Sentences with phrase «central equatorial»
It also brought drought to east Africa, the central equatorial Pacific area and the American south, as well as flooding in southern Africa, Asia and eastern Australia.
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This heating excites wave trains, or groups of similar - sized atmospheric waves, that propagate northward, connecting the central equatorial Pacific to North America.
Now, here's Figure 4 from Pavlakis et al (2008) that shows downward shortwave radiation over the central equatorial Pacific varying inversely with NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies: Link to Pavlakis et al: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/8/6697/2008/acpd-8-6697-2008-print.pdf
La Niña is the periodic cooling of ocean waters in the east - central equatorial Pacific, which can impact the typical alignment of weather patterns around the globe.
Emile - Geay, J., Cobb, K. M., Mann, M. E. & Wittenberg, A. T. Estimating central equatorial Pacific SST variability over the past millennium.
And your description of why the water warms in the central equatorial Pacific is lacking.
Image: La Niña is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific.
Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) area averages over the central equatorial Pacific (160 ° E — 160 ° W).
Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) area averages over the central equatorial Pacific (160 ° E-160 ° W).
And for those interested, the -2 sub surface temperature anomalies in the east central equatorial pacific have expanded and risen towards the surface by around 60 meters in the last month.
X Anomaly says: «And for those interested, the -2 sub surface temperature anomalies in the east central equatorial pacific have expanded and risen towards the surface by around 60 meters in the last month.»
The scaled running total of NINO3.4 SST anomalies establishes the base curve and would represent the integration of ENSO outside of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific.
-0,7 ºC open count; NOAA: «A majority of ENSO forecasts indicate slightly below average SSTs in the central equatorial Pacific through Northern Hemisphere Summer 2009.
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.
During an El Niño event, the warming outside of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific is greater than the cooling, and global SST anomalies rise.
In July, sea surface temperatures anomalies were already at 1.0 °C above normal in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, and in excess of 2.0 °C above normal across the eastern Pacific — and still rising.
Scaled NINO3.4 SST anomalies are overlaid on that curve to represent the direct effects of ENSO on the eastern and central equatorial Pacific.
They conclude that the «most recent climate shift, which occurred in the 1990s during a period of continuous satellite coverage, is characterized by a «La Niña» SST pattern with significant signals in the central equatorial Pacific and also in the northeastern subtropics.
During a La Niña, trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific are stronger than normal, and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South America extends to the central equatorial Pacific.
However, during La Niña Modoki the anomaly of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern Pacific isn't affected by cooling but by warming just like western equatorial Pacific, while a cold anomaly affects the central equatorial Pacific (Niño 3.4).
Only looking at the Niño 3.4 index hides the fact that this event is more typical of La Niña Modoki, where cool SST anomalies in the central equatorial Pacific are flanked by warm anomalies to the east and west.
Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming — fertilizing the oceans with iron to produce more carbon - eating algae — may not necessarily work as envisioned.
The regular oscillation of ENSO in g1 is associated with its unsuccessful representation of the role of atmospheric noise over the western — central equatorial Pacific (WCEP) in triggering ENSO events, which arises from the weak synoptic — intraseasonal variability of zonal winds over the WCEP in g1.
The NINO3.4 data represent the Sea Surface Temperature of a region in the central equatorial Pacific bound by the coordinates of 5S - 5N, 170W - 120W.
The NINO3.4 SST anomalies used in this post are a measure of that variation in the central equatorial Pacific, and only that variation.
However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.
Record high sea surface temperatures across most of the North Indian Ocean, along with parts of the central equatorial and southwest Pacific Ocean contributed to the April warmth.
During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.
The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.
However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.
Dr. Baum's long - term field site in the central equatorial Pacific
In 2014, they embarked on an ocean voyage to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, where they drilled into the sediment bed and collected six cores.
«The area of below normal sea surface temperatures continues to expand in the central equatorial Pacific, marking the demise of the 1997/1998 El Ni ¿ o episode and the further evolution of La Ni ¿ a (Cold episode) conditions.
In May I traveled from my lab at the University of British Columbia to the Gilbert Islands, part of the island nation of Kiribati, in the central equatorial Pacific.
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With the commissioning of the plant, we become also the largest integrated cement producer in the CEMAC region comprising Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and now, the Republic of the Congo.
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.
The ongoing La Niña pattern, where there are colder than normal sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, favors these types of conditions.
La Niña, a phenomenon that occurs when sea surface temperatures across the equatorial central and eastern Pacific are below normal, is what made last year's winter so awful for the Midwest and Northeast.
La Niña — the counterpart to El Niño — creates colder than normal conditions in the equatorial eastern central Pacific Ocean.
Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.
In Western equatorial Africa, the endangered central chimpanzees and the critically endangered western lowland gorillas have been especially hard hit.
Rising air over the Atlantic subsides over the equatorial Pacific, causing central Pacific sea surface cooling, which in turn reinforces the large - scale wind anomalies.
Record warmth was observed in parts of the Arctic Seas, the central Sea of Okhotsk, part of the equatorial western Pacific, and a region in the central southern Pacific.
The increase in sea surface temperature over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific known as El Niño, and the corresponding decrease known as La Niña, contribute to seasonal climate and weather fluctuations in many regions of the globe.
When the equatorial central and eastern Pacific is in a decadal warm period, summer monsoon rainfall is stronger in the Yangtze River valley but weaker in North China.
Hotspots of high intensity occurred in regions of large SST variability including the five western boundary current extension regions (+2 — 5 °C), the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (+1 — 4 °C) and eastern boundary current regions (+1 — 3 °C).
Near - record strong El Niño conditions prevailed in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during the month.