Sentences with word «eastwards»

Tradewind flow over the basin remains lighter than normal as low pressure systems moving eastward from the United States cause the ridge to the north to weaken.

That same eastward shift of storm activity tends to bring drier conditions to northern Australia during the Southern Hemisphere summer and more broadly to the east in the winter.

To prove that one group spread eastward from Iran, scientists will need more DNA samples from ancient people east of the Fertile Crescent, says Christina Papageorgopoulou.

The trade winds then weaken, allowing warmer water to flow eastwards across the Pacific, dragging with it tropical storms.

From there, some species spread eastward into Eurasia and Africa and others moved westward, across occasional land bridges exposed when global sea levels were low, to eastern Asia.

[1] The majority of the EAC flow that does not recirculate will move eastward into the Tasman Front crossing the Tasman Sea just north of the cape of New Zealand.

Air from the 30 ° descending curtain that turned south will be traveling eastward at the 30 ° velocity but, in this case, their surroundings will be traveling faster.

Schmidt also suggested looking eastwards towards China for inspiration, where companies like

After a snaking eastward journey, the river makes a U-turn at what's known as «the Great Bend,» or Shuomatan Point, before heading into India and then to Bangledesh, where it converges with the Ganges, and spills out in the Bay of Bengal.

Relative to a fixed South America plate, the Nazca plate moves slightly north of eastwards at a rate varying from approximately 80 mm / yr in the south to approximately 65 mm / yr in the north.

However, abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded eastward in Kansas and Nebraska, and also across western Colorado and into southern Wyoming.

With microbrewing growing faster than macrobrewing, listing American Brewing on the New York Stock Exchange is the next logical step as the Edmonds, Wash., 2011 startup eyes eastward expansion.

Learn more about the world's largest banks and how more financial power shifts eastward as China is home to four of the world's largest banks.

The researchers think the overall effect of the tropical expansion could be similar to that of El Nino, a phenomenon in which warm water in the west Pacific moves eastward toward the Americas.

In the Instant Expert on extreme weather, Jeff Masters states that tropical cyclones get their spin from the disorganised air systems off the African coast, which then move eastward towards the Caribbean (2 October).

In due course Samarquand became an important Christian centre and a base for missionary expansion further eastwards.

The Aqua satellite above shows smoke from the western fires drifting eastward on the jet stream.

Eastward winds are shaded.

A ridge of high pressure in the Great Lakes region will shift eastward on Wednesday to bring heat to regions less accustomed to triple - digit real - feels

The scientists are now struggling to keep invaders from spreading eastward by patrolling a 45 - kilometer - long firebreak between the ancient Maya sites of La Corona and El Perú - Waka» with the aid of Guatemalan authorities, a strategy that McNab dubs «the shield.»

The captured CO2 will be liquefied on site and pumped through a two - foot - diameter pipeline that will snake south through the waters of the Arthur Kill, turn eastward through Raritan Bay out into the Atlantic Ocean, and arrive, about 140 miles later, at a natural repository of Lower Cretaceous sandstone more than 8,000 feet below the seafloor.

On education, we should be looking eastwards for positive role models, to arrest our decline in the PISA world rankings - we have fallen as low as 28th in maths.

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

The newly formed NADW sinks and flows southward along the continental slope of North and South America toward Antarctica where the water mass then flows eastward around the Antarctic continent (in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current).

Here, NY 394 continues eastward along the banks of the creek while US 62 heads northward through a small valley surrounding Indian Brook and into the town of Ellington.

As the dry season progressed last summer, the Xinane moved eastward through the forest to a small indigenous settlement known as Simpatia, where at least 70 contacted Ashaninka people lived.

The cold dry winds blowing eastward off Canada eagerly evaporate the warm surface water of the North Atlantic Current, and leave it heavy with excess salt.

Francis and Vavrus (GRL 2012) argued that a reduction of the north - south temperature gradient would cause weaker zonal winds (winds blowing west to east) and therefore a slower eastward propagation of Rossby waves.

The chill will start in the West as Arctic air spills down and turns the map blue from Alaska to the Southwest and then migrates eastward as the week goes on.

With the help of Christopher Columbus, the kernels made their debut in Europe and stretched eastward into Asia.

The elevated view eastwards of the city, from his apartment in Newtown, inspired the piece.

This study investigates the features of eastward extension of the South Asian high (SAH) and its connection with diabatic heating and rainfall over eastern Asia on subseasonal time scales.

Since the island «birth order» moves from east to west, the Canaries must have formed as the continental plate drifted eastward over a stationary, periodically erupting plume of hot magma deep in Earth's mantle.

Projections for Wilma's path suggest the storm may skirt the western tip of Cuba on Friday, possibly as a Category 4 storm with winds of greater than 130 mph, before curving eastward and barreling toward the southwestern Florida coast.

Two effects are identified that each contribute to a slower eastward progression of Rossby waves in the upper - level flow: 1) weakened zonal winds, and 2) increased wave amplitude.

Three hundred feet below the ash gray ramparts of a crumbling fortress, two rivers merge in a verdant valley and sweep eastward to the Caspian Sea.

At that subduction zone, the tiny Juan de Fuca plate slides eastward beneath the massive North American plate between 30 and 40 millimeters each year — an interface that, with minor exceptions, has apparently been locked for centuries.

Right now we are praying that Hurricane Irene takes a more eastward path, moving out to sea and not striking our beautiful beaches.