The Australian and American researchers drew a similar comparison in their paper
between strong trade winds and a slight cooling in global surface temperatures from 1940 to the 1970s.
Not exact matches
While antitrade
winds are also blowing
strong on the other side of the Atlantic — as the failed TTIP campaign shows —
trade is likely to be a constant source of tension
between Washington and some European capitals in the next four years.
«We know that
winds flip - flop
between periods of
strong trade winds and periods of weak
trade winds,» Thompson said.
The group also found evidence that
trade winds were
stronger and surface temperatures were cooler from 1940 to 1970, providing additional evidence of the relationship
between the Pacific
trade winds and the rates at which global temperatures have been changing.
The best way to envision the relation
between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as
strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun - warmed waters far towards the west.
I'd like to know more about what makes the
Trade Winds stronger, and what makes them weaker, because it seems to be the difference
between the Pacific «recharging» or «discharging.»
Caleb: You wrote, «I'd like to know more about what makes the
Trade Winds stronger, and what makes them weaker, because it seems to be the difference
between the Pacific «recharging» or «discharging.»»