Sentences with phrase «near the equator where»

Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)- The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is an equatorial zonal belt of low pressure near the equator where the northeast trade winds meet the southeast trade winds.

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), is the area encircling the earth near the equator where the northeast and southeast trade winds come together.

In 1946 British physicists Alan Brewer and Gordon Dobson [3] devised a model of very slow, convective, stratospheric ozone transport from the equator to the poles (Fig 1), explaining why more ozone is found in polar regions than near the equator where more solar radiation occurs.

Elsewhere, the ocean is perpetually covered by ice (dark blue colors), except near the equator where winds and ocean currents push sea ice eastward onto the dayside where it breaks up and melts (pale blue to light yellow colors).

Not exact matches

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.

For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.

On our star, the Sun, the sunspots are seen in a belt around the equator, but now scientists have observed a large, distant star where sunspots are located near the poles.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

Three spots around the sphere's equator mark where two of the particles would collide, and a line drawn over the ball, which must avoid those spots, maps how near the objects get to each other.

This vast landmass once rested on the equator, near where Africa is today.

«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.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

Images of Neptune taken during twilight observing revealed an extremely large bright storm system near Neptune's equator (labeled «cloud complex» in the upper figure), a region where astronomers have never seen a bright cloud.

«The forcing by solar activity would be most prominent nearer the equator, where we are seeing the results.»

Unlike the above two minerals, you are likely deficient in Vitamin D except for instances where you love the outdoors near the equator or consume over a kilogram of salmon daily (or perhaps have a high dose of vitamin D through consumption of cod liver oil) and supplementation would be recommended.

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

See e.g. the source / sink area's of the oceans, where most important sources are near the equator and most important sinks are near the poles, especially the NE Atlantic: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs/outstand/feel2331/maps.shtml

In fact, the major effect of significant volcanic eruptions is cooling due to the sulfate aerosols that they release (although in order to have a significant cooling effect, the eruption has to be large enough that it injects the aerosols into the stratosphere where they can stay around longer... and it apparently helps if the eruption is reasonably near to the equator).

Your climate models in a word SUCK, and where is the famous upper tropospheric hot spot they all claim near the equator in response to more co2 / it's postive feedbacks.

The Oceans store up heat near the equator, then pumps it poleward where the heat is radiated to space.

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.

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.

One place may be near the equator, where there is an upward current anyway.