Sentences with phrase «norwegian current»

The Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten is the warmest Northernmost location on Earth despite its location within the Arctic Circle; this is due to the Gulf Stream and its extensions (the North Atlantic Current and the Norwegian Current) keeping the average temperature above freezing.

But shorelines and continental shelf walls may prevent right turns, as when the Norwegian Current continues north until attracted to the left by the sinking sites.

When the low shifts as far south as Newfoundland, a high develops over northern Greenland; this brings cold arctic air west from northern Europe to be warmed by the Norwegian Current and thus warm Greenland and North America rather than Europe.

From there it was carried northward by the warm Norwegian Current, whereupon some of it swung west again to arrive off Greenland's east coast — where it had started its inch - per - second journey.

And you'd expect even more ultimate «causes» such as continental drift making the North Atlantic narrow enough that the Norwegian Current is «boxed in,» unable to turn right from the Coriolis effect, so it goes even farther north, hugging Europe's continental shelf — or uplifting Panama 3 million years ago to close off the old tropical route for equalizing salinity.

At present, the warm Norwegian Current prevents a lot of sea ice.

The Norwegian Current is mainly responsable for the loss of Arctic ice in the Barentz Sea.

And at last, the Norwegian Current, the Spitsbergen Current and the East Iceland Current carry warm, relative saline waters into the Arctic seas.

Not exact matches

First appearing in Norwegian in 1953 and then in German in 1955, this article offers a good discussion of the problems of current Life of Christ research in general.

«I don't think it will change the current recommendations [to breastfeed for a year], but maybe there's no benefit to breast - feeding after six months,» says Cathrine Thomsen of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

But this Norwegian study effectively found that following the current advice of the AAP seems to increase a baby's risk of celiac, not decrease it.

Recent celebrities who bear the name are Polish supermodel Anja Rubik (who is Karl Lagerfeld's current muse) and Anja Garberek, a noted Norwegian singer and songwriter (she looks somewhat like Bjork).

There is a need for further investigations and analyses to reveal to which extent the current explosive spread along the Norwegian coast is due to drifting Swedish and Danish larvae.

Speakers included Audun Rosland from the Norwegian Environment Agency who explained current climate policy and its challenges and constraints, and Peter Wehrheim from the European Commission who set out the options for including emissions from land use and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 climate and energy framework.

In 1991 he was promoted to his current position as full professor at the same institution, which in 1996 changed its name to Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

If you buy, say a norwegian bank, you get more shares now than you normally would do if we assume that the current $ is high compared to other currencies.

In contrast, an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance with a high degree of penetrance has been suggested for the pulverulent (dust - like) form of cataract observed in the Norwegian Buhund [116] and autosomal dominant with variable penetrance has been suggested for inherited posterior polar subcapsular cataracts in the Labrador and Golden retriever [117], although current anecdotal evidence indicates that in the Labrador cataracts could also be inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.

One such pup, a current patient, shares a name with Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, who is most notable for his Kon - Tiki expedition across the Pacific Ocean in a hand - built raft.

Welcome to Astrup Fearnley Museet for an evening tour of the current exhibition NN - A NN - A NN - A - New Norwegian Abstraction!

Astrup Fearnley Museet conducts guided tours in the current exhibitions every Sunday at 14.00 and 15.00 (in Norwegian).

The National Museum in Oslo displays a series of exhibitions with a presentation of Norwegian and foreign art, architecture and design, both the museum buildings in Oslo, the rest of Norway through a land deck current program and abroad.

The Norwegians also noted very little ice around Svalbard in the early 1920's so who is to say that this recent decline isn't just part of a longer 80 - 100 year cycle, probably led by changes to ocean currents (which would explain why the Arctic has warmed, unlike the Antarctic continent).

For same reason Norwegian and Labrador currents exist — for same reason intake from north Pacific warm / salty water via N / W Passage exists.

Now the decision of whether to put any CCS at Monstad is being pushed to beyond 2013 when the current Norwegian Parliament is renewed.

The Norwegian Anti-Discrimination and Equality Ombud found, in a decision of September 9 2014, that the current practice of requiring the F 64.0 transsexualism diagnosis and subsequent sterilization are discriminatory.

Using cross-sectional data from the second wave of the Bergen Child Study (conducted in 2006), the current study investigated the association between lower SES and exposure to negative life events, family life stressors, and mental health problems in a sample of 2043 Norwegian 11 — 13 years and their parents.