Sentences with phrase «large changes in the weather pattern»

I think this would create a bit of thermal imbalance in the climate and also would mean large changes in the weather pattern, which would * not * be limited only in the arctic region...

Not exact matches

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

He concludes that the demand pressures for increased cocoa exports, changing weather patterns and falling cocoa prices, has led to more monocropping — the agricultural practice of growing only one type of agricultural product in a large area of land, year after year — and less sustainable growing practices in recent years.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future climate change.

This storm is helping to transport large amounts of heat out of the subtropics and mid-latitudes into the Arctic and that is resulting in a pattern change that is reversing the record strong polar vortex into a weaker, more disturbed polar vortex that should support a colder weather pattern across the hemisphere....

There are three large average surface wind patterns few know about: the tropical easterlies (tradewinds), the midlatitude westerlies and the polar easterlies, but variability results in significant weather changes.

Just a few degrees can mean large changes in global weather patterns and subsequently the global climate.

While the impending cold snap represents a large change in the sensible weather, the overall large - scale pattern that's allowing it to happen is actually not very different from the one that has been so persistent for nearly the past 12 months.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.

The most natural type of long term variability is in my view based on slowly varying changes in ocean circulation, which doesn't necessarily involve major transfer of heat from one place to another but influences cloudiness and other large scale weather patterns and through that the net energy flux of the Earth system.

Abrupt climate change due to variations in the atmospheric circulation and its attendant patterns of climate variability can arise through two principal mechanisms: (1) through abrupt changes in the time - dependent behavior of the circulation; or (2) through slowly evolving changes in the circulation that project onto large horizontal gradients in surface weather.

In addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forestIn addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's fochange, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forestin the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's foChange journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forestin the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forestin recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forestin the country's forests.

Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global change — shifts in weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.

Researchers say that smaller creatures tend to be the most resilient to many habitat changes, and that the loss of their larger predators may actually be a boon to them — but this may matter little if changes in weather patterns come about as climatologists have warned.

The most effective downscaling approaches use the statistical correlations of local weather to larger scale patterns and use model projections for those patterns to estimate changes in local weather regimes.

Climate change refers to a large - scale, long - term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.

Climate change is a large - scale, long - term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.