Sentences with phrase «periodic warming»

El Niño is an abnormal periodic warming of surface ocean water off the Pacific coast of South America.

The oscillation is a pattern of climate variability akin to El Niño and La Niña — weather patterns caused by periodic warming and cooling of ocean temperatures in the Pacific — except it is longer - lived.

For example, in Peru in the 1500s, periodic warming near the equator seem to affect the size of fishermens» catch; and those warmings also seemed to coincide with torrential rainfalls in northern Peru.

Our best scientific evidence reveals periodic warm water inflows coincide with peak marine productivity.

The project was inspired, Graham says, by dramatic progress over the past 15 years in predicting El Niño, the periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean that affects everything from Indian monsoons to flooding in the midwestern United States.

That trend is mostly influenced by climate change causing surface ocean waters to warm, rather than by large atmosphere - ocean climate patterns, such as the periodic warming and cooling of waters in the equatorial Pacific called the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

El Niño, a periodic warming in the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, will probably emerge in the coming months, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

His analysis of historic weather and puffin hunting records has linked population dynamics to a periodic warming cycle called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or AMO.

The other was a monster El Niño — a periodic warming of Pacific waters around the equator that goes on to affect climate across the planet.

With the current El Niño, which is a periodic warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, there is some hope of such an extreme drought easing this winter — the time of year that El Niño has its biggest impact on weather in the U.S. El Niño usually increases the probability of more precipitation in Southern California during the winter, but in Northern California, there's no reliable connection.

With the current El Niño, which is a periodic warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, there is some hope of such an extreme drought easing this winter — the time of year that El Niño has its biggest impact on weather in the U.S. El Niño usually increases the probability of more precipitation in Southern California during the

The arctic goes through these periodic warmings.»

A new paper by Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University bolsters the established view of clouds» role as a feedback mechanism — but not driver — in climate dynamics through a decade of observation and analysis of El Nino and La Nina events (periodic warm and cool phases of the Pacific Ocean).

The hypothesized mechanism is analogous to that by which El Niño, the periodic warming of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, affects weather thousands of kilometers away.

This periodic warming of the equatorial ocean often produces wet winters in California.

The rush to identify El Niño, characterized by the periodic warming of surface water temperatures off the northwestern coast of South America, as California's savior was based in part on the belief that a strong El Niño would bring as much rain as it did in the winters of 1997 - 1998 and 1982 - 1983.

But the paleoclimate record indicates that a somewhat different series of events — which is still not fully understood — caused the periodic warming of the planet.

Scientists said records keep falling because of a combination of man - made global warming and the natural El Nino, a periodic warming of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide and heats the globe.

Buckley suggests that El Nino, a periodic warming of the Pacific, may have driven the two dry spells.

El Niño, a periodic warming in the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, will probably emerge in the coming months, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).