Sentences with phrase «nearest pole»

Until recently, however, this inclination to move in the direction of the nearest pole was not really understood.

Rather that than live on you knees under a religious doctrine you can in no way believe or conform to and should not be any where near the poling station.

Supposed calamities like the accelerated rise of sea level, ocean acidification, more extreme climate, tropical diseases near the poles, and so on are greatly exaggerated.

Consequently, though the sun be ready, vegetation must wait on the coming of the water, and starting from near the pole, proceeds equatorward.

For species living near the poles, the breeding season is short and accelerated, leaving little time to be choosy about finding a mate.

The SwRI - led Juno mission discovered that Jupiter's signature bands disappear near its poles.

As Titan lacks its own magnetic field the same thing can occur over wider regions, not just near the poles.

Water on the moon, if it exists at all, is probably confined to frozen deposits in a few shadowed craters near its poles.

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 sphere glowed near its poles.

However radar observations have shown that lakes cover only a few per cent of the surface and are concentrated near the poles, making Titan much drier than Earth.

He and other ornithologists agree that the uncorrected sun compass strategy works best near the poles, and that additional cues are probably involved at lower latitudes.

We can not see the south pole, but we can see sunspots at latitudes near the poles and these sunspots are not there at the same time, they are seen alternately on the northern and southern hemispheres.

She expected to find deep - sea biodiversity paralleling that of the Northern Hemisphere — rich near the equator but thin near the poles.

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.

These clouds, technically called polar mesospheric clouds, typically form near the poles and migrate toward the tropics.

The earlier evidence for water on the moon hinted only at small deposits near the poles, probably left there by the impact of icy meteorites.

For 2 decades satellite observations have shown that Jupiter emits x-rays from somewhere near its poles.

These «wires» pull on the Jovian atmosphere, which spins more slowly near the poles.

These patches extend over large areas of 500 to 1000 km near the pole and also give rise to strong northern lights displays.

Now, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has orbited Mercury since March, has confirmed that these radar - bright patches neatly coincide with deep crater floors near the poles that never receive any sunlight at all.

The magnetic field lines originate in the Earth's core and emerge near the poles, where their angle of dip — or inclination — relative to Earth's surface is almost 90 degrees.

A new NASA ice - elevation monitoring satellite called ICESAT, scheduled for launch in 2001, will help scientists watch for climate - change trends near the poles over a longer time frame, he notes.

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.

These popcorn - sized puffs of ice crystals have long been thought the source of the bromine oxide that triggers the deposition of the mercury from the atmosphere and the depletion of ozone near the poles.

There are also places near the poles of the moon where it stays light for months at a time.

And yes, it is kind of near the pole, but if a star is really high up you say it's overhead or you say it's near the zenith if you want to get into astronomical jargon, but it's not in the west; it just doesn't work out, it's not westward from the pole.

Regions at the planet's equator seem once to have been near a pole; possibly the entire lithosphere has shifted in relation to the axis of spin.

The second cell consists of air rising in the middle latitudes — about 30 to 60 degrees north and south — and then falling again near the poles.

That favors a model in which much of Io's heat rises from deep within the moon and emerges near the poles, rather than spreading uniformly from shallower reservoirs of magma.

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.

Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of green, purple and red.

Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

The floors of some deep craters near the poles are never exposed to direct sunlight, and temperatures there remain far lower than the global average.

The tight BC pair is relatively bright in x-rays near their poles (and seems to be transferring mass), with each star passing in front of the other every three hours.

A new study has revealed that ozone levels in the heavily populated lower latitudes don't seem to be recovering as well as regions near the poles.

But near the poles and in the upper stratosphere, CO2 is increasing the amount of ozone by preventing nitrogen oxide from breaking it down.

I guess a relatively small change in temperatures wouldn't affect the albedo of a flat highland near the poles.

Martian soil is about 5 % water by weight at low latitude, and up to 60 % water near the poles.

``... near the poles, Mars Odyssey [spacecraft] has shown, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

This makes it possible for the Sun to rotate faster at its equator (about 25 days) than it does at higher latitudes (about 35 days near its poles).

For the ozone depletion by CFC's, that is relative highest near the poles.

There's been open water at the pole before» During the summer of 2000 there was «a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole» http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E3DD1E31F93AA1575BC0A9669C8B63

For the ecologically productive cold waters near the poles, the prospects are equally grim, says Cao.

2 degrees seems like rather a lot to me, especially when we take into account how this is predicted to be manifested over the different latitudes (e.g. increases of much more than 2 degrees near the poles).

Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).

Colaprete et al in Nature 2005 (subscription required) showed, using the Mars GCM, that the south polar climate is unstable due to the peculiar topography near the pole, and the current configuration is on the instability border; we therefore expect to see rapid changes in ice cover as the regional climate transits between the unstable states.

«This place is important because it is so near the pole, far closer than most Antarctic bases are to the South Pole,» said Trud Sveno, head of the Norwegian Polar Institute here.

Is less poleward transport of heat by the Gulf Stream as the AMOC weakens a positive feedback for global warming, since that energy will escape more slowly in the humid (higher water vapor GHG effect) tropics than near the poles?