Sentences with phrase «earth near the equator»

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), is the area encircling the earth near the equator where the northeast and southeast trade winds come together.

As I have said before, water is most of surface area of earth near the equator, and tropics [40 % of surface area of earth] receives most of the Sun's energy and the tropical ocean does seem to me to drive Earth's climate.

8 D. Convection on Earth Air is heated on Earth near Equator.

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), known by sailors as the doldrums, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.

These moisture variations result from the movements of the intertropical convergence zone, a narrow belt of abundant precipitation that encircles Earth near the Equator.

Not exact matches

The Earth's magnetic field takes an average of only 7000 years to reverse its polarity, but the switch happens much more quickly near the equator, according to the most comprehensive study yet of the last four reversals.

Launching near the equator means rockets get extra velocity from Earth's spin.

In their new study, the BARREL researchers» major objective was to obtain simultaneous measurements of the scattered particles and of ionoized gas called plasma out in space near Earth's equator.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

INO's position near the equator will also allow it to see neutrinos that originate in the sun and pass through Earth's core.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

The Mystery of the Moving Magnetic Field September 25, 2013 In the 18th century, navigators and scientists noticed that near the equator, the earth's magnetic field is shifting in a westerly direction.

Earth's atmosphere has a «transportation belt» of air flows which move ozone from the main production areas near the equator towards the poles.

While the Chimborazo is not as far above sea level as Mount Everest (29,029 ft.), it's location near the equator makes it the furthest point from the center of the Earth.

This pushes mountains near the equator further from the Earth's core than mountains elsewhere on the planet.

With enough time, you have an ice age, checked only by the fact that the ice can only get so far south, because this all hinges on seasonal insolation changes resulting from the axial tilt of the earth, and this makes no difference at or near the equator — insolation there is constant, regardless of the tilt of the earth, and the days are warm and long enough to hold back any threat of snow and ice.

Interestingly the highest mean annual temperature observed anywhere on the earth is a salt desert in Ethiopia near the equator (34.4 C).

It is predicted that on or near this date we, Earth commences passing through the Galactic Equator of the Milky Way which occurs twice every full cycle of 25,630 years.

15 Heat Transport in the Biosphere The unequal heating of Earth's surface drives winds and ocean currents transport heat throughout the biosphere Winds form because warm air tends to rise and cool air tends to sink air that is heated near the equator rises

Or similar areas on Earth gets desertification due location near Equator [e, g Sahara desert].

Likewise on a global scale you have stronger heating near the equator than higher latitudes due to the curvature of the earth and the angle of incidence of the suns rays causing differential heating from the equator to the poles.

Without water the earth would be like the moon with an average temperature near -23 C (the measured unchanging temperature of lunar regolith 50 or more centimeters deep) and diurnal temperature change near 100C at the equator.

You said, however, that Earth's rotation from west to east affects wind speed (and direction) in both hemispheres, especially near the equator.

Since many of the coral reefs are near the equator, they see less of the change in the Earth's climate and so they tell a very small portion of the story.

---- Even during the deep freeze the Earth went through around 700 million years ago there were likely open pockets of water near the equator — so no one is suggesting a complete solid freeze.

In this case, the Earth becomes largely covered with ice, but open water remains near the equator.

The sun's rays strike Earth at a smaller angle than near the equator.

On the web Hadley cell air flow is explained as follows: «This flow of air occurs because the Sun heats air at the Earth's surface near the equator.