Sentences with phrase «warm regions which»

So, the positive feedback between melt and velocities implies that more melt leads to higher velocities, which bring in more ice from cold regions to warm regions which increases the melt and hence the velocity etc, with as a final result a rapid loss of ice and hence an enhanced increased sea level.

Not exact matches

«European refineries are running at very high rates since December so there is plenty of supply in the region while the weather has been warmer than usual, which led to weaker demand.»

Two major factors are creating hurricane - friendly conditions in the Atlantic region, which includes the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico: warm water and a lack of wind shear.

«Sourced from Napa Valley, warmer Lake County Vineyards in the North Coast and cool southern Suisun Valley vineyards just south of Napa County, this Sauvignon Blanc expresses flavors indicative of the region in which the grapes were grown: Juicy tropical passion fruit, mango and guava flavors are balanced by lemongrass notes, rounded out with refreshing and zesty lime and lemon citrus flavors.»

While the company — which delivers milk and other dairy products to 40,000 homes a week in the Puget Sound region around Seattle — prides itself on friendly service and making a connection with its customers in a way that recalls a simpler era, it offers more than warm memories.

Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Each of these monitored droughts are linked to oscillations in the so - called Indian Ocean Dipole — the El Nio of that region, in which the normally warm eastern ocean becomes quite cold and the western ocean, near Africa, warms.

That collision between very warm, humid air at low levels of the atmosphere and cool air at higher levels creates the upward vertical winds within a thunderstorm that sometimes turn into a tornado, said Thomas Schwein, deputy director of the National Weather Service's Central Region, which includes Missouri.

But while the IPCC bungled its numbers, climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle.

Climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle

The research, which got mainstream media attention, projected at what date certain regions would shift to new climates as a result of global warming (ClimateWire, Oct. 10, 2013).

The Arabica beans are considered higher quality in comparison to Robusta coffee, which is cultivated in the warmer, lower - lying regions in central Uganda.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

Ocean temperatures between 82 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit seem to be «ideal for the genesis of tropical cyclones,» Emanuel says, «and as that belt migrates poleward, which surely it must as the whole ocean warms, the tropical cyclone genesis regions might just move with it.

But Robeson said the observation aligns with theories about climate change, which hold that amplified warming in the Arctic region produces changes in the jet stream, which can result in extended periods of cold weather at some locations in the mid-northern latitudes.

The study found that a rapidly warming climate would cause many species to expand into new regions, which would impact on native species, while others with restricted ranges, particularly those around the tropics, are more likely to face extinction.

Using genetic methods, Fritz, his doctoral student Carolin Kindler, and their Spanish colleague, Eva Graciá now discovered that not all of the snakes, which are widespread across Europe today, retreated to warmer, Mediterranean regions.

In theory, warmer temperatures across the region should be decreasing the snow pack — which should also boost the lakes.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

The solder will melt when the shaded regions warm to 185 °C, which will happen as Messenger's altitude dips below 26 kilometres.

Extratropical storms partly depend on the temperature gradient, which is predicted to weaken in the northern hemisphere as the polar region warms more than the rest of the hemisphere.

But instead of just looking at which regions have warmed the most, they also examined the height in the atmosphere where the warming took place.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of «Arctic amplification» which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.

Instrumental measurements are also too short to test the ability of state - of - the - art climate models to predict which regions of the hemisphere will get drier, or wetter, with global warming,» says Charpentier Ljungqvist.

«Most of the paleoclimate records from this region are plant - based, and track only the warm part of the year — the growing season,» says Candace Major, program director in NSF's Directorate for Geosciences, which funded the research.

«Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 °C, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture.»

All that extra heat in the Pacific warms the air above, leading to more rising air than normal in that region, which affects the global atmospheric circulation.

Surfaces such as asphalt roads and concrete buildings absorb and then radiate a lot of solar energy, which can leave urban areas 6 to 8 degrees Celsius warmer than rural regions.

In Arctic areas, global warming is happening at roughly twice the average speed, which has allowed Alaska's trumpeter swans to expand their breeding grounds northward into regions that were previously too cold, according to a study published in Wildlife Biology in December.

Polar and mid-high latitude amplification is an important signature of global warming which explains why warming is not as evident at climate stations in southern regions of the U.S. as it is in the north.

On the other hand, if the ice shell is sufficiently thick, the less intense interior heat can be transferred to warmer ice at the bottom of the shell, with additional heat generated by tidal flexing of the warmer ice which can slowly rise and flow as do glaciers do on Earth; this slow but steady motion may also disrupt the extremely cold, brittle ice at the surface to produce the chaos regions.

The North Pacific in particular was exceptionally hot, and the tropical Pacific moved toward an El Niño state, which features warmer - than - average waters in that region.

In the lower left panel of Figure 1, which shows temperature trends since 1979, the pattern in the Pacific Ocean features warming and cooling regions related to El Niño.

Also, highland regions at the equator would get colder and northern low - lying regions would get warmer; this is the so - called «icy highlands effect,» which results in the peaks of mountains on Earth being snow - covered.

For example, in Earth atmospheric circulation (such as Hadley cells) transport heat between the warmer equatorial regions to the cool polar regions and this circulation pattern not only determines the temperature distribution, but also sets which regions on Earth are dry or rainy and how clouds form over the planet.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

Here we show that the recent warming in this region is strongly associated with a negative trend in the North Atlantic Oscillation, which is a response to anomalous [natural] Rossby wave - train activity [planetary waves related to the Earth's rotation] originating in the tropical Pacific.

Eight countries are set to agree a ministerial statement on cooperation in the region, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.

«Our study indicates that climate models might have a more limited ability to predict which regions will get drier and which regions will get wetter with global warming than previously assumed.»

Furthermore, even if the net meridional overturning circulation, which is broader than just the Gulf Stream, slows, that doesn't mean that the poleward heat transport will be reduced, as a warmer wetter atmosphere can also transport a great deal of heat (latent heat) to poleward regions, which seems to be what has been happening.

Estimates from the study indicate that the freezing line could lift by as much as 3,900 feet by 2100, which could expose the majority of glaciers in the region to temperatures above 32 °F in warm - weather months.

The point at which a trend becomes clear within the average temperature data for a given region — known as the «time of emergence» — depends on when the source of the warming begins, how fast it happens and the amount of background «noise» obscuring the signal.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

After just one day of aerial surveys, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which oversees the region, has already confirmed that warm waters are causing another mass bleaching.

The work, which appeared in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics in June, shows that soot pollution on and above the Himalayan - Tibetan Plateau area warms the region enough to contribute to earlier snowmelt and shrinking glaciers.