Sentences with word «northwards»

Though the rates have slightly gone northwards, they remain at record lows.

Bitcoin Cash is up 1.72 % at $ 1,191.4 at the time of writing, with the gains coming in spite of Bitcoin also moving northwards as the cryptocurrencies recovered from a testing session on Tuesday.

You've heard about the two new Samsung phones, and you're wondering whether you should be plumping for the Galaxy S9 or heading northwards, into the heady territory of the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus.

The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed and, over the course of the slow and cyclical 40,000 year shifting of the Earth's axial tilt, it fluctuates by a margin of two degrees — at the point of the cycle we're now in, it is drifting northwards at a rate of 49 feet (15 meters) per year.

PA 581 takes you around the city between I - 83 and I - 81, and I - 81 runs northwards to western New York and south through Virginia.

While the East Coast is getting hammered with record snow from the Mason - Dixon line northwards, Mesa is a comfy 59 degrees at 8 AM.

Under the notorious business - as - usual scenario, in which humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever - increasing rate, and releasing ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, then the dunes of North Africa's Sahara will march northwards and southern Spain will become a desert.

Should temperatures in the Mediterranean basin continue to rise, the dunes of the Sahara will march northwards and southern Spain will become a desert.

The stream is a key process in the climate of western Europe, bringing heat northwards from the tropics and keeping countries such as the UK 4 - 6C warmer than they would otherwise be.

This is followed up by highly speculative and unsubstantiated claims that «the sweet spots for agriculture will move northwards».

For instance, since easterly winds push water northwards and westerly winds seawater southward, it is not obvious to non experts if a complete reversal of the westerlies blowing from N.America to Europe ought to make the gulf stream flow slower or faster.

«Species are not only emerging early, but several species are extending their geographic range northwards.

This is because of the North Atlantic Current and large - scale atmospheric circulation which transport warm water and air masses from lower latitudes northwards across the Atlantic and along the coast of Norway to Svalbard (Figure 1).

When similar records from other Irish stations are examined, there is some evidence of a possible northwards movement of the storm tracks that have affected the island of Ireland over the last 30 years.

«The two German researchers report that «BTD was the first «exotic» disease to arrive,» but that «it did not slowly spread northwards but jumped in through a still unknown entry point.»

Would animal and plant populations become fixed in place, neither advancing northwards, nor shrinking southwards, neither expanding nor dwindling?

Yet the katabatic winds which blow off West Greenland are sufficient to drive ice floes away from the shore, and to induce a northwards ocean current along the coast.

It continues northwards as the Gulf Stream.

Scientists have uncovered more evidence for a dramatic weakening in the vast ocean current that gives Britain its relatively balmy climate by dragging warm water northwards from the tropics.

Karachi is a more complex case as the land is sinking from the delta Karachi is on, but that is counteracted by the Indian suncontinent forcing up the continent of Asia as it moves northwards.

We have seen that even in Australia, a country much better placed than most do deal with environmental crises, the drought has led to considerable social trauma in the bush and has given rise to calls to shift agriculture northwards.

While evidence is accumulating that many species expand their ranges northwards in response to a warming trend (in the Northern Hemisphere), evidence for predicted contractions at the southern limit of species» ranges is sparse.

The AMOC transports heat northwards in the Atlantic via the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, making European climate significantly warmer than it would otherwise be.

Normally, the jet stream hits Washington State after a northeast trajectory from the Pacific, then curves southeast across the central plains to Alabama where it angles back northwards and heads out to sea towards the U.K.

There is also concern that, along with warming, the Sahara desert could advance northwards, further threatening Morocco's important agricultural sector, which accounts for 15 % of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 40 % of the country's workforce.

The currents hit the east coast of the continents and diverge with a strong upward current to the Arctic from the semicircular North / south American shape focusing the major movement Northwards.

«What I will do is to pick up the absorptivities in a region of interest (latitudes northwards of 30 degrees north, March through June), and replace them with the absorptivities from 30 days earlier (February through May), so as to simulate the effect of the putative delayed melting of the snow and ice back in 1750 compared to the present.

Explosive cyclones are projected to shift northwards by about 2.2 ∘ latitude on average in the northern Pacific, with fewer and weaker events south of 45 ∘ N, and more frequent and stronger events north of this latitude.

There is no doubt, that these observations are associated with the climate change which has been shown to occur since several decades, and which, over the last years, has had important consequences for fisheries: decrease of catches, northwards shift of fishing grounds, adaptation to fisheries for different species.

«Although hurricane tracks have gradually moved northwards away from the western Caribbean, rising sea surface temperatures could promote the development of cyclonic storms within the western Caribbean,» says co-author of the report James Baldini, an Earth scientist at the University of Durham.

The tropical cyclones that bend northwards, move across this warm water, that adds more vertical convection power and moisture to the weather system — that can then turn into a closed circulation hurricane.

I would hope that this is apparent to readers without further explanation from me here by virtue of obviously greater land mass areas as one moves northwards and to a lesser extent southwards from the equator.

But the latest evidence confirms that hurricanes are tracking northwards, threatening cities that were once considered safe.

In addition, under the surface, deep cold waters which have sunk in the arctic are moving south and returning the net flow northwards on the surface.

Species that are dependent on cold climes or nearness to the sea will have to move upwards in terms of altitude or northwards in terms of latitude in order to survive.

Since this circulation transports vast amounts of energy northwards, a slowing would influence atmospheric temperature contrasts and associated weather patterns, including in the UK.

He discusses how armadillos expanded their North American range northwards during the first half of the 20th century, but are now, in 1972, headed back south:

Permafrost Melt - became a concern in Russia during the 1970s with the edge of the permafrost retreating northwards, and is now accelerating quite strongly in most permafrost areas.

Oceanic currents carried all the naval battleground water northwards, in the Spitsbergen region, within only a few weeks or a couple of months.

When the ITCZ is sucked northwards the Amazon will dry out (even faster) with a likely biome shift from tropical rainforest to savannah [and dramatic biodiversity loss and extra CO2 emissions as a result].

There are also indications that the American Midwest is watered from the same source, by the moisture deflected northwards.

The boreal forest will creep northwards, for example, as the permafrost thaws and carbon fertilisation increases.

Across all scenarios, the general trend is that diversity shifts towards the coast and northwards.

«Where they turn northwards has much to do with the weather conditions further north; 1995, for example, was a very active season with 19 named storms, but the US got away very lightly because the sub-tropical ridge did not extend right across the Atlantic, and many storms turned north before reaching the US.

In general, diversity shifts towards the coast and northwards, and the degree depends on the dispersal assumptions, emission scenarios, and the sensitivity of climate simulations.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

Raypierre, that is correct, most recent significant storms, within the last 5 years, headed Northwards, and had extreme wind velocities along with abnormaly warm temperatures.

Paleoclimate studies of tropical ice cores tend to support the scenario of changes in the tropics propagating northwards, too, not the reverse.

What will likely happen as a result of global warming is a migration of arable land northwards, but also mass desertification.

At the other end of the ThC by Antarctica the deep current (having surrendered its heat south of the Falklands) appears to swing northwards from the vicinity of the Ross Sea ice shelf to run up past the east of the New Zealand continental shelf.