Sentences with word «storminess»

While 1741 is noted as the year the current intensification began, the paper also references an increase in storminess in the year 1825.

They found no long - term trend during the last 100 years, but a clear rise since a minimum of storminess in the 1960s, which is consistent with the rise in extreme geostrophic wind found by Jones et al. (1999c).

However, there is no evidence of increased storminess over the last 30 years.

Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims of tropical storminess from a casual claim by Sir John Houghton of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances.

Middle - to late - Holocene storminess in Brittany (NW France): Part II — The chronology of events and climate forcing

Yes, we may even be in for a «natural» increase in storminess over the next several hundred years.

Hilppa Gregow says that although the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) correlates with storminess in general, the researches were not able to relate the 1990 change point to changes in NAO.

Hurricanes (50 % higher «destructive potential» in future): Emanuel (1987); a trend had been detected of greater storminess in the North Atlantic 1962 - 1988, Carter and Draper (1988); for more recent work, e.g., Knutson et al. (1998); droughts («severe drought, 5 % frequency today, will occur about 50 % of the time by the 2050s» in the U.S.): Rind et al. (1990); Karl et al. (1995) reported a rise in extreme precipitation events.

Miller strongly disagreed with my discussion of the science revealing past patterns of extreme storminess in the Northeast and the science pointing to a rising human influence on some (but not all) kinds of extreme weather.

Look at the pictures of melting glaciers, look at the charts for increased rainfall, look at the data on storminess.

«That's the other remarkable thing about this research,» said Osterberg, «not only are we seeing strong agreement between the two Denali cores, we are finding the same story of intensified storminess recorded in ice cores collected 13 years and 400 miles apart.»

This includes evidence for increased storminess at the end of the Little Ice Age.

Alarmists have drawn some support for increased claims of tropical storminess from a casual claim by Sir John Houghton of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a warmer world would have more evaporation, with latent heat providing more energy for disturbances.

Claims for starkly higher temperatures are based upon there being more humidity, not less — hardly a case for more storminess with global warming.

However the shift from a predominantly negative to positive NAO at c. 2000 cal yrs BP preceded the increased storminess by 1000 years.

It's possible that one could see an increase in Arctic storminess at the same time the maximum global windspeed of midlatitude storms was going down modestly.

Measurements of salt particles in ice cores suggest that storminess rose toward the end of the occupation, perhaps making voyages to hunt and trade walrus ivory even more dangerous.

Seierstad, I. & Bader, J. Impact of a projected future Arctic sea ice reduction on extratropical storminess and the NAO.

However, this is essentially due to large scale dust storms that were common back then, compared to a lower level of storminess now.

During the past ~ 600 years, New England storminess appears to have been increasing naturally.

A possible connection between cosmic rays and clouds was already established at the end of the 19th century by the inventor of the cloud chamber, Wilson (1899); it was admittedly «speculation» that ionization in the upper troposphere affected storminess.

Storms tracking from below the pole tend to bring heat up toward the frigid Arctic, so you might expect storminess to break up and melt ice.

According to researchers, additional future warming of tropical Pacific waters — due in part to human activity — should continue the long - term storminess trend.

«One societally relevant implication is that more storminess probably means more erosion of Arctic coastlines, especially in tandem with declines in buffering sea ice cover and increases in thawing coastal permafrost,» concluded Dr. Vavrus.

The finding of an overall decrease in summer storminess is «reasonably convincing,» says James Screen, a climatologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

«Increasing storminess bodes ill not only for Magellanic penguins but for many other species,» they write.

This podcast has a little storminess to it, as it was recorded during a thunderstorm.

However, the existence of natural variability in storminess confounds reliable detection of anthropogenic effects.

Off the top of my head I can think of at least three teleconnections connected with El Nino: increased precipitation in the SW US, decreased Atlantic hurricane activity and increased storminess along the SW coast of Africa and around the Cape of Good Hope.

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

I wouldn't bet on a surge of late - season tropical storminess arriving to wake folks up.

This is the aurora borealis generated by a recent burst in solar storminess and recorded over Tromso, Norway, without any time - lapse acceleration.

And if we had warming, it should be accomplished by less storminess.

Questions we are addressing include: How do storminess and precipitation change as atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations increase?

The jet stream creates the high - and low - pressure systems that dictate our blue skies and storminess while also steering them.

Periods of higher storm activity are recorded from > 680 to 560 cal yr BC (SP10, end of the Iron Age Cold Period), from 140 to 820 cal yr AD (SP7 to SP5) with a climax of storminess between 400 and 800 cal yr AD (Dark Ages Cold Period), and from 1230 to > 1800 cal yr AD (SP3 to SP1, Little Ice Age).

We suggest that recent coastal dune building from c.ad 1100 until now, despite a sea level close to present and continuously rising, may be a direct consequence of the restoration of beaches after periods of recurrent storminess.

However understanding the significance of such a change is difficult because the natural variability of storminess beyond the range of instrumental data is poorly known.

Here we present a decadal - resolution record of storminess covering the Late Holocene, based on a 4 - m - long core taken from the peat bog of Cors Fochno in mid-Wales, UK.

These findings raise significant questions about the oft - reported claim that CO2 - induced global warming will lead to an increase in world storminess.

But, they say, their work does imply that factors other than ocean temperature, at least for thousands of years, appear to have played a pivotal role in shaping storminess in the region.

Consequently, storms are producing more heavy precipitation, even in areas where total precipitation is decreasing.1 General storminess around the world, as measured by wind speeds and ocean wave heights, has increased in recent years, with the increase particularly pronounced in winter months.

And that's a contributor to low sea ice in the Bering, as well as persistent storminess.»

California does sometimes experience major storminess this time of year due to transient, temporary shifts in the jet, but in general sustained wet periods are the exception rather than the norm.