Sentences with phrase «less summer blocking»

«Cooler North Atlantic ocean temperatures and less summer blocking activity might slow down Greenland melt for a few years or even a couple decades, but it would not help us in the long run,» said Osterberg.

«Cooler North Atlantic ocean temperatures and less summer blocking activity might slow down Greenland melt for a few years or even a couple decades, but it would not help us in the long run,» said Osterberg.

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Unlike summer, when a less is more approach tends to naturally rise to the surface, winter's muted outdoor palette practically begs to be livened up with everything from jaunty feather adorned hats to gold chains, glittery brooches, silver hoop earrings, scarves of all manner, cold blocking gloves, ornately patterned or woven tights, even adorable ear muffs.

A rapidly warming Arctic leads to a tendency to less zonal (westerly) flow and more blocking (or easterly events), which has an impact on western continents of more cold air in the winter and perhaps more continental droughts in the summer.

«Relatively cool waters in the eastern Pacific often result in stubborn summer high - pressure systems over the eastern states that block storms, reducing the frequency of precipitation below normal,» noted study co-author Richard Healy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. «Less frequent storms result in higher surface and atmospheric temperatures that then feedback on the atmospheric circulation to further reduce storm frequency and raise surface temperatures even more.»