Sentences with phrase «weather phenomenon such»

«In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small - scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms» 6.

These data are also useful in the study of unusual weather phenomena such as El Niño, the long - term effects of deforestation on our rain forests, and changes in the sea - ice masses around the polar regions.

Not exact matches

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

Until now such extreme weather phenomena have been very poorly understood.

According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large - scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Niño phenomenon, affect two - thirds of the world's cropland.

The ionosphere is both shaped by waves from the atmosphere below and uniquely responsive to the changing conditions in space, conveying such space weather into observable, Earth - effective phenomena — creating the aurora, disrupting communications signals, and sometimes causing satellite problems.

They also wrote of their fear of unknown noises — caused perhaps by ice cracking, animals, or the weather — and phenomena such as the aurora borealis.

Tracking the ozone layer's recovery process is tricky because natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and weather variations can alter the size of the ozone hole.

It highlighted a series of global weather phenomena that resulted from this stratosphere - troposphere «coupling» — such as the cold European winters and occurrences of extreme temperatures over eastern North America.

On Earth, regularly occurring weather phenomena include such things as wind, cloud, rain, snow, fog and dust storms.

A pioneering new study has explored how Arctic sea - ice loss influences the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) weather phenomenon, which affects winter weather conditions in Northern Europe, in places such as the UK, Scandinavia and the Baltic states.

Most severe weather incidents in Finland are caused by phenomena related to thunderstorms such as lightning, strong wind gusts, hail and tornadoes.

That's down to natural fluctuations that temporarily boost or dampen the speed of warming, such as the global weather phenomenon known as El Niño, the paper notes.

Inspiration for the series came from the very real phenomenon of robotic clothing, used to protect agents such as that used in «Hesitant Hand» from weather, or dust, or each other.

I use all of its visual forms — land, plants and flowers, animals, natural phenomena, such as weather and the seasons.

Partially informed by observable patterns found in both human and natural phenomena such as buildings, maps and weather patterns, the work emerges from an ephemeral, intuitional state, resulting in objects and images that convey a sense of complexity, serenity and flux.

Their causes range from completely unpredictable events like volcanic eruptions (which have mainly local effects) to more regular phenomena such as «El Niño» (a warming of the surface waters of the tropical Pacific that occurs every three to five years, temporarily affecting weather world - wide).

Phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña — which warm and cool the tropical Pacific Ocean and cause corresponding variations in global wind and weather patterns — contribute to short - term variations in global temperatures.

We experience weather and the phenomena it affects, such as crop yields.

Topics such as the predictability of weather phenomena, coupled ocean - atmosphere systems and anthropogenic climate change are among those included.

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami - like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

In other words, climate describes phenomena observed over long time periods, such as decades and centuries, while weather is observed over short time periods, such as days and weeks.

Even changes of just a few degrees Celsius can influence large - scale weather phenomena, such as El Niño or tropical cyclones.

I think we can be fairly certain that ANYONE claiming there is such a thing as a «global» weather phenomenon (usually called «warming» by such «scientists») is either:

If the consensus difference between «climate» and «weather» is «expectation» vs. «realization», how does the consensus view intermediate - scale phenomena that are tantalizingly patterned a posteriori, yet nevertheless unpredictable a priori, such that expectations are rarely if ever realized?

Thus we might have expected any signal of such an event in the simulations to be more prominent and easier to detect than if we had investigated less severe and / or shorter lived weather phenomena.

Rare, unusual, weather phenomena that generate media attention, such as snow flurries in South Florida or the San Diego coastal area; and

Extreme weather covers such a wide variety of hard - to - quantify phenomena, that I feel insulted by the blanket statements of the IPCC and WMO cited above.

If a certain event, such as blizzard or other weather phenomenon is foreseeable, then travel insurance may not cover it.

However this is only applicable to vehicular accidents which involve environmental phenomena and comprehensive losses such as theft, fire, weather conditions and impact with animals.