Sentences with phrase «predict weather patterns»

As you can imagine, it's rather important for a rocket science lab to be able to understand and predict weather patterns.

The preconditioning and the state of ice cover in spring is clearly useful for prediction, even if we can't predict the weather patterns.

While meteorologists may predict weather patterns, Rockman reminds us that the devastating effects of the elements are often unpreventable.

Don't worry about the hundreds of satellites that help us predict weather patterns.

In an early childhood classroom in Maryland, the classic children's song «Frere Jacques» is transformed into an active lesson about predicting weather patterns.

She would be traveling in both very high and very low elevations and, of course, there's no predicting the weather patterns she could encounter along the way.

Not exact matches

The intelligent monitoring system then tracks numerous factors including weather patterns, predicted energy use, and current utility prices.

But hurricanes are also influenced and steered by massive global trends in weather that are hard to predict: The warming or cooling of waters in the Pacific (El Niño and La Niña) and patterns like the Madden - Julian oscillation (an eastward - moving weather system that circles the globe every month or so and makes thunderstorms more likely) all play a role.

What can be predicted with greatest confidence is that weather patterns will become less stable.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Benjamin «Benjy» Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for developing a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather patterns could spread spores of late blight fungus, which caused the Irish Potato Famine.

After being asked to predict the weather from the patterns and being rewarded when they got it right, some participants deduced the conceptual rules.

«The jet stream changes character every 10 to 12 days, and we use this pattern to predict the weather,» said Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science in MU's School of Natural Resources, which is located in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

If that's true in the Amazon, Saleska says, climate scientists will need to take into account practices like deforestation when predicting regional changes in weather patterns.

Extrapolating from what we know about the Namib's dunes, Titan's longitudinal dunes offer clues about its global circulation patterns and might one day be used to predict its weather.

«This is clearly an important piece of evidence for the puzzle of trying to detect and predict global weather and climate patterns like the PDO,» she says.

«Of course there is always the issue that we can not predict the weather, and summer weather patterns remain important.»

Computer - generated models are essential for or scientists to predict the nature and magnitude of weather systems, including their changes and patterns.

Forecasting — uses weather models (i.e., Doppler radar) to predict wind speeds and patterns at various altitudes.

Better understanding of the distances these killer spores travel could help researchers correlate the fungus» range with weather patterns to better predict how bad gypsy moth damage will be in a given year.

Scientists expect some annual variability as wind and weather patterns change, but predict the contraction will continue long - term.

«This species has the smallest, most restricted habitat of any Amazonian primate, and it has been predicted that the habitat may be drastically altered due to changes in weather patterns as a result of global warming.»

Benjy Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for his development of a mathematical model which predicts how disease data and weather patterns could spread spores of the «late blight» fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars in crop damages annually.

Using sophisticated models of weather and human movement patterns, the analysis predicts the worm's entry later this year, accomplished either by its independent migration or as it hitches rides along trade routes.

This year, the powers that be are predicting that fall weather patterns may make those stunning fall colors come sooner that later, with the peak color - catching window in the Northern portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan most likely falling between October 7th and 14th.

The American Heartworm Society (AHS) reports that «with unpredictable weather patterns and the ability of hardy mosquitoes to survive in protected areas — as well as indoors — it's difficult to predict when heartworms aren't in season.

However, changes in global weather patterns have uprooted these trends in recent years, making the weather more difficult to predict.

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Heat wave of attacks in Parts of Europe and Asia, as well as floods and landslides in Asia in recent weeks are evidence that it is very hard to precisely predict the consequences of weather patterns.

I mean, if one could predict the weather or patterns of storms even a year in advance it would be worth billions and billions of dollars to people engaged in energy trading or, uh, or, insurance underwriting and a whole bunch of other pursuits.

Broader definitions of the the different patterns and greater effort at determining the specific effect would be far more useful in predicting the weather and the climate.

Further information about Arctic weather patterns and climate change will help scientists predict how the Arctic is impacting climate change globally, as well as how the Arctic contributes to uncertainty within climate models.

The study will use a combination of complex computer models to replicate past weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf, and use the results, along with estimates of future production of man - made greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to predict Gulf hurricane activity.

Moreover, global climate change is expected to affect the future weather patterns in northeastern USA, especially winter temperatures, which are predicted to rise by between 1.7 °C to 5.4 °C in this century [25].

For instance, T. Palmer, a scientist at the European center for medium - range weather forecast, writes in the journal «Weather» that climate predictions using GCMs could be grossly misleading because the computer simulations may be unable to accurately predict long - term changes in the frequency of weather patterns.

In effect, any pattern of weather change could be blamed on it — but a hypothesis that predicts anything and can't be proven false is not science

I mean, if one could predict the weather or patterns of storms even a year in advance it would be worth billions and billions of dollars.»

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

And it's not just temperature, weather pattern changes predicted by models also fail to materialize in real world.

The El Niño currently forming in the Pacific Ocean could potentially be the strongest weather pattern of its kind since 1950, the United Nations» World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicted Tuesday.

IPCC and national climate agency climate models have failed spectacularly at predicting the ENSO climate pattern changes that results in major regional weather conditions.

Session speakers guided audience members through current research efforts to understand the Arctic's role in the global weather system, to predict changing sea ice patterns, and to perceive both the global and local implications of thawing permafrost and shifting hydrology patterns in the Arctic's terrestrial cryosphere.

The first program predicted global weather patterns from 2050 to 2054.

We do somewhat better with predicting the future trajectory and evolution of storms once they form, at least when there are distinct steering patterns of weather present (not always true).

We have also developed computer models that predict body temperatures to within several degrees using data from weather stations and satellites, and current efforts under way in David Wethey's lab will eventually allow us to predict patterns of temperature on a global basis.

In addition to providing details on the evolving cloud population critical to the MJO, the findings may also help illuminate how the MJO interacts with other climate patterns, like El Niño, allowing scientists to better predict and prepare for weather events around the world.

These weather patterns generally can not be predicted more than several days in advance.»

Last summer, we predicted that come this winter, any type of severe weather event was going to be linked to pernicious industrial activity (via global warming) through a new mechanism that had become a media darling — the loss of late summer / early fall Arctic sea ice leading to more persistent patterns in the jet stream.

As for «supposedly caused», it is exactly the sort of drought that climate scientists have predicted for a generation would result from AGW, it is clearly linked to AGW - driven changes in weather patterns, it continues to worsen and spread as I write, and it is much like similar mega-droughts already affecting major agricultural regions all over the world.

Even with daily satellite images of weather patterns, we can not reliably predict the local weather beyond a few days in advance.