Sentences with phrase «along the equator in»

The oddest thing of all about Sputnik Planitia, though, is its location: along the equator in curious alignment with Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

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.

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

El Nino is characterised by warmer than normal sea surface along the equator in the eastern Pacific, whereas La Nina is colder than normal conditions over the same region.

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.

When that warm water reaches the western Pacific it rises and, in the main, tracks back along the equator in the upper atmosphere and loses its heat to space.

Over the ocean, warming is relatively large in the Arctic and along the equator in the eastern Pacific (see Sections 10.3.5.2 and 10.3.5.3), with less warming over the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean (e.g., Xu et al., 2005).

Not exact matches

Split bread in half along the equator line.

This strange but educated guess came in response to strong evidence that seismic waves traveling through the inner core along the axis of the magnetic poles complete their trip through Earth about four seconds more quickly than do waves traveling from one side of the equator to the other.

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

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

There are several broad depressions and two large highland areas, one in the northern hemisphere about the size of Australia and one along the equator about the size of South America.

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 monthIn 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 monthin temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for monthin the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

Using your hands, carefully tear each pita in half along the «equator» to yield half - moons, each with a pocket.

When ready to serve, slice the Fuyu persimmons in half along their equators.

Bill, great current information on short sales in your area... how are you finding Bank of America now especially since the Equator system came into being... I am finding it moving along much better?

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.

Too young to enlist when the nation was in the grips of World War II, he joined the Merchant Marines and somewhere along the Equator found himself drawing maps of the ship in colored pencils.

One other factor here is increased evaporation at the equator which has increased the salanity of tropical waters along with increased percipitation at the poles seems to be making the thermohaline system move faster which in turn carries move heat to the poles and hence increases polar ice melting and hence possibly a greater chance of slowdown of the thermohaline system.

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.

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

They can scoot They travel a lot, spending summers feeding in polar regions and making the long trip to the Equator as winter comes along.

In general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, toIn general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, toin other ways, too.

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

There are several papers now showing a strong negative feedback in the atmosphere on warming along equator.

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.

In South America, drought continues in Brazil as well as from the equator down along the AndeIn South America, drought continues in Brazil as well as from the equator down along the Andein Brazil as well as from the equator down along the Andes.

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

By doing so you might learn along the way the real valid physics of heat transfer in fluid dynamics which is how we get out great wind and weather systems from the equator to the poles, because you would then understand that the atmosphere around us is a heavy voluminous fluid and the dynamics of heat transfer in this is by convection which is what wind is, created out of differential heating of volumes of this fluid.

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.

As the winds blow west along the Equator, they push warm water ahead of them, piling it up in a warm pool in the western Pacific.

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.

An oblate sphereoid, hmmm, yeah, I think there would likely still be enough surface transport to establish a large scale convective roll with the air rolling north (say) up high, deflecting to spinward as it goes, falling down in a massive spinward spiral, cooling along the ground and being displaced back to the equator.

Enhanced oceanic warming along the equator is also evident in the zonal means of Figure 10.6, and can be associated with oceanic heat flux changes (Watterson, 2003) and forced by the atmosphere (Liu et al., 2005).

Again, the America's stand in the way of a free circumpolar circulation and some colder waters must be diverted along the East coast towards the Equator.

For comparison, Figure 1b shows the budget E — P, where E is computed with COADS data only and P is estimated with satellite data.The time variability of E — P during 1988 - 93 is seen in the time / longitude section along the equator (Figure 2).

7 Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Humid Tropical Moist mid-latitude Sub climates Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Severe winters; humid continental, sub - arctic / mild winters; humid subtropical, marine west coast, Mediterranean b) Location Close to equator and in ITCZ Severe winters: interiors and eastern coasts of continents, close to poles; mild winters: along water at edges of continents c) Features Hot / rainy year round; hot with wet and dry seasons; tropical rain forests and grasslands c) Features: severe winters: cold winters, hot / humid summers except in sub-arctic; mild winters: hot, muggy or cool summers depending on coastal position, and mild winters with mostly rain.

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 monthIn 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 monthin temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for monthin the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

Stronger downward transport of water mass must be balanced by upwelling somewhere else, and this occurs in regions of divergence (Ekman suction)- along the equatorward travelling arms of the gyres, and along the equator itself.

Human - generated greenhouse gases and other pollutants, along with vast changes in landscapes through the expansion of agriculture and cities, have altered the composition and dynamics of the atmosphere, from poles to equator.

It also creates warm sea surface temperature anomalies along the equator from the international dateline in the Pacific to the coast of South America.

Walker deduced that the gradient between high pressure in the east and low pressure in west generates the east to west trade winds along the equator.

Bill, great current information on short sales in your area... how are you finding Bank of America now especially since the Equator system came into being... I am finding it moving along much better?

Instructions: • using your exacto blade, carefully cut the globe in half along the equator (most old globes are only joined here with glue or tape anyway, so this takes about two seconds) • hold the light socket of your pendant light on the top of your globe (north or south pole depending on which half you're using) and use it as a stencil as you trace around it to mark the spot where it will be inserted • using your exacto blade, cut around the circle you just marked (the lip of the pendant light should cover this area once it's assembled so this doesn't have to be a perfectly clean cut).