Sentences with phrase «pacific equatorial waters»

Its been my observation that these oscillations are caused by planetary wave wind inducements, namely the greatest cycle; ENSO is purely triggered by a planetary wave causing favorable winds which bring up or not colder Pacific equatorial waters.

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The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Ni ± a, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Thanks to high - resolution models of the oceanic circulation and water oxygen content, IRD researchers and their partners have now quantified this ecosystem's sensitivity to various disturbances in the equatorial Pacific.

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.

Three of the four warmest years since 1900 have been years with El Niño — the phenomenon in which warm water from the western side of the equatorial Pacific sloshes east, increasing global temperatures.

The water temperature variations typical of El Niño are not only at the surface of the equatorial Pacific, but below the surface as well.

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

La Niña conditions caused by relatively cool equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific can cause droughts in South America, heavy rainfall in Southeast Asia and can intensify Atlantic hurricane seasons.

The equatorial Pacific gets its nutrients from the Antarctic Ocean, carried on a water circulation called the «subantarctic mode water.»

During La Niña, cold waters upwell to cool large areas of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

However, one potential criticism is that the model (the Cane - Zebiak model) does not allow for important extratropical feedbacks such as subducting water masses from the extratropics that eventually can influence the equatorial Pacific thermocline.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

In one projection, there is a greater warming of the water in the eastern equatorial Pacific compared to areas immediately north and south, or the West Pacific.

Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Dan H.: «Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.»

The El Niño / La Niña pattern of warm or cold water in the equatorial Pacific has shifted to neutral phase.

El Niño events consist — very broadly — of an area of warm water in the equatorial Pacific coupled with changes in atmospheric circulation.

El Niño is a warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific that influences global weather patterns.

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures.

7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja California, Mexico.

However, one potential criticism is that the model (the Cane - Zebiak model) does not allow for important extratropical feedbacks such as subducting water masses from the extratropics that eventually can influence the equatorial Pacific thermocline.

Direct radiometric observations of the water vapor greenhouse effect over the equatorial Pacific Ocean F.P.J. Valero, W.D. Collins, P. Pilewskie, A. Bucholtz, and P.J. Flatau Science, 274 (5307), 1773 - 1776, 21 March 1997

The peer - reviewed report, compiled by 378 scientists from 48 countries around the world, notes that back - to - back La Niñas (the build - up of cool waters in the equatorial eastern Pacific as part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle) in 2011 affected regional climates and influenced many of the world's significant weather events throughout the year.

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.

In winter, the effect of the cooler phase of the oscillation on the northern hemisphere is to depress temperatures slightly; but in summer, the cooler waters in the equatorial Pacific have less impact on the northern hemisphere's weather.

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

Global temperatures tend to decrease in the wake of La Niña, which occurs when upwelling cold water off the coast of Peru spreads westward in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

The size and location of a large body of warm water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean drive the transition from El Nino to La Nina.

In other words, the equatorial Pacific gets nutrient - deficient water from Antarctic Ocean currents, and experiments have shown that the supplemental iron alone isn't enough to trigger the plankton blooms.

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Nina, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

ENSO is a periodic oscillation of ocean water in the equatorial Pacific powered by the trade winds.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

It can not account for the huge volume of leftover warm water that's below the surface and returned to the West Pacific and into the eastern tropical Indian Ocean via off - equatorial slow - moving Rossby waves.

During a La Niña, trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific are stronger than normal, and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South America extends to the central equatorial Pacific.

The models make atmospheric CO2 concentration the cause of warming, but fail to account for either the solubility effect of CO2 in water, the intense outgassing in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, or the effects of climatologists» formula for the residence time of atmospheric CO2 (it's quite short - lived (~ 1.5 years), not long - lived (decades to centuries), and its lumpy in the atmosphere, not global).

Also, Vostok sits inside the CO2 sink of Antarctic waters while MLO sits in the plume of the massive outgassing from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, and Keeling himself warned about the use of such data.

That process releases warm water from below the surface of the PWP, shifts it to the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, releases heat there through evaporation, which causes changes in atmospheric circulation, in turn causing SST outside of the tropical Pacific to vary.

Using the Great Lakes water levels as a measuring device to assess global precipitation, can we assess impact of the Equatorial Pacific and North Pacific at the times of high and low water levels as seen in the Great Lakes?

The raging El Niño Southern Oscillation, a band of warm ocean water in the central and east - central equatorial Pacific, is about to cause droughts in southern Asia — and to bring enough rain to boost California almond production after years of drought - induced decline.

We apply this technique at 1000 m water depth in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific during seven 200 - year Holocene intervals.

ENSO is caused by a resonant oscillation of ocean water from side to side in the equatorial Pacific.

In 1997 and 1998 there was a strong El Nino event in the equatorial Pacific, meaning that the surface water there was unusually warm.

The «strong trade winds,» says study co-author Gerald Meehl of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, «are bringing cooler water to the surface in the equatorial Pacific and mixing more heat into the deeper ocean.»

The variability in atmospheric temperature, rainfall and biology has its origin in the volume of cold water rising off California and in the equatorial Pacific.

In trying to work out what is really happening perhaps the last place to look is ENSO 3.4 and the narrow band of waters that are so carefully monitored across the equatorial Pacific.

I've used JPL sea level animations to demonstrate equatorial Pacific Kelvin waves during El Niño events and the much overlooked Rossby waves that return vast amounts of warm water to the western Pacific during La Niña events.

Maybe an East - West temperature oscillation is a natural feature of any body of water with enough East - West equatorial size for it, and it just happens that under the current continental configuration only the Pacific is large enough.