Sentences with phrase «atlantic ocean basin»

The figure above compares the average track forecast errors in the Atlantic Ocean basin during the past six hurricane seasons for the most reliable computer models available to the National Hurricane Center during this period.

Trade winds transport some of this water vapor out of the Atlantic Ocean basin, across the Isthmus of Panama, and into the Pacific Ocean basin.

The earlier period of powerful hurricane activity matched previous studies that found evidence of high hurricane activity during the same period in more southerly areas of the western North Atlantic Ocean basin — from the Caribbean to the Gulf Coast.

The solution was found in the rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean basin, which has created unexpected pressure differences between the Atlantic and Pacific.

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

Not exact matches

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

In the most recent case, waters in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ocean basins began rising in mid-2014 and bleaching started in 2015.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

«Hurricanes form both in the Atlantic basin, to the east of the continental U.S. (that is, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), and in the Northeast Pacific basin, to the west of the U.S..

The research team found that deoxygenation caused by climate change could already be detected in the southern Indian Ocean and parts of the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic basins.

G: The Atlantic has had more of these storms in the least 10 years or so, but in other ocean basins, activity is slightly down.

«Whereas the Pacific was previously considered the main driver of tropical climate variability and the Atlantic and Indian Ocean its slaves, our results document a much more active role for the Atlantic Ocean in determining conditions in the other two ocean baOcean its slaves, our results document a much more active role for the Atlantic Ocean in determining conditions in the other two ocean baOcean in determining conditions in the other two ocean baocean basins.

The upper part of the modern Arctic Ocean is flushed by North Atlantic currents while the Arctic's deep basins are flushed by salty currents formed during sea ice formation at the surface.

Presently, much of the Atlantic Ocean is well oxygenated (Figure 1) relative to the North Indian and Pacific Oceans, where bottom water O2 concentrations are lower because of the biological removal of O2 as thermohaline circulation moves deep waters across ocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface oOcean is well oxygenated (Figure 1) relative to the North Indian and Pacific Oceans, where bottom water O2 concentrations are lower because of the biological removal of O2 as thermohaline circulation moves deep waters across ocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface oocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface oceanocean.

In other major ocean basins, parts of the western North Atlantic, the Barents Sea in the Arctic, and much of the Indian Ocean were record ocean basins, parts of the western North Atlantic, the Barents Sea in the Arctic, and much of the Indian Ocean were record Ocean were record warm.

The end of November means that both the Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons have drawn to a close, and storm activity in the two ocean basins was quite different, indeed, but for the same reason.

«Unfortunately, the complete disappearance of the Atlantic gray whale is the only instance of a whale extinction from an ocean basin during the historical era,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program and co-author of the socean basin during the historical era,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program and co-author of the sOcean Giants Program and co-author of the study.

The model also shows that the presence of seafloor anoxia, as suggested by black - shale deposition in the proto - North Atlantic Ocean before the event, might be the result of the silled shape and lack of deep - water formation of this basin at the Late Cretaceous.

«The rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of HaOcean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Haocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Hawaii.

The massive water system is thought to stretch for 3,700 miles across the Amazon basin with an average width of about 200 miles, flowing west to east into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate of 350 feet a year.

Because of the Earth's rotation, the poleward flow in the western Atlantic is constrained to a narrow current on the western boundary of the ocean basin.

The only ocean basin where the rise might be misinterpreted as being monotonous WAS the North Atlantic, but that has shown a significant drop since 2005.

The reason for a lack of short term correlation is probably that, absent a volcanic eruption, the Atlantic is warmer during an El Nino BUT the wind shear is greater, thus destroying, on such occasions, the agreement you would normally get with multidecadal changes in SST in the Atlantic RELATIVE to other ocean basins.

I feel compelled to point out to weather newbies that «Atlantic» sometimes refers to hurricanes that are in the Atlantic / Caribbean / GoM basin to distinguish them from hurricanes in the Eastern North Pacific (see nhc.noaa.gov), as opposed to «hurricanes in the Atlantic» which refers to those in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico.

The ocean basin with the best historical record, the North Atlantic, shows the smallest increase in stronger storms.

The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis (ETOS) Working Group was formed to promote collaboration in the southeast oceanic basins, coordinate a model assessment of surface flux errors for the equatorial Atlantic, identify recent model improvements and common and persistent model errors, and provide recommendations of cases for community simulation and evaluation using eddy - permitting ocean models.

