Sentences with phrase «near the equator with»

A new model attempts to explain the higher violent crime rates seen in parts of the world near the equator with hotter climates.

Not exact matches

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

For mammals, researchers say that the overhead sunlight near the equator favors species with darker backs and lighter fronts because the combination offers camouflage in the shadowy rain forest.

Clement found that the duration of the transitions varied with latitude, from 2000 years near the equator to 11,000 years nearer the poles.

The museum was built in 1889 with sandstone from Hermand Quarry, West Lothian — which in Carboniferous times was near the equator and covered in tropical swamp.

This image shows QBO amplitude near the equator at a height of 11 miles: Observed values from balloon wind measurements from 1950s to present; simulations from a climate model driven with observed concentrations of greenhouse gases from 1900 to 2005 and then with projected increase through 2100.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

Three hundred 75 million years ago, the Canadian Arctic was near the equator, with a subtropical climate — a plausible place for an aquatic creature to venture from surf to turf.

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.

Because chronotype may differ by geographic location, with a greater morning preference near the equator, the investigators studied diabetic patients from two different geographic regions: Chicago and Thailand.

In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.

But with more sunlight hitting near the equator than at the poles, it wasn't clear how enough energy could arrive at high latitudes.

The lander (along with other debris believed to be related to the spacecraft's descent process) was found within the expected landing area for the probe, an impact crater designated Isidis Planitia, near to the Martian equator.

The creatures roamed at the site during the Middle Jurassic, when Skye was part of a subtropical island near the equator and the region was dotted with lagoons, rivers, and beaches.

D deficiency than people with genetic ancestry nearer the equator.

For example, in Peru in the 1500s, periodic warming near the equator seem to affect the size of fishermens» catch; and those warmings also seemed to coincide with torrential rainfalls in northern Peru.

It's a big island chain near the Equator, with lots of different resort options for those seeking a sublime getaway or a sport - filled excursion.

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?

With enough time, you have an ice age, checked only by the fact that the ice can only get so far south, because this all hinges on seasonal insolation changes resulting from the axial tilt of the earth, and this makes no difference at or near the equator — insolation there is constant, regardless of the tilt of the earth, and the days are warm and long enough to hold back any threat of snow and ice.

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.

This is at odds with climate models, which predict higher increases in temperature at higher latitudes than near the equator, if GHGs are the main cause of the increase in temperature...

Moreover, the seasonal, regional, and atmospheric patterns of rising temperatures — greater warming in winters than summers, greater warming at high latitudes than near the equator, and a cooling in the stratosphere while the lower atmosphere is warmer — jibe with what computer models predict should happen with greenhouse heating.

The normal ideas of dynamo theory apply, in which a basically dipolar field is distorted, by differential rotation, into a field with a substantial toroidal component which becomes more noticeable near the equator.

The resulting global climate is 2 °C warmer, with temperature increases of some 20 °C at high latitudes, and 1 °C near the equator.»

Now with Hadley cells warm moist air rises from near the equator.

The rising ocean temperatures that may come with climate change pose a threat to fish that live near the equator, a new study from Australia suggests.

The 18.6 year Lunar tidal oscillation produces a «standing wave» pattern (with a peak to peak height ~ 16 mm) in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that has nodes at + / - 35 degrees of latitude and anti-nodes near + / - 70 to 90 degrees and on the Equator.

The phase difference plot between foF2 and PI (left plot) indicates the following regularities: (i) high - latitude foF2 9 - d oscillations are out of phase with those in PI; (ii) there is a clear seasonal dependence of the negative high - latitude foF2 9 - d wave response and this can be traced out by the zero phase difference line; it approaches high latitudes (± 60 °) in winter and moves toward the equator (near ± 30 °) in summer, and (iii) middle - and low - latitude foF2 9 - d waves usually lag behind that in PI; the mean time delay is ~ 1.5 — 2 days (~ 60 — 90 °).

Without water the earth would be like the moon with an average temperature near -23 C (the measured unchanging temperature of lunar regolith 50 or more centimeters deep) and diurnal temperature change near 100C at 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.

The ITCZ is located at the ascending branch of the Hadley cell, an atmospheric circulation associated with rising air near the equator and descending air in subtropical regions (see Fig. 2 for a schematic).

Generally these erupt near the Equator and eject material with high sulfur content into the Stratosphere.

Still no tropospheric hot spot near the equator, still no pronounced stratospheric cooling especially near the poles both of which are cornerstones of the global waming models, along with the more zonal (+ ao) atmospheric circulation pattern.

On p. 222, the arrow for the trade wind strength should be inverted (a colder North Atlantic is associated with increased trade winds near the equator).

In this case, the Earth becomes largely covered with ice, but open water remains near the equator.

Such cycles begin with spots appearing in mid-solar latitudes and end with them near the equator.

Our experiments show that the solar cycle influences tropospheric rainfall patterns in a manner consistent with some observations, with increased solar activity favoring precipitation north of the equator (for example, the South Asian monsoon) and decreased precipitation both near the equator and at northern mid-latitudes.

Measurements of these rocks indicate that rocks known to be associated with the presence of ice were formed near the Equator.

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...

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.