Sentences with phrase «strong ocean winds»

(Got ta love those strong ocean winds!)

Sydney gets some pretty strong ocean winds allll the time.

Not exact matches

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

When ocean cycle shifts, globe is likely to warm up When climate models were run that included the stronger winds, they were able to reproduce the slowdown in surface temperatures.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

The researchers were able to test their hypothesis that stronger winds were driving the ocean heat uptake by putting the observations of wind behavior into climate models.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theOcean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

Let's say your wind speed is strong, and the wind direction is opposite between the upper levels and the [ocean's] surface — then you get a strong shearing environment.

The prototype SkySail, which completed its first transatlantic voyage last winter, measures 1,700 square feet and can be raised as high as 1,000 feet over the ocean surface to catch the consistently strong winds that swirl above the waves.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

So you have these ships on the open ocean basically burning the nastiest stuff on Earth as they come into port — ports like the Port of Los Angeles, where you have the strong westerly wind and huge amounts of port traffic, [and] all this burning bunker fuel comes inland.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

La Niña cools ocean temperatures, leading to stronger easterly winds in the tropics.

These effects are reflected in the ocean surface, which is generally smooth underneath the weak winds of the wake and rough under the strong winds outside the wake.

The huge increase of radiation and the strong stellar winds that will accompany the process of stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire planet is finally melted.

Things can be rough on the open ocean — and they appear to be getting rougher, with increased average air speed, wave height, and frequency of strong winds and large waves over the past two decades.

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

Both real - world observations and the team's simulations reveal that the abnormally strong winds — driven by natural variation in a long - term climate cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation — have, for the time being, carried the «missing» heat to intermediate depths of the western Pacific Ocean.

Even if the storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the storm is destined to push strong winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf and heavy rain, forecasters say.

Over the last decade, the waters off Central California have seen stronger winds, which bring more nutrients, such as nitrate, to the ocean surface.

Strong El Niño events and wind shear typically suppress the development of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.

This difference in temperature creates a pressure gradient between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean that induces stronger winds that push moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico.

The ocean waters that are cleared of sea ice by strong winds blowing from the coast carve out a suitable enclave where marine organisms can thrive, unlike the rest of the icy cold Antarctic region.

Venus has an «electric wind» strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere, which may have played a significant role in stripping the planet of its oceans, according to a new study by NASA and UCL researchers.

Apparently the reason for the disappearance was an anomalous weather system which generated a strong jet of surface winds blowing straight over the pole southward toward the Atlantic ocean, a «Polar Express».

These strong, constant winds push and drag the warm surface water westward, «piling» it up and holding it in the western Pacific Ocean basin.

When winds are strong, they can churn over the water, sucking cool water up from the ocean's depths.

C. Carreau, ASPERA - 4 & MAG teams, Venus Express, ESA Annotated image illustrating loss of hydrogen through plasma wake Venus may have lost oceans of water due to a runaway greenhouse effect which evaporated water into the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet light dissociated water into ionized atomic hydrogen and oxygen (some later incorporated into carbon dioxide) that were blown away by the Solar wind due to the lack of a strong magnetic field like the Earth's (more).

Therefore regionally stronger winds could occur, and in the Southern Ocean that can impact overturning / mixing through Ekman Transport, the Southern Ocean is big!

In the oceans, warmer weather is driving stronger winds that are exposing deeper layers of water, which are already saturated with carbon and not as able to absorb as much from the atmosphere.

Taking them both to the ocean with my mom this weekend ended up being very fortunate indeed, because the wind was so strong the first day that as I was trying to photograph a different outfit, the wind just whipped up and blew my skirt alll the way up to show off my underwear.

There is a strong wind, the waves reach the rocks and there is a strong current toward the ocean.

On warmer days the fog will burn off only to have the strong northwest wind blow in additional fog from the open ocean.

The strong winds and currents where the two oceans meet around Cape Horn make these seas tempestuous and extremely unpredictable, hence the hundreds of shipwrecks to its name.

KS: It's definitely necessary to pay attention to the wind that sometimes can blow very strong making the ocean very rough to surf.

The good thing about Aruba is that they are known for getting strong winds and those winds coming off the ocean can do wonders to cool you down when outside.

Drive through Greenough where some of the trees lean dramatically due to the strong westerly winds blowing from the ocean.

It's hardly been a controversial choice — while many Zelda fans insist that Ocarina of Time has a stronger sense of focus, and that its landlocked rendition of Hyrule is preferable to Wind Waker's wide stretches of ocean, my preference is generally respected.

The strong winds from the south can push the ice further north into the Central Arctic, exposing the open water and releasing heat to the atmosphere from the ocean.»

There is also a phenomenon called La Niña («the girl»)-- the extreme opposite of El Niño — where easterly winds are especially strong and the warm waters of the South Pacific are confined to the western edge of the ocean.

The cause of the change is a particular change in winds, especially in the Pacific Ocean where the subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, thereby changing ocean currents and increasing the subtropical overturning in the ocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the oOcean where the subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, thereby changing ocean currents and increasing the subtropical overturning in the ocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the oocean currents and increasing the subtropical overturning in the ocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the oocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the oceanocean.

Strong winds are much more effective at transferring heat and moisture between the atmosphere and the ice / ocean surface.

With the exception of the South Pacific Ocean, all tropical cyclone basins show increases in the lifetime - maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms.

Some of the very wet years are caused by El Nino, a reversal of winds over the Pacific Ocean that has been going on every few years ever since there was a Pacific Ocean... People... will cite computer models predicting that El Ninos should become stronger or more frequent with global warming, but there are an awful lot of other models showing that they won't change or that they might even lessen in frequency.

Particularly «The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.»