Sentences with phrase «larger oceanic area»

The weather systems move towards the equator to allow the polar air north of the jet streams to cover a larger oceanic area and thereby draw more heat from the oceans to replace any energy deficit.

Not exact matches

However, the mantle remained so hot that it softened the subducting oceanic crust too much for it to pull large areas of continental crust down behind it, as it does today.

Is this because in the past with average precip area larger, precipitating systems that were mostly oceanic dumped some larger fraction of rain over land, but with precip areas shrinking this is no longer the case?

Recommendations: To facilitate a timely global synthesis of uniform reconstructions that includes areas where data coverage is relatively sparse, the PAGES 2k community recommends the reconstruction of climate means over large - scale (subcontinental and oceanic) areas, while parallel progress is made in developing the next generation of CFR methods.