Sentences with phrase «polar lows»
The number of polar lows and the frequency of fog over the Barents sea, however are believed to diminish as the sea ice cover retreats.
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Large amounts of chlorine monoxide - the primary agent of chemical ozone destruction in the cold polar lower stratosphere - were observed for the same day and same altitude (dark blue colors).
«We found out that that winter there was an unusually high number of high pressure systems over the Barents Sea combined with polar lows.
For others, such as polar lows, synoptic storms, and cloudiness, the evidence is more ambiguous.
Offshore winds from Canada and Greenland (with temperatures around -20 C) carry across the warm waters of the Labrador Sea, creating a very unstable atmosphere and immediately leading to the formation of depressions (like polar lows).
The increased temperatures have been accompanied with changes in snow, sea - ice, precipitation, permafrost, icebergs, landice, river runoff, polar lows, synoptic storms, cloudiness, avalanches, ocean circulation, and ocean acidification.
The NAO is a large scale seesaw in atmospheric mass between the subtropical high and the polar low.
Aqua carries six state - of - the - art instruments in a near - polar low - Earth orbit.
With the possible exception of the polar lower stratosphere, a decrease in temperature reduces ozone depletion leading to higher ozone column amounts and a positive correction to the LLGHG - induced radiative cooling of the stratosphere.
From satellite imagery, polar lows can look much like a hurricane, with a large spiral of clouds centered around an eye — for this reason they are sometimes called Arctic hurricanes.