Sentences with phrase «equatorial regions of»

By contrast the bulk of the regions colored red (so - called «carbon polluters») were in undeveloped, densely - forested equatorial regions of Africa and South America.

Head does not expect to find the same icy cover in the equatorial regions of Mars where Spirit and Opportunity landed, but he hopes the «scratch and sniff» tests — in which the rovers drill into Mars rocks and compare the surface with the interior — will reveal the climatic history of the region.

The coffee plant was exported from Africa to countries around the world, primarily to equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia and India.

The plant was exported from Africa to countries around the world and coffee plants are now cultivated all over, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.

The map also provides a global view of the highs and lows of Titan's topography, which enabled the scientists to confirm that two locations in the equatorial region of Titan are in fact depressions that could be either ancient, dried seas or cryovolcanic flows.

Particularly hard hit is ARGO, an international program (link: http://www.argo.net/) under which Australian researchers track the Indian Ocean Dipole, a fluctuation of sub-surface temperatures in the equatorial region of the southeastern and the western Indian Ocean.

The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array consists of approximately 70 buoys deployed in a grid across the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.

If the new computer simulations are correct, the trapping of ozone in the equatorial region of tidally locked exoplanets could be a bad indicator for the habitability of these worlds.

The equatorial region of South America is full of dense and hot rainforests.

The southeastern equatorial region of Africa experienced similar climatic changes when summers were cooler than normal.

The cycle begins with cold water rising in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.

Satellite studies show that until the end of July 1991 the effects stayed mostly in the equatorial region of the world, but after that the cloud spread further and further around the world.

Not exact matches

In line with its strategy of expanding in emerging regions of the world, Nestle will invest SFr150m (Eur110m) in the Equatorial African Region (EAR) over the next three years by building new factories in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique, while also expanding existing factories.

This week I wanted talk about fiery foods and one of the questions I want to be able to answer is why is it that our spiciest — and hottest — cuisines seem to all come from the equatorial regions and how it seems the farther away from the equator, the milder the cuisines.

With the commissioning of the plant, we become also the largest integrated cement producer in the CEMAC region comprising Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and now, the Republic of the Congo.

It would land within Meridiani Planum, an equatorial region on the same side of Mars that hosts NASA's Opportunity rover.

Tomogram of the lowermost mantle (on top of core - mantle boundary, such as in our paper) centred on the equatorial region north of Australia.

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.

Despite organised deep convective storms only occurring 5 % of the time in the world's equatorial regions, they deliver almost 50 % of all its rainfall.

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

Modelling the flow of air within the atmospheres of these planets, Carone and her colleagues found that this unusual day - night divide can have a marked effect on the distribution of ozone across the atmosphere: at least for these planets, the major air flow may lead from the poles to the equator, systematically trapping the ozone in the equatorial region.

«Vesta's got high mountains, valleys, troughs running around the equatorial regions, lots of structure,» Russell says.

Despite their considerable differences, the atmospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all display a remarkably similar phenomenon in their equatorial regions: vertical, cyclical, downwards - moving patterns of alternating temperatures and wind systems that repeat over a period of multiple years.

Material flowing out from the equatorial regions is slowed substantially as it runs into the doughnut - shaped disk of dust and gas that surrounds the protostar, the researchers explain.

The model showed that regions of the subpolar and equatorial Atlantic Ocean are undergoing changes that can already be detected through the noise of variability.

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

The temperature gradient creates atmospheric circulation, which transports heat from areas of equatorial excess to the cold polar regions.

However, this new analysis reveals that the northern North Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and Equatorial Pacific Ocean are all important regions of ocean heat uptake.

It is likely that conditions in much of the heavily populated equatorial regions woudl be intolerable and there would be big movements of population.

Together they have explored Mars's equatorial region for evidence of water long since dried up.

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

«Many people in equatorial regions such as Papua New Guinea rely of fish as their main source of protein, so these results raise concerns about future food security in these places.»

Record warmth was observed in parts of the Arctic Seas, the central Sea of Okhotsk, part of the equatorial western Pacific, and a region in the central southern Pacific.

The increase in sea surface temperature over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific known as El Niño, and the corresponding decrease known as La Niña, contribute to seasonal climate and weather fluctuations in many regions of the globe.

First - order models predicted that solar wind compression regions would induce an increase in the angular velocity of the equatorial plasma and decrease the currents related to the lag from corotation, thus resulting in a dimmer aurora (e.g. Southwood & Kivelson 2001).

«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.

Hotspots of high intensity occurred in regions of large SST variability including the five western boundary current extension regions (+2 — 5 °C), the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (+1 — 4 °C) and eastern boundary current regions (+1 — 3 °C).

«These chemicals enter the atmosphere at lower latitudes where they were used, and are then deposited down from the cold polar air, so Arctic animals are more highly exposed than animals in more temperate or equatorial regions,» University of Florida researcher Margaret James (who wasn't involved in the study) told New Scientist.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

Strong El Niño conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during November 2015, as evidenced by record warmth across much of this region.

Jupiter's atmospheric marvels are not limited to its equatorial regions however; Juno has provided unprecedented views of the planet's poles, where massive cyclones churn with unearthly ferocity.

High nutrient low chlorophyl regions «the naming of three major HNLC zones: the North Pacific Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

The equatorial and temperate regions of Titan have vast areas of dunes formed by windblown sand rich in organic compounds.

Our solar system is thus situated within the outer regions of this galaxy, well within the disk and only about 20 light years «above» the equatorial symmetry plane (to the direction of the Galactic North Pole, see below), but about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center.

•» As a result of low gravity attraction in the region of equatorial bulge and high gravity attraction in the region of polar flattening, melt - water would not move from polar region to equatorial region.

Those of us not living in an equatorial or tropical region are going to have to adapt to having less of that UVB sunlight.

United lists Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote D'ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea - Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion Island, Rwanda, South Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe in its Central and Southern African region.

GinGin is located in a secluded region of Nyang Nyang Island, in the north Mentawai Islands, characterized by a wet equatorial climate, warm and humand, synonymous of a great surf trip.

Ten celsius (50F) works well because that temperature seems to be too cool for equatorial regions and too warm for polar regions in the mind of the average viewer.