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GRE 阅读:What Is This‘Polar Vortex’That Is Freezing the U.S.?

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<a href="http://bjieltswd.soxsok.com/">新东方网校</a>频道小编为大家整理了 GRE 阅读:What Is This‘Polar Vortex’That Is Freezing the U.S.，下面是详细内容，供大家参考。【Ctrl+D收藏，下次查看更方便】           <a href="http://un.koolearn.com/alliance/click?userid=ff80808131ff8e0a0131ff8e0a7f0000&url=https://login.koolearn.com/sso/toMobileRegister.do?f=www_daohang&next_page=http%3A/www.koolearn.com/">>>>点击注册，0元试学课程</a>   相关推荐：<a href="http://xgnpxwxj.soxsok.com/news/443652/">如何解决GRE阅读读题速度慢？</a>                   As I write these words, temperatures across half the U.S. are plummeting like a rock.Extreme lows are forecast by tonight: -32 degrees Fahrenheit in Fargo, N.D.; -21 degrees F in Madison, Wisc.; -15 degrees F in Chicago and Indianapolis, according to the National Weather Service. Wind chills will reach a bizarre 60 degrees below zero F in some places, freezing exposed skin within one minute. That number is more typical for Mars—at night, according to the Curiosity rover NASA has free-wheeling over there. As each hour passes, more and more television and radio reporters are attributing the insane cold to a “polar vortex” up in northern Canada. Vortex, yes, but upper Canada? Not exactly. One forecaster called the beast a hurricane in the Arctic, which is dramatic but wrong. So what is this mysterious marvel and why is it invading America? The polar vortex is a prevailing wind pattern that circles the Arctic, flowing from west to east all the way around the Earth. It normally keeps extremely cold air bottled up toward the North Pole. Occasionally, though, the vortex weakens, allowing the cold air to pour down across Canada into the U.S., or down into other regions such Eastern Europe. In addition to bringing cold, the air mass can push the jet stream—the band of wind that typically flows from the Pacific Ocean across the U.S.—much further south as well. If the jet stream puts up a fight, the moisture it carries can fall out as heavy snow, which atmospheric scientists say is the circumstance that caused the February 2010 “snowmageddon” storm that shut down Washington, D.C. But why does the vortex weaken? Now it gets interesting. More and more Arctic sea ice is melting during summer months. The more ice that melts, the more the Arctic Ocean warms. The ocean radiates much of that excess heat back to the atmosphere in winter, which disrupts the polar vortex. Data taken over the past decade indicate that when a lot of Arctic sea ice disappears in the summer, the vortex has a tendency to weaken over the subsequent winter, if related atmospheric conditions prevail over the northern Atlantic Ocean. The situation looks something like that shown in the graphic below. (For a full explanation, see the Scientific American article that accompanies the graphic.) Although the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic varies year to year, overall it has been disappearing to a notable degree since 2007 and it is forecast to continue to vanish even further. That could mean more trouble for the polar vortex, and more frigid outbreaks—a seeming contradiction to “global warming,” perhaps, but not for “global weirding,” also known as climate change.     Graphic by XNR Productions   Photo courtesy of Wing-Chi Poon on WikimediaCommons <a href="http://un.koolearn.com/alliance/click?userid=ff80808131ff8e0a0131ff8e0a7f0000&url=https://login.koolearn.com/sso/toMobileRegister.do?f=www_daohang&next_page=http%3A/www.koolearn.com/">>>>点击注册，0元试学课程</a>   如果有任何英语方面的问题请咨询, <a href="http://bjieltswa.soxsok.com/">新东方在线</a><a href="http://bjieltswa.soxsok.com/">http://bjieltswa.soxsok.com/</a> 更多咨询尽在, <a href="http://bjieltswd.soxsok.com/">新东方网校</a><a href="http://bjieltswd.soxsok.com/">http://bjieltswd.soxsok.com/</a> 咨询电话：15515502597       在线咨询QQ：2108618837   上一篇：<a href="http://bjieltswd.soxsok.com/news/444572/">如何避免GRE写作雷同</a>

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