Sentences with phrase «pacific near the equator»

Scientists declare the development of an El Niño when they observe a temperature increase of at least 0.4 degree Celsius (0.72 degree Fahrenheit) for five months in a row in the eastern Pacific near the equator.

For the Ekman pumping (one good example of the Ekman pumping is the so - called «cold tongue» near in the eastern part of the Pacific near the Equator), the stability is not so important, but rather the depth of the upper warm surface layer.

El Niño refers to the natural condition where ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific near the Equator warm to levels above the long term average.

Not exact matches

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

The most notable new result is the finding that the tropical Pacific has warmed significantly more slowly (and maybe not at all near the equator) than the rest of the world over this time, a feature that is not captured by most climate models simulations of 20th century climate changes.

The 18.6 year Lunar tidal oscillation produces a «standing wave» pattern (with a peak to peak height ~ 16 mm) in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that has nodes at + / - 35 degrees of latitude and anti-nodes near + / - 70 to 90 degrees and on the Equator.

Wind strength is a result of pressure differentials, which near the equator in the Pacific would seem to be defined by temperature differentials over open water between the tropics and the equator.

The key conclusion of this work is that much of the variability in global temperature is being driven by ocean temperatures near the equator in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The cold sub-polar water displaces the warm surface layer nearer the equator and facilitates cold water upwelling on the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean.

Examining the structure of the global cloud field one can see, a long line of bright, dense clouds near the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), more clearly evident over the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific oceans.

The researchers studied cores of seafloor sediment representing 500,000 years of deposition, spanning about 6,000 miles of the Pacific equator, from near Papua New Guinea to near Ecuador's Galapagos Islands — nearly a quarter of the globe's girth.

Heat rising from warm Pacific waters near the equator causes waves of warmth in the atmosphere — a phenomenon called the Rossby wave train, researchers report today (April 10) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal tender.