Sentences with phrase «atlantic ocean region»

This is true — but only if you remove the entire Atlantic ocean region, where NOAA explained that 2010 «tied for third - and second-most storms and hurricanes on record, respectively».

Not exact matches

This Old World region on the Atlantic Ocean is the best place in the world to retire that nobody's talking about.

As the name implies, it hails from the Brittany region of France, which occupies the far western edge of the country abutting the Atlantic Ocean.

Boasting sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean and Haulover Cut, Artisan Beach House is poised to be one of the region's most coveted hotspots for 2017.

striped bass are indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean, predominately in the mid-Atlantic region and the Chesapeake Bay, they were imported into lakes for recreational fishing.

[244] Panorama view of Kakum National Park, located in the coastal environs of the Central region on the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, covers an area of 375 square kilometres (145 sq mi).

It therefore called for the declaration of Western Togoland which is perceived as stretching from Kulungugu in the Upper East Region to Keta in the Southern coast by the Atlantic ocean as a sovereign state.

Such hot spots included the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the nutrient - rich upwelling regions off the coasts of South America and West Africa.

«We found the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has an «Achilles heel,» a vulnerable spot in the North Atlantic Ocean in the region south of Greenland.»

NARWHALS packing temperature and depth gauges connected to satellite transmitters have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region — which links the Atlantic and Arctic oceans — underestimate winter ocean temperatures there by as much as 1 °C.

This «bipolar seesaw behavior of the Atlantic Ocean,» as the paper calls it, led to a southward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which carried the monsoon rains away from sub-Saharan Africa and into the South African region.

But within these long periods there have been abrupt climate changes, sometimes happening in the space of just a few decades, with variations of up to 10ºC in the average temperature in the polar regions caused by changes in the Atlantic ocean circulation.

In the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, much of the day - to - day weather variability is determined by the storm track regions located over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Sahel region of Africa — a strip across the southern edge of the Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea — is a semi-arid landscape between the desert to the north and the savannah to the south.

Surveys are now occurring in, or proposed for, many previously unexploited regions including parts of the Arctic Ocean and off the U.S. Atlantic coast,» said Douglas P. Nowacek, an expert on marine ecology and bioacoustics at Duke University.

The model showed that regions of the subpolar and equatorial Atlantic Ocean are undergoing changes that can already be detected through the noise of variability.

Professor Drijfhout said: «This study attributes the increased oceanic heat drawdown in the equatorial Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Ocean to specific, different mechanisms in each region.

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Due to shrinkage of its connection with the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea was transformed into a giant saline lake that was partially evaporated by the dry climate of the region, six million years ago.

Employing such reservoirs into their models is supported by geophysical observations of two, continent - sized regions — one below the Pacific Ocean and one below parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Africa — sitting atop the core - mantle boundary.

The river plume containing terrestrial dissolved organic carbon can be seen as dark regions in the Atlantic Ocean.

The northeast Atlantic Ocean is among the regions suffering from the highest numbers of overexploited stocks, the report says.

These show that large parts of the coastal region are slowly yet steadily sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

A review just published by PML Applications Ltd (the wholly - owned subsidiary of Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML) and the University of Plymouth, brings together and updates evidence on invasive species for the NE and SW Atlantic Ocean, in order to assess the risk represented by the shipping trade between these two regions.

New findings link rising ocean temperatures off the northern coast of Brazil to changing weather patterns: As the Atlantic warms, it draws moisture away from the forest, priming the region for bigger fires.

Another reason to study the AMOC in the subpolar North Atlantic is that the rugged ocean floor in this region carves the current pathways up into tortuous tributaries, unlike the relatively smooth flows at 26 ° N. OSNAP's stationary moorings can not trace these meandering pathways, so the array is supplemented by drifting floats.

An analysis of sediment from 17 seabed sites — from European estuaries to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the deep Atlantic Ocean — found that the bathyal region of the Rockall Trough has more species than any other area so far measured.

The region's weather is shaped by the currents of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and the chemistry of the ice can reveal when each of those systems played the dominant role.

Similar to 2014, some of the Southern Ocean waters off the tip of South America and part of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland were much cooler than average, with one localized area in the Atlantic region record cold.

Similarly, if as a number of recent studies suggest, anthropogenic climate forcing leads to a greater tendency for the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)[or related «Arctic Oscillation» (AO)-RSB- pattern, we would expect increased baroclinicity and storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Atlantic ocean and neighboring western Europe..

Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no areas of the global oceans record cold.

Decadal variability is a notable feature of the Atlantic Ocean and the climate of the regions it influences.

The waters off the southern tip of South America and to the south of Greenland were much colder than average, with a pocket of record cold in that region of the Atlantic Ocean.

Randerson said the other main climate factor that could influence next year's fire season is ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic, which also have a strong tie with rainfall in the region.

Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and colleagues analyzed the dust concentrations in aerosol samples from two locations, French Guiana's capital city Cayenne and the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, to understand the amount, source regions, and seasonal patterns of airborne dust that travels across the North Atlantic Ocean.

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's more likely than not we'll see more intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific Oceans, but a lack of data means the same can't be said of other regions just yet.

Based on the common occurrence of the same genera and species of marine invertebrates in both regions [75 — 79], teleost fishes [80], herpetofauna [81], as well as marine reptiles [7, 54, 82] it has been suggested that the Caribbean or Hispanic Corridor connecting the eastern Pacific Ocean with the western Tethys through the Central Atlantic facilitated faunal dispersals between the two regions during the Late Jurassic [83 — 85].

Boujad rugs are hand woven pile rugs from a small region in Haouz between the Middle Atlas and the Atlantic ocean.

The landscape and scenery of Maryland vary greatly across the state, from the beautiful coastal areas on the Atlantic Ocean to the picturesque Chesapeake Bay region.

This region borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west and includes the Sandveld, Knersvlakte and the Matzikamma Mountains.

It connects to the Mediterranean Sea which in turn bridges to the Atlantic Ocean, allowing access to many different ports in this region of Southeastern Europe!

They live in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in the arctic region.

Flores is the westernmost island of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic Ocean.

One of just a handful of atolls found outside the Atlantic Ocean, the Turneffe Atolls are located in the outer regions of the Belize Barrier Reef.

region, the Pacific coastal region, the Caribbean coastal region, the Llanos (lowland plains), the Amazon Rainforest and the insular area, comprising islands in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

At New York JFK, Delta will start flying five days a week as of May 24 to Ponta Delgada in the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal about 1,000 miles west of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean.

To some extent, this is again due to the factors mentioned above, but additionally, the models predict that the North Atlantic as a whole will not warm as fast as the rest of globe (due to both the deep mixed layers in this region which have a large thermal inertia and a mild slowdown in the ocean heat transports).

The structure of the ocean circulation basically anchors this region to something like pre-industrial temperatures, at least until deep bottom water originating in the North Atlantic also warms.

In a recent (of Sept. 16, 2005) publication in Science, Hatun et al. find that record - high salinities have been observed over the past decade in the region where water from the Atlantic flows into the northern oceans.