Sentences with phrase «polar opposite patterns»
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Computer models reveal that exoplanets with very saline oceans could have circulation patterns opposite to that on Earth, resulting in dramatic warming of their polar regions, possibly extending their range of habitability.
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This spatial pattern has been attributed to a trend towards the positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM)(e.g. Thompson and Solomon 2002; Marshall 2007), the leading mode of variability in the extra-tropical atmospheric circulation, characterized by atmospheric pressure anomalies of opposite sign between the polar latitudes and the mid-latitudes.