Sentences with phrase «equatorial currents flow»

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.

6 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.