Sentences with phrase «moving atmospheric pattern»

The Madden - Julian Oscillation is a slow - moving atmospheric pattern that has a large impact on weather throughout the tropics and beyond.

Not exact matches

Using publically available data about wind speed and water vapor flux from real - world atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic, the scientists created a computer model consisting of thousands of moving virtual air particles and found a close match between the complex swirls — the Lagrangian coherent structures — made by the air particles and the patterns made by the real atmospheric rivers.

Coumou has examined the waviness of the jet stream in previous work and has suggested that its large twists and turns, slow - moving undulations called Rossby waves, promote atmospheric «blocking» — a kind of stagnation of weather patterns that he says can exacerbate heat waves.

«Time - reversed» light waves can be used to improve laser - beam quality, compensate for atmospheric turbulence, track a moving satellite, encode and decode messages and compare image patterns

The recurring wave pattern of intense rain and thunderstorms, followed by a dry phase as the force moves across the cooler Pacific Ocean occurs every 30 - 60 days, giving this atmospheric wave its unique stamp on the climate.

The vertical motion in the atmospheric plays a role in moving heat and moisture to greater heights, and influences both rain patterns and the OLR.

For example, the Hadley cell, the large - scale pattern of atmospheric circulation that transports heat from the tropics to the subtropics, has marched south during recent decades, moving the subtropical dry zone (a band that receives little rainfall) along with it.