Sentences with phrase «equatorwards western»

Equatorwards western boundary currents occur in tropical and polar locations, e.g. the East Greenland and Labrador currents, in the Atlantic and the Oyashio.

Not exact matches

[Response: The classical (i.e. Stommel) theory of the subtropical gyre requires that the interior equatorward (Sverdrup) transport that takes place everywhere but a narrow strip along the western edge of the basin, precisely balance the poleward transport that takes place in a narrow boundary current along the western edge of the basin.

Thus, the subtropical gyre circulation is a horizontal circulation with poleward mass transport along the western boundary, and equatorward transport everywhere east of that, and providing no net northward mass transport integrated across the basin (which is what Bryden et al have done).

• surface upwelling (of cold / cool water) at / off western continental margins, driven by Coriolis effect on equatorward currents;

The arid conditions found along the western coasts of continents in subtropical latitudes are further enhanced by the influence of the equatorward surface air flow on the ocean currents.

Thus a less active sun gives colder winters and cooler wetter summers in Western Europe simply because a less active sun gives more meridional / equatorward mid latitutude jets.

And western intensification of warm - water currents produces entirely different precipitation levels compared to opposite coasts washed by equatorward - bound cool currents.