Sentences with phrase «local weather and climate»

How can a person discern long - term climate change, given the notorious variability of local weather and climate from day to day and year to year?

(C) ensure operational quality control of all Climate Service Program products including a transparent and open accounting of all the assumptions built into the global, national, regional, and local weather and climate computer models upon which such products are based;

Thus, predicting climate - related changes in teleconnections and the impact of those changes on local weather and climate are important areas of ongoing research.

They help us to understand the global circulation of the atmosphere by explaining the mechanisms that drive some of the persistent or recurrent patterns (or features) of local weather and climate.

Not exact matches

There are few signs at the local or federal level that policymakers are taking the risks of climate change and extreme weather seriously, and some forces are even exacerbating the risk.

«With this one practical measure, small businesses can better weather the current economic climate, hire more employees and help their local communities prosper for years to come.»

I really mean padding for cold weather protection, wind break materials and covers are handy depending on your local climate.

Local growers and farmers say climate change is creating new challenges, with extreme weather conditions, sudden storms, rising temperatures and drought making it even more difficult to cope with a perennially unpredictable Mother Nature.

Speaking at a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars forum yesterday, Brady noted what she called a «missing middle» between the international scope of the U.N. climate change discussions and the very local, grass - roots efforts to help communities adapt to weather - related impact.

Observation - based data sets, which focus mainly on local and regional climate, are obtained by taking raw climate measurements from weather stations and applying it to a grid defined over the globe.

If it turns out climate change is making extreme weather events more likely, it is important to help locals build resilience, for instance by building irrigation systems to cope with drought, says Grainne Moloney, a chief technical adviser with FAO Somalia, a division of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

The team used DayCent, an ecosystem modeling tool that tracks the carbon cycle, plant growth, and how growth responds to weather, climate and other factors at a local scale.

Trenberth says, and some scientists agree, that attribution studies that use climate models do not work well for weather events that are local and dynamic — a flash in the pan.

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

On the heels of our launch earlier this week, our chief meteorologist, Bernadette Woods Placky, hosted a reddit AMA on the new site, local and global climate change, extreme weather, and lots of other meteorology matters.

Teleconnections explain a large fraction of climatic variability in distant locations, variability that can not be accounted by the local physical processes, making this a very interesting lens through which to explain weather and climate.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

However, we now know that climate change is already affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape local extreme weather.

Plaut, G., and E. Simonnet, 2001: Large — scale circulation classification, weather regimes, and local climate over France, the Alps, and Western Europe.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

The diet of birds in their wild habitat varies from season to season and based on local climate and weather.

Retailers and manufacturers can usually count on the predictability of seasonal pond sales — depending on local climate — but the weather didn't cooperate in 2011.

Queensland is known for its sunny weather, friendly locals, hot climate, wildlife, reef and rainforest.

Depending on your local weather patterns and climate, cool season vegetables can be planted either directly in the soil with no cover, directly in the soil underneath a row cover or low tunnel, or in pots and trays in a sunny window or porch.

But it's like I say: as planetary climate systems show all possible signs of disruption, what we get is strange climatic conditions and extreme weather events on a local level, and these conditions and event are conditioned by great variations from continent to continent and from one year to the next.

Specializing in the parameterization of land - atmosphere exchange for use in Global Climate, Regional Mesoscale, and Local Cloud - Resolving numerical weather prediction models.

Yes, the Arctic warms and cools in consonant with the rest of the globe, but with much local excursions and plenty of weather noise and cyclical climate perturbations contributing to the overall picture.

I think that a more scientifically justifiable statement, at least for the U.S. and extratropical land areas is that daily weather noise continues to drum out the siren call of climate change on local, weather scales.

The best way to put your local weather in global context is to visit Climatereanalyzer.org, a valuable project of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and the National Science Foundation.

I know there is a difference between weather and climate, but this story in the local Alaska newspaper (/ / www.adn.com/outdoors/story/447132.html) describes the unseasonable cold conditions this summer....

Can this be expected for large scale phenomena like Enso, zonal winds etc. and could this lead in the long - term also to better local climate forecasts and even weather forecasts?

This situation speaks of the opportunity this disaster has created for governments and citizens, from the level of local zoning to that of federal flood insurance, to reexamine norms in light of both the implicit threat posed by extreme weather and the amplified risks coming with a warming climate and rising seas.

There can / will be local and regional, latitudinal, diurnal and seasonal, and internal variability - related deviations to the pattern (in temperature and in optical properties (LW and SW) from components (water vapor, clouds, snow, etc.) that vary with weather and climate), but the global average effect is at least somewhat constrained by the global average vertical distribution of solar heating, which requires the equilibrium net convective + LW fluxes, in the global average, to be sizable and upward at all levels from the surface to TOA, thus tending to limit the extent and magnitude of inversions.)

-- Pete Wetzel, Ph. D., Research Meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, specializing in parameterizing the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere for Global Climate, Regional Mesoscale, and local Cloud - resolving numerical weather prediction models.

While the large scales, such as the global mean, provide the best indicators of the state of earth's climate, it is on the local scales we feel a climate change, such as floods and extreme weather events.

He says skeptics should be careful to distinguish between weather - which is local and short - term - and climate, which covers broad stretches of time and space.

Climate Central is a credible source of climate change news and analysis, as well as a range of videos, graphics and mapping tools that visualize local impacts like heat, extreme weather, and sea leveClimate Central is a credible source of climate change news and analysis, as well as a range of videos, graphics and mapping tools that visualize local impacts like heat, extreme weather, and sea leveclimate change news and analysis, as well as a range of videos, graphics and mapping tools that visualize local impacts like heat, extreme weather, and sea level rise.

The conflation of local weather with larger climate patterns prompts an outpouring of misinformed glee that's dreaded, in some circles, more than closed roads and power outages:

Local forecasts show dramatic increase of local weather extremes during the end of 2015 — and yes, it is science - approved to relate that to the Paris climate negotiatLocal forecasts show dramatic increase of local weather extremes during the end of 2015 — and yes, it is science - approved to relate that to the Paris climate negotiatlocal weather extremes during the end of 2015 — and yes, it is science - approved to relate that to the Paris climate negotiations!

The large - scale climate, for instance, determines the environment for microscale (1 km or less) and mesoscale (from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers) processes that govern weather and local climate, and these small - scale processes likely have significant impacts on the evolution of the large - scale circulation.»

Glacier response to alpine weather patterns and climate is complicated by local effects.

Human - induced climate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society's annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspclimate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society's annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate PerspClimate Perspective.

Since the climate is the average of local weather, and weather is the sum of behavior of the surging gases around us, and mankind moves through and modifies these gases, as does every other animal and plant species, it is certain humanity influences the weather, hence climate.

It consists of nine chapters, covering risk management; observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to as well as losses resulting from such events; adaptation options from the local to the international scale; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies.

In the past few years, unusually warm air in the Arctic has driven winter storm tracks south into the United States, reflecting the complex and sometimes counteracting ways that climate change may affect local weather extremes.

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... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»

Most are NOT climatologists, and as for meterologists, they have a much stronger link to their local views of the weather and their own personal politics than they have to actual climate science.