Sentences with phrase «of strong trade winds»

With its ideal combination of strong trade winds and consistent surf, the island is one of the world's best windsurfing destinations.

«We know that winds flip - flop between periods of strong trade winds and periods of weak trade winds,» Thompson said.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.

Not exact matches

While antitrade winds are also blowing strong on the other side of the Atlantic — as the failed TTIP campaign shows — trade is likely to be a constant source of tension between Washington and some European capitals in the next four years.

Now, the tariffs alone are likely to hurt the economy, but a strong majority of Fed officials said that the possibility of trade retaliation and general uncertainty over the policy could wind up being damaging.

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«But if the last 20 to 30 years are not the norm because of these unusually strong trade winds, then there won't necessarily be that impact on the fisheries.

Phytoplankton production is enhanced by strong winds (because they cause upwelling of nutrients from deeper waters) and diminished by weaker winds, and the scientists found evidence that trade winds were weaker then.

The group also found evidence that trade winds were stronger and surface temperatures were cooler from 1940 to 1970, providing additional evidence of the relationship between the Pacific trade winds and the rates at which global temperatures have been changing.

Over the Atlantic basin, the amplified trough is associated with stronger upper - level westerly winds and stronger lower - level easterly trade winds, both of which increase the vertical wind shear and suppress hurricane activity.

With strong trade winds almost every day of the year, Bonaire sailing will provide an unbelievable array of views as you enjoy your evening or go out into the areas beautiful coastal waters to...

The reason the dry season is so much cooler than the wet season is that the northeast trade winds are strongest at this time of year, blowing cooling breezes along the coast which help keep the temperature down.

I never made it there until 8.30 AM and even then the wind was still blowing off shore for the first 30 minutes of my session before the SE (on shore at Canggu) Trade wind kicked in and slowly got stronger and stronger.

From March through October the easterly trade winds blow, making the leeward west coasts of the atoll the favored diving locations when the winds are strong.

Regarding El Nino, here's the recent update from Australia: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/ «The past three or four weeks has seen a gradual strengthening of La Nina indicators: the near - equatorial Pacific has cooled both on and below the surface, the Trade Winds have been mostly stronger than normal and cloudiness has been lower than average over much of the tropical Pacific.

The cause of the change is a particular change in winds, especially in the Pacific Ocean where the subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, thereby changing ocean currents and increasing the subtropical overturning in the ocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the ocean.

Particularly «The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.»

The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.

In particular, the slope of the ocean surface across the Pacific has increased by 20 cm, and the water wants to slosh back but is prevented by stronger easterly trade winds.

McPhaden writes: «For at least a year before the onset of the 1997 — 98 El Niño, there was a buildup of heat content in the western equatorial Pacific due to stronger than normal trade winds associated with a weak La Niña in 1995 — 96.»

During a La Niña, trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific are stronger than normal, and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South America extends to the central equatorial Pacific.

The merging of these two wind systems at the thermal equator created a strong easterly flow of air is also loosely called the «trade winds».

The «strong trade winds,» says study co-author Gerald Meehl of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, «are bringing cooler water to the surface in the equatorial Pacific and mixing more heat into the deeper ocean.»

England and his colleagues calculated that the stronger trade winds have reduced the global average surface temperature by 0.1 - 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.18 - 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit)-- enough, they write, «to account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001.»

One important aspect which might help those looking for the driver of the Trade Winds is that there is a strong seasonal component to the ENSO.

These imply rather fast - moving (relatively speaking) masses of water, which might well be «driven» by stronger - than - average trade winds.

X Anomaly says: February 3, 2012 at 3:43 pm I think a good way to conceptualize the pools of warm and cool water is that when there are stronger trade winds, all the warm water is bunched up over in the west.

I think a good way to conceptualize the pools of warm and cool water is that when there are stronger trade winds, all the warm water is bunched up over in the west.

The best way to envision the relation between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun - warmed waters far towards the west.

He wrote, «The cause of the shift is a particular change in winds, especially in the Pacific Ocean where the subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, changing ocean currents and providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the ocean.

no. 5404, pp. 950 — 954, DOI: 10.1126 / science.283.5404.950], Michael McPhaden explains, «For at least a year before the onset of the 1997 — 98 El Niño, there was a buildup of heat content in the western equatorial Pacific due to stronger than normal trade winds associated with a weak La Niña in 1995 — 96.»

During La Nina conditions, in the upper part of Figure 2 below, the warm blanket of water normally covering the Pacific has been blown to the west by the strong eastern trade winds.

Around 8200 BP saw expansion of village settlements in the Indus, Bulgaria, and England, and stronger trade winds as in the MWP.

The fifth intercomparison of the Global Water and Energy Experiment Cloud System Studies Working Group 1 is used as a vehicle for better understanding the dynamics of trade wind cumuli capped by a strong inversion.

The easterly Trade Winds and the polar easterlies have nothing over which to prevail, as their parent circulation cells are strong enough and face few obstacles either in the form of massive terrain features or high pressure zones.

The Pacific Ocean was the primary repository of that heat as unusually strong trade winds piled up warm water in the west, pinning it against Asia and Australia but those waters became so warm some of the heat leaked into the Indian Ocean.