Sentences with phrase «winds over»

Ice extent in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas remain high compared to the 2007 record minimum, however, the overall ice extent could still rival the 2007 record minimum particularly if winds over the next few weeks push the ice northward.

The most recent Category 5 hurricane (winds over 252 km / h) was Andrew, which hit southern Florida and Louisiana 20 years ago this August.

The circulation would change such that warm air over the tropical Pacific would be carried by the winds over Western North America.

El Niño events can lead to stronger upper - level winds over the tropical North Atlantic, which can tear nascent storms apart before they have a chance to strengthen.

The inclusion of water - vapor - sensitive measurements that enable estimation of winds over the poles day and night is planned for the C3 VIIRS and should be pursued.

RapidScat revealed sustained winds over 30 meters per second / 108 kph / 67 mph (in red) were still occurring southeast of Pam's center on March 16.

Passive microwave data may show ice where none actually exists due to signal variation between land and water along coastlines, or because of atmospheric interference from rain or high winds over the ice - free ocean.

Naujokat, B., 1986: An update of the observed quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratospheric winds over the tropics.

A collapse of the AMOC may also lead to an intensification of the North Atlantic storm track, with stronger winds over Europe (Vellinga and Wood, 2002; Jacob et al, 2005; Brayshaw et al, 2009).

The authors then claimed that the winds over the ocean are «regular, predictable» and therefore, offshore windmills «would produce predictable energy.»

An important part of the explanation is that the direction of the winds over N. America and the Atlantic is pinned by the Rocky Mountains.

Specifically, in the simulations we record daily surface temperature, precipitation, 500hPa geopotential height and surface winds over the Atlantic - European region.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asl2.423 «In recent years, winter westerly winds over the Beaufort Sea and summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic toward the Fram Strait have contributed to accelerated decreases in sea ice over areas east of Europe and north of Alaska.

When we introduced an ozone hole into our model, the winds over the Southern Ocean grew faster.

Concentration of wind energy produces large local winds over the poles.

In terms of wind conditions, weak, southerly mean winds over the Fram Strait would presumably have reduced ice export out of the Arctic.

It is contended that there has been a strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades.

• Acquire all - weather, high - resolution measurements of near - surface winds over global oceans.

You say higher Trade winds over open ocean is a warming effect.

Sandy (23:31:48): You wrote, «You say higher Trade winds over open ocean is a warming effect.

That loss of ice has allowed more heat to transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere, causing a weakening of the polar vortex winds over the Arctic.

It's a mode of natural variation in the tropical eastern Pacific ocean which is indicated by sea surface temperature in that region, as well as patterns of atmospheric pressure, surface winds over the ocean, even precipitation over a much larger region.

So in February three towers were installed to measure the winds over the period of a year, in order to calculate the potential for generating energy.

It is generally understood and this post will demonstrate that it is really driven by the Trade Winds over the ENSO region.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice...

There is no gap of sea water between 2 large ice sheets, this makes the winds over wide open water more difficult to tame.

The meridional cool phase occurring from the 1940s to 1970s and 1990s to present consists of equatorward winds over the continents and poleward winds over the subarctic and sub-antarctic oceans, resulting as Rossby wave formations.

Thousands of years ago, during the height of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, lead emissions from sources such as the mining and smelting of lead - silver ores in Europe drifted with the winds over the ocean to Greenland — a distance of more than 2800 miles (4600 km)- and settled onto the ice.

Overpeck's theory is that a loss of Arctic ice has allowed more heat to transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere, causing a weakening of the polar vortex winds over the Arctic.

El Niño is the name assigned when shifting trade winds over the Pacific Ocean give rise to warmer water temperatures further east, fomenting stormy conditions in parts of the Americas and concomitant droughts in parts of Asia and Australia.

The name given to north - westerly winds over the Adriatic Sea, the Ionian Sea and coastal regions of Sardinia and Corsica.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

Similarly, Matthew England and colleagues reproduced observed temperature trends by providing the model with the pronounced and unprecedented strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — and the winds in turn lead to increased heat uptake by the oceans.

The EAC is a surface current driven by winds over the South Pacific.

The basin - scale winds over the Pacific / NA region (PCI) represent anomaly intervals of general flow direction and intensity (related to ALPI, NPO, and indirectly to PDO).

«The solid Earth behaves as a natural spatial integrator and time filter, which makes it possible to study the evolution of the amplitude of the semi-annual variation in zonal winds over a fifty - year time span.

The regular oscillation of ENSO in g1 is associated with its unsuccessful representation of the role of atmospheric noise over the western — central equatorial Pacific (WCEP) in triggering ENSO events, which arises from the weak synoptic — intraseasonal variability of zonal winds over the WCEP in g1.

Last year, the strong west - to - east winds over the Pacific Ocean did develop, but instead of being aimed at Southern California, it benefited areas to the north, especially Oregon and Washington.

Winds over 200 km per hour helped create a storm surge over six meters high that swept in and killed almost 140,000 people.

In reality weather systems involve winds over substantial parts of the world.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

He explained «During La Nina, rainfall is sparse and the winds over Lake Challa are strong.

As such, it certainly includes winds over the ocean surface, and over Greenland, and hence it is tropospheric winds that account for the snowfall in Greenland.

Alternatively, stronger winds over the mid latitudes may have increased evaporation and so lowered temperatures.

Some of the very wet years are caused by El Nino, a reversal of winds over the Pacific Ocean that has been going on every few years ever since there was a Pacific Ocean... People... will cite computer models predicting that El Ninos should become stronger or more frequent with global warming, but there are an awful lot of other models showing that they won't change or that they might even lessen in frequency.

In particular, the trade winds over the Pacific reached record - breaking strength recently, which helps stir heat into the oceans.

With sustained winds over 100 mph and gusts of 115 to 125 mph, it was the most destructive hurricane to hit the Northeast coast since the Long Island Express in 1938.

The record - breaking increase in Pacific Equatorial trade winds over the past 20 years had, until now, baffled researchers.

Abstract:... Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

The prevailing surface winds over the tropical Pacific blow from east - to - west (easterlies), and tend drive a surface current, pushing (advecting) the warm surface water westward.