Sentences with phrase «strong pressure waves»

As I was doing this, the strong pressure waves that I felt that morning returned.

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When a moderately strong bolt of cyber lightning struck the virtual rock, it created pressure waves that peaked at about 70,000 atmospheres, well into the range needed to produce shocked quartz, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters.

As the jet produces these pressure waves and propagates ahead of them, the regions of lower pressure are usually strongest behind the nose of the jet, on the wings and body.

A blocking high pressure system in the North Atlantic creating consistent strong northeasterly flow would provide wave action that may have contributed to the chevron ridge formation in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Huge waves have battered the coastline where storm surges created by a series of deep low pressure systems and strong winds blowing over thousands of kilometres combined with high tides.

The heat wave was due primarily to a natural phenomenon called an atmospheric «blocking pattern», in which a strong high pressure system developed and remained stationary over western Russian, keeping summer storms and cool air from sweeping through the region and leading to the extreme hot and dry conditions.

The culprit appears to be several waves of warm high - pressure ridges that have swept over Greenland, each stronger than the last, with the most recent one squatting over the island for about a week.