Sentences with phrase «very atmospheric pattern»

Climate scientists Charles Greene and Bruce Monger of Cornell University, writing earlier this year in Oceanography, provided evidence that Arctic icemelts linked to global warming contribute to the very atmospheric pattern that sent the frigid burst down across Canada and the eastern U.S.

Not exact matches

That pattern projects onto the very temperature gradient profile that we identify as supporting atmospheric waveguide conditions.»

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

Following up on my post from last week on the Arctic Oscillation, Ken Chang has written a Week in Review story with a bit more detail on the unusual atmospheric patterns behind the big, but very constrained, chill, and the dominance of warm conditions — just not where a lot of Western media are situated.

That climate metric very inadequately tracks with actual atmospheric and ocean patterns, which, afterall, is what detertmines the weather we experience.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

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).

The global pattern of atmospheric circulation on Mars shows many superficial similarities to that of Earth, but the root causes are very different.

Therefor, if we get to the point of understanding that ENSO factors along with atmospheric oscillations are the major metrics and drive all climate change / weather pattern variations, future scenarios are very difficult to determine.

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

While different continental configurations, elevations, and atmospheric circulation patterns now prevail on Earth, precluding a return to those exact past conditions, the underlying message is that warming of 4o - 7o will result in a biotically very different world.

Obviously other very powerful factors play huge roles, such as natural oceanic cycles and weather patterns over all Arctic atmospheric layers.

Anthropogenic influences have contributed to observed increases in atmospheric moisture content in the atmosphere (medium confidence), to global - scale changes in precipitation patterns over land (medium confidence), to intensification of heavy precipitation over land regions where data are sufficient (medium confidence), and to changes in surface and subsurface ocean salinity (very likely).

Instead of the proposed positive feedback producing ever faster atmospheric temperature increases, the plot reveals a very strong warming trend that accelerated during the 2015/16 El Nino phenomenon, which then quickly decelerated to a per century trend of 4.3 degrees Celsius - and, in the recent past, similar deceleration patterns have lead to outright negative per century cooling trends.

The atmospheric pattern that sent the Jet Stream south is colloquially known as a «blocking high» — a big pressure center stuck over the very northern Atlantic Ocean and southern Arctic Ocean.

A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial conditions that disrupted global patterns of ocean and atmospheric circulation.