Title: The Oceans and Weather
Author: Peter J. Webster and Judith A. Curry
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Climatologists hypothesize that these oscillations occur because the soil becomes saturated and cools considerably; warm air then no longer rises more over land than sea. So the moisture laden air from the ocean ceases to rush in over the continents. The rotation of the earth deflects air masses into ribbons of air that spiral around the globe, westward in polar and equatorial regions and eastward in the mid latitudes. The warm air rises up and over the incursion of cold, denser air.
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The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. The ocean plays a major role in regulating the weather and climate of the planet. These materials will help you understand the factors that impact the Earth's weather and climate, and how changes in temperature or air circulation are part of complex, long-term cycles. Understanding the influence of ocean conditions on the Earth’s climate and monitoring changes in ocean conditions are key to predicting climate change. The way to protect it, is by informing and educating people so that they understand and do something to help the ocean, and appreciate it. What I found really cool, was that here, In the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific off Mexico and California, storms are called hurricanes after the Mayan god of winds, Hunraken. In the Indian Ocean and near northern Australia, they are known as cyclones, a variation of the Greek word for “coiled serpent.”. In the northwestern Pacific, they are called typhoons, from the Chinese phrase for “great wind,” taifung. We can learn a lot about the ocean
So What?
The thunderclouds dissipate, the battling air masses achieve a new equilibrium, and the temperature difference between the tropical and polar regions decreases for a time only to build again under the constant barrage of the equatorial sun and the intense cooling at the poles.
Say Who?
Peter J. Webster and Judith A. Curry
What If?
The disastrous El Niño of the past year increased public awareness that many unusual events all over the globe relentless series of storms, prolonged droughts, massive floods were directly caused by changing conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
This Remind Me Of?
Solar heating at high latitudes is reduced even further in winter, when the axis of the planet tilts away from the sun. Heat is carried in warm currents such as the Gulf Stream.
Author: Peter J. Webster and Judith A. Curry
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- No matter where people live, they must think about it whether they are checking the local news in England to see if they will need an umbrella, sowing seeds in anticipation of monsoon rains in India or rebuilding in the wake of a catastrophic hurricane in the U.S.
- Effect range from storms and hurricanes generated over hours and days to ice ages that develop over millennial
- the ocean is the engine that drives seasonal shifts in weather, such as monsoons, and sporadic events, such as El Niño
- the tropical ocean also passes large amounts of heat to the atmosphere
- The warm, moist air created in this way rises because it is less dense than the surrounding atmosphere
- The storms have central pressures that are as low as many hurricanes, sometimes as little as 960 millibars
- As more and more air converges toward the central low-pressure void, or the “eye,” of the storm, it has no place to go but upward, where it creates clusters of thunderstorms and releases large amounts of rain and latent heat
- Air flowing along the ocean surface toward a low-pressure center might be expected to cool and dampen the storm
- Warm air rises over the Himalayas, the Plateau of Tibet and the mountains of central Africa, drawing in air from south of the equator
- Air masses now reverse direction, with northeasterly winds moving across the equator, picking up moisture from the oceans before they reach southern Africa and northern Australia
- the trade winds push the warmed Pacific surface waters westward so that they accumulate in a large, deep “pool” near Indonesia
- Surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific rise by a few degrees, and the east-west temperature difference diminishes
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Climatologists hypothesize that these oscillations occur because the soil becomes saturated and cools considerably; warm air then no longer rises more over land than sea. So the moisture laden air from the ocean ceases to rush in over the continents. The rotation of the earth deflects air masses into ribbons of air that spiral around the globe, westward in polar and equatorial regions and eastward in the mid latitudes. The warm air rises up and over the incursion of cold, denser air.
C:
The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. The ocean plays a major role in regulating the weather and climate of the planet. These materials will help you understand the factors that impact the Earth's weather and climate, and how changes in temperature or air circulation are part of complex, long-term cycles. Understanding the influence of ocean conditions on the Earth’s climate and monitoring changes in ocean conditions are key to predicting climate change. The way to protect it, is by informing and educating people so that they understand and do something to help the ocean, and appreciate it. What I found really cool, was that here, In the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific off Mexico and California, storms are called hurricanes after the Mayan god of winds, Hunraken. In the Indian Ocean and near northern Australia, they are known as cyclones, a variation of the Greek word for “coiled serpent.”. In the northwestern Pacific, they are called typhoons, from the Chinese phrase for “great wind,” taifung. We can learn a lot about the ocean
So What?
The thunderclouds dissipate, the battling air masses achieve a new equilibrium, and the temperature difference between the tropical and polar regions decreases for a time only to build again under the constant barrage of the equatorial sun and the intense cooling at the poles.
Say Who?
Peter J. Webster and Judith A. Curry
What If?
The disastrous El Niño of the past year increased public awareness that many unusual events all over the globe relentless series of storms, prolonged droughts, massive floods were directly caused by changing conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
This Remind Me Of?
Solar heating at high latitudes is reduced even further in winter, when the axis of the planet tilts away from the sun. Heat is carried in warm currents such as the Gulf Stream.