They seem to be generated in well
defined areas of the oceans.
Not exact matches
Scientists
define them as periods when the sea surface in a given
area of the
ocean gets unusually warm for at least five days in a row.
In the last three years, the sea ice's extent - the
ocean area in which a
defined minimum
of sea ice can be found — was at its lowest in the 30 - year satellite record.
The regional term is
defined to refer to the more - or-less continuously urbanized
area stretching from Ventura County to the southern border
of Orange County and from the Pacific
Ocean to the Coachella Valley in the Inland Empire.
On 6 December, Canada filed a submission to
define the outer limits
of its expanded continental shelf
area in the Atlantic
Ocean with the Commission on the Limits
of the Continental Shelf....
For the U.S., the
area is the Arctic region as
defined in the Arctic Research and Policy Act
of 1984 as amended, and is «All United States territory north
of the Arctic Circle and north and west
of the boundary formed by the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers; the Aleutian chain; and adjacent marine
areas in the Arctic
Ocean and the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi Seas.»
For our sea ice
area calculations, we
define the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea (ABS) as the region
of the Southern
Ocean from 60 ° W to 130 ° W and also apply
area weighting.
The former is
defined as the areal sum
of sea ice covering the
ocean (sea ice + open
ocean), whereas the latter «
area» definition counts only sea ice covering a fraction
of the
ocean (sea ice only).
If you live in a coastal
area, you may not be covered for damage caused by storm surge (usually
defined as «a rush
of water onshore caused by strong winds pushing on the
ocean's surface) and / or movements caused by the sea (usually with the exception
of tsunamis).
The name West
Ocean City is used to
define the growing
area just across the bridge and west
of downtown
Ocean City, Maryland.