Sentence examples for cold phase from inspiring English sources

Although the approaching phase is called the cold phase, it will lead to higher water temperatures along the California shoreline.

The La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño cycle in the Pacific, has sent average global temperatures plunging this year.

During each recent cold phase, when on average global temperatures have decreased by 5C, and vast ice sheets have built up over northern high latitudes, the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere dipped to about 180 parts per million.

If the new dates are correct, scientists said, modern humans first moved through the Upper Danube region, making music, before an extremely cold phase of the ice age, 39,000 years ago.

"There is a strong possibility that the crisis is moving from a very hot phase into a cold phase," said Janis A. Emmanouilidis, a senior fellow at the European Policy Center.

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego, reported this week that they had detected dramatic changes in ocean winds that are believed to be a harbinger of a cold phase in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or P.D.O., a decades-long cycle of variation in ocean temperatures.

Mr. Denis and Mr. Powell have had a political relationship characterized by a series of hot and cold phases.

In general, greenhouse gas concentrations have been particularly high during warm periods and low during cold phases.

Neanderthals appear to have spread southward into the region (apparently from Anatolia and the Caucasus) during cold phases, whereas early modern humans spread northward from Africa during the intervening warm phases.

In contrast, the QBO period lengthens (~ 2.5 years) during the ENSO neutral and cold phases.

That duration contains three ENSO warm and one ENSO cold phases.