Sentences with phrase «atlantic ocean winds»

JOC.com New York state plans a potentially «game - changing» bid on a federal lease to develop an Atlantic Ocean wind farm that could generate sizeable demand for heavy - lift and other project shipments.

Not exact matches

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high - level assessment of all waters offshore the United States Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.

When that wind started whipping off the Atlantic Ocean in Rochester, I was gone.»

«Sconset is a seaside jewel with its profusion of flowers, its magnificent gardens, its winding roads and lanes and the Atlantic Ocean in all its moods and majesty.

But this Budget feels rather like Franklin's famous search for the elusive North West Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans: paved with icebergs and icy winds.

New York officials are seeking to expand offshore wind generation in the Atlantic Ocean, and has proposed four new sites for wind energy projects to the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the Robinson R44 helicopter, which had departed from Westchester County Airport, wound up in the Atlantic Ocean about 10:25 a.m. and «emergency responders picked up the two people who were aboard and ferried them to shore.»

Wind gusts in excess of 60 mph were scattering mounds of sand miles inland and sending the Atlantic Ocean flooding through the city's streets.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

On Wednesday, September 6, the colossal category 5 Hurricane Irma amped up its already stunning winds to 185 miles per hour — the second fastest ever recorded for a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

Winds (arrows) blowing in from the northeast across the Atlantic Ocean during the days preceding Sandy's landfall started to pile water up against the mid-Atlantic coast.

Even if the storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the storm is destined to push strong winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf and heavy rain, forecasters say.

Strong El Niño events and wind shear typically suppress the development of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.

Winds over the Atlantic Ocean also appear to modulate global surface temperatures, albeit to a lesser extent than those over the Pacific Ocean.

The temperature difference between the Southern Great Plains and the Atlantic Ocean produces winds that carry moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Plains, according to a recent study in Nature Communications.

Every year, churning storms in North Africa hoist as much as a billion tons of dust into the atmosphere, and prevailing winds drive the particles westward across the Atlantic Ocean.

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).

This difference in temperature creates a pressure gradient between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean that induces stronger winds that push moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico.

Apparently the reason for the disappearance was an anomalous weather system which generated a strong jet of surface winds blowing straight over the pole southward toward the Atlantic ocean, a «Polar Express».

«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result of changes to wind and weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.

hurricane A tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and has winds of 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour or greater.

For example, recent studies have found simultaneous changes in the Arctic ocean summertime ice cover, and North Atlantic wind climate.

Westerly winds took America's dirty air out over the Atlantic, while the pollution from Europe blew south and then west over the ocean with the trade winds.

Winding across Canada from the Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic Oceans, The Great Trail is an ambitious, 15,000 - mile (24,00...

Defying waves and winds of the Atlantic Ocean, Estalagem do Muchaxo occupies a 17th century fortress, with more than 60 years of history.

A lazy river, lit by the shimmering Iberian sun, the Douro River is a winding snake of azure crossing from Spain over to Portugal and filtering out through the explorer's city of Porto, out into the calm of the Atlantic Ocean.

The stone - walled vineyards, currais, have protected the 2,439 acres of vineyard from fierce Atlantic winds and salty ocean water for hundreds of years.

Wind around Hout Bay to Nordhoek and drive along the cliffs towering next to the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to gracefully winding fairways and heavily bunkered greens, Port Royal in Bermuda features one of the greatest holes in golf — the stunning 16th, a 238 - yard par three with nothing but the Atlantic Ocean between the tee and the pin.

But the climate is dry, and pleasant trade winds come off the Atlantic Ocean.

Winding roads with narrow dirt road entrances lead to breathtaking spots of beaches protected by cliffs with an endless show by the mesmerizing Atlantic Ocean waves.

With two oceans, the refreshing Atlantic and Tropical Indian meeting, South Africa picks up way more swells than most countries and there is always an offshore wind creating, perfectly clean waves somewhere.

This sandy beach is somewhat protected from the wind but takes the full force of the Atlantic Ocean making it popular with surfers.

Sail across the Atlantic Ocean reconnecting, recharging and indulging in Windstar luxury on a twenty - one day journey on Wind Star from Colon, Panama, to Hamilton, Bermuda and ending in Lisbon, Portugal.

The title points to a peculiar expression for the dreaded equatorial area of the Atlantic Ocean with no wind — a trap for sailors where boats can become stuck in the middle of the sea and any direction is temporarily suspended.

Created on an intimate scale, it nevertheless projects a pronounced gravity, prefiguring the extraordinary Peine del Viento (Wind Comb) that Chillida completed in San Sebastián in 1977, whose majestic, sculpted architecture grasps at the air, stretching out towards the Atlantic Ocean.

A recent paper by Vecchi and Soden (preprint) published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has been widely touted in the news (and some egregiously bad editorials), and the blogosphere as suggesting that increased vertical wind shear associated with tropical circulation changes may offset any tendencies for increased hurricane activity in the tropical Atlantic due to warming oceans.

What the ice actually does in a particular year depends upon the «forcings» (to misapply a term, perhaps) actually occurring — net ocean heat fluxes, net radiative fluxes, winds and currents (especially, but not exclusively, as they determine ice export to the North Atlantic.)

The sleepy Atlantic Ocean hurricane season ended yesterday, with the development of a Pacific Ocean El Niño condition predictably shifting winds into a pattern that stifles Atlantic storms.

(See http://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/global/pd11498f.html) Prevailing winds, which blow in an easterly direction over the continent, contain more CO2 just after they blow off the Pacific Ocean than they do after they exit the continent over the Atlantic.

New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening droOcean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening droocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening droocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

(They also loudly attacked climate modelers for not reproducing data on ocean cooling (which turned out to be due to some faulty instruments on Argo floats), and then just as loudly promoted results from models that predicted increased wind shear in the Atlantic.)

It's always worth remembering that the other end of the AMOC involves two main factors: (1) vorticity - mixing of heat from surface waters into the deep abyssal ocean (which decreases density causing the Atlantic Deep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

There was an interesting study in Nature Geoscience last Sunday showing pretty clearly that the accelerating flow of the Jacobshavn glacier in recent years was most likely driven by an influx of warm deep seawater, and that shift was likely due to changes in pressure and wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean.

Depending on where the powerful winds cross the Atlantic, the jet stream can have a cooling or warming effect on sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, according to the study, published (May 27 2015) in the journal Nature.

The Gulf Stream is a result of the wind pattern acting on most of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Drexel Environmental Science Graduate Student [ANDY REVKIN says: Some of the sea ice on the Arctic Ocean kind of circles in a gyre, like a slow turntable, and much of it is ejected perpetually past Greenland into the North Atlantic by winds and currents.

This suggests that the associated changes in North Atlantic Deep Water formation and in the large - scale deposition of wind - borne iron in the Southern Ocean had limited impact on CO2.

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.