Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean region»

In addition, statistics on the seasons of tropical cyclone genesis and their landfall locations from AD 1945 — 2013 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean region reveal that in summer, tropical cyclones tend to make landfall along coastal regions north of Fujian Province, eastern China; however, in autumn and winter, cyclones tend to be guided further southward to make landfall in southern China (Hainan), Vietnam, and the Philippines.

So far the team has looked only at data from the Pacific Ocean region, but if other tropical oceans have the same effect, Earth may be well equipped to handle global warming.

Warm air rises over the equatorial, continental, and western Pacific Ocean regions.

Not exact matches

The remnants of the storm which had lashed the South Pacific brought cloud cover and heavy rains to the region, cooling the ocean enough to stop bleaching that had just begun in the south.

The lack of available land will be difficult to overcome, given the region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the coastal mountains, the U.S. border and the Agricultural Land Reserve.

The single coolest growing region in California, only a few miles inland from the great Pacific Ocean, the Edna Valley allows for the fruit to leisurely ripen on the vine.

The coolest growing region in all of California, as cited in a study by the University of Southern Oregon, the Edna Valley is a mere 5.4 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

Dock - to - Dish fish selections are line - caught in a region 375 miles north of Oahu known as the Fracture Zone, a region of the Pacific Ocean ideal for fishing this time of year.

The entire region is above 1000 feet elevation and receives cooling Pacific Ocean influences.

These include unpopulated, unfished regions such as the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and areas that are close to towns and where fishing takes place — such as Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, also in the Pacific.

The Pacific Islands region is the warmest of the global ocean.

Warm water flowing through the Indonesian archipelago from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean influences the climate of the surrounding regions.

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

During its positive phase the ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm and those outside this region to the north and south are often unusually cool.

They noticed that the waves traveled faster in two vast arc - shaped regions under the margins of the Pacific Ocean (blue in the illustration), while they slowed down in two equally large plume - shaped regions below the central pacific and AfricaPacific Ocean (blue in the illustration), while they slowed down in two equally large plume - shaped regions below the central pacific and Africapacific and Africa (red).

New research presented in San Francisco yesterday suggests, however, that dusty air blown across the Pacific Ocean from Asia and Africa could be influencing precipitation in the region.

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

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.

Most such regions are not on land or are largely uninhabited, the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the Arctic prominent among them.

Since the region is at a high latitude, moisture from the nearby Pacific Ocean can accumulate into some of the world's most powerful glaciers.

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

However, changes to the sink in the Pacific and Indian Ocean subtropical regions will be too low - resolution to detect before at least 2050.

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.

However, this new analysis reveals that the northern North Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and Equatorial Pacific Ocean are all important regions of ocean heat upOcean and Equatorial Pacific Ocean are all important regions of ocean heat upOcean are all important regions of ocean heat upocean heat uptake.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

Researchers from the Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory at UBC followed the migration of one of B.C.'s largest sockeye populations from Chilko Lake, in British Columbia's Cariboo region, to the ocean.

Ajay Kalra of the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas has identified several regions of the Pacific Ocean where changes in sea surface temperature appear to be statistically linked to the Colorado River's streamflow.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

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 Pacific Coast region includes: the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah; Alaska; the Province of British Columbia; Mexico, excepting the states of Sonora and Chihuahua; the Hawaiian Islands; the Philippine Islands; and other islands of the Pacific Ocean.

The researchers attributed the phenomenon to less moisture being imported into the region from the Gulf of California or the Pacific Ocean during the monsoons.

The team took samples in 153 different spots around the world, from the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean and the Antarctic region.

Mean MHW duration between the 1982 — 1998 and 2000 — 2016 periods increased across 84 % of the global ocean, with significant increases of up to 20 days in the mid - and high - latitude regions of all ocean basis, up to 30 + days in the central tropical Pacific Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.ocean, with significant increases of up to 20 days in the mid - and high - latitude regions of all ocean basis, up to 30 + days in the central tropical Pacific Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.ocean basis, up to 30 + days in the central tropical Pacific Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.Ocean, and decreases in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.Ocean and the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean (Fig.Ocean (Fig. 1h).

In the lower left panel of Figure 1, which shows temperature trends since 1979, the pattern in the Pacific Ocean features warming and cooling regions related to El Niño.

Hotspots of high intensity occurred in regions of large SST variability including the five western boundary current extension regions (+2 — 5 °C), the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (+1 — 4 °C) and eastern boundary current regions (+1 — 3 °C).

If it is true, as some studies suggest for example, that El Nino events become more frequent and greater in magnitude due to anthropogenic forcing (this is not yet a settled issue), then, given the established relationship between the El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extratropical Pacific / North American atmospheric circulation, we might expect increased baroclinicity and greater storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Pacific ocean and neighboring western U.S..

Through a Memorandum of Understanding between the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reOcean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific region.

Across extra-tropical regions, mean event durations were more uniform (10 — 15 days), with the exception of the northeast and southeast Pacific Ocean with up to 30 - day mean durations.

Chart showing ocean temperatures in different regions of the Pacific used to gauge El Niño, including the recent rise in temperatures.

Pacific Ocean temperatures in the key El Niño region likely peaked in November, but it takes about three to five months for that heat to spread beyond the tropical Pacific and warm the broader atmosphere.

The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array consists of approximately 70 buoys deployed in a grid across the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

The analysis technique is being tested for various environmental conditions in several regions of the globe, including the tropical Pacific Ocean.

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.

Strong El Niño conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during November 2015, as evidenced by record warmth across much of this region.

By studying weather and ocean patterns, the German researchers and their Chinese counterparts realized it all hinges on the connection of two regions in the eastern Pacific.

Scientists have been attracted to the region because of the subduction zone located at the bottom of the ocean where the Pacific and North American tectonic plates collide, the Aleutian Trench.

High nutrient low chlorophyl regions «the naming of three major HNLC zones: the North Pacific Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

While El Niño features warmer - than - normal ocean waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific — much warmer in the case of this exceptional El Niño — La Niña features colder - than - normal waters in the same region.