Sentences with phrase «near the equator as»

If clouds really formed more easily / frequently to reflect more sunlight as the planet warms (or, in this scenario, stopped forming, and stopped reflecting sunlight near the equator as the planet cools, providing an offset to the increased albedo to the north), then this scenario wouldn't come about.

The air circulation systems in both hemispheres move back equatorward and the ITCZ moves nearer the equator as the speed of the hydrological cycle decreases due to the warming stratosphere reducing the temperature differential between stratosphere and surface.

Melting ice that sits above sea level nearer the poles ends up adding more more mass nearer the equator as the now liquid water distributes itself across the globe at sea level.

Not exact matches

From the evolution of differing skin types to cope with the differing exposures to solar radiation as one nears the equator.

«As more storms form near the equator, they are experiencing much better conditions for intensification and they are experiencing these conditions for a much longer period,» the pair note.

But these low - oxygen waters near the equator are expanding, because the water in the polar regions is not as cold and is not absorbing as much oxygen as it used to be.

His biggest concerns fall in areas near the equator, such as the Congo Basin, West Africa, and the rich tropical savannahs.

«Our map shows clearly the geographic trend in Africa of primate faces getting darker nearer to the equator and lighter as we move farther away from the equator,» Lynch Alfaro said.

Eventually, it makes its way back to the surface as the ocean's bottom water circulates and rises anew near the equator (although carbon buried in sediment might stay buried longer).

A world blessed with a half - dozen space elevators constructed cooperatively, radiating from the equator like lotus petals, could provide near - universal access to space at a payload cost of as little as $ 10 a pound.

RSL are mostly found on steep rocky slopes in dark regions of Mars, such as the southern mid-latitudes, Valles Marineris near the equator, and in Acidalia Planitia on the northern plains.

«We found that where ocean temperatures warmed beyond a certain point as we neared the equator, at about 29 degrees, the pace of larval development slowed,» says study lead author, Dr Ian McLeod.

As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

During the summer of 2017, the Cassini team used Keck Observatory to take near - infrared spectroscopic data of the regions near Saturn's equator, just as Cassini was diving between Saturn and its rings during its final orbits.

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead - shaped feature near the planet's equator.

Researchers found that due to warming waters, the edge of the sharks» range could shift as much as 40 miles poleward per decade, pushing the sharks away from the warming oceans near the equator into different habitats.

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.

According to the study, as the planet warms, the Hadley Cell, which links together rising air near the Equator and descending air in the subtropics, expands poleward.

The island - dwelling Polynesian populations near the equator known as Pukapuka and Tokelau obtain 63 % and 34 % of their nutrition from coconut, respectively.

But that changes late in November, when the 2009 Suzuki Equator shows up, as they say, «at a dealer near you.»

While the Chimborazo is not as far above sea level as Mount Everest (29,029 ft.), it's location near the equator makes it the furthest point from the center of the Earth.

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.

Since Belize is near the equator, it shares the same climate as other tropical countries.

With temperate - zone countries seeing possible agricultural benefits through 2050 under the 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even as conditions grow tougher near the Equator, how much does self - interest trump broader responsibilities?

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

As you can see, air near the equator is lifted high into the troposphere, effectively drying it by precipitating out nearly all of the water vapour.

Its regression results for 3 strategic locations (Barrow in the Arctic, Mauna Loa near the Equator, and NYC / JFK) can interpreted both as confirming the normal nul that there is no anthropogenic role in climate change for non-condensing greenhouse gases, and falsifying the Trenberth nul that there is.

Although solar energy isn't the worst thing you can do in the UK, it isn't going to be as widely used as it is nearer the equator eg it will be marginal.

As observed, the jets are stronger and wider in the Saturn than in the Jupiter simulation, especially near the equator.

Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.

As I have said before, water is most of surface area of earth near the equator, and tropics [40 % of surface area of earth] receives most of the Sun's energy and the tropical ocean does seem to me to drive Earth's climate.

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 Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), known by sailors as the doldrums, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.

The ITCZ appears as a band of clouds, usually thunderstorms, that encircle the globe near the Equator.

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.

T0 can be taken as more or less constant near 255 K while P0 is latitude dependent near 400 mbar at the equator, and near the ground in the polar regions (as there there is very little water vapour and the optical thickness of the air on most of the thermal infrared spectrum is low).

Thus our equation predicts S = 0 in a long narrow zone (something similar to an eye) and the existence of a streamline discontinuity (as per hurricane eye) in a narrow zone near the equator.

This manifests itself as a pattern of lighter and darker cloud bands similar to Jupiter's, although Saturn's bands are more subtly coloured and are wider near the equator.

Examining the structure of the global cloud field one can see, a long line of bright, dense clouds near the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), more clearly evident over the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific oceans.

On the web Hadley cell air flow is explained as follows: «This flow of air occurs because the Sun heats air at the Earth's surface near the equator.

As for your question about surface flux, Yes near the equator at high noon the incident will be close to So.

So, the 729.9 W / m ^ 2 shown during the hours just before and after noon on a dry clear - sky day should be reading somewhat below 729.9 / (1 — 0.313) or less than 1062 W / m ^ 2 by measurement, near noon, on the equator, for the atmosphere itself, in those conditions, would not be absorbing as much direct solar radiation as the average shows in column C either (no clouds).