Sentences with phrase «equatorial band»

This high variability is attributed to the successive passages of a zonal salinity front, trapped in the (5 N 5 S) equatorial band and migrating in phase with the southern oscillation index.

Oceans continuous release CO2 in the equatorial band (including deep ocean upwelling in the Pacific) and dissolve CO2 near the poles (including deep ocean downwelling by the THC in the North Atlantic).

At seven degrees of warming, that would become impossible for large portions of the planet's equatorial band, and especially the tropics, where humidity adds to the problem; in the jungles of Costa Rica, for instance, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it's over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal.

Two large areas of polar climates separated by two rather narrow temperate zones from a wide equatorial band of tropical to subtropical climates.

An equatorial band is not included because Dr. Angell limited his analysis to North America.

I think we can monitor the engine's performance with a few good thermometers ringing the polar areas and around the equatorial band.

Large patches N & S from the equatorial band haw lower cloudiness, and the SST falls and clouds increase as you move towards the poles.

Not exact matches

More mysteriously, the region in the north is banded by parallel grooves running like lines of latitude around Vesta's equatorial region.

«Where Jupiter is glowing evenly across its equatorial regions, Saturn has dark bands where the water is falling in, darkening the ionosphere,» said Tom Stallard, one of the paper's co-authors at Leicester.

These factors could account for the tempering of Saturn's equatorial winds, which blow within colored bands in opposing directions.

Secondly, you state that equatorial moisture only reaches the troposhere and precipitates out in that band.

The raging El Niño Southern Oscillation, a band of warm ocean water in the central and east - central equatorial Pacific, is about to cause droughts in southern Asia — and to bring enough rain to boost California almond production after years of drought - induced decline.

In trying to work out what is really happening perhaps the last place to look is ENSO 3.4 and the narrow band of waters that are so carefully monitored across the equatorial Pacific.

Deeper zonal winds at different latitudes of the equatorial region are measured by tracking cloud features observed within hot spots on continuum - band images.

The potential spoiler is the cyclical El Nino event: a band of unusually warm ocean water that periodically forms along the equatorial Pacific Ocean and drives up global temperatures.