Sentences with phrase «regions nearer the equator»

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and a British - built lander called Beagle 2 will take surface samples from dry regions nearer the equator of the planet and perform similar analyses to reveal details of the planet's geological past.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.

Not exact matches

But these low - oxygen waters near the equator are expanding, because the water in the polar regions is not as cold and is not absorbing as much oxygen as it used to be.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

For instance, UV radiation amounts to a mere 7 % of solar energy, but its variation produces changes in the stratosphere near the Equator, all the way to the polar regions, which govern climate.

Regions at the planet's equator seem once to have been near a pole; possibly the entire lithosphere has shifted in relation to the axis of spin.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

Because chronotype may differ by geographic location