That is, trade winds increase during a La Nina, decreasing cloud cover over the tropical Pacific, increasing Downward Shortwave Radiation, increasing Pacific
Equatorial Current flow.
Not exact matches
Here the swift -
flowing cold California
current runs head on into a fast
equatorial current, and the two don't get on at all.
Somewhere off the coast of Mexico it most likely meets the North
Equatorial Current, which
flows toward Asia.
The cold pool is fed by an ocean
current, the
Equatorial Undercurrent, which
flows toward the islands from the west.
The
current flow in the atmosphere changes the amount of low level cloud in the high latitude regions and changes the optical properties and lifetime of clouds in the
equatorial region (is the primary reason for El Niño events).
El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean
current that, from January to February,
flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian
current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the
equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing
The circulation to the south on the southern rim of the subtropical gyre is completed by the westward -
flowing North
Equatorial Current, part of which
flows into the Gulf of Mexico; the remaining part
flows northward as the Antilles
Current.
Such things as the closing of the isthmus of Panama, and the thrusting of the Himalyas 10 km into the
equatorial atmospheric winds, seem to have been what initiated the onset of the
current cycles of ice ages, while when the Panama gap was open and warm
currents could
flow round the world, the earth was warmer than today.
I prepared a video of the changes in the
equatorial Pacific
current flows before, during, and after the 1997/98 El Nino.
Bill Illis: I've been looking (with no success) for data on the
flow rates and reversals of the Pacific
Equatorial Undercurrent and the Pacific
Equatorial Intermediate
Current.
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flow in opposite direction of wind - related
currents return water taken away from one side of the ocean basin to the opposite side EX:
Equatorial Countercurrents
I see that this might increase the
flow through the Gulf of Mexico, which brings up the idea of using turbines in the Antilles passages tocreate some back pressure that diverts some of the
Equatorial current water around the Caribbean Sea and directly into the Gulf Stream.
In addition, the turbine arrays can provide sufficient back pressure to cause some of the North and South
Equatorial Current water to
flow around the Antilles chain instead of entering the Caribbean Sea and passing through the Gulf of Mexico.