Sentences with phrase «tropical weather systems»

He says that May is an uncertain time for tropical weather systems and that unstable winds could as easily undermine the gathering El Niño as they could strengthen it.
River runoff is highest during March and April, and tropical weather systems provide additional freshwater input from June through October, particularly in South Florida.
«These intense tropical weather systems continued into the 2013 - 14 winter season.»
Instead, it is accumulating in the atmosphere and contributing to severe tropical weather systems.
For example, as part of HFIP, a group of researchers set up shop in Boulder, Colo., far from tropical weather systems, where they took advantage of high speed computer resources to duplicate a computer model that the Hurricane Center relies on to make its forecasts.
Over the past several years, scientists from many institutions have explored the ability of SP - CAM to simulate tropical weather systems, the day - night changes of precipitation, the Asian and African monsoons, cloud - aerosol interactions and other climate phenomena.
He says that May is an uncertain time for tropical weather systems and that unstable winds could as easily undermine the gathering El Niño as they could strengthen it.

Not exact matches

A storm surge is an onshore rush of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically a tropical cyclone.
Better knowledge of lightning - heavy tropical ocean storms could improve weather forecasts far from the equator, Mass said, since many global weather systems originate in the tropics.
The violent weather systems wreak havoc on coastlines and islands in tropical areas, as the name implies.
In the Instant Expert on extreme weather, Jeff Masters states that tropical cyclones get their spin from the disorganised air systems off the African coast, which then move eastward towards the Caribbean (2 October).
El Nino is a disruption of the ocean - atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific with important consequences for weather around the globe.
In 2016, researchers reported the first use of a deep - learning system to identify tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers and weather fronts: loosely defined features whose identification depends on expert judgement.
A spacious indoor lounge with entertainment system, and outdoor decks are the common areas where guests can enjoy each other's company, the stunning scenery, and the tropical weather.
The coastline stretches approximately 280 km and this is where Tropical and Subtropical weather systems; river life and sea life meet.
Besides describing the most benign form of oceanic storm, the title Tropical Depression refers to a kind of internal weather system combining melancholy and a sense of hopefulness.
Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)
Think space weather is not important here with respect to tropical systems?
Tropical cyclones do act as a large mechanism for the transfer of heat, mass and momentum that can significantly impact on weather system thousands of kilometers away
This technical document analyzes the impact of two hurricanes and a tropical storm that affected Belize in order to identify some key vulnerabilities in the power system to extreme weather, which is likely to be exacerbated due to climate change.
The El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a weather system that comes from the unusual warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean occurring erratically in the span of 3 to 6 - year intervals.
That weather system did display some of the common signs of a tropical system.
A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami - like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.
The tropical cyclones that bend northwards, move across this warm water, that adds more vertical convection power and moisture to the weather system — that can then turn into a closed circulation hurricane.
It also explains why tropical cyclones form, and provides new insights into why high and low pressure weather systems occur
A storm like Irene could happen during any hurricane season, but La Nina reduces wind sheer, a force that zaps energy from weather systems, high over the Atlantic, making it easier for tropical storms and hurricanes to form.
There's effectively a storm factory over the Atlantic, caused by cold polar air pressing up against warm, tropical air, causing weather systems to form.
This eastward moving pulse of anomalous variations in rainfall, wind, sea surface temperatures, and clouds in the tropics typically recurs every 30 — 60 days, creating a pattern that profoundly influences global weather and climate systems, including monsoons, tropical cyclone activity, and El Niño — Southern Oscillation events.
These systems can link up with colder weather fronts, transforming their behavior and powering them as they move north or south of tropical latitudes.
Shifts in hemispheric weather patterns may steer tropical systems toward the poles — bad news for New York, New England, and Western Europe.
An XOVWM+SST system in low - inclination orbit would enhance studies of tropical weather and climate.
Retreating glaciers, thinning Arctic ice, shorter Winters, hotter average night time temperatures, advancing tropical zones, visible sea level rise, more energetic weather systems, extreme cold spells in temperate zones, thawing permafrost, escalating methane releases from artic tundra,,,,,,.
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