchers at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) studied the behaviour of three kinds of amphibians that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), the Mediterranean tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) and the Iberian painted frog (Discoglosus galganoi) to find out what effect heat waves can have on their diets.

Coumou has examined the waviness of the jet stream in previous work and has suggested that its large twists and turns, slow - moving undulations called Rossby waves, promote atmospheric «blocking» — a kind of stagnation of weather patterns that he says can exacerbate heat waves.

It turns out the energy in this whip - like process is high enough to generate Alfvén waves, a strong kind of wave scientists suspect is key to heating the sun's atmosphere and propelling the solar wind, which constantly bathes the solar system with charged particles from the sun.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

Infrared saunas generate heat waves that penetrate deep into the body and produce the same kind of sweat you would experience with vigorous exercise.

This influence of climate change on some extremes, including especially heat waves and heavy precipitation and some kinds of storm and flood events must no longer be waved away, swept under the rug, or otherwise ignored.

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

And once you open the Pandora's box of geoengineered climate, what do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want, or if some poor nation objects to suffering drought in order to cancel heat waves in Chicago?

Thanks to that kind of «social capital,» Chicago's low - income Auburn Gresham neighborhood had a lower mortality rate during a severe 1995 heat wave than some more affluent areas.

Pierrehumbert: What kind of circulation change could lock Europe into deadly summer heat waves like that of last summer?

«Knowing how much our emissions have changed the likelihood of this kind of severe heat event can help us to minimize the impacts of the next heat wave, and to determine the value of avoiding further changes in climate.»

Yet another group looked not at average temperature patterns but the change in the frequency of heat waves and saw a different kind of rise.

Extreme heat events, such as this heat wave, are the kind of weather events that increase the most as the climate warms.

The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.

... And with a general increase in SSTs, I expect certain kinds of low - frequency variability, in particular those in which SST anomalies produce a perturbation wave train in the westerlies allowing for global teleconnections, to be more sensitive to the same SST anomalies, because of the exponential temperature dependence of water vapor concentration (involved in latent heating, enhances deep convection, etc.).

Floods, droughts and heat waves — these are the kind of climate extremes that can bring devastation, particularly in developing countries.

ANY electro - magnetic radiation (waves or photons), of ANY wavelength is capable of giving rise to waste «heat» when absorbed in the proper medium; but THERMAL RADIATION is a special kind of EM radiation which is produced entirely because of the mechanical oscillatory modes of ordinary materials, and is dependent on the Temperature for its characteristic Spectral envelope.