Sentences with phrase «of storm activity»

Good quality records of storm activity are mainly limited to the northern hemisphere.

The index revealed that the current low levels of storm activity on the mid-west and north - east coasts of Australia are unprecedented over the past 550 to 1500 years.

In the Western Mediterranean, where human societies colonized and occupied the coastal areas since the Ancient times, the variability of storm activity for the past three millennia was investigated with a multi-proxy sedimentological and geochemical study from a lagoonal sequence.

Katherine Pingree - Shippee will presented a poster on the representation of storm activity on Canadian coasts in commonly used global reanalysis products.

Trenberth argues that since science / physics has already established the human influence on climate, oceans, etc. (and Curry would not say otherwise) it makes more sense for Curry to have to show that there is no influence on water vapor and precipitation (i.e., intensification of storm activity / heavy precipitation) than to show that there is, because of basic physics / physical systems / physical relationships that constitute the global climate cycle.

When the annual April 1 measurements came in, Trouet and her colleagues were already looking at the historic climate record contained in old tree rings to see how the locations of storm activity had changed in the area over time.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

That same eastward shift of storm activity tends to bring drier conditions to northern Australia during the Southern Hemisphere summer and more broadly to the east in the winter.

She notes that a reliable proxy record for hurricanes would be very useful as a way of evaluating models of storm activity.

When reflected back by rain, hail, airborne debris, or even insects, the waves create an image of storm activity and indicate wind velocity.

Not exact matches

It can be difficult to determine whether such pollutants were released as a result of the storm's damage to facilities, or were voluntarily released by refinery operators themselves in the course of shut - down activities.

We have successfully supported critical business activities during disruptions of normal business processes from both natural and man - made disasters, including hurricanes, fires, Super Storm Sandy to September 11th and other events.

Was the May 6 «flash crash» really just a perfect storm of abnormal trading activity in three different types of products?

Market characteristics have melded to create a perfect storm where prospective homeowners are unable to find adequate affordable property due to an extreme lack of supply, and have thus refrained from putting their own homes on the market, causing sales activity to slow further and price rises to lower.

Breaking away and storming off in a self - righteous huff remains one of the most characteristic activities of the Protestant Church.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Up until this time the activities of the gods were expected primarily in natural events, particularly the miraculous and the extraordinary, such as earthquakes, storms and famine.

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

But even as we grapple with the lingering effects of the storm, feeding kids candy, donuts and fast food to fund their extracurricular activities is just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

As you think about the snow that needs to be shoveled, the lunch that needs to be made and the extra laundry that piles up during these storms, think about all of the activities as opportunities to spend time with your children.

The school year has begun and for parents of preschoolers, like me, it's a lightning storm of activity around our house.

The unexpected prediction from the deputy prime minister comes amid a storm of activity from Conservative eurosceptics, as the long campaigning season ahead of May's European elections begins in earnest.

But Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in the Keys and Southwest Florida little more than two weeks ago, threw a monkey - wrench into the contest, temporarily putting campaign activities on hold after the massive storm knocked out power, internet, cable and mail delivery to much of the district.

In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

The solar storms alone could zap the planet with radiation bursts thousands of times more intense than the normal activity from our Sun.

To better understand the effects of overwash, USGS used dynamic modeling that takes into account storm winds and wave activity coupled with sea - level rise of between 0.5 and 2 meters (1.6 and 6.5 feet).

Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.

That amount — roughly 10 % of the total released annually by human activity — could rise if global warming heats the sea and spawns storms with faster winds, he notes.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

Ice cores from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park and Mount Logan in Canada were used in an analysis of over 1,000 years of history of the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

Four of those phases were reliable predictors of increased inland hail activity during peak storm seasons, according to the study.

But whereas the latter blankets large swaths of the brain with a whiteout storm of electrical activity — leading to temporary, and occasionally permanent, memory impairment — TMS is more of a focused tickle of the circuitry.

Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover — and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land — that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm.

The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system's gas - giant planets.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada started close to 300 years ago and is unprecedented in magnitude and duration over the past millennium, according to a new study from Dartmouth College.

«We were able to show that storm and ocean wave activity in the Drake Passage, the ocean basin between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America, increases during positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode,» he explained.

The CSU - led research team offers important details on how the Southern Annular Mode affects storm activity and the extent of sea ice surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

The next peak cycle of sunspot activity is predicted for 2012 - 2014, bringing with it a greater risk of large geomagnetic storms that can generate powerful rogue currents in transmission lines, potentially damaging or destroying the large transformers that manage power flow over high - voltage networks.

Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, according to a new Montana State University study whose findings could help states in «Tornado Alley» better prepare for these violent storms.

They've ruined that but the University of Geneva, research is being done on sort of an amazing idea for being able to use lasers that would be directed, shot up into the sky into storm formations, that might have a lot electrical activity, basically creating a plasma channel to help guide the lightning down to a spot where you want it to hit so it's not just randomly hitting someplace else.

A computer model developed, in part, by University of Florida researchers can help coastal managers better understand the long - term effects of major storms, sea - level rise and beach restoration activities and possibly save millions of dollars.

Physical removal of the Sargassum canopy, simulating the activity of storms, had a negligible effect, and even removal of the alga's «rooting» holdfasts was only a temporary setback to the Sargassum community.

At times of maximum solar activity, the magnetic ferment represented by sunspots frequently releases and leaps across space to Earth — to foment magnetic storms that disrupt communications networks and light the polar skies with auroral displays.

A new study confirms that thunderstorms are linked to outbreaks of asthma, and researchers suggest that the storms» airflow patterns are to blame rather than other contenders such as thunder, electrical activity, or rain.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

In May, they reported that 90 percent of the Atlantic storms followed a period of above - average lightning activity over the Ethiopian Highlands.

«Cold, hot or dry: Persistent weather extremes associated with decreased storm activity: Decrease in storm activity over large parts of the US, Europe, Russia, and China is found to influence weather extremes.»

Comprehensive analysis of satellite weather data shows that these are indeed regions where significant reductions in storm activity are detected during the rainy season.