teleconnection

British  

/ ˈtɛlɪkəˌnɛkʃən /

noun

1. a connection via telephone or television

2. a long-distance relationship between weather patterns, as when evaporation from the Amazon basin falls as rain in S Africa, etc

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Example Sentences

Now, researchers from Kyushu University have revealed that this ocean-atmosphere coupling enhances teleconnection patterns -- when climate conditions change across vast regions of the globe -- in the Northern Hemisphere.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, in turn, remotely leads to a meandering jet stream in the mid-latitudes through the formation of large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, i.e., teleconnection patterns.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

"We find a strong teleconnection between the recurring climate variation and locust dynamics," the authors write.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2024

A teleconnection is a chain of processes in which a change in the ocean or atmosphere in one region leads to large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation and temperature that can influence the weather elsewhere.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Climate model simulations indicate that this increased variability reflects an increase in the teleconnection strength between the tropical Pacific and West Antarctica, owing to a shift in the mean location of tropical convection.

From Nature • Feb. 4, 2018