Sentences with phrase «strong winter warming»

On the Peninsula, the SAM trend appears to have played a key role in the summer warming on the eastern side, but a limited role in the strong winter warming on the western side (Roscoe et al. 2006; Marshall 2007).

Although strong winter warming in the Peninsula region (Turner et al. 2005) and over West Antarctica has been a focus of other studies (Steig et al. 2009; Ding et al. 2010), we found that winter trends in West Antarctica have not been statistically since 1979 (Table 3), though they are significant at Faraday / Vernadsky.

Not exact matches

Beyond simple agricultural availability — and the warming alcoholic hit — there's another explanation for the growing numbers of strong and hoppy winter beers.

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Winter is a beautiful time of year with not only the holidays approaching but also the cool crisp beauty of the short days and the warmth and familiarity of a strong fire or a warm house.

They need to be healthy and strong enough to compete (NHS), they need to be warm (winter fuel allowance) and they need food and a decent standard of living (minimum wage and progressive taxation).

And now, a study published online March 13 in Nature Communications reports a strong correlation between the severe winter weather experienced in the northeastern United States over the last decade and the warming trend in the Arctic.

A dry winter and warm spring had left Roosevelt National Forest tinder dry, and strong, erratic winds whipping up from the southeast carried the flames easily through the pine trees.

The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

The findings could serve as a warning sign that engineers need to design stronger structures, especially as glide avalanches may become more frequent: Warmer winters in the future may cause snowpacks to become, on average, wetter and denser than those seen in winters of recent decades.

While a 16 - year - period is too short a time to draw conclusions about trends, the researchers found that warming continued at most locations on the planet and during much of the year, but that warming was offset by strong cooling during winter months in the Northern Hemisphere.

The agency attributed the decline to a warm winter, slumping use of coal - fired electricity, and strong growth in renewable and hydroelectric power.

«Then, it will turn out whether the conditions observed now really lead to a strong ozone depletion or whether a currently observed warming of the stratosphere will prevail and may mitigate ozone depletion this winter,» Sinnhuber explains.

And it finds that, while this winter's unusually strong Arctic Oscillation - which funnels cold northern air to the East Coast and pulls warm mid-latitude air up to the Arctic - is predicted as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, seasonal temperature anomalies associated with it aren't enough to blunt long - term warming trends.

This winter is likely to be wetter and warmer than average, thanks to a strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean

A synthesis of six such experiments with different models shows consistent hemispheric - wide atmospheric warming, strongest in the mid-to-high-latitude lower troposphere; an intensification of the wintertime Aleutian Low and, in most cases, the Siberian High; a weakening of the Icelandic Low; and a reduction in strength and southward shift of the mid-latitude westerly winds in winter.

Decades of weather reports show a strong link between the polar blasts that have plunged the eastern United States in a deep freeze several times in the past few winters and the warming of the Arctic, where temperatures have been hitting unusual highs, a new study reports.

They have also concentrated on the effects on weather during winter, when the Arctic warming signal is strongest.

On a highly technical level, Henson notes that Sandy developed a rare «warm seclusion,» which typically occurs in strong winter storms over the ocean when pockets of warm air form within their cold cores.

In the United States, for instance, the strong El Niño is expected to help make this winter's weather cooler and wetter than normal in the South, and warmer than normal in the North.

The bone broth trend is still going strong, and a nutrient - rich cup is the perfect thing to warm you up on a cold winter day.

Because of the strong antibacterial and antiviral properties of this natural product, the utilization of warm lemon water amid the winter will fill in as the best assurance against regular ailments.

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These grey cigarette trousers feature frequently in my grey outfits, especially in the colder months, as they are made of a really heavy fabric that keep me warm even in strong winter winds.

Overall home sales in Canada got off to a slow start in 2014, in part due to a harsh winter, but have picked up with the warmer weather and rose a strong 5.9 per cent in May on a month - over-month basis, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.

In the winter, we keep this side of the room warmer, creating an even stronger conditioning for a place to sleep.

I have observed greater variations in Arctic Inversions lately, the tendency is towards less steep inversions, this is expected when the Arctic lower atmosphere warms during winter, if the models maintain a stronger inversion while its observed weakening this may explain why sea ice models fail, strong boundary layers appear to be collapsing.

Winter month average daily minimum temperature show the strongest warming trends.

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where air is cold and dry, mainly in the arctic rather than in the tropics, mainly in mountainous regions rather than in lowlands, mainly in winter rather than in summer, and mainly at night rather than in daytime.

When that Arctic forcing is SST related, it would be lagged and could be out of phase meaning a global cooling or pause would produce stronger Arctic Winter Warming and stronger more frequent SSW events.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

This pattern also helps explain why the Arctic warming signal is stronger in winter, Pithan said.

The windy warming trend is strongest in europe and asia on windy winter nights, but it holds across his reported data (Table 1), for all seasons.

Parker acknowledges that there is a strong Tmin warming trend, windy vs calm, across europe and asia on winter nights, and that this trend is concealed in the global annual average.

In addition, a phenomenon called sudden stratospheric warming, apparently the result of strong downward air motion, also occurs in the late winter and spring at high latitudes.

Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).

(i) The observation that the earlier SSTs, expressed as anomalies from recent averages, are not only too cold relative to NMATs similarly expressed (Barnett, 1984), but also, outside the tropics, show enhanced annual cycles, presumably because more heat is lost from uninsulated buckets in winter when stronger, colder winds blow over relatively warm water (Wright, 1986; Bottomley et al., 1990);

The sun's strong activity, therefore, may have had short - term climate effects resulting in warmer winters.

«The overall evidence of changes is strong and is consistent with warming temperatures in the late - winter and spring in New England in the last 30 to 40 years.»

The anomaly trend is strongest in the winter, but even the summer has warmed up.

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

The rush to identify El Niño, characterized by the periodic warming of surface water temperatures off the northwestern coast of South America, as California's savior was based in part on the belief that a strong El Niño would bring as much rain as it did in the winters of 1997 - 1998 and 1982 - 1983.

Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds «strong evidence» of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves — such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S.

Chou, J.C. Jusem, R.A. Pielke, Jr., T.N. Chase, J. Rogers, G.L. Russell, S.D. Schubert, Y.C. Sud, and J. Terry, 2002: Are stronger North - Atlantic southwesterlies the forcing to the late - winter warming in Europe?

He also said the ongoing strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean may have influenced the storm track of this storm as well as the extra heat present in the Atlantic, since the Atlantic tends to have less active hurricane seasons and winter storm seasons during El Niños, allowing warm water anomalies to persist.

A 2013 study from Duke University said that this specific event — an exceptionally warm late - winter and early - spring — had the strongest effect on plants» timing than at any other time of the year.

Lexington, MA., September 12, 2013 - Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq: VRSK) company, reports some of the strongest evidence to date that Arctic sea ice loss, which contributes to an overall warmer Arctic, has links to colder winters and related extreme weather events across northern Eurasia and much of the U.S. and Canada.

Perhaps a stronger, physics based, objection is that a significant portion of the annual warming is from heat lost due to lack of sea ice in the autumn, and increased heating from the ocean in winter due to thinner ice.