So this idea of circa 75y repetition with a harmonic at half that, plus 60y repetition in Atlantic may characterise those ocean basins.

Two reasons why this should be so in the real world are that, first, the Southern Hemisphere subtropical gyres are situated mostly in the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic, and second, that some of the heat coming into the Pacific Ocean basin doesn't actually stay there.

In the northern hemisphere the land masses prevent this and the ocean circulation is broken into smaller gyres in the Atlantic and Pacific basins.

Additionally, the Atlantic Ocean is the only basin in which there is an equatorward warm surface current (part of the Meridional Overturning Circulation) and this ultimately carries heat to the North Atlantic - where it sinks.

«The main hydrological features of the deep Mediterranean Sea are (a) high homeothermy from roughly 300 — 500 m to the bottom, and bottom temperatures of about 12.8 °C to 13.5 °C in the western basin and 13.5 °C to 15.5 °C in the eastern basin (i.e., there are no thermal boundaries, whereas in the Atlantic Ocean the temperature decreases with depth)»

cooling in the North Atlantic basin due to changes in ocean currents.

Figure 7u - 12 describes the number of category 1 to 5 hurricanes that developed in the North Atlantic, northeast Pacific, and northwest Pacific Ocean basins for the period 1951 to 2002.

During epochs when El Niño events dominate, the SST anomalies of the North Atlantic rise more than the SST anomalies of the other ocean basins, and when La Niña events dominate, the North Atlantic SST anomalies drop more than the SST anomalies for the rest of the globe.

At issue are the potential hydraulic connections between glacial Lake Agassiz and the Atlantic Ocean during, and after, the Younger Dryas, because a readvance would fill the western Superior basin with ice and prohibit eastern Lake Agassiz drainage.

Then there are the individual ocean basins, the «offsets» for them vary from about +1.0 deg C for the South Atlantic to less than +0.1 for the North Pacific.

21) After 1000 to 1500 years those variations in energy flowing through the thermohaline circulation return to the surface by influencing the size and intensity of the ocean surface temperature oscillations that have now been noted around the world in all the main ocean basins and in particular the Pacific and the Atlantic.

This basin - wide change in the Atlantic climate (both warming and cooling) induces a basin - scale sea surface temperature seesaw with the Pacific Ocean, which in turn modifies the position of the Walker circulation (the language by which the tropical basins communicate) and the strength of the Pacific trade winds.

The only two ocean basins with major increases in OHC during the ARGO era are the South Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, while the North Atlantic, Arctic, and South Pacific Oceans show significant declines in OHC.

While the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean has a complex three - dimensional spatial structure, the zonally integrated flow in the basin, referred to as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is largely responsible for the net northward oceanic heat transport on climate - relevant timescales.

The researchers examined data on the number and power of hurricanes making landfall in the five main hurricane basins: North Atlantic, northeastern Pacific, western North Pacific, northern Indian Ocean, and Southern Hemisphere.

As identified in the stadium wave analysis, the Atlantic Ocean is the driver, with the Pacific being the slave — the basins are linked as per the stadium wave arguments.

Although there is very little trend in the OHC in the subpolar North Atlantic where the salinity induced vacillation cycle dominates, there is a linear OHC trend equatorward of 45 ° N and ° S in the Atlantic basin (including the Southern Ocean)(fig.

States that a significant increase in salinity has been observed in recent decades in the 20N — 50N latitude band of the Atlantic ocean, although changes at sub ‐ polar latitudes of the Atlantic, and in other ocean basins, are not found to be significant compared to modeled internal variability

The Atlantic is the small basin surrounded by low - heat - capacity continents (and an Arctic Ocean that is «continental» for most of the year from an atmospheric perspective), so it has higher amplitude and thus higher leverage on stats, including hemispheric & global ones.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.

The North Atlantic basin, Northern Pacific Basin and the southern hemisphere oceans.

As shown here for the North Atlantic but also true for all ocean basins, the ocean surface slope is steeper on the western side of an ocean basin than on the eastern side.

I'm overdue for another SST model - data comparison, but looking at the most recent one, the only ocean basins that are «cooperating» with the models are the North Atlantic and the Arctic: http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/cmip5-model-data-comparison-satellite-era-sea-surface-temperature-anomalies/

After 1000 to 1500 years those variations in energy flowing through the thermohaline circulation return to the surface by influencing the size and intensity of the ocean surface temperature oscillations that have now been noted around the world in all the main ocean basins and in particular the Pacific and the Atlantic.