«Analysis of observations indicate that this heat wave was mainly due to internal atmospheric dynamical processes that produced and maintained a strong and long - lived blocking event, and that
similar atmospheric patterns have occurred with prior heat waves in this region.
Not exact matches
... [T] he significant correlations as well as
similar atmospheric circulation
patterns might provide empirical support for a solar influence on hydroclimate extremes in central Europe during spring and summer by the so - called solar top - down mechanism.
While total extent and the general distribution of the ice cover is
similar to last year, the
atmospheric patterns are quite different.
For SON,
similar regression
patterns are obtained if different
atmospheric levels (e.g. Z1000, Z500) are used instead of Z850, but Z850 was found to have the greatest correspondence with ABS sea ice anomalies (not shown).
That there seems to be a global
pattern of variability in ocean and
atmospheric indices — and biologies — with a
similar temporal signature suggests the existence of a black swan.
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Patterns Other research examining the effects of soot on melting glaciers and changing weather pattens in South Asia has reached
similar conclusions: Beyond increasing
atmospheric warming, because the soot coats the surface of the snow and ice it changes the albedo of the surface, allowing it to absorb more sunlight and thereby accelerating melting.
Instead of the proposed positive feedback producing ever faster
atmospheric temperature increases, the plot reveals a very strong warming trend that accelerated during the 2015/16 El Nino phenomenon, which then quickly decelerated to a per century trend of 4.3 degrees Celsius - and, in the recent past,
similar deceleration
patterns have lead to outright negative per century cooling trends.
While the blocking
pattern associated with the 2010 event was unusually intense and persistent, its major features were
similar to
atmospheric patterns associated with prior extreme heat wave events in the region since 1880, the researchers found.