Sentences with phrase «of atmospheric waves»

This is in addition to the probable role of GHG - induced amplification of the atmospheric waves in the mid - and high - latitudes, which are thought to lead to increased extreme events across the Southwest and beyond [76,77].

A lot of interesting weather phenomena are associated with various types of atmospheric waves.

TMT would be able to measure the propagation direction, propagation speed, as well as the energy containing wave number of the atmospheric waves.

The size of these atmospheric waves makes them easy to observe with radar and Lidar, a radar - like system using laser light to scan the atmosphere.

The oscillation also has triggered a chain of atmospheric waves — rippling out like a boat's wake — ultimately making Eurasia in particular cooler than it otherwise would have been, Trenberth says.

Their study looked at the moisture and the energy budget of the MJO to capture a more realistic picture of the atmospheric wave.

Long - term trends in the upper atmosphere - ionosphere are a complex problem due to simultaneous presence of several drivers of trends, which behave in a different way: increasing atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, long - term changes of geomagnetic and solar activity, secular change of the Earth's main magnetic field, remarkable long - term changes of stratospheric ozone concentration, and very probably long - term changes of atmospheric dynamics, particularly of atmospheric wave activity (Lastovicka 2009; Qian et al. 2011; Lastovicka et al. 2012).

Not exact matches

The location of the oscillation determines where atmospheric waves will form, and their eventual impact on say, California.

Sweltering summertime heat waves are on the rise across the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric changes brought on by Arctic warming, new research shows.

«This is the first time we have seen atmospheric bands and waves in brown dwarfs,» said lead author Daniel Apai, associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Computer model finds historical patterns In order to learn that this atmospheric pattern exists in advance of heat waves, Teng and her co-authors had to look far back in the history of heat waves — from before weather records were kept.

«But on top of that, changes in atmospheric circulation can favor particular weather conditions associated with heat waves.»

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.

The sound waves aren't coming from the meteor itself, atmospheric scientists Michael Kelley of Cornell University and Colin...

The resulting turbulence creates atmospheric waves — some of which can stretch 1,500 miles — that race across the Sahara and over the Atlantic.

Other than in previous publications, optical rogue waves in this system are clearly ruled by atmospheric turbulence in a gas cell, effectively enabling the observation of a storm in a test tube.

Rossby waves are part of an expensive atmospheric puzzle that has yet to be fully understood.

Along the East Coast, where the «green wave» of spring leaves sprouting from maples, oaks and poplars historically has rolled from Miami to Maine in 75 days, atmospheric scientists with Princeton University predict the wave could take just 59 days by the end of the century.

Besides its atmospheric chemistry, Perlan 2 will carry instruments to study turbulence in stratospheric mountain waves, and to explore the microphysics of interactions between mountain waves and polar meteorology, which ultimately affect weather variability.

Using mathematical models of the ice shelf, the study's authors show how vibrations in the ice match those seen in the atmosphere, and are likely causing these mysterious atmospheric waves.

In the new study, Godin and his co-author, Nikolay Zabotin, used two theoretical models of the Ross Ice Shelf to show vibrations within the ice could create the atmospheric waves.

These ice shelf vibrations would likely also produce atmospheric waves with a vertical wavelength of 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 18 miles), another feature of the observed waves.

Instead, a new study suggests, the phenomena occur when four types of slow - moving, high - altitude atmospheric waves merge over a small region and, in turn, temporarily drive a 10 - fold - or - stronger brightening of an ever - present glow in the upper atmosphere (green layer in the image above).

Godin and Zabotin plan to use an advanced research radar to study the atmospheric waves in more detail to better understand the behavior of the Ross Ice Shelf.

In a new study, reserachers used two theoretical models of the Ross Ice Shelf to show vibrations within the ice could create the atmospheric waves.

The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.

Scientists routinely observe atmospheric waves around the world, but the persistence of these waves made them unusual, and scientists didn't know what was causing them.

Scientists have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.

«If atmospheric waves are generated by ice vibrations, by rhythmic vibrations of ice — then that carries a lot of information of the ice shelf itself,» said Oleg Godin, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and lead author of the new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

These conditions occur when the jet stream, a global atmospheric wave of air that encompasses the Earth, becomes stationary and the peaks and troughs remain locked in place.

The two examples shown here are small waves — atmospheric circulation is driven by large - scale waves, with wavelengths that are hundreds or thousands of kilometers.

In combinations with numerical simulations, these observations can help constrain the properties of the waves, as well as the background states for wave propagation, for instance, the atmospheric stratification.

Many of the planetary scale atmospheric waves are expressed as thermal variations on the background atmosphere.

Asteroid impacts, especially the large ones, can excite atmospheric waves capable of revealing information about the internal structures of the planets that probably can not be obtained in any other way.

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.

By using simulation modeling, the researchers found that the heat wave was the result of abnormal atmospheric patterns

an emerging body of science indicates that rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide may be boosting the onrushing waves of woody vegetation.

Using atmospheric data from the last 35 years, study author Daniel Horton, a Stanford University postdoc, and his colleagues found that persistent areas of high pressure in certain places were linked with extreme heat waves in Europe, western Asia and eastern North America.

These simulations helped them to understand the forces causing shifts in the jet that increase the survival of large - scale weather events, technically known as atmospheric mid-latitude synoptic waves.

In July, the Office of Naval Research made a survey in the waters off Virginia Beach, Virginia using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effect of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves, with the aim of improving military communications and the ability of radar to detect hostile craft..

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

This page outlines a map of assessment through the unit, including skill based questions, short writing responses and extended writing responses including essays.The atmospheric system, including the natural greenhouse effect and energy balance (incoming shortwave radiation and outgoing long wave radiation) Changes in the global energy balance, and the role of feedback loops, resulting from: Glossary - Student should make...

Rockstar made waves with a subtle buildup to the reveal of this Red Dead sequel, dropping hints and images that culminated with a beautiful, atmospheric teaser trailer.

«Ebb Tide» has broad waves of aquatic color, foam - like splashes of white and orange, and receding atmospheric planes, while «Sancere» sends effervescent bubbles into blue fluidity from a gyrating core.

The ambiance of upper - atmospheric diffusion is especially palpable in such installations from the 1990s as St. Elmo's Breath (1992), and in a recent series of wide and tall glass panels animated with dissolving waves of color.

Using her distinctive style of combining drawing, painting, collage and found objects, she has created atmospheric paintings that explore a world of waves, ice and whales; where in the summer, the sun never sets.

The use a «seeding» method to randomly generate small vortices analogous to «short wave» tropical disturbances in the real world (the tracks they take are defined in terms of the background atmospheric circulation of the model combined with the so - called «self advection» of the TC itself).

They are the superposition of a background field and the effects of the upper atmospheric wave pattern.

The underlying mechanistic relationship involves the phenomenon of quasi-resonant amplification (QRA) of synoptic - scale waves with that wavenumber range becoming trapped within an effective mid-latitude atmospheric waveguide.

Abstract: «Persistent episodes of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere summer have been shown to be associated with the presence of high - amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves within a particular wavelength range (zonal wavenumber 6 — 8).