Sentences with phrase «unusually warm ocean waters»

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.

The potential spoiler is the cyclical El Nino event: a band of unusually warm ocean water that periodically forms along the equatorial Pacific Ocean and drives up global temperatures.

Not exact matches

Ocean currents bringing unusually warm water, for instance, could shift away more from Greenland, or move in closer, he said.

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.

El Niño conditions can also curb the formation of powerful storms, and with no El Niño in the picture in 2017 — and with warmer - than - average ocean waters — last year's Atlantic hurricane season was unusually active.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

The dipole consists of a warmer than average band of water between northern Australia and Java that forms in conjunction with an unusually cold band of water running northwest into the Indian Ocean from Australia's west coast.

... studying an unusually warm pool of water in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia, as well as the atmosphere above it....

The entire North Atlantic is unusually warm right now (+0.6 degrees Celsius) relative to the already - globally - warmed late twentieth century (1971 - 2000) average, and there are large patches of ocean water off the US East Coast that are 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above that average.

Meanwhile, in the Pacific Ocean, there's a long, skinny blob of unusually warm water off the West Coast, stretching from Mexico to Alaska.

«We show, for the first time, that the volume of rain over land corresponds to the amount of water evaporated from the unusually warm ocean,» said lead author Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

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.

The effects of tropical cyclones early in the year were followed by regular northwest cloud - band activity between May and mid-July, when waters northwest of the continent were unusually warm as part of a negative phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.

The «blob» is a giant patch of unusually warm water off the West Coast in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean was the primary repository of that heat as unusually strong trade winds piled up warm water in the west, pinning it against Asia and Australia but those waters became so warm some of the heat leaked into the Indian Ocean.