Sentences with phrase «by equatorial»

Precipitation in the Desert Southwest correlates significantly with solar irradiance lagged 3 and 5 years, which suggests a link with ocean - water temperature anomalies transported by the Equatorial Countercurrent as well as the North Pacific Gyre.

Any temperature rise that would occur due the slowing of the Northern and Southern Pacific equatorial currents («gets heated day after day by the equatorial Sun») would be countered by the increase in cloud amount, which would reduce downward shortwave radiation.

Bill, you wrote, «When the Trades are weaker than average for a long enough period of time, the ocean surface stalls in place and gets heated day after day by the equatorial Sun and we have an El Nino.

If oceanic storms are created by the equatorial - polar temperature gradient, wouldn't one expect a decrease in storminess?

David A. «If oceanic storms are created by the equatorial - polar temperature gradient, wouldn't one expect a decrease in storminess?»

The solar wind burst are created by equatorial coronal holes that appeared late in the solar cycles for cycles 21 and 22.

The haze reduced the seasonal average solar radiation absorbed by the equatorial Indian ocean by as much as 30 to 60 W m − 2 during September to November 1997, and increased the atmospheric solar heating by as much as 50 % to 100 % within the first 3 kilometers.

Yesterday, Equatoguinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signed a deal with Jean Ping, the chair of the Commission of the African Union, to establish the African Observatory for Science, Technology and Innovation (AOSTI) in the capital of Malabo, according to a statement by Equatorial Guinea's government.

This shift is caused by an equatorial jet with dramatically variable wind - speeds — at their fastest, pushing vast amounts of cloud across the planet.

Not exact matches

The inquiry is being run by the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Initiative, which has seized properties in the United States owned by relatives of politicians from Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Korea and Taiwan.

What they've found is a country with pretty colonial towns and cities, miles of golden - sand beaches, an equatorial climate tempered by offshore ocean currents and the mountain terrain to make it spring - like year - round, and an incredibly low cost of living.

In 2010, a Senate committee investigating corrupt money moving into the country drew attention to a shell company used by the sister of the president of Gabon to buy a $ 2 million residence in Manhattan, and to an L.L.C. used by the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea to purchase a $ 30 million home in Malibu, Calif..

This recipe, by Chef Abdul Wahab of the Equatorial Penang Hotel in Penang, Malaysia, is a classic Malay dish that combines the heat of chillis with the nutty taste of peanuts and the exotic fragrances of the Spice Islands.

In line with its strategy of expanding in emerging regions of the world, Nestle will invest SFr150m (Eur110m) in the Equatorial African Region (EAR) over the next three years by building new factories in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique, while also expanding existing factories.

The game between Equatorial Guinea and Congo will be followed by Burkina Faso vs. Gabon (7 pm), which will also be live on Eurosport.

Ghana made their way into the AFCON 2015 final on Thursday night with a 3 - 0 victory over Equatorial Guinea, but the night was overshadowed by scenes of violence in the crowd.

Defeat eliminates Equatorial Guinea, who were beaten 3 - 0 by Libya in their opener, and puts Rwanda in control ahead of their winner - takes - all bout with the North Africans on Tuesday.

Nigeria will be progress unless they lose to Equatorial Guinea by a greater margin than the Mediterranean Knights beat Rwanda.

Where I have worked, in equatorial Africa, by the age of eight or nine, children, almost all of whom have been sibling or cousin caretakers at times when mothers have not taken babies in a back sling to work in a field or do another task, know everything there is to know about raising a baby in their culture except what one learns through the direct experience of breastfeeding.

Mr. Mokuy, who is also Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, said that President Mbasogo was impressed by the progress Nigeria was making, under President Buhari's leadership, towards ending the Boko Haram insurgency.

Indeed, the odious and foul smell of crisis, which had dogged the last NFF board headed by Aminu Maigari and culminated in the non-qualification of the Super Eagles for the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, seemed a thing of the past in Pinnick's first year at the Glass House.

