Sentences with phrase «in equatorial ocean»

It's important to understand that shoaling prior to closing occurred beginning as much as 5 Myr which began the major shift in equatorial ocean circulation toward the poles.

As I mentioned previously, any increased external forcing is expected to produce a tropical tropospheric «hot spot» by way of deep convective processes in the equatorial oceans — it is not at all specific to GHG — or CO2 — forcing whatsoever.

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And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

The ongoing La Niña pattern, where there are colder than normal sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, favors these types of conditions.

La Niña — the counterpart to El Niño — creates colder than normal conditions in the equatorial eastern central Pacific Ocean.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the AzoOcean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azoocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

The first part of the process, the phytoplankton bloom, has already been demonstrated in small - scale tests in the South Pacific and the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

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.

El Niño thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.

The El Niño - Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, is a naturally occurring climate cycle in which sea - surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean fluctuate.

Professor Drijfhout said: «This study attributes the increased oceanic heat drawdown in the equatorial Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Ocean to specific, different mechanisms in each region.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a natural fluctuation of ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that can give rise to El Niño and La Niña, which drive droughts and floods from South East Asia and Australia to the Americas.

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.

«There is a limited amount of nutrients in the ocean, and if the Southern Ocean is using up those nutrients, there will be less available in the equatorial Pacific,» Costa ocean, and if the Southern Ocean is using up those nutrients, there will be less available in the equatorial Pacific,» Costa Ocean is using up those nutrients, there will be less available in the equatorial Pacific,» Costa said.

Scientists previously thought that iron fertilization could work in all iron - deficient ocean stretches: the subarctic North Pacific Ocean, the equatorial Pacific and the Antarctic Oocean stretches: the subarctic North Pacific Ocean, the equatorial Pacific and the Antarctic OOcean, the equatorial Pacific and the Antarctic OceanOcean.

In 2014, they embarked on an ocean voyage to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, where they drilled into the sediment bed and collected six cocean voyage to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, where they drilled into the sediment bed and collected six cOcean, where they drilled into the sediment bed and collected six cores.

Unlike much of the 1990s, the 2003 - 11 period favored La Niña episodes, or natural cycles characterized by unusually low ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific Oocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific OceanOcean.

The higher sea level near the western ocean boundary creates a west - east pressure difference in the ocean, that results in the equatorial undercurrent flowing from west to east below the surface.

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).

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

El Niño and La Niña events are most apparent in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, but similar events occur in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, although at a lesser intensity.

Every five years or so, weakening trade winds cause a shift to warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, a phenomena known as El ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, a phenomena known as El Ocean, a phenomena known as El Niño.

Record warmth for the year was particularly notable in large parts of the northeastern and equatorial Pacific, a large swath of the western North Atlantic, most of the Indian Ocean where a positive Indian Ocean dipole prevailed, and parts of the Arctic Ocean.

Reductions in seafloor POC flux will be most drastic, on a percentage basis, in the oceanic gyres and equatorial upwelling zones, with the northern and southern Pacific Ocean and southern Indian Ocean gyres experiencing as much as a 32 — 40 % decline in POC flux (Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3).

To learn more about equatorial ocean conditions in the Pacific, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deployed moored open - ocean buoys that track the sea - surface conditions.

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

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 bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

Beginning in the mid-1970s, the equatorial Pacific Ocean began a period of warmer than normal sea - surface temperatures.

Near - record strong El Niño conditions prevailed in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during the month.

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern defined by above - average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that affect weather patterns around the world, leading to a slight uptick in global temperatures.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

Record warmth was observed across most of the Indian Ocean, where a positive Indian Ocean dipole has been in place since early 2014, and across much of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, where a strong El Niño developed.

This warming is largely focused on the equatorial and South Atlantic and is driven by a significant reduction in deep - water formation from the Southern Ocean.

Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Dan H.: «Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.»

As the planet warms from the buildup of greenhouse gases, there may be a change in the atmospheric circulations near the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

El Niño is a natural phenomenon occuring every five years or so that causes sea surface temperatures to rise in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

La Niña is indicated by anomalously cold sea - surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

In their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study perioIn their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study perioin the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study period.

In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf StreaIn today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Streain the Gulf Stream.

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures.

Millions of phytoplankton swirl around in jugs of seawater, collected just moments before from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.

A team of marine scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Victoria have returned from nearly a month of scuba diving on coral reefs in the middle of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Located in the equatorial side of the globe, facing the Pacific Ocean, the Philippines is one of the island that bares wonderful and magnificent bast of breath taking land marks.

The title points to a peculiar expression for the dreaded equatorial area of the Atlantic Ocean with no wind — a trap for sailors where boats can become stuck in the middle of the sea and any direction is temporarily suspended.

For instance, the book discusses the (essentially non-existent) effect of El Nino Southern Oscillation on the Gulf stream; it is possible that the authors actually had the ocean currents off the Peruvian and Equatorial coasts in mind.

El Niño: A phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean characterized by a positive sea surface temperature departure from normal (for the 1971 - 2000 base period) in the Niño 3.4 region greater than or equal in magnitude to 0.5 degrees C (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit), averaged over three consecutive months.

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.