Sentences with phrase «during austral winter»

This is thought to be due to the northward propagation of strong swells produced by winter storms in the southern hemisphere during the austral winter.

Indeed as as MarkW has said the extension during the austral winter of the surface of the antarctic ice up to 20 M km ² and 60 ° S would deserve a computation of the total albedo of (floating ice + snow cover)(over the southern and the northern hemispheres), with due account of the elevation of the Sun and of the clouds.

Matthewman, N. J., and G. Magnusdottir, 2012: Clarifying ambiguity in intraseasonal Southern Hemisphere climate modes during austral winter.

Temperature patterns vary so widely because the continent is covered in continuous darkness during the austral winter and continuous sunlight during the austral summer, with a few weeks of sunrises and sunsets in between seasons.

The reason is that the cold Humboldt current which travels northward up the coast of Chile and Peru during the Austral winter months of May - November creates prevailing onshore wind conditions during this period, with the wind and swell coming from the same direction.

Submarine personnel first described the oddly repetitive call, which is one of the most common sounds in that ocean during the austral winter.

Not exact matches

Extreme cold can prevent aircraft from operating, and could maroon the team at the station during the total darkness and bitter temperatures of austral winter.

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is designed to withstand the hardships of the Antarctic winter, but is currently occupied during the Austral summer only (November - February) in almost permanent daylight.

Due to the extreme cold and darkness during the Antarctic austral winter, both cameras may experience downtime or even be disabled to protect the hardware.

Along with an annual - mean trend during the past 50 years of about 0.1 °C / decade averaged over Antarctica, there is a distinct seasonality to the trends, with insignificant change (and even some cooling) in austral summer and autumn in East Antarctica, contrasting with warming in austral winter and spring.