Sentences with phrase «warmer air intrusions»

In October, a pattern of warm air intrusions from the North Atlantic began.

He said that while warm air intrusions occur every winter, this one is unusual for occurring during February, lasting longer than a week, and for «the extent / magnitude of the moisture transport into the Arctic.»

Scientists interviewed for this story say that the Arctic warming event, technically known as a warm air intrusion, may be a common feature of the Arctic climate, as comparatively mild and moist air from the midlatitudes is transported north by storm systems.

The warm air intrusion followed two other related and noteworthy weather events, a sudden warming of the stratosphere, known as a sudden stratospheric warming event, and a splitting of the polar vortex.

Not exact matches

Influences from outside the Arctic, such as the 2015 - 16 El Niño and remarkable intrusions of warm air that originated from outside the Arctic Circle, were also factors causing the 2016 extreme warmth.

Before those warm water intrusions facilitated the loss of sea ice, air temperatures in the 80s and 90s reported a slight cooling trend contradicting CO2 theory.12