Sentences with phrase «as along the 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.

Not exact matches

Vast dune fields that look as if they were lifted from the Sahara sprawl along Titan's equator, yet the dark grains resemble ground asphalt rather than sand.

Using the results of this new calculation, Schnittman created a simulated image of the gamma - ray glow as seen by a distant observer looking along the black hole's equator.

South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west).

Because the Northern Hemisphere has more landmass, it is heating up faster than the Southern Hemisphere, and, as some climate models have suggested, this could push the thermal equator northward, and along with it those key rain belts.

The elongated dark area informally known as «the whale,» along the equator on the left side of the map, is one of the darkest regions visible to New Horizons.

As the space around the equator grows overcrowded, other stuff spewed by the dying giant would tend to get funneled into jets along the polar axis.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

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).

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.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

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.

increased CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- by using ocean models that include realistic processes such as horizontal heat transport, vertical mixing due to convection and small - scale processes, and upwelling along coastal regions and the equator.

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

As it skirts along the East Coast of Australia it carries a large amount of warm tropical water from the equator southward.

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.

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.

The upwelling that comes with a negative PDO will turn the PDO region just blue as the upwelling that is present along the eastern Pacific equator.

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.

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).