Sentences with phrase «warm core»

A recent study highlights results obtained from an aircraft ocean survey that targeted a large warm core eddy in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where upper ocean measurements are crucial to understanding the complexities of heat and moisture transfer during the passage of tropical cyclones.

The research team believes that the soft layer is now warming the core of the Moon as the core seems to be wrapped by the layer, which is located in the deepest part of the mantle, and which efficiently generates heat.

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The marine iguanas special adaptation is that their black skin, which they use as a natural solar panel, warming their core temperature high enough to withstand the extremely cold waters.

Over time, the National Hurricane Center named this collection «Alex» as a «subtropical» cyclone, which is what we call a tropical low pressure system that doesn't have the characteristic warm core of a hurricane.

[4] It does this by producing warm core eddies, which allow the Tasman Seas to have a large biodiversity.

You will see polar cyclones with warm cores at the 250 hPa level if you set the display to show air temperature.

... over the last two weeks, a counter-current on the outside of the loop began pushing east and may force the current into a circular pattern oceanographers call a «warm core eddy.»»

They also expect that a soft layer like this may efficiently have warmed the core in the past as well.

As a hurricane, Sandy had a warm core, meaning that temperatures near the storm's center were warmer than the surrounding air, but colder air eventually worked its way into the center of the storm.

Oceanic circulation also plays a role — not that the Gulf Stream would ever shut down, but the warm core rings shed into the North Atlantic could become bigger and warmer, affecting regional SSTs, and hence precipitation and soil moisture.

Just before making landfall in the record hurricane season of 2005, Katrina intensified to a category 5 hurricane while passing over a warm core ring in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

During her «second trough interaction on 29 October, Sandy turned northwestward and intensified as cold continental air encircled the warm core vortex.»

Occasionally boaters and fishers in normally cool coastal waters encounter organisms (e.g., sea turtles, tropical fish) that live in much warmer water having been transported in a warm core ring that spun off the Gulf Stream.

Another culprit is an ocean phenomenon called a warm core eddy, says Nick Shay, a professor of meteorology and oceanography at the University of Miami.