When the sun is at its most intense, ozone in the stratosphere absorbs more ultraviolet energy, making
areas near the equator warmer than usual.
Most coffee is
grown near the equator, but increasing temperatures, new pests, droughts, and intensive rainfall are taking their toll on the crop.
A new model attempts to explain the higher violent crime rates seen in parts of the world
near the equator with hotter climates.
He found that although the amount of energy required is constant, new species form more
quickly near the equator because heat speeds up both metabolism and the rate of genetic mutations.
The results indicate that aerosol injections can be carefully tailored to achieve desired results, such as a minimal albedo
increase near the equator, rather than a globally uniform response.
On land, temperatures increased by ~ 5 °C in the middle latitudes and by ~ 3
°C near the equator.
Scientists first thought this water was melting from surface ice, but that interpretation is less likely for the
slopes near the equator, where the surface is probably too warm for ice.
According to an international team of researchers, the rapid pace of climate change is threatening the future presence of
fish near the equator.
Because water vapor is not evenly distributed globally, there would be about 5
cm near the equator and less than one tenth as much at the poles.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located
near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal...
Large amounts of freshwater that are discharged into the
ocean near the equator such as these are known as near - equatorial river plumes (NERPs).
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country
located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal tender.
Hadley Cell A direct, thermally driven overturning cell in the atmosphere consisting of poleward flow in the upper troposphere, subsiding air into the subtropical anticyclones, return flow as part of the trade winds near the surface, and with rising
air near the equator in the so - called Intertropical Convergence Zone.
Once the ability to think flexibly emerges in an evolutionary line, descendants can apply it to face varying challenges.For example, ravens and killer whales, both highly social, also both alter the ways they gather food and use their habitat so they can live
near the equator as well as in the high Arctic.
The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and a British - built lander called Beagle 2 will take surface samples from dry
regions nearer the equator of the planet and perform similar analyses to reveal details of the planet's geological past.
In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade
winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.
Global models for the 21st century find an increased variability of precipitation minus evaporation [P - E] in most of the world,
especially near the equator and at high latitudes [125].
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), is the area encircling the
earth near the equator where the northeast and southeast trade winds come together.
A year ago I would have been hard - pressed to find the island on a map — it was one of the mysterious «G»
countries near the equator such as Guyana or Guadeloupe.
El Niño refers to the natural condition where ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central
Pacific near the Equator warm to levels above the long term average.
Due to its geographical
position near the equator, the use of ocean thermal energy can be very interesting in the seas and streets of the Philippines.
The long - wave radiation estimated for surface temperatures is pretty clear that forcing is
occuring near the equator and since the ocean in this region is acccumulating heat that will eventually re-emerge the deeper it can be sequestered the better.
Hundred of
islands near the Equator in Papua, Indonesia, have been undercut by the sea in a manner that gives credence to the hypothesis that there has been little net change in sea level in the past thousands of years.
Typically, pepper bushes grow
best near the equator and some believe the closer to the equator the hotter the peppercorn.
The island is
situated near the Equator where 2 weather patterns converge, which results in changeable weather, relatively cool equatorial air temperatures averaging 78 °F (25.5 °C), and average annual precipitation of over 23ft (7m).