Sentences with phrase «equatorial countercurrent»

Precipitation in the Desert Southwest correlates significantly with solar irradiance lagged 3 and 5 years, which suggests a link with ocean - water temperature anomalies transported by the Equatorial Countercurrent as well as the North Pacific Gyre.

Periodically an El Nino wave crosses the ocean along the equatorial countercurrent and washes ashore in South America.

And Nino3.4 is just a lucky guy, sitting in the middle of the equatorial countercurrent and watching all the El Ninos go by.

It is only a proxy, sits there in the middle of the equatorial countercurrent and watches El Nino waves go by.

When enough has piled up gravity flow starts along the equatorial countercurrent and carries an El Nino wave to South America as we saw.

Equatorial Countercurrent — between the westward warm equatorial currents of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

At the crossroads of the Equatorial Countercurrent and the colder Humboldt Current, the nutrient - waters of the Galapagos Islands attract everything from whales and whale sharks to pods of dolphins and large schools of hammerhead and silky sharks.

While waters the islands to the south are generally cool, Darwin and Wolf are influenced by the warmer waters of the Panama Current and the North Equatorial Countercurrent.

6 flow in opposite direction of wind - related currents return water taken away from one side of the ocean basin to the opposite side EX: Equatorial Countercurrents

Not exact matches

19 El Nino Southern Oscillation: ENSO Occurs: three to seven years The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.

The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.

An original scheme of the formation of the equatorial subsurface countercurrents is presented.