Topics such as the predictability
of weather phenomena, coupled ocean - atmosphere systems and anthropogenic climate change are among those included.
Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior
of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.
This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior
of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.
The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability
of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in history.
The first by Panayiotou deals with utopian lands and the use
of weather phenomena in our culture.
It warned the arrival
of a weather phenomenon known as La Niña «could cause real problems» for electricity supplies because of the likelihood of it being accompanied by an «unusually cold and windless winter» in the UK.
It seems to go without fail when we get a convertible or sports car at the office that some sort
of weather phenomenon hits, rendering the best attributes of these vehicles useless.
When the Climate Prediction Center last month issued an El Niño watch for next winter, the media jumped on news
of the weather phenomenon as possible salvation for the Golden State.
Not exact matches
If you're unfamiliar, a Sharknado is a bizarre
weather phenomenon that combines the deadly force
of a tornado with a massive amount
of killer sharks.
English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson saw that the pre-war practice
of weather forecasting was much too archival in nature, merely matching observable
weather phenomena in the present to historical records
of previous
weather phenomena.
The world - wide
phenomenon of climate change, and the devastatingly dangerous
weather patterns and storms it produces, must be our fault as well.
In course
of time, unusual events were studied as
of special significance; and from this into portents
of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal
weather, celestial
phenomena, and then ritualistic
phenomena, such as the structure
of a sacrificed animal, the spread
of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.
In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that
of natural scientists trying to make sense
of such complex
phenomena as the long - range
weather or turbulence in fluids.
It explores the marvels
of geology, land formation,
weather, environments, and other
phenomena related to science and nature.
A perfect balance
of weather conditions drives one
of the natural world's most mysterious
phenomena.
The intense buildup
of freezing spray requires winds
of at least 15 mph, below - freezing air temperature and water temperature lower than 40 degrees Fahrenheit, says Jordan Gerth, a University
of Wisconsin - Madison meteorologist and expert on Great Lakes
weather phenomena.
Juno's microwave sounding instrument reveals that topical
weather phenomena extend deep below the cloudtops, to pressures
of 100 bars, 100 times Earth's air pressure at sea level.
Meteorological
phenomena are observable
weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science
of meteorology.
The strength and path
of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking
phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme
weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
During periods
of extreme dry
weather caused by El Niño and a
phenomenon called the positive Indian Ocean Dipole, smoke emissions are considerably higher — either because farmers are taking advantage
of the dry
weather to burn more land or because once burning, the fires are more difficult to control.
Where other studies have linked
weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly
of Ohio State and now an associate professor
of environmental and global health at the University
of Florida.
Previous research has linked severe
weather conditions with epidemics
of asthma; however, surprisingly little research has been conducted on the
phenomenon, says respiratory physician and epidemiologist Guy Marks
of the University
of Sydney in Australia.
According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large - scale
weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Niño
phenomenon, affect two - thirds
of the world's cropland.
«Any kind
of extreme
weather is at most only loosely controlled by coherent, predictable climate
phenomena like ENSO, and tornadoes are no exception,» said coauthor Adam Sobel, who also is at Columbia's engineering school, as well as its Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.
They also wrote
of their fear
of unknown noises — caused perhaps by ice cracking, animals, or the
weather — and
phenomena such as the aurora borealis.
Tracking the ozone layer's recovery process is tricky because natural
phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and
weather variations can alter the size
of the ozone hole.
It highlighted a series
of global
weather phenomena that resulted from this stratosphere - troposphere «coupling» — such as the cold European winters and occurrences
of extreme temperatures over eastern North America.
«Looking at
weather and dengue incidents over longer periods, we found a similar strong link between how increased rainfall and warmer temperatures resulting from the reoccurring el Niño
phenomenon are associated with elevated risks
of dengue epidemics.
Almost all familiar
weather phenomena occur in the troposphere (the lower part
of the atmosphere).
This may be observed in many natural
phenomena:
weather, cardiac rhythm, models for population growth, economic data, some chemical reactions, or the voice
of humans and animals.
The earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rise, waves and various
weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, accretion and reshaping
of coasts as well as flooding and creation
of continental shelves and drowned river valleys (rias).
This
phenomenon may have important implications for space
weather and may play an important role in the acceleration and scattering
of electrons and ions by these waves that can cause problems ranging from minor anomalies to the complete failure
of critical satellites.
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one
of the most powerful
phenomena controlling global
weather.
The idea that our bodies are barometers for all sorts
of weather - related
phenomena — including changes in temperature, pressure and precipitation — is not a new one.
Fueled by people's pyromania and the El Niño global
weather phenomenon, carbon dioxide concentrations reached 409.44 parts per million on April 9 at an air - sampling station atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a rise
of more than five ppm since the same date last year.
He cites a global
weather phenomenon, called atmospheric blocking, as an example
of a planet - wide occurrence that is has already affected his forensic micrometeorology endeavors.
In addition, the new scheme notably improves the forecasting
of monsoon timing during years affected by the global
weather phenomenon El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO), particularly in its La Niña phase.
Thus, it is plausible that changes to atmospheric ionization rates due to cosmic ray variability may affect the occurrence
of electrical
phenomena in the Venusian atmosphere (Nordheim et al. 2015) hence manifesting a relation between space
weather and meteorological
phenomena.
While El Niño is a cyclical climate
phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean — marked by warmer ocean temperatures in the tropics and a weakening
of the usual easterly trade winds — it can impact
weather around the globe.
That's down to natural fluctuations that temporarily boost or dampen the speed
of warming, such as the global
weather phenomenon known as El Niño, the paper notes.
«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result
of changes to wind and
weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events
of the climate
phenomenon El Niño.
Over the past several years, scientists from many institutions have explored the ability
of SP - CAM to simulate tropical
weather systems, the day - night changes
of precipitation, the Asian and African monsoons, cloud - aerosol interactions and other climate
phenomena.
From heat waves to downpours, a number
of extreme
weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.
Dr. O'Neill's expertise covers all areas
of space science, but he specifically likes to focus on solar physics, Mars exploration, space
weather phenomena, commercialization
of spaceflight, manned space exploration and debunking bad science (i.e. the 2012 doomsday hysteria).
The top
of the curves are warmer years caused by El Niño; a
weather phenomenon where the Pacific Ocean gives out heat thus warming the Earth.
Multiyear Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) observations
of repeated martian
weather phenomena during the northern summer season B. Cantor, M. Malin, and K. S. Edgett Journal
of Geophysical Research 107 (E3), 5014, doi: 10.1029 / 2001JE001588, 21 March 2002.
That's one area
of research that we are working on currently which has a really big impact on extreme
weather events and it's this kind
of phenomena that we need to understand much better.
One
of the lesser known
weather phenomena on the sun's surface are coronal holes, a video
of which was just released by NASA.
I kid you not; I have been wanting to do photographs
of this outfit since December, and every time I've attempted to, an abnormal
weather phenomenon has occurred.
With a satellite in the sky to convert rain into meals, the city now has not only plenty
of non-sardine cuisine to choose from, but people from all over the world want to travel to the town, now sporting the newly dubbed name
of «Chew and Swallow», to experience the unique
phenomenon after an intrepid
weather channel reporter named Sam Sparks (Faris, Observe and Report) covers the big news.