Sentences with phrase «coasts of continents»

Professor Gary Shaffer of the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who is the leader of the research team at the Danish Center for Earth System Science (DCESS), explains that «such expansion would lead to increased frequency and severity of fish and shellfish mortality events, for example off the west coasts of the continents like off Oregon and Chile».

Severe winters: interiors and eastern coasts of continents, close to poles; mild winters: along water at edges of continents

7 Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Humid Tropical Moist mid-latitude Sub climates Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Severe winters; humid continental, sub - arctic / mild winters; humid subtropical, marine west coast, Mediterranean b) Location Close to equator and in ITCZ Severe winters: interiors and eastern coasts of continents, close to poles; mild winters: along water at edges of continents c) Features Hot / rainy year round; hot with wet and dry seasons; tropical rain forests and grasslands c) Features: severe winters: cold winters, hot / humid summers except in sub-arctic; mild winters: hot, muggy or cool summers depending on coastal position, and mild winters with mostly rain.

12 vertical density currents that occur when cold deep water comes to the surface can occur anywhere, prevalent along western coasts of continents

The subsiding air warms by compression and, coupled with cooling of the lowest layers overlying the cold ocean currents normally found off the west coasts of the continents, forms a pronounced temperature inversion (warm air over cold), called the trade - wind inversion.

The arid conditions found along the western coasts of continents in subtropical latitudes are further enhanced by the influence of the equatorward surface air flow on the ocean currents.

As a result, relatively mild weather occurs along the western coasts of continents with north - south mountain ranges when compared with continental interiors.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

Elsewhere, notably on the west coasts of continents, the winds blow away surface water; colder water from below wells up to replace it and cools the atmosphere.

West coasts of continents are occasionally subject to persistent longwave troughing in spring.

Gas hydrates naturally form along the coasts of continents and in Arctic permafrost, places where water and gas mix at relatively high pressure and low temperature.

Even before Columbus, Portuguese exploration of Africa had proceeded down the west coast of the continent between 1460 and 1488.

What a joy it is to see the A-League Grand Final venture from the east coast of the continent.

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in León have little reason to suspect that the rocks that they can see near the water are of volcanic origin, over 460 million years old, when an emerging Iberian Peninsula was still on the coast of the continent of Gondwana, on the shore of the Rheic ocean.

Model - simulated BB aerosol plumes quickly descend to lower levels just off the western coast of the continent, while CALIOP data suggest that smoke plumes continue their horizontal transport at elevated levels above the marine boundary layer.

On the very southern coasts of the continent the weather exhibit Mediterranean like conditions in parts.

The Andean glaciers are a primary source of freshwater for tens of millions of people in the region, which spans from Venezuela down along the western coast of the continent to Chile.

However, it is clear that the extent of sea ice around the coast of the continent is growing.

The currents hit the east coast of the continents and diverge with a strong upward current to the Arctic from the semicircular North / south American shape focusing the major movement Northwards.

Upwelling is most common along the west coast of continents (eastern sides of ocean basins).

Over on the west coast of the continent, things are no better.

Not exact matches

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Howe covers the great technical innovations of the period: the 363 - mile Erie Canal that first dependably linked the East Coast with the interior; the railroads that sped people and commerce over long stretches of the continent; and the telegraph, which in 1844 clicked out the message Howe uses for the main title of this book.

The whooping crane once inhabited the central part of the continent from the Arctic Coast to central Mexico.

Mr. Kwetey further indicated that the new airline will look to dominate the West coast and before expanding to other regions; a strategy that is in line with the stance of other aviation analysts who believe that the new airline should rather look inward and dominate the continent before venturing to other long - haul routes..

If correct, the theory would explain how the deep interiors of forested continents get as much rain as the coast, and how most of Australia turned from forest to desert.

Currently there is a continent - wide project mapping the Australian upper mantle using the same electromagnetic technique, and the researchers believe applying this data to their new model will bring improved understanding of volcanic and earthquake activity along the southeastern and eastern coast of Australia.

The research identified landslides along the submerged margin of the North American continent as the leading potential source of dangerous tsunamis to the East Coast.

