Sentences with phrase «storm activity at»

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

Although the age model gives some uncertainty in the timings, it appears that storminess increased at the onset and close of North Atlantic cold events associated with oceanic changes, with reduced storm activity at their peak.

Not exact matches

The storm activity comes after Hurricane Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated at as much as $ 180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

At times of maximum solar activity, the magnetic ferment represented by sunspots frequently releases and leaps across space to Earth — to foment magnetic storms that disrupt communications networks and light the polar skies with auroral displays.

Colin Price and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University studied data from 26 observation stations worldwide, comparing lightning activity to tropical storm formation during the 2005 and 2006 hurricane seasons.

Many of those storms originate at sunspots, dark blemishes on the sun's surface that are wellsprings of magnetic activity.

Solar storms can at times create radiation damage or introduce errors in satellite or spacecraft computer processors, causing them to function unpredictably, malfunction (sometimes permanently) or «misbehave» in other ways, Anderson says, adding that much of this activity goes unreported to the public because, particularly in commercial space - based systems, operators tend to be very reticent to admit they have had a problem that might discourage investors.

In a paper that appeared online on July 18, 2017 at Weather and Climate Extremes, the team reports that climate change attributed to human activity made the storm much more severe than would otherwise have occurred.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

When the annual April 1 measurements came in, Trouet and her colleagues were already looking at the historic climate record contained in old tree rings to see how the locations of storm activity had changed in the area over time.

He also brings a sweeping beauty to the visuals... whether it's Jobs storming through a hallway, or the maze of activity backstage at each roll - out.

The overall unfairness of segregating pets outside the human circle may deteriorate into gross insensitivity or even a felony if they are not brought indoors: (1) when they are sick or otherwise incapacitated as listed in Table 1; (2) in bad weather such as thunderstorms, ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and life - threatening temperatures; (3) when herbicides and other harmful chemicals are being used in the yard; (4) when construction, regular services and other activities may cause the dog to escape; (5) at night.

While that means prices are comparatively much cheaper during this time, your activity options are constrained: the beaches will be overcast and wet (at least during the storms) and choppy waters means that diving and snorkelling may be limited.

Storms River village provides a number of adventure activities like the Canopy tours, bungi jumping from the Bloukrans River Bridge, which claims to the be the world's highest at 216 metres, biking trails, fishing excursions and Black Water Tubing and kloofing, but the star of the show is nature herself and the meeting place of forest, precipitous cliff and stormy seas.

You should also be aware that a rare tropical storm can wash out scuba activities and reduce visibility for 2 or 3 days at a time.

For Kerrie Warren appears to have evolved the capacity, through the layering of intricate tiny strokes of mainly pure primary hues that ultimately seem to meld into a single energy field, to simultaneously animate and stabilize all activity on the picture plane, and finally apprehend the calm stillness at the center of the painterly storm.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

Slowing such overturning by reducing the horizontal differential heating could tend to allow heat to build up at lower levels until the lapse rate is more favorable to localized vertical overturning (LVO)(The two forms of overturning are not always completely distinct or separate; for example, the Hadley cell, Walker, and monsoon circulations, as well as extratropical storm track activity (developing from baroclinic instability (Rossby wave phenomena)-RRB- are driven and organized in part by horizontal differential heating, but in the ascending portions of these circulations, cumulus - type convection can occur).

The study looked at historical hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is... Read more

You say «the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.»

«the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.

As Bobdroege says, with Trenberth, the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.

The study looked at historical hurricane activity across the entire tropical Atlantic basin to see if the current peak in storm numbers is anomalous.

When solar activity is high — the sea level pressure at the poles is low and storms are constrained to a tight circle at high latitudes.

Solar wind disturbances driven by fast coronal mass ejections are now thought to produce the most intense geomagnetic storms, at least during the maximum in the Sun's activity cycle.

Thus while we can already detect trends in data for global hurricane activity considering the whole life of each storm, we estimate that it would take at least another 50 years to detect any long - term trend in U.S. landfalling hurricane statistics, so powerful is the role of chance in these numbers.

- and data on the frequency of North Atlantic tropical storms going back to 1851 show strong minima of hurricane activity in the periods centered around 1850, 1915, and 1980 and maxima centered around 1875, 1950, and at the end of the time series (Elsner et al. 1999)-- these variations are approximately in phase with the AMO (Knight et al. 2005).»

As the hurricane season comes to a close, TripAssure looks back at the storm activity over the year and offers travel protection solutions for those bound for the areas that have been most impacted.