Sentences with phrase «normal climate patterns»
Another study, from Geophysical Research Letters in April of 2017, questioned what is taken to be normal climate patterns in the North Pacific, derived from instrument data beginning in the 1950s.
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Since that fits in with the normal climate pattern of the Earth, I do not find it surprising.
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As Earth's climate warms, these balmy years could become the norm, he says, meaning last winter's bird patterns could be a preview of the new normal.
El Niño is a Pacific - driven climate pattern that features warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropics of that ocean basin.
The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.
«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»
And so a strong claim can be made that climate change is now at least partially responsible for all global weather although the part played by climate change could be small for any individual climate event relative to other causes such as normal ocean circulation patterns.
Amid a new normal of wild weather events and volatile precipitation patterns, the world's dams that were designed for the climate of their time are ill - prepared for radical shifts in river flow and precipitation.
Amid the normal irregularities of climate the short - term pattern was not statistically significant, but scientists will try to explain every wiggle in a curve.
It has turned normal weather patterns upside down around the globe, climate scientists say.
These were used to estimate a normal pattern of seasonal climate variation.
According to Gerry Bell, Ph.D., NOAA's lead seasonal hurricane forecaster, the major climate factors expected to influence this year's activity are the ongoing multi-decadal signal, which produces wind and atmospheric pressure patterns favorable for hurricane formation, along with ongoing warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures.