Sentences with phrase «surface air pressure»
"Surface air pressure" refers to the force exerted by air molecules on the Earth's surface. It tells us how much air is pushing down on a certain area. Full definition
As for accelerated warming in the Arctic, that takes increasingly negative NAO / AO episodes to do that, while all the GCM's predict increasingly lower near surface air pressure in the Arctic, implying more positive NAO / AO conditions.
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The AO is a measurement of surface air pressure at the high latitudes over and north of Greenland.
The figure shows how surface air pressure changed throughout Martian history.
The highest surface air pressures occur in the winter over Asia and North America where cold air masses form and become very deep.
The surface air pressure at the time was at least 0.5 bar and could have been much higher.
Titan is so cold at around -180 ° C (or -292 ° F) that its atmosphere is surprisingly dense, resulting in a surface air pressure about 1.6 times that of Earth's.
The ENSO cycle refers to the coherent and sometimes very strong year - to - year variations in sea - surface temperatures, convective rainfall, surface air pressure, and atmospheric circulation that occur across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.