Sentences with phrase «east along the equator»

The Madden - Julian Oscillation is a cluster of rainstorms that moves east along the Equator over 30 to 60 days.

The El Niño - related cloudiness and rainfall pattern extended farther east along the equator in 1998, stretching all the way to the South American coast.

These westerly wind bursts sometimes generate long waves called Kelvin waves, which travel east along the equator at about 2.5 meters per second.

Not exact matches

South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west).

When the easterly trade winds strengthen during La Nina it pushes water along the equator from the east to west.

In general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, too.

Low - level surface winds, which normally blow east to west along the equator, or easterly winds, start blowing the other direction, west to east, or westerly.

As it skirts along the East Coast of Australia it carries a large amount of warm tropical water from the equator southward.

Near the equator, these masses meet along an east - to - west course.

Again, the America's stand in the way of a free circumpolar circulation and some colder waters must be diverted along the East coast towards the Equator.

If you look along the equator to the east the arrows orient themselves upwards to point to the coast of Africa, even more strongly.

Walker deduced that the gradient between high pressure in the east and low pressure in west generates the east to west trade winds along the equator.

This upwelling creates a cold tongue of water that extends along the equator from Peru to the International Dateline (180 ° longitude east).