Sentences with phrase «persistent warm water»

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It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Persistent mass of warm water is reshuffling ocean currents, marine ecosystems, and inland weather.

I've touched on lake - effect snows, the classic pattern in the Upper Midwest and western New York State in which frigid winds blowing over relatively warm Great Lakes waters generate persistent cloud bands and lots of snow.

In contrast, the warm water that is under the floating ice (ice shelf) is a persistent source of heat under just the right place.

This mass of warm water, nicknamed «the Blob,» was the result of a persistent atmospheric high - pressure ridge in the Northeastern Pacific that decreased cooling and transport of surface water.

Mohamed M. Ezat, Tine L. Rasmussen, Jeroen Groeneveld; Persistent intermediate water warming during cold stadials in the southeastern Nordic seas during the past 65 k.y..

That LIA advance correlates with 1) lower solar flux, 2) decreased inflows of warm Atlantic water, and 3) a more persistent negative North Atlantic Oscillation.

The persistent upwelling of cold water in the eastern tropical Pacific would have reduced cloud cover there, via reduced oceanic evaporation, and thus allowed more of the sun's energy to enter the tropical ocean - this would have aided the ocean warming process, as generally the case when the tropical ocean is cooler - than - normal.

Scientists across NOAA Fisheries are watching a persistent expanse of exceptionally warm water spanning the Gulf of Alaska that could send reverberations through the marine food web.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

An average of the ice core water stable isotope timeseries from West Antarctica suggests persistent warming through the second half of the twentieth century (Schneider and Steig 2008), as do ice cores from the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula (e.g. Thomas et al. 2009).

The warmest such episode, in the mid-12th century, was more extensive and much more persistent than any modern drought experienced to date, with cumulative streamflow deficits on the Colorado and Sacramento that would severely tax the ability of water providers to meet demands throughout the Southwest.

And, in the hypothetical case where the persistent region of warm water in the North Pacific associated with «The Blob» stuck around through the winter, it's plausible that this could modulate the atmospheric effects of the powerful El Niño event in the tropics.

Sea ice in the Bering Sea this winter was said to be the lowest since the 1850s, largely driven by persistent winds from the south rather than the usual north winds although warm Pacific water was a factor early in the season (AIRC 2018).