Sentences with phrase «periods of storminess»

Although he says the AMO doesn't explain all of the cyclical nature of hurricanes in the Atlantic, Landsea still thinks the Americas will continue to experience active and inactive periods of storminess.

Local winds surrounding the resort are variable throughout most of the year but occasionally go through intermittent periods of storminess, called «Badai's».

«Perhaps this little period of storminess actually prevented us from getting a new record this year,» Screen said.

Not exact matches

We suggest that recent coastal dune building from c.ad 1100 until now, despite a sea level close to present and continuously rising, may be a direct consequence of the restoration of beaches after periods of recurrent storminess.

The period as described in the BOOTY site from the mid 12th century though the 13th century and into the first third of the 14th century was incredibly variable and extreme in storminess, cold, heat, rainfall and drought and the consequent severe famine and disease.

They further note that these changes in coastal hydrodynamics were in phase with those observed over the Eastern North Atlantic... and that the periods of increased storminess they identified seem to correspond to periods of Holocene cooling detected in the North Atlantic...» [Pierre Sabatier, Laurent Dezileau, Christophe Colin, Louis Briqueu, Frédéric Bouchette, Philippe Martinez, Giuseppe Siani, Olivier Raynal, Ulrich Von Grafenstein 2012: Quaternary Research]

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

California does sometimes experience major storminess this time of year due to transient, temporary shifts in the jet, but in general sustained wet periods are the exception rather than the norm.