The work of Krech, Gerlache, Borchgravink, and Bruce had not yet been done; the examinations of the «Belgica,» the «Francais,» and the «Pourquoi Pas» had not yet made known the extension of Palmer Land to the southwestward along the southern confines of the Pacific Ocean; the explorations of the German Antarctic Expedition in the «Gauss» had not yet confirmed the conclusion of Wilkes that the long coast which he had discovered in 1840 extended still farther to the westward; the Antarctic Continent had not yet been entered at any point and consequently that acquaintance with the general topography which constitutes the first essential to the scientific investigation of a country was wholly wanting,

So ancient colonizers of North America must have reached the continent in canoes or other vessels and traveled down the Pacific coast, they propose.

The mountain - building forces at work in the Andean plateau are believed to be similar to those that worked along the western coast of the U.S. some 50 million years ago, and Delph said it's possible that similar forces were at work along the coastlines of continents throughout Earth's history.

None of the species were known — or expected — to survive a transoceanic rafting voyage between continents, largely because the open ocean is considered to be a harsher environment for creatures used to more hospitable waters of the coasts.

A changing climate seems to be intensifying the long - standing cycle of drought and flood — a state of affairs that could magnify the gap between the continent's soggy coasts and arid interior in the future.

Antarctica's Dry Valleys contain some of the continent's largest stretches of ground ice, along the coast of the Ross Sea.

This provides important weather data, however they are mostly located around the coast, so leave vast areas of the continent and the surrounding oceans uncovered.

«Genomes from this migration seeped right across the continent, way beyond East Africa, from the Yoruba on the western coast to the Mbuti in the heart of the Congo — who show as much as 7 % and 6 % of their genomes respectively to be West Eurasian,» said Marcos Gallego Llorente, first author of the study, also from Cambridge's Zoology Department.

But millions of years ago the continents began to shift, and Madagascar drifted out to sea toward its present - day location in the Indian Ocean, some 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa.

«In a subsea trench along the coast, the Pacific Ocean floor submerges beneath the continent building up tension that is released in earthquakes,» explains Professor Onno Oncken of the GFZ.

Another idea is that, for reasons yet unexplained, there is simply a thinner layer of continental crust shielding the surface from volcanism that runs through the North American continent from roughly New Madrid in Missouri to the coast in Virginia.

The study also sheds light on how the first Americans dispersed through the continent; Reich found that populations along the coast showed far more genetic diversity than those living in the interior of the continent.

Journeying down the Pacific Northwest coast, tracing the ragged line of the continent's western edge, you encounter some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere in the U.S.. From the forested shores of Washington, to Oregon's rugged coastal mountains, to the cliff - lined coves of northern California, there's a whole world of untamed beauty here.

In recent years, water shortages have been most severe in the Sahel — a band of semi-arid land situated just south of the Sahara Desert and stretching coast - to - coast across the continent, from Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Sudan and Eritrea in the east.

A melting continent filled with iron Using satellite data from 1997 to 2014 for 46 polynyas located around the Antarctic coast, the researchers were able to detect a strong relationship between productivity levels and the extent of glacial melt from adjacent glaciers.

While sediment quietly accumulated along the passive coast of Washington, the continents were assembling into yet another giant supercontinent.

It first emerged on this continent in 1999, on Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, where it ultimately infected more than 200 people, killing nearly 9 % of them.

I hear tales in my family of great great great Aunts and Uncles sailing from Liverpool and taking the road trains over the mighty continent of America to the West Coast, and think how sad and scared those goodbyes must have been as mothers fare - welled daughters and sons with only the hope of a letter or two.

There is a flashback showing him as a mere baby with his parents after they are shipwrecked somewhere on the continent of Africa (in the book its the Atlantic coast of Africa).

Africa is a wonderfully vast and varied continent, from the majestic sand dunes of the desert in Namibia, through the dark, dense rain forests of eastern Congo, to the sun - bleached, palm - fringed coast of Kenya.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This novel spans three continents recounting the origin of the slave trade on the Gold Coast of Africa to the traders in England and the plantations in America and its effects on one family across multiple generations.

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