Sentences with phrase «half along the equator»

He'd read that indigenous cultures along the equator have far lower rates of both conditions, and Currie had a hunch this might be the result of their pepper - heavy diet.

Split bread in half along the equator line.

The Madden - Julian Oscillation is a cluster of rainstorms that moves east along the Equator over 30 to 60 days.

The oddest thing of all about Sputnik Planitia, though, is its location: along the equator in curious alignment with Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

This year's event, while it caused a drop in chlorophyll primarily along the equator, was much less severe for the coastal phytoplankton population.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west).

The elongated dark area informally known as «the whale,» along the equator on the left side of the map, is one of the darkest regions visible to New Horizons.

The more matter spewed out along the equator rather than the poles, the more peanut - shaped, or «bipolar,» the final planetary nebula.

Along the equator the shock would plow slowly through the densest parts of the disk.

The first image, based on data from January 1997 when El Nio was still strengthening shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an associated change in sea surface temperature of up to 5.4 degrees C.

On January 10, 2006, astronomers using the infrared Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array announced that Vega rotates so fast (at around 91 percent of its «break - up rate») that it is cooler as well as 23 percent wider along its equator than at its poles due to the gravitational effect of its «middle bulge» (NOAO press release; AAS 207 session summary); and Aufdenberg et al, 2006).

There are several broad depressions and two large highland areas, one in the northern hemisphere about the size of Australia and one along the equator about the size of South America.

In the tropical Pacific, the distance from Indonesia to South America and the way tropical winds push warm water west combine to allow special waves to travel along the equator and are amplified by the atmospheric wind response to produce large fluctuations in temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

Ignoring warnings, they set out 1000 leagues along the equator in search of a breeding ground.

When ready to serve, slice the Fuyu persimmons in half along their equators.

A cheap cruise vacation for destinations along the equator, such as the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, can best be found by booking a last minute cruise.

Indonesia is the world's 4th most populous country situated in Southeast Asia, comprising over 17,000 islands stretched along the equator, of which only 8,000 are inhabited.

Too young to enlist when the nation was in the grips of World War II, he joined the Merchant Marines and somewhere along the Equator found himself drawing maps of the ship in colored pencils.

The 1950 - 1995 climatological mean temperature along the equator at the 500mb level.

The attached figure shows the tropospheric temperature trends versus the surface temperature trends in units of K per decade for 1979 — 2004: the tropospheric temperature trends are astonishingly uniform along the equator with a variation of about a factor of 5 smaller than that in the surface temperature trends.

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

When the easterly trade winds strengthen during La Nina it pushes water along the equator from the east to west.

This affected the hurricanes that grew out of systems coming off of the west coast of Africa that headed west, roughly along the Equator.

El Nino is characterised by warmer than normal sea surface along the equator in the eastern Pacific, whereas La Nina is colder than normal conditions over the same region.

In general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, too.

During the second winter, the tropical Pacific cooling weakens in a narrow band along the equator but becomes meridionally broader.

Found along the Equator or areas close to the Equator.

There are several papers now showing a strong negative feedback in the atmosphere on warming along equator.

The El Niño - related cloudiness and rainfall pattern extended farther east along the equator in 1998, stretching all the way to the South American coast.

After 30 + million years of cooling, 2 to 3 million years ago, colder ocean waters eventually upwelled in the mid latitudes along the west coasts of major continents as well as along the equator.

Low - level surface winds, which normally blow east to west along the equator, or easterly winds, start blowing the other direction, west to east, or westerly.

It is an harmonic oscillation of ocean water from side to side along the equator.»

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

El Niño is a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean mainly along the equator, but more broadly, those warm waters trigger profound events across half the planet, including heavy rains in California, fires in Australia, and more and stronger typhoons in the western Pacific.

As the winds blow west along the Equator, they push warm water ahead of them, piling it up in a warm pool in the western Pacific.

At irregular intervals (roughly every 3 - 6 years), the sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator become warmer or cooler than normal.

When that warm water reaches the western Pacific it rises and, in the main, tracks back along the equator in the upper atmosphere and loses its heat to space.

These vertical cross sections along the equator should give the idea.

Enhanced oceanic warming along the equator is also evident in the zonal means of Figure 10.6, and can be associated with oceanic heat flux changes (Watterson, 2003) and forced by the atmosphere (Liu et al., 2005).

Over the ocean, warming is relatively large in the Arctic and along the equator in the eastern Pacific (see Sections 10.3.5.2 and 10.3.5.3), with less warming over the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean (e.g., Xu et al., 2005).

If you look along the equator to the east the arrows orient themselves upwards to point to the coast of Africa, even more strongly.

For comparison, Figure 1b shows the budget E — P, where E is computed with COADS data only and P is estimated with satellite data.The time variability of E — P during 1988 - 93 is seen in the time / longitude section along the equator (Figure 2).

The circulation cells are large — about 10,000 kilometers wide along the equator — and occur intraseasonally, roughly every 30 to 70 days.

In the tropical Pacific, the distance from Indonesia to South America and the way tropical winds push warm water west combine to allow special waves to travel along the equator and are amplified by the atmospheric wind response to produce large fluctuations in temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

If Spencer is looking at a narrow range along the equator, that is perhaps 85 % ocean.

Stronger downward transport of water mass must be balanced by upwelling somewhere else, and this occurs in regions of divergence (Ekman suction)- along the equatorward travelling arms of the gyres, and along the equator itself.

It also creates warm sea surface temperature anomalies along the equator from the international dateline in the Pacific to the coast of South America.

Walker deduced that the gradient between high pressure in the east and low pressure in west generates the east to west trade winds along the equator.

These westerly wind bursts sometimes generate long waves called Kelvin waves, which travel east along the equator at about 2.5 meters per second.