Sentences with phrase «major circulation patterns»

The major circulation patterns are about large surface and bottom currents.

Not exact matches

The pattern the water circulation forms in that region is called the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of five of the major ocean gyres of the world that scientists have identified so far.

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

This can only result in major changes to the earth's climate, oceanic circulation patterns, etc..

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.

It was determined that a major cause of changes in the size and extent of the Antarctic ozone hole are the intense wind patterns and circulations associated with the extensive Antarctic high - pressure zone and the surrounding wind pattern known as the Circumpolar Vortex.

Petoukhov et al. (34) proposed a common mechanism for generating persistent high - amplitude quasibarotropic planetary - scale wave patterns of the NH midlatitude atmospheric circulation with zonal wave numbers m = 6, 7, and 8 that can explain a number of the major NH summer extremes over the 1980 — 2011 period (34, 35).

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

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.

It caused major changes to the global ocean circulation patterns.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

The wave pattern undulations of the circulation which The major causes of climate (geography — mountains and oceans, and astronomy — rotations, orbits, and sunshine) are relatively constant.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

How oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns translate into things that matter directly to society (e.g. surface climate and weather) requires longer data sets that allows us to understand how the major multidecadal modes translate into atmospheric circulation patterns and surface climate.

Ocean circulation, in turn, is a major driver for weather patterns, both in the Arctic and around the world.»

Offshore, marine circulation is the major factor determining species distribution patterns.