Sentences with phrase «equatorial belt of»

Volcanic fallout is known from more recent times to interfere with an equatorial belt of air called the Intertropical Convergence Zone that seasonally shifts up and down around the world, bringing monsoon rains either north or south depending on the time of year.

In recent times, volcanic fallout has been known to interfere with an equatorial belt of air called the Intertropical Convergence Zone that seasonally shifts up and down around the world, bringing monsoon rains either north or south depending on the time of year.

Not exact matches

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.

The migratory paths track the wind belt around the doldrums or equatorial calms at the centre of the Indian Ocean.

Previous spacecraft flew past the gas giant at an equatorial level, capturing wonderful views of the zones and belts but revealing little about its polar regions.

The shots are the best record made so far of a mysterious recurring belt of equatorial clouds known to influence the martian climate.

Conservation Status: Endangered (IUCN Red List) Life span: 40 to 45 years (wild), more than 60 (captive) Total population: 172,700 to 299,700 (wild), 1,450 (captive) Habitat range in the wild: Equatorial Africa, from southern Senegal across the forested belt north of the Congo River to western Uganda and western Tanzania Gestation: 8 months (240 days) Body Height: 816 mm (M & F) Body Weight: 40 to 60 kg (M), 32 to 47 kg (F)

Thermal structure of Jupiter's atmosphere near the edge of a 5 - micron hot spot in the north equatorial belt.

I think of California as officially «home» but can usually be found a lot closer to the equatorial belt.

Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)- The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is an equatorial zonal belt of low pressure near the equator where the northeast trade winds meet the southeast trade winds.

As can be seen from the LASCO images shown in Fig. 2 the solar corona has the canonical solar - minimum structure during the cycle 23 minimum, but the coronal did not have a simple configuration of streamers in an equatorial belt as it was during the previous minimum in 1996.

And it looks like those are partly due to a Pacific Oscillation that may be due to some kind of conveyor belt and / or equatorial trade wind.

Most of the solar heat energy is absorbed in the ocean's equatorial belt.

As for your alternative explanation in a previous post, I am trying to think of a world subject to a warming force due to increased GHGs since the 19th century... this warming didn't materialize around the mid-century due to large quantities of aerosols emitted in the NH... somehow this NH cooling trespassed the equatorial belt and affected the SH, which not only didn't warm but cooled even more than the NH... doesn't sound very plausible, does it?

This data set is supposed to be representative of the equatorial belt since all studies have shown that longitudinal differences in the phase of the QBO are small.