Sentences with phrase «variability of storminess»

Not exact matches

However, the existence of natural variability in storminess confounds reliable detection of anthropogenic effects.

This is an excerpt from «Millennial - scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch,» the 2002 paper using lake - bed sediment cores from around the Northeast to generate a Holocene history of storminess:

Reconstructed centennial variability of Late Holocene storminess from Cors Fochno, Wales, UK Future anthropogenic climate forcing is forecast to increase storm intensity and frequency over Northern Europe, due to a northward shift of the storm tracks, and a positive North Atlantic Oscillation.

Climate variability associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) determines many physical coastal processes in Europe (Hurrell et al., 2003, 2004), including variations in the seasonality of coastal climates, winter wind speeds and patterns of storminess and coastal flooding in north - west Europe (Lozano et al., 2004; Stone and Orford, 2004; Yan et al., 2004).

It's not really obvious how all of this relates to the «variability» issue, but right now I don't think we have a satisfactory handle on how mid-latitude storminess might change in a new climate, in terms of frequency or intensity.

In addition, human - induced climate change may alter atmospheric circulation, dislocating historical patterns of natural variability and storminess.