Sentences with phrase «over pacific»

PERSON that told me that I was certifiably insane for the amount of work I was putting into my rental apartment, I could quickly move out of it and into a penthouse that looks over the Pacific Ocean, while sipping mojitos and staring at the pool boy below in his red speedo.
At night over the Pacific, there are 14 movies in the seat back plus games and online shopping to sooth the anxiety.
By 6 a.m., he's watching the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean from his surfboard.
He told CNET that the company isn't «comfortable» sharing a specific plan for migrating smartphones over the Pacific anytime soon, never mind what the rumors have said about an end - of - the - year launch.
Hurricanes that affect Hawaii are the result of tropical cyclones that form over the Pacific Ocean.
Our dedication to creating a diverse and open work environment helps us to attract the top minds in construction law, and to put their passion and talent to work for clients all over the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
We were in San Fran a couple of hours later, then on the long flight over the Pacific.
During an El Niño, the ocean releases its energy into the air, warming surface temperatures, having a knock - on effect on weather patterns around the globe, including weaker monsoons in India and more hurricanes over the Pacific.
Further distance over the pacific, burning unclean bunker fuel in the tankers and wind up be used by a country that doesn't care at all about the pollutants they are putting in the air.
A stable low pressure over the Pacific — the other part of the Rex Block — is acting like an anchor to keep the whole thing in place.
When Dr. Lindzen first published this theory, in 2001, he said it was supported by satellite records over the Pacific Ocean.
As a result, coverage has been improved substantially before 1920, especially over the Pacific, with further modest improvements up to 1950 (Worley et al., 2005; Rayner et al., 2006).
The newly discovered «OH hole» in the atmosphere over the Pacific northeast of Australia http://www.wired.com/2014/04/oh-hole-washing-machine/ shown here (German, from the source)
Many dissipate out over the Pacific where no damage occurs, but look at these recent reports from the western Pacific:
Zhu, A., Ramanathan, V., Li, F., & Kim, D. Dust plumes over the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans: Climatology and radiative impact.
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow bands of enhanced water vapor associated with the warm sector of extratropical cyclones over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
JOYCE: That's the jet stream that carries cold air and moisture from over the Pacific into the U.S..
This AD pattern quickly shifted in the second half of June, however, and was replaced by a low sea level pressure center over the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 3b), opposing the transpolar sea ice drift.
Downscaling: create statistically downscaled results over the Pacific Yukon Region of Canada from the CMIP5 ensemble.
Burgman, R. J., Clement, A. C., Mitas, C. M., Chen, J. and Esslinger, K. (2008), Evidence for atmospheric variability over the Pacific on decadal timescales GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL.
Over the Pacific Ocean, the PDO and NPGO are the two dominant climate modes and they are associated with global signatures and distinct spatial patterns of sea level changes.
Conversely, water - soluble particulate iron over the Pacific Ocean is linked to elemental carbon emissions resulting from anthropogenic activity in Asia (Chuang et al., 2005).
It has been observed since 2013 and has had a strong effect on the weather over the Pacific Northwest region since then.
The idea gained momentum recently when over 1,000,000 tons of sulfur dioxide was released into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
With the approach of winter, temperatures in Northern Hemisphere begin to cool more rapidly — and the region of maximum north - south temperature differential over the Pacific Ocean starts to shift southward.
The surprising record growth of ice last winter was not repeated, obviously, largely because of the jet stream over the Pacific Arctic.
The projection of 500mb geopotential height (see Figure 10) for the remainder of July continues the June - to - early July SLP pattern (see Figure 9) with support for low SLP over the Pacific Arctic.
Closed contours over the Pacific Arctic support a continued low sea level pressure in that region, similar to Figure 9, which is not supportive of rapid sea ice loss.
Cloud cover increases over the central and eastern tropical Pacific during an El Nino, and it decreases over the Pacific Warm Pool.
The record temperatures occurred despite a moderate occurrence of La Niña, a phenomenon over the Pacific Ocean that tends to lead to cooler temperatures at the surface, affecting the global mean.
The resulting cold conditions around the world led to less longwave radiation back to space, and less convection and fewer clouds over the Pacific leading to increase absorbed solar radiation.
Hydrologic simulation is performed by driving the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model over the Pacific Northwest region, for historical and future time periods.
Tourre, Y. M., Y. Kushnir, and W. B. White, 1999: Evolution of interdecadal variability in sea level pressure, sea surface temperature, and upper ocean temperature over the Pacific Ocean.
The warm air rises over the Pacific Warm Pool, causing an inflow of air from the east where SSTs are cooler.
Also, recent research has tied 20th century temperature fluctuations in northern California, and much of the Pacific Northwest, to naturally occurring atmospheric / ocean circulation patterns over the Pacific Ocean.
The study published in Nature Climate Change finds that equatorial trade winds have been blowing harder over the Pacific for the past two decades, forcing more heat down into the ocean.
If you look at the increased rainfall areas for El Nino's it is quite significant over the Pacific.
A strong El Niño heats up the atmosphere and changes circulation patterns around the globe, especially the jet stream over the Pacific, which becomes stronger and dumps more frequent and intense storms over the western U.S., especially California.
Over the North Pole this vortex has an embedded mean trough over northeastern North America and over northeastern Asia, whereas over the Pacific there is a weak anticyclonic vortex.
They then added in a simulation where clouds over 3.3 % of the world's ocean were brightened — predominantly over the Pacific and South Atlantic.
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will pass over the Pacific Northwest, creating partial eclipse conditions in parts of California from approximately 9 am — 12 noon (PST)-- the exact time of day when solar is typically ramping up - and obscuring the sun by up to 76 % in some areas of the state.
■ Aleutian Low Pressure Index (ALPI)-- a measure of intensity of the Aleutian Low over the Pacific Ocean mid-latitudes.
To hear some scientists talk, mankind is constantly being knocked around helplessly by every high - pressure system over the Pacific Ocean, or cut down by every bug that lurks in the jungle.
The aforementioned high - amplitude ridging in the Gulf of Alaska and the associated «blocked» flow over the Pacific Ocean has led to an accumulation of very cold air on its downstream side over western Canada.
El Niño is the name assigned when shifting trade winds over the Pacific Ocean give rise to warmer water temperatures further east, fomenting stormy conditions in parts of the Americas and concomitant droughts in parts of Asia and Australia.
Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22
variability of sea level pressure over the Pacific etc..
The basin - scale winds over the Pacific / NA region (PCI) represent anomaly intervals of general flow direction and intensity (related to ALPI, NPO, and indirectly to PDO).
Last year, the strong west - to - east winds over the Pacific Ocean did develop, but instead of being aimed at Southern California, it benefited areas to the north, especially Oregon and Washington.
One has been a long - term natural climate oscillation over the Pacific Ocean that has steered storms away from the western United States.
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