Sentences with phrase «prevailing westerly winds»

They confirmed that human - induced changes have caused the belt of prevailing westerly winds over the Southern Ocean to shift towards Antarctica.

They confirmed that human - induced changes have caused the belt of prevailing westerly winds over the Southern Ocean to shift towards Antarctica.

At this latitude, swift, prevailing westerly winds continually churn the waters as they circumnavigate the continent, earning the region the nickname «the screaming»60s».

This difference in degree shelters the beaches from prevailing westerly winds and swells.

However, rotation results in generally easterly winds at the Equator and the Poles with prevailing westerly winds in the middle latitudes.

The purpose of the study was to determine if power plant emission reductions have affected the atmospheric concentrations of mercury entering western Maryland before being transported to population centers further east by prevailing westerly winds.

Here, gradual changes in the prevailing westerly winds have modified the ocean - atmosphere heat exchange, particularly in the Southern Indian Ocean.

Once this marine layer has formed, the prevailing westerly winds advect the clouds over the coastal lands.

The low - altitude stratus clouds that make up the June Gloom cloud layer form over the nearby ocean, and are transported over the coastal areas by the region's prevailing westerly winds.

The ocean environment provides a mild climate with few extremes and a prevailing westerly wind.

The troposphere is where we live and where our weather patterns are carried across the landscape by the prevailing westerly winds.

It interconnects the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and provide an uninterrupted stretch for the prevailing westerly winds to significantly increase wave amplitudes.

In 1856, William Ferrel proposed the existence of a circulation cell in the mid-latitudes with air being deflected by the Coriolis force to create the prevailing westerly winds.

These jet variations underlie the variability associated with patterns such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and have considerable societal impact through variations in the prevailing westerly winds.

They postulated that moisture carried northward by the Gulf Stream was transported by prevailing westerly winds to Eurasia.

When the Gulf Stream is off the New England coast, it's driven east by the prevailing westerly winds.