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In central North America, the cooler winters were primarily due to changes in the northerly winds driven by increased sea level pressure on the west coast of North America.

Obviously you are not aware that the decadal variability of ENSO is not in synch with the PDO: The graph is from this post: http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/yet-even-more-discussions-about-the-pacific-decadal-oscillation-pdo/ The reasons for the differences are of course due to the influence of sea level pressure on the PDO.

Not exact matches

It was a disappointing result, putting a lot of pressure on the return game in Quito, 2,800 metres above sea level.

For now, Rep. Todd Akin remains in the race, though the pressure being brought on him to drop his Senate bid in a state that's hotly contested at the presidential level is surely enough to crush a deep - sea subamarine.

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

At sea level on Earth, sunlight's «radiation pressure» is about 50 million times smaller than atmospheric pressure.

For this reason, he and his colleague predict the Moon condensed in a pressure of more than 10 bar, or roughly 10 times the sea level atmospheric pressure on Earth.

Instead of weightlessness, the aquanaut would have to endure, among other things, artificial atmospheres with gaseous mixtures different from what we breathe on land, maintained at significantly higher pressures than those at sea level to match the water pressure at depth.

This beast can simulate the mind - boggling conditions on the surface of Venus: it is able to create pressures of 1,350 pounds per square inch — 90 times Earth's air pressure at sea level — and temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

The analysis of high - frequency surface air temperature, mean sea - level pressure, wind speed and direction and cloud - cover data from the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 from the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland, published today (Monday 22 August 2016), sheds new light on the phenomenon.

Fisher's pen makes up for a lack of gravity by storing ink in a cartridge pressurized with nitrogen at 35 pounds per square inch — more than twice as much force as sea - level atmospheric pressure on Earth.

Their DNA is packed into the capsid so tightly that the pressure it exerts on the capsid wall is about 50 times greater than the pressure Earth's atmosphere exerts at sea level.

Impact of ice melt on storms Freshwater injection onto the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans causes increase of sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decrease at polar latitudes.

For comparison, the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level is 1,000,000 microbars (or 1 bar).

At 1 bar (the same pressure as at sea level on Earth) Saturn's atmosphere is only 134 K. Saturn has as much mass as 95 Earths would have — and this massive, cold planet rotates fully around every 10.7 hours!

By contrast, there has been a detectable human influence on global sea level pressure.

195º Low simmer 210º High simmer 212º Boiling water at sea level; light or vigorous boil 213º - 214º Boiling temperature of salted or sugared water; 1 teaspoon per quart 250º Maximum pressure cooker temperature 250º Butter smoke point 300º For seasoning lightly oil - coated pans in the oven 325º Water drops dance on skillet surface 325º Black pepper burning point 350º Clarified butter smoke point

So taking your car and measuring HP on a dynojet at sea level will produce different horsepower than a calibrated dynojet at 10k feet elevation (the dyno can adjust for the altitude, but what if the car's boost controller works with absolute pressure and not relative?

The smallest warming / sea level rise in TAR figure 5 will place a wide range of human and natural systems under very considerable pressure (and based on estimates of the melt - down point for greenland place us teetering on the edge of dangerous climate change).

The new research is a regional climate study of historical sea level pressures, winds and temperatures over the eastern Pacific Ocean and draws no conclusions about climate change on a global scale.

The effects can also be felt as far away as Antarctica where a «dipole» of sea level pressure between the Bellinghausen and Weddell Seas is highly correlated to the ENSO phase and can have important effects on sea ice and Antarctic ecology.

I'm thinking that ice floats (esp in salt water, I suppose), and since this glacier bed is below sea level, and if sea water were to get into it (or even at front edge points where it meets the sea), a rising sea level might put even more upward pressure on the glacier.

Here we use the SAM definition of Marshall (2003; 19) based on the difference in mean sea level pressure between 40ºS and 65ºS, which is entirely based on observations and fully independent of our inversion.

Canadian Ice Service, 4.7, Multiple Methods As with CIS contributions in June 2009, 2010, and 2011, the 2012 forecast was derived using a combination of three methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter arctic ice thicknesses and extents, as well as an examination of Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model, which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictoSea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model, which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictosea ice predictors.

Canadian Ice Service, 4.7 (+ / - 0.2), Heuristic / Statistical (same as June) The 2015 forecast was derived by considering a combination of methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic ice thickness extents, as well as winter Surface Air Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictoSea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictosea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictosea ice predictors.

Unlike the sea level pressure field from the last six years with the Arctic Dipole (AD), which has low pressure on the Siberian side of the Arctic and higher pressure on the North American side, May 2013 had a low pressure over the central Arctic.

The weight of the atmosphere pushing down on the oceans varies with the atmospheric pressure at sea level.

With deep aquifer discharge primarily regulated by geological pore spaces (in addition to pressure heads), the slow and steady discharge of these older waters affects sea level rise on century and millennial timeframes.

