Sentences with phrase «band of warm ocean»

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.

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Low - lying coastal regions like Chile's are subject to advection fog, where warm ocean air crosses a band of cold water before reaching land.

The dipole consists of a warmer than average band of water between northern Australia and Java that forms in conjunction with an unusually cold band of water running northwest into the Indian Ocean from Australia's west coast.

The current El Niño — a meteorological event in which a band of warm water develops in the Pacific Ocean around the equator — is about to peak.

This change in patterns of deep - ocean sedimentation will result in a curious, dark band of carbonate - free rock — rather like that which is seen in sediments from the Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum, an episode of severe greenhouse warming brought on by the release of pent - up carbon 56m years ago.

El Niño is a weather phenomenon where the Pacific trade winds inexplicably falter not just a few days, but for weeks or months causing a band of warmer than usual ocean water to develop off the Pacific coast of South America, particularly around where Peru is.

The potential spoiler is the cyclical El Nino event: a band of unusually warm ocean water that periodically forms along the equatorial Pacific Ocean and drives up global temperatocean water that periodically forms along the equatorial Pacific Ocean and drives up global temperatOcean and drives up global temperatures.

The effects of tropical cyclones early in the year were followed by regular northwest cloud - band activity between May and mid-July, when waters northwest of the continent were unusually warm as part of a negative phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole.

That warming was the most substantial (> 1 °C) in the eastern tropical ocean and in the longitudinal band of the intertropical convergence zone.

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow bands of enhanced water vapor associated with the warm sector of extratropical cyclones over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Fred Pearce, leader of the Guardian's Special Report band of sleths, seems to ignore your observations about the many other papers on UHI effects, or your observation that whatever influence UHI effects may or may not have on temperature records, they can't cause earlier springs, melting of glaciers or warming of the oceans.