For many parts of the Americas and Asia, the occasional warming and cooling cycles in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as El Nino and La Nina are unwelcome visitors -- barging in, usually with little warning, then staying for months or sometimes a year or two, bringing all kinds of baggage in the form of distorted patterns of storms and droughts, heat and cold.
Things to note around you include: Changes in the normal activity on your landscape, such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges) land movement, small slides, flows, or progressively leaning trees.
The resulting pattern of storms is called a mesoscale convective system (MCS).
The pattern of storms and ceremonials, of private emotion and public ritual, was established at the outset.
The hurricanes that rocked Puerto Rico ― part of a pattern of storms that experts say is intensifying with climate change ― lay bare the tragic paradox of the effects felt on a warming planet.
A powerful Niño can drive global patterns of drought, storm, snow and flood, with big consequences for farmers and fishermen, relief organizations and reservoir operators, schoolchildren and ski bums.
Yohe: In both worlds, people living along the coast and in mega-deltas are going to be most vulnerable from changes in patterns of coastal storms, from sea-level rise, from changes in patterns of tsunamis, storm surge risk… In the developing world, the changes will be felt by millions and millions and millions of people who simply live in flood plains and are at risk everytime there is a storm.
Additionally, strong El Niño events are associated with droughts in Indonesia, Australia, and northeastern South America and with altered patterns of tropical storms in the tropical belt.
But larger patterns of extreme storms and precipitation, even if accompanied by cold snaps, support the theory of global warming, he and several climate researchers said, because warming oceans are sending more moisture into the air.
Spatiotemporal patterns of dust storms are affected by climate change through changes in convective instability, regional meteorological characteristics, and local sediment supply.