Relationship Between Sea Level and Bottom Pressure on Climate Scales — Implications for Assessing Heat Content and Deep Variability

Christopher G. Piecuch; Katherine J. Quinn; Rui M. Ponte (2012) Relationship Between Sea Level and Bottom Pressure on Climate Scales — Implications for Assessing Heat Content and Deep Variability.

Given the increased levels of certainty regarding human - induced global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea - level rise and data on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

In the introduction itself Bjorn Lomborg catalogues the impacts of climate change, highlighting the problem of sea level rise, pressure on water resources, and declining food production in some countries,» possibly becoming a source of societal conflict».

In general, indices of the annular modes are based on either 1) the leading principal component (PC) time series of gridded geopotential height anomalies at a given pressure level or 2) approximations of the leading PC time series of geopotential height anomalies using differences between sea level pressure anomalies at stations in middle and high latitudes.

Bolin & Eriksson's «buffer» factor would give about 10 times higher CO2 concentration in air vs. sea water at about 0.0003 atmospheres CO2 partial pressure, increasing dramatically to an air / water CO2 partition coefficient of about 50:1 at a CO2 partial pressure of about 0.003 atmospheres (10 times the assumed pre-industrial level; Bacastow & Keeling, 1973; see Section 7 below for more on the «buffer» factor).

Low - lying island states and other countries vulnerable to rising sea levels, floods and hurricanes have been putting pressure on developed countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in temperatures to within a limit of 2C this century.

Since ENSO is a coupled ocean - atmosphere process, I have presented its impact on and the inter-relationships between numerous variables, including sea surface temperature, sea level, ocean currents, ocean heat content, depth - averaged temperature, warm water volume, sea level pressure, cloud amount, precipitation, the strength and direction of the trade winds, etc..

Lukovich et al. (Centre for Earth Observation Science, U. of Manitoba); 4.6; Heuristic - Dynamics Investigation of dynamical atmospheric contributions in spring to sea ice conditions in fall, based on comparison of 2011 and 2007 stratospheric and surface winds and sea level pressure (SLP) in April and May suggests regional differences in sea ice extent in fall, in a manner consistent with recent studies highlighting the importance of coastal geometry in seasonal interpretations of sea ice cover (Eisenman, 2010).

The September ice area is predicted to be comparable to 2009 based on winter (Jan - Feb - Mar) sea level pressure anomalies over the Kara and Laptev Seas.

Canadian Ice Service; 5.0; Statistical As with Canadian Ice Service (CIS) contributions in June 2009 and June 2010, the 2011 forecast was derived using a combination of three methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic Multi-Year Ice (MYI) extents, as well as an examination of Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice predictoSea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice predictosea ice predictors.

Canadian Ice Service, 4.7 (± 0.2), Heuristic / Statistical (same as June) The 2015 forecast was derived by considering a combination of methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic ice thickness extents, as well as winter Surface Air Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictoSea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictosea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictosea ice predictors.

The pressure is on climate forecasters to give us more accurate predictions of impacts, such as rising sea levels, but ahead of the Durban climate summit scientists say we still have much to learn

Though the Tibetan earthquake was going to happen at some time, it is possible that changes in ice loading on Himalayan glaciers, changes in water volume outflows in the annual Asian monsoon, and sea level rise adding pressure to the geological plates below coastlines — especially in low - lying Bangladesh — had an impact.

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At the same time, the tidal level has increased by some 3 inches (8 centimeters) for several reasons, including organic structure growth on the barrier reef in the lagoon basin and changes in atmospheric pressure and wind action on the Adriatic Sea.

The Arctic had a weak Dipole Sea Level Pressure (SLP) with a low on the Eurasian Side and a high pressure region from north of the Bering Strait across northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term average (1981 Pressure (SLP) with a low on the Eurasian Side and a high pressure region from north of the Bering Strait across northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term average (1981 pressure region from north of the Bering Strait across northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term average (1981 - 2010).

Figure 1 (below) is the sea level pressure field for June and July 2009, showing the Dipole / negative Arctic Oscillation pattern with high pressure on the North American side of the Arctic.

Anyway, one of the things on my todo list is to look into where the pressures used to adjust sea level data come from.

If temperatures are not kept down then Africa faces a range of devastating threats such as crop yield reductions in places of as much 50 % in some countries by 2020; Increased pressure on water supplies for 70 — 250 million people by 2020 and 350 — 600 million by 2050; The cost of adaptation to sea level rises of at least 5 — 10 % of gross domestic product.

(Top) Time series of the NPI (sea level pressure during December through March averaged over the North Pacific, 30 ° N to 65 ° N, 160 ° E to 140 ° W) from 1900 to 2005 expressed as normalised departures from the long - term mean (each tick mark on the ordinate represents two standard deviations, or 5.5 hPa).