The United States, Britain, Equatorial Guinea, the European Union, ECOWAS, the Economic Community of Central African States and the Gulf of Guinea Commission will also be represented at the summit which will have the successful conclusion of ongoing military operations against Boko Haram at the top of its agenda, a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina disclosed last week.

He said, «While Ize - Iyamu continues to peddle his falsehood, we have the record of the N4bn borrowed by the PDP government of Mr. Lucky Igbinedion, with the knowledge of Osagie Ize - Iyamu, as Secretary to the State Government from Guaranty Trust Bank and Equatorial Trust Bank and paid to an address in Lagos.»

In contrast, the equatorial plains, where the Huygens probe landed, are dry and covered with dunes that continue for long stretches, interrupted here and there by higher ground, all the way around the moon.

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

Furthermore, while the deep wind is stable, in the upper atmosphere the speed and width of the equatorial stream are highly changeable, perhaps due to the seasonal insolation cycle on Saturn, and their intensity is increased by the changing shadowing of the rings above the equator.

The study by the Planetary Sciences Group reports that this gigantic storm is another of the agents of change in the equatorial jet stream.

ENVIRONMENT • Climate Change By mapping equatorial rainfall since A.D. 800, scientists are finding out how weather in the tropics may change through 2100.

By mapping equatorial rainfall since A.D. 800, scientists have figured out how tropical weather may change through 2100

In an orbit that was more equatorial, where you could maximize your fuel savings by launching from there.

The question is whether the bodies were asteroids captured intact by Mars gravity or whether the tiny satellites formed from an equatorial disk of debris, as is most consistent with their nearly circular and co-planar orbits.

In 1958 ground controllers tracking the first American satellite, Explorer 1, noted that its path faithfully traced the planet's equatorial bulge (created by centrifugal forces generated by the planet's rotation).

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Observations by Akatsuki found a high speed equatorial current in the lower to middle cloud layer, though what drives it remains unexplained.

Spawned by the Sea Atlantic hurricanes often develop over equatorial waters off the African coast, where colliding winds generate thunderstorms fueled by warm, humid air.

By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.

A few researchers are turning their attention to the sunshine vitamin as a culprit, prompted by the experience of immigrants that have moved from their equatorial country to two northern latitude locations

The current generation of satellites was built by Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin, and each one orbits the planet in about 12 hours, cutting across the equatorial plane at an angle of roughly 55 degrees.

«The rainforests of Western Equatorial Africa contain most of the world's gorillas and about one - third of all chimpanzees, and gorillas in particular are being severely and negatively impacted by human activities across their range,» said Dr. Fiona Maisels, WCS Conservation Biologist and a contributor to the plan.

More mysteriously, the region in the north is banded by parallel grooves running like lines of latitude around Vesta's equatorial region.

A tumultuous and divisive episode at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is set to come to a conclusion tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. in Paris, when the U.N. agency plans to give three researchers an award for the life sciences sponsored by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the dictator of Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial crossings are determined by two numbers: the position on the equator (longitude), and the angle between the geodesic and the equator.

But a statement issued today by Qorvis, Equatorial Guinea's Washington, D.C. — based PR company, suggested that AOSTI could do other types of research as well.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

The cold pool is fed by an ocean current, the Equatorial Undercurrent, which flows toward the islands from the west.

Observations by Japan's Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet's atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a phenomenon called superrotation.

This quantity is enough to explain much of the near - equatorial hydrogen observed beginning in 2001 by Los Alamos's neutron spectrometer on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

We left in two Land Rovers — one of them lent to us by Father Carlos — and drove in silence through the overpowering, unstoppable, exuberant force of uncut equatorial jungle, well over 30 feet high.

Its weirdness was likely maintained by warm equatorial waters and barriers to migration by other marine mammals posed by the newly formed Isthmus of Panama, and the still - closed Bering Strait.