Sentences with phrase «circulation of the oceans consists»
The general circulation of the oceans consists primarily of wind - driven ocean currents.
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The general circulation of the oceans consists primarily of the wind - driven currents.
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These models consist of connected sub-modules that deal with radiative transfer, the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans, the physics of moist convection and cloud formation, sea ice, soil moisture and the like.
The global spanning grand climate system consists of ice, cloud, biology, and ocean and atmospheric circulation.
By examining the spatial pattern of both types of climate variation, the scientists found that the anthropogenic global warming signal was relatively spatially uniform over the tropical oceans and thus would not have a large effect on the atmospheric circulation, whereas the PDO shift in the 1990s consisted of warming in the tropical west Pacific and cooling in the subtropical and east tropical Pacific, which would enhance the existing sea surface temperature difference and thus intensify the circulation.