In the piece mentioned two weeks ago (UV Feb. 22; # 337), Dr. Michael Ventrice reached for a forecast
of upper air in the West Pacific that called for «two pair» of equator - straddling cyclonic systems — to help give birth to an El Nino.
Their conclusion highlights the influence
of upper air dynamics, a globally coherent system, and its importance to the moisture content of air near the surface, a regional phenomenon with strong local patterns.
Basic fields are displayed (surface MSL pressure, temperature, dewpoint, winds), along with short - term (0 - 2 hour) forecasts
of upper air conditions.
A number of statistical downscaling techniques (see Section 13.4 and Chapter 10, Section 10.6, for definition) used in scenario development employ Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) reanalysis data products as a source
of upper air climate data (Kalnay et al., 1996).
The major uncertainties in satellite measurements
of upper air temperature are due to sensor and spacecraft biases and instabilities, the characteristics of which need to be estimated by performing satellite intercalibrations during overlapping intervals.
Given reliable measurements, as outlined in Recommendation # 1, the level of confidence that can be attached to the trends will increase as the period of record
of upper air measurements lengthens.
Subsequent exploration
of the upper air, and the recognition that jet streams were both highly coherent in time and provided a guide to the evolution of surface depressions, led to the full flowering of the synoptic forecasting method in the mid 20th century.
I do them myself two ways, one while using the sun as a fixed sphere of reference, the other by taking
all of upper air radiosonde data, condensating them to one readable number in degrees Kelvin.
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Not exact matches
Once we were in the
air, the bar in the back
of the
upper level
of the plane opened, doling out finger sandwiches and more snacks.
And so he drew up a grid over Europe, each cell incorporating Bjerknes's weather data, including locational variables such as the extent
of open water affecting evaporation, and five vertical divisions in the
upper air.
She sees faint gyres
of dust in the hot
upper air.
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IndyCar has done what many feel Formula 1 should be doing and introducing more underbody aero whilst removing many
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He is now aiming to help his side march back towards the more rarefied
air in the top - flight's
upper reaches — and the ex-Lille man says the fervent support
of Evertonians can provide the Blues with an additional and significant boost as they strive to maintain their improvement in domestic form.
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A senior Treasury official discerns this schoolmasterly character in many
of the governor's communications, rolling his eyes as he recalls a recent King memo beginning: «Let us consider...» In its
upper echelons, there is still an
air of the senior common room, with its petty rivalries and fractious staff meetings.»
While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount
of snow will be limited by the direction
of the wind and relatively dry
air in the
upper atmosphere.
There is longstanding evidence that exposure to high concentrations
of air pollution increases the risk for several diseases including heart attacks and European Union (EU) statutory pollution limits are based on absolute
upper values.
The
upper is made
of mesh to let
air in and out.
The team found that zapping mixtures
of air with electricity, which simulates the chemistry
of the
upper atmosphere, could produce enriched levels
of 15N15N like they measured in
air samples.
When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface
of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the
upper levels
of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course
of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the
air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.
The artificial system is used to observe the effects
of air pollutants on cells in the
upper airway.
That effectively lowers
air pressure on the
upper surface, lowering drag and generating extra lift (Journal
of Thermal Biology, doi.org/f96ggw).
Water vapor seen at these infrared wavelengths is in the
upper and middle levels
of the troposphere, where the winds are ruled by large - scale
air masses.
Instead
of vocalizing by passing
air through their throats, they sound off by forcing
air through passageways in the
upper parts
of their heads.
The hypothesis relates to an important component in tornado formation: the mixing
of warm
air on the surface and cold
air in the
upper atmosphere.
In the winter, intermixing
of stratospheric ozone with the troposphere in a process called Stratospheric Tropospheric Exchange (STE) is the chief means
of ozone transport into our
air, but Dr. Wang says in summertime that process subsides and lightning bolts create significant ozone enhancements in the middle to
upper troposphere, particularly in the Southeastern US.
While this circulation is so slow that a blob
of air may take decades to travel to the
upper atmosphere, it impacts the chemical composition
of the global atmosphere because many chemical properties are very different in the lower and
upper atmosphere layers.
The main argument in these reviews has been that collisions
of similar energies happen daily in the
upper atmosphere as cosmic rays slam into atoms in the
air and, so far, Earth has survived unscathed.
Every storm chase begins with an assessment
of where supercells will burgeon, based on factors from the location
of the so - called dry line — separating moist from arid
air — to the speeds
of upper - level winds.
Harris says many lines
of evidence indicate that the reduction
of CFCs in the
upper atmosphere during the winter months is due to downward
air currents, not chemical processes.
As the tide begins to fall, an
air valve is opened to connect the
upper part
of the cylinder to the atmosphere through a snorkel tube.
As the storm moves, a «blob»
of cold
air builds, particularly in the
upper reaches
of the towering cumulonimbus clouds that march along at the storm's front.
(Such low
air temperatures encourage the formation
of icy clouds in the
upper atmosphere known as polar stratospheric clouds, which foster the chemical reactions that turn harmless chlorine compounds into ozone eradicators.)
A team led by the University
of Colorado Boulder has found the mechanism behind the sudden onset
of a «natural thermostat» in Earth's
upper atmosphere that dramatically cools the
air after it has been heated by violent solar activity.
According to Ulrich Schumann
of the DLR, who organised last week's colloquium, NOx concentrations at middle latitudes in the
upper troposphere may have doubled in recent years, and the
air lanes over the North Atlantic and Europe have around 20 per cent more ozone than other areas.
In the main North Atlantic
air corridor, a sharp difference also exists between the height
of the tropopause north and south
of the jet stream, a kind
of natural high - speed wind tunnel in the
upper atmosphere.
8 So candle flames are blue at the bottom because that's where they take up fresh
air, and yellow at the top because the rising fumes from below partly suffocate the
upper part
of the flame.
In 2009, AWI scientists conducted a research cruise in the west Pacific, where strong thunderstorms push
air from the troposphere up to the stratosphere, serving as a main source
of air for the
upper layer.
When a high - energy gamma ray from a blazar strikes
air molecules in the
upper regions
of Earth's atmosphere, it produces a cascade
of charged subatomic particles.
Oceanographers may have solved one
of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the
upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the
air above.
In the winter, intermixing
of stratospheric ozone with the troposphere in a process called Stratospheric Tropospheric Exchange (STE) is the chief means
of ozone transport into our
air, but Dr. Wang says in summertime that process subsides and lightning bolts create significant ozone enhancements in the middle to
upper troposphere, particularly in the Southeastern U.S.
In the
upper -
air field, this difference
of approach has been very obvious, and great efforts have been expended to produce corrections to the older radiosonde data sets.
There is a disparity between warm High Arctic
upper air proven by a great melt
of 2008 during mostly cloudy period, something you easily forget, the convenience
of grasping at straws, and a continuance
of reports showing a cool troposphere.
Climate models generally predict that temperatures should increase in the
upper air as well as at the surface if increased concentrations
of greenhouse gases are causing the warming.»