Sentences with phrase «along the equator»

One interpretation is that the asteroid's rotation rate has increased to the point where dust is falling off the surface along the equator and escaping into space.

He did a beautiful job lining it up and cutting exactly along the equator.

The El Niño - related cloudiness and rainfall pattern extended farther east along the equator in 1998, stretching all the way to the South American coast.

This year, there was a continuous flow of hot, humid air from Africa trying to go west along the equator, but there was also a huge amount of high pressure coming from the west and travelling in a virtually straight eastern direction that smacked right into all of this hot, humid air and prevented it from getting anywhere near landfall.

These westerly wind bursts sometimes generate long waves called Kelvin waves, which travel east along the equator at about 2.5 meters per second.

At irregular intervals (roughly every 3 - 6 years), the sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator become warmer or cooler than normal.

Split bread in half along the equator line.

On January 10, 2006, astronomers using the infrared Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array announced that Vega rotates so fast (at around 91 percent of its «break - up rate») that it is cooler as well as 23 percent wider along its equator than at its poles due to the gravitational effect of its «middle bulge» (NOAO press release; AAS 207 session summary); and Aufdenberg et al, 2006).

In the tropical Pacific, the distance from Indonesia to South America and the way tropical winds push warm water west combine to allow special waves to travel along the equator and are amplified by the atmospheric wind response to produce large fluctuations in temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

When the easterly trade winds strengthen during La Nina it pushes water along the equator from the east to west.

El Niño is the warm phase of the ENSO, characterized by unusually high sea surface temperatures along the equator in the Pacific, lasting between nine months and two years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Messenger flew roughly along the equator and at a slightly higher altitude than originally planned, but the change had no negative effects, Paul said.

The 1950 - 1995 climatological mean temperature along the equator at the 500mb level.

It then flows along the western boundary of the Atlantic with some part of the flow moving eastward along the equator and then poleward into the ocean basins.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

However, during June and July of 2014, anomalous easterly winds along the equator occurred, forestalling the developing El Niño.

El Niño is a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean mainly along the equator, but more broadly, those warm waters trigger profound events across half the planet, including heavy rains in California, fires in Australia, and more and stronger typhoons in the western Pacific.

Looking along the equator I see the arrows pointing inwards (hence south) towards the Amazon, just off - shore.

He'd read that indigenous cultures along the equator have far lower rates of both conditions, and Currie had a hunch this might be the result of their pepper - heavy diet.

The Madden - Julian Oscillation is a cluster of rainstorms that moves east along the Equator over 30 to 60 days.

Turbulent clouds, for example, signal massive tempests along the equator.

The explosion in worldwide coffee consumption in the past two decades has generally not benefitted farmers of coffee beans in poorer nations along the equator.

This year's event, while it caused a drop in chlorophyll primarily along the equator, was much less severe for the coastal phytoplankton population.

The ocean along the equator cooled while the northern and southern parts (the subtropics) of the Pacific became hotter.

The more matter spewed out along the equator rather than the poles, the more peanut - shaped, or «bipolar,» the final planetary nebula.

The first image, based on data from January 1997 when El Nio was still strengthening shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an associated change in sea surface temperature of up to 5.4 degrees C.

The faster warming, in turn, could slow down the easterly trade winds that converge along the equator more often.

Indeed, the probe's images have already shown that Pluto harbors diverse and complex terrain, including mysterious dark blotches along its equator.

Ignoring warnings, they set out 1000 leagues along the equator in search of a breeding ground.

A cheap cruise vacation for destinations along the equator, such as the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, can best be found by booking a last minute cruise.

Indonesia is the world's 4th most populous country situated in Southeast Asia, comprising over 17,000 islands stretched along the equator, of which only 8,000 are inhabited.

The attached figure shows the tropospheric temperature trends versus the surface temperature trends in units of K per decade for 1979 — 2004: the tropospheric temperature trends are astonishingly uniform along the equator with a variation of about a factor of 5 smaller than that in the surface temperature trends.

During the second winter, the tropical Pacific cooling weakens in a narrow band along the equator but becomes meridionally broader.

After 30 + million years of cooling, 2 to 3 million years ago, colder ocean waters eventually upwelled in the mid latitudes along the west coasts of major continents as well as along the equator.

And it is rising relentlessly from the depths along the Equator.

The researchers also found a negative association between high clouds and dust along the equator across North Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.