Sentences with phrase «unusually high ocean»

About 93 percent of corals in Great Barrier Reef are now experiencing some form of bleaching due to unusually high ocean temperatures that are linked to global warming as well.

Not exact matches

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

Typically, scientists define a marine heat wave as at least five consecutive days of unusually high temperatures for a particular ocean region or season.

Even if the storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the storm is destined to push strong winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf and heavy rain, forecasters say.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

According to Jeff Masters at the Weather Underground, the unusually strong ridge of high pressure that steered so many hurricanes to the US in 2004 and 2005 was formed in response to a strong warming of the ocean in the central North Pacific.

Avoid high - risk sites: Extreme / above average frequency of tornado incidents; Enclosed locations that may «trap» air and create unusually high incidents of fog, cold air advection, etc.; Vicinity of orographically induced winds, such as Santa Ana and Chinook; Complex meteorological zones, such as adjacent to an ocean or other large bodies of water; and Persistent periods of extreme snow depths...

For falsification we would need to observe events such as the mid latitude jets moving poleward during a cooling oceanic phase and a period of quiet sun or the ITCZ moving northward whilst the two jets moved equatorward or the stratosphere, troposphere and upper atmosphere all warming or cooling in tandem or perhaps an unusually negative Arctic Oscillation throughout a period of high solar activity and a warming ocean phase.

October air temperatures at the 925 hPa level (about 2,500 feet above sea level) were unusually high over most of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 2c), especially over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and over the East Greenland Sea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 average).

The unusually high sea ice surface temperatures reflect a shift in ocean circulation, enhancing the import of warm, Atlantic - derived waters into the Arctic Oocean circulation, enhancing the import of warm, Atlantic - derived waters into the Arctic OceanOcean.

Federal studies also found acidity levels in the North Pacific and off Alaska are unusually high compared to other ocean regions.

For true falsification we would need to observe events such as the mid latitude jets moving poleward during a cooling oceanic phase and a period of quiet sun or the ITCZ moving northward whilst the two jets moved equatorward or the stratosphere, troposphere and upper atmosphere all warming or cooling in tandem or perhaps an unusually powerful Arctic Oscillation throughout a period of high solar turbulence and a warming ocean phase.

The timings of these droughts coincided with periods when the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean was unusually high.