Sentences with phrase «like ocean circulation pattern»

A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor - like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet.

Not exact matches

This variability includes the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a long - lived El Niño - like pattern of Pacific climate variability that works like a switch every 30 years or so between two different circulation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean.

The deepening of the Drake Passage resulted in a change in ocean circulation that resulted in warm waters being directed northwards in circulation patterns like those found in the Gulf Stream that currently warms northwestern Europe.

Alley is talking mainly about D / O events and, like some others (Broecker for instance) tried to link it to the LIA, but neither the pattern of change, the abruptness, the ocean circulation change nor the magnitude actually match.

Now that we know much more than we did about ocean circulation patterns, intermixing and the like (although there is still much to learn) we need to get this message across in much simpler fashion than we have done so far.

Expecting less than 5 % of Earths surface to filter the air mass from the other 95 % given actual air circulation patterns is patently absurd compared to natural CO2 scrubbing mechanisms like the biological carbon cycles, or Henry's law (which is leading to ocean acidification.

That is because there are factors, like air and ocean circulation patterns, that affect both the rate and the intensity of the global warming.

The models (and there are many) have numerous common behaviours — they all cool following a big volcanic eruption, like that at Mount Pinatubo in 1991; they all warm as levels of greenhouse gases are increased; they show the same relationships connecting water vapour and temperature that we see in observations; and they can quantify how the giant lakes left over from the Ice Age may have caused a rapid cooling across the North Atlantic as they drained and changed ocean circulation patterns.

Changes in the speed of the Atlantic circulation pattern — known as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — that influences the world's oceans because it acts like a conveyor belt moving water around circulation pattern — known as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — that influences the world's oceans because it acts like a conveyor belt moving water around Circulation — that influences the world's oceans because it acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.