Sentences with phrase «unusual atmospheric waves»
Scientists at McMurdo Station detected unusual atmospheric waves with an altitude between 30 to 115 kilometers (20 to 70 miles) above Antarctica in 2011.
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Scientists routinely observe atmospheric waves around the world, but the persistence of these waves made them unusual, and scientists didn't know what was causing them.
This very unusual atmospheric configuration — in which the large - scale atmospheric wave pattern appears to be largely «stuck» in place — has been characterized by a seemingly ever - present West Coast ridge and a similarly stubborn trough over central and eastern United States (commonly referred to in media coverage as the «Polar Vortex,» though this terminology is arguably problematic).
Because the longwave atmospheric weather patterns (Rossby waves) have a scale of several thousand kilometers, it is not unusual for the temperature of a region the size of the United States to be substantially warmer or co lder during a single season than the zonal mean temperature.