Sentences with phrase «storm patterns»

The large error bars on that number inject uncertainty into our projections of the effects of climate change — from changing storm patterns to sea level rise.

Wind and storm patterns shift in relatively predictable ways.

Recovery is also highly variable and depends upon interactions of numerous factors, e.g., scale of the disturbance, availability of larvae from surviving corals, availability of substrate for coral settlement, and the type of coral community that existed at the time of the disturbance.ref Changes in storm patterns also threaten associated coral reef habitats such as mangroves.

Injecting particles into the atmosphere would deflect some of the sun's incoming radiation, but a new study predicts it would also likely alter tropical storm patterns in the Atlantic and increase the risk of drought in Africa.

Scientists are wrangling with whether and how these changes will affect storm patterns and contribute to extreme weather events, including blizzards and drought.

They are surprisingly different from the single storm pattern that the Cassini spacecraft measured at Saturn's poles.»

In the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters, doctoral student Conrad Wasko and Professor Ashish Sharma of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales show the first evidence of storm intensification triggering more destructive storm patterns.

The cold late - winter and early - spring temperatures combined with an active storm pattern brought a tremendous amount of snowfall to coastal New England.

The same storm pattern that's behind the extreme weather conditions in the U.S. hit the North Pole this week and caused temperatures 50 degrees warmer than average.

Scientists are saying that with the climate disruption they are seeing we can expect a lot more extreme weather events — droughts, wildfires, extreme heat and strange storm patterns with names like «derecho» are the future.

The map is printed on tear - resistant and weatherproof synthetic paper that has been specially formulated to endure the rigors of the island's hazards and unpredictable storm patterns.

For the moment, there's scant evidence to support this at any level — in the basic data on storm patterns or in tallies of damage and deaths.

,» explores the hypothesis that open Arctic waters in fall or winter could influence storm patterns and snowfall outside of the region.

Here's a fresh example: Recent much - discussed studies reporting a link between weird storm patterns and Arctic sea - ice retreats are now facing some hefty pushback.

As I've written before, the great tropical storm and floods that devastated Vermont in November 1927 (and after Irene) appear to have been minor compared to repeated past hill - scouring superfloods, according to an important study of lake - bed sediments revealing storm patterns and intensities in recent millenniums.

This seesaw exchange of air masses shifts temperature conditions and storm patterns throughout the region.

(The short version, of course, is: centuries of melting ice and rising seas, hotter heat waves and heavier downpours, less predictable storm patterns, disrupted ecosystems and water supplies.)

But as the third in a two - week - long parade of extreme events, the presently intense storm pattern is starting to look more than a little outlandish.

Its findings suggest that changing storm patterns and the ensuing droughts are due to a southern shift in the Hadley cell, the large - scale pattern of atmospheric circulation that transports heat from the tropics to the subtropics.

Scientists have a difficult time determining whether climate change (particularly warming) has led to changes in tropical storm patterns.

«It's now clear that sea level rise is not the only player in climate change: shifts in storm patterns and wave direction also have consequences, and distort or amplify the natural variability of coastal patterns,» Harley said.

Of course, the Earth System is more complicated than an electric blanket and climate change is expressed in many ways — e.g., drought, increased temperatures, altered storm patterns and precipitation rates, increased glacier melting, etc..

The reason, then, why the Arctic ice extent jumped 50 percent this year in comparison to 2012, is a combination of weather and storm patterns, explained Meier.

By recording sounds in remote locations where there are no permanent weather stations, the robots provide valuable information on wind or storm patterns, which can help to finetune climate models.

Over the course of the seasons, some changes in the storm patterns and cloud belts on Earth would be observed.

Research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lends credibility to her claim: In the United States, December through February temperatures have increased an average of 0.55 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since 1970, bringing with them unpredictable hot spells and storm patterns.

The same challenges (and opportunities) emerge whenever complex, evolving science underpins contentious or consequential questions — whether in discerning a human contribution to flood and storm patterns or a chemical contribution to childhood illness.

He reacted to the video with a cautionary preamble but also an interesting speculation on the particularly turbulent atmospheric and storm patterns in April:

The study compared a 5,000 - year record of strong storms etched in lagoon mud on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques with data on ocean temperatures and climate and storm patterns.

We can do a hundred different measurements on a single little slab of ice and from that we can tell all sorts of things; Temperature, precipitation, storm patterns, where the storm came from, industrial pollutants, forest fires, volcanoes, on and on and on.