Sentences with phrase «occuring near the equator»

The long - wave radiation estimated for surface temperatures is pretty clear that forcing is occuring near the equator and since the ocean in this region is acccumulating heat that will eventually re-emerge the deeper it can be sequestered the better.

[Response: In this context it means the downward branch of the atmospheric Hadley circulation which exists in the sub-tropics to balance the upward mass flux that occurs near the equator.

-- Tropical — occur near the equator, in low latitudes — Temperate — occur about halfway between the equator and the poles, in the middle latitudes — Polar — occur near the poles, in the high latitudes — Dry — occurs at many different latitudes — Highland — occurs at many different latitudes Geographers divide some climate zones into more specific climate regions.

Not exact matches

Sunsets occur more quickly near the equator than at higher latitudes, so the green flash is a shorter phenomenon in the tropics.

This occurs because the Coriolis Force is zero at / near the equator.

It is predicted that on or near this date we, Earth commences passing through the Galactic Equator of the Milky Way which occurs twice every full cycle of 25,630 years.

near equator Sun rays are more concentrated in smaller area near equator This occurs because the planet is round.

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.

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.