Sentences with phrase «warm air masses»

If it goes south, it causes a spell of cold weather; if it goes north, it brings warm air masses with a lot of precipitation in the winter.

The inversion itself is usually initiated by the cooling effect of the water on the surface layer of an otherwise warm air mass.

Fog in the channel is caused by a large, warm air mass passing over cool water.

The polar jet streams are narrow, fast - flowing rivers of wind high in the Earth's atmosphere that push cold and warm air masses around, playing an important role in determining the weather.

Temperatures often fluctuate in the Arctic due to the strength or weakness of the polar vortex, the circle of winds — including the jetstream — that help to deflect warmer air masses and keep the region cool.

Rising temperatures could influence Chile's inversion layer, a warm air mass that rides over the fog and contains it.

A warm air mass moving over a cooler surface is cooled from below and becomes stable in the lowest layers.

The true cause of the extreme rains lies in the outflow of relatively cold air from the Indian subcontinent meeting with a warmer air mass to south, and Sri Lanka in the battle zone for several days.

How have you evaluated the impact of negative convection — warm air masses that heat the underlying ground.

One extreme example: A few years ago, warm air masses was brought all the way from the North Atlantic and northward to Svalbard, due to a strong high - pressure system above Europe and a deep low above Iceland.

A frontal inversion occurs when a cold air mass undercuts a warm air mass and lifts it aloft; the front between the two air masses then has warm air above and cold air below.

My curiosity is built around the assumption that the warmer air mass must have transferred heat to the ocean (warmer to colder) and that raises the thought that the atmosphere would have to get colder than the ocean for it (the air) to be warmed by the sea.

While colder and warmer air masses are shifting around, cold air and warm are being «produced» at certain rates that globally averaged may not shift around quite so much.