Sentences with phrase «ocean pattern like»

A land - ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable.

Not exact matches

These sensors could reveal patterns that help explain why the tropical Pacific emits carbon dioxide, rather than absorbing it like most of the rest of ocean.

Yet the recent spate of US «lotto - hacker» revelations do not involve high - tech gadgets like those used by the casino - robbing team in the film Ocean's Eleven but a knack for spotting patterns and exploiting loopholes.

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.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

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.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Bigger storms, like hurricanes and cyclones, could be related to the ocean patterns and are long

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

A typical oceanographic mooring, like one deployed in the northwest Atlantic Ocean by the Global Ocean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooOcean by the Global Ocean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooOcean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooocean current patterns around the mooring.

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Like detection methods, these approaches seek to fit the space - time patterns, or spatial means in time, of observed surface, atmospheric or ocean temperatures.

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.

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

Thermal mass of the oceans on the other hand is huge, so they follow with some principal lag of decades, but they follow «noisy» as decadal variations like ENSO or changes in weather patterns due to climate change overlay that.

Here is an example of a changing entropy pattern, just like the increase in hurricane intensity, brought about by microphysics changes which have occurred due directly to increases of CO2 changing the CONDUCTIVITY of oceans.

In the next 24 hours, I'll be posting fresh excerpts from an extended and fascinating discussion of ice patterns since 2007 involving some of the world's top ice researchers — both modelers and field scientists like those I accompanied in 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the ocean beneath the drifting sea ice.

In addition to the shallow La Niña — like patterns in the Pacific that were the previous focus, we found that the slowdown is mainly caused by heat transported to deeper layers in the Atlantic and the Southern oceans, initiated by a recurrent salinity anomaly in the subpolar North Atlantic.

El Niños like this one have the ability to shift weather patterns on a global basis and in general send a surge of extra heat into the atmosphere from the warmer - than - normal tropical Pacific Ocean.

It's responsible for transporting heat all over the ocean and regulating weather patterns in places like Europe and eastern North America.

Like the climate scientists on RealClimate contend, Kolbert notes that no particular storm can be caused by global warming, but that the long - term patterns don't look good... increased greenhouse gases = warmer oceans = more destructive hurricanes.

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.

The study will use a combination of complex computer models to replicate past weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf, and use the results, along with estimates of future production of man - made greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to predict Gulf hurricane activity.

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.

Failing that, you might like to explain the existence of the great ocean thermal currents that, together with the slipstream air currents, determine our global weather patterns, in your strange little world where the oceans lose their accumulated heat overnight.

Attendees also discussed complicated problems, including hydroclimatic responses to situations where anomalous events like the 2015 — 2016 El Niño are superimposed onto long - term heterogeneous ocean - warming patterns.

Sea surface heights are influenced by ocean temperatures and winds, and so in turn reflect the overarching conditions of ocean regions, including patterns like El Niño and La Niña.

Natural climate patterns (think, El Niño) occur regularly because of warmer ocean waters and influence areas like regional climates and marine life.

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (like other ocean oscillations) is a climate pattern with a mode of variability, which seems to naturally occur regardless of atmospheric CO2 levels.

To assess the role played by climate change in the unusual conditions, the research team turned to historical meteorological observations to conduct an analysis segregating the contribution of pressure patterns and other factors, like ocean temperatures, to rainfall variability.

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

This change in patterns of deep - ocean sedimentation will result in a curious, dark band of carbonate - free rock — rather like that which is seen in sediments from the Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum, an episode of severe greenhouse warming brought on by the release of pent - up carbon 56m years ago.

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

One aspect of Roy Spencer's work is that internal random oscillations of things like surface ocean temperature spatial patterns (affected by winds) which can affect clouds could have a forcing effect that could easily be mistaken for climate sensitivity to external forcing.

Yet most research in the field has focused on improving predictions of regional ocean warming driven by long - term climate change and short - term climate patterns like the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle.

If this eternally - implied - but - under - supported idea that shifts in ocean patterns might be responsible for warming the oceans to depth of 2000m merits all these righteous demands for a «special team», I'd like to formally submit my request for a green team focused on the theory that the warming is caused by a progressive shift in mercury response to temperature caused by correlation with cosmic positioning relative to the galactic center.

In some locations, like Indonesia, the change in ocean temperatures and atmospheric patterns brought about by El Niño has the opposite effect — shifting thunderstorms eastward and causing extremely dry conditions.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

Thermometers dropped deep in the ocean and in holes bored in permafrost show warming patterns that do not match up with natural influences like changes in the sun's brightness.

13 C. Wind & Ocean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temperOcean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temPatterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water tempatterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temperOcean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temperocean currents & water temperature

This mean state change generally resembled the ocean temperature pattern associated with La Niña, and as a result the Pacific entered a persistent «La Niña - like» state after the 1997 - 1998 El Niño.

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.

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.

Like all other science, climatology is data - driven, and the data is constantly flooding in: measurements of change in bird - migration patterns; details of ocean temperatures and wind pro?les; measurements of the calcification of coral, the ripening of grapes, the retreat of glaciers, and so on.

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 the planet.

Idea Spotlight To help maintain uninterrupted beach and ocean views, he chose low - profile pieces like a pair of 1960s - inspired armchairs (upholstered in a muted leaf - pattern linen), along with custom linen sofas, both by Lee Jofa, and a woven wicker ottoman with a leather cushion.

The expertly designed shade features a swirling pattern, like an ocean shoreline, while the ombre glass base brings us the colour of the sunset or sunrise.

To help maintain uninterrupted beach and ocean views, he chose low - profile pieces like a pair of 1960s - inspired armchairs (upholstered in a muted leaf - pattern linen), along with custom linen sofas, both by Lee Jofa, and a woven wicker ottoman with a leather cushion.

The Hoods decorated their front porch with lamps that look like sea - weathered wood, sisal rugs, and throw pillows with wavy and coral - like patterns inspired by the Atlantic Ocean just a short drive away.

The sofa is flanked by lamps that look like sea - weathered wood washed up by the waves, warm - toned sisal rugs, and throw pillows with wavy and coral - like patterns inspired by the Atlantic Ocean.