The word
"equatorial" refers to something related to the equator, which is an imaginary line that divides the Earth into two equal halves. It commonly describes things or places that are located near or on the equator.
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He only once failed to reach the quarter - finals of the Nations Cup and took Congo to the last eight place at the tournament
in Equatorial Guinea in January.
Mr Speaker, the senior national football team, the Black Stars, placed second in the AFCON held in
Equatorial Guinea in January 2015 and the Black Satellites placed thirrd in the Orange African U-20 AFCON held in Senegal last year.
The ongoing La Niña pattern, where there are colder than normal sea surface temperatures in the central and
eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, favors these types of conditions.
This freshwater flood filled the North Atlantic and also shut down the ocean currents that conveyed warmer water
from equatorial regions northward.
In the early 1990s, one study found that coplanarity between the orbital and
equatorial planes of nearby binaries (within 100 parsecs or 326 ly) that are composed of Sol - type stars (F5 - K5 V) «exists» for binaries with orbital separations up to the average orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System — roughly 40 times the Earth - Sun distance or «astronomical unit» (AU).
In 2014, they embarked on an ocean voyage to the
central equatorial Pacific Ocean, where they drilled into the sediment bed and collected six cores.
Finally, don't forget to visit the Biopark, a park specialized in African fauna that is divided into four zones: the dry savanna, wet savanna, forests of
equatorial Africa, and Madagascar.
The following chart shows the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 3.4 plot, i.e. the ocean surface temperature anomaly of the
western equatorial Pacific region, since July 2016.
There were white birds sitting on the tops of the palm trees, like candles, and I slammed into a wall of
equatorial heat.
Rwanda are now joint top of Group C with Nigeria, after their 1 - 0 win
over Equatorial Guinea at the ongoing Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) in Morocco...
The time - height section derived from these data in Fig. 30 shows the observed structure of the QBO
at equatorial latitudes:
But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south
equatorial belt, has disappeared.
Adaku Ufere heads the energy practice at Centurion Law Group, managing teams
across Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Cameroon, South Africa and Mauritius.
Whereas global warming devastates most coral, it also is predicted to bring a stronger deep
equatorial undercurrent that could create a bit of habitat alongside islands
The 40 cm telescopes have a Cassegrain focus, and are equipped
with equatorial mounts and SBIG cameras with a field of view of 29 x 29 arcmin.
«This is the strongest message from inside the organization illustrating the troubles, in particular irregularities around the money,» says Joseph Kraus of EG Justice, a human rights group focusing
on Equatorial Guinea.
The island is situated near the Equator where 2 weather patterns converge, which results in changeable weather, relatively cool
equatorial air temperatures averaging 78 °F (25.5 °C), and average annual precipitation of over 23ft (7m).
I've watched men making bricks in
equatorial sun from morning till night in exchange for $ 10; women hauling five - gallon containers on their heads and in each hand every morning to water their garden - size farm; children rifling through trash for recyclables to exchange for a meal.
Melting of huge volume of floating sea - ice around Antarctica not only can reoccupy volume of the displaced water but also can cool ocean - water in the region of
equatorial bulge thus can prevent thermal expansion of the ocean water.»
This cool, nutrient - laden flow then mixes with the wind - driven North
Equatorial Countercurrent and is enhanced by deep water upwellings generated by the Cromwell Current brought to the surface by the Galapagos subsea platform.
(Building heat in Pacific
Equatorial Surface waters on April 9 of 2015 — a sign of a massive pulse of hotter than normal water running at about 100 meters depth.
Human rights activists are protesting the award of a life science prize proposed
by Equatorial Guinea strongman Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, shown here in 2008.
«Peculiarities of huge
equatorial jet stream in Saturn's atmosphere revealed.»
Two large areas of polar climates separated by two rather narrow temperate zones from a wide
equatorial band of tropical to subtropical climates.
Paleo - proxy reconstructions indicate that a lower insolation due to volcanic aerosols (or else) leads to a lower east - west SST gradient / a higher eastern
equatorial SST / a higher El Nino variability?
The process begins when strong convective activity over
equatorial East Asia and subsiding cool air off South America's west coast creates a wind pattern which pushes Pacific water westward and piles it up in the western Pacific.
It turns out there are more seasonal forests in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, so the northern summer sponges up more carbon in the spring and winter, while
equatorial forests sponge it up all year long and the few southers seasonal forests sponge it up in the southern spring and winter.
Schneider, E. K., 2002: The causes of differences
between equatorial Pacific SST simulations of two coupled ocean - atmosphere general circulation models.
Kikuchi K., G. N. Kiladis, J. Dias and T. Nasuno (August 2017): Convectively coupled
equatorial waves within the MJO during CINDY / DYNAMO: slow Kelvin waves as building blocks.
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