Sentences with phrase «of trade winds»

The weaking of the trade winds is of course (like everything else) blamed on global warming even though there's been no notable increase in frequency or intensity of El Nino nor of La Nina for that matter.

This is due partly to the influence of the trade winds pushing ocean currents.

«For those not in the know» La Nina is the direct consequence of the return of trade winds to their normal strength after a Nino so that renewed surface wind stress plus the Coriolis effect generate upwelling of cool water along the equatorial region: go read it up in any decent, old - fashioned text - book on physical oceanography published after about 1970....

The feedbacks (Westerly Wind Bursts and general weakening of the trade winds) are going to have to kick in if that's going to happen.

The cooling of the continent in winter results in the development of the Asian high - pressure system, which leads to a strengthening of the trade winds of the Northern Hemisphere.

25 kg / m ² is about the global average of water vapour on the air that goes from 1 or 2 kg / m ² (extreme winter polar conditions) up to 80 kg / m ² (near the equatorial convective «chimney» at the confluence of the trade winds)

A weakening of the trade winds causes sea surface temperatures to warm, which increases convection, which causes more cloud cover.

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 sucking - in of trade winds at the mouth [roughly between longitude 45o and 54o] of the Amazon's south - western - bound «aerial - river» is evident, year round.

By the 1500s, Christopher Columbus had figured out that the combination of trade winds and westerlies enabled a round - trip route for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

You can keep track of these Trade Winds on a daily basis at the Climate Prediction Centre.

When the intensity of ultraviolet light from the sun increases, temperature rises in this ozone rich air and weakens the downdraft, lowers the surface pressure and with it the strength of the trade winds that blow across the ocean to the low pressure zones that form over the warm waters that accumulate in the west.

As has been pointed out, «correlation does not imply causation»; even if ENSO lagged weakened Trade Winds, that would not imply the weakening of Trade Winds caused ENSO (or vice versa): it would be just as possible that a third (as yet unknown) phenomenon caused both with different lag times.

I agree that pressure differences are going to be much bigger drivers of trade winds.

The theory being that high pressure blows toward lower pressure which can provide some indication of the Trade Winds in the Nino region.

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.

He and his colleagues used observations and detailed computer simulations to tease out the effect of trade winds on surface temperatures.

El Nino represents a failure of the trade winds and the westerlies in the southern hemisphere to build to peak strength between December and March.

This results in a slackening of the trade winds which «biases» the ENSO climate system towards an El Nino condition.

When there is a relaxation of trade winds, the warm water in the West Pacific Warm Pool sloshes to the east and speads across the surface and there's an El Nino event, which is the discharge mode.

Since ENSO is a coupled ocean - atmosphere process, I have presented its impact on and the inter-relationships between numerous variables, including sea surface temperature, sea level, ocean currents, ocean heat content, depth - averaged temperature, warm water volume, sea level pressure, cloud amount, precipitation, the strength and direction of the trade winds, etc..

The recent unprecedented intensification of the trade winds may simply be shortening the length of the cycle - meaning that this negative phase may be much shorter than the previous one.

They are usually created by a sudden shift in the wind, such as the change of the trade winds at the beginning of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

The extraordinary intensity of the trade winds in recent times (Merrifield [2011], England et al [2014]-RRB- may go some way toward explaining these discrepancies, or maybe the climate model is just deficient in this regard.

Because of the trade winds didn't.

Halley, 1686: An historical account of the trade winds, and monsoons, observable in the seas between and near the tropicks, with an attempt to assign the phisical cause of the said winds

The second way that the leftover warm water is carried to the Western Pacific is through a strengthening of the trade winds.

I was speaking of trade winds in the Pacific, east of the PWP.

The combination of the Trade Winds (10 ° - 25 ° N) blowing to the west and the Westerlies (35 ° - 55 ° N) blowing to the east cause the North Atlantic to rotate clockwise.

Does someone known if a similar intensification of the trade winds took place during the 1960s explaining then that hiatus period too?

This condo opens to the gentle breezes of the trade winds, has ceiling fans in the living room and bedroom, and is also air conditioned.

The hilltop location of this splendid villa takes full advantage of the trade winds; and the views of the blue... Caribbean, Anguilla, Simpson Bay and Baie Rouge are fantastic.

The L building is a favorite Ocean Front building because of the trade winds and being able to park close to the condo.

We plan on doing a lot of snorkeling during our vacation but have heard that snorkeling during the winter is generally not a good idea because of the trade winds, surf conditions, and colder water temperature.

You won't find beaches lined with palm trees in Aruba; rather, look for the hardy but stooped Divi, which always bow southwest in acknowledgement of the trade winds that blow across Aruba from the west.

The daily cycle of the tide, the gentle breeze of the trade winds, and the soothing rustle of the coconut palms bring a soothing metronomic rhythm to the day and enhances one's appreciation for these natural surroundings.

El Niño is the periodic weakening of the trade winds.

Earlier this month, scientists proposed a strengthening of trade winds is drawing heat into the deep ocean.

One thing, there's the lack of trade wind strength.

This might make some sense if you consider for a moment that La Nina / El Nino are basically artifacts of trade wind anomalies.

Lastly the simulations are used to help evaluate simple models of trade wind boundary layers.

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.

Not exact matches

To make matters worse, Cousins has gotten wind of Karl's plan to trade him through his teammates.

Andrés Martinez is editorial director of Zocalo Public Square, for which he writes the Trade Winds column.

Over 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy Counwind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy CounWind Energy Council.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

Just over 3.1 GW of new offshore wind was installed in Europe last year, with total capacity hitting almost 15.8 GW, the trade body said.

«It's a trade, it's not a long term investment but it's a trade that actually has the wind in its sails right now, because of the massive improvements in the consumer.

A trade war triggered by safeguard tariffs would open a new wound in the global trading system, because it would unravel almost a quarter of a century of discipline and dethrone the WTO as the arbiter of global trade and a check on protectionism.

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.