teleconnection
Britishnoun
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a connection via telephone or television
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a long-distance relationship between weather patterns, as when evaporation from the Amazon basin falls as rain in S Africa, etc
Example Sentences
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Outside the tropics, in the mid-latitudes, the impact of ocean-atmosphere coupling on teleconnection patterns is less understood.
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
That initiates a teleconnection by affecting the east-west winds in the upper atmosphere throughout the tropics, ultimately resulting in stronger vertical wind shear in the Atlantic basin.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
As the planet deglaciated, the largest and most abrupt decline in teleconnection strength occurred between approximately 16,000 years and 15,000 years ago, followed by a slower decline into the early Holocene.
From Nature ● Feb. 4, 2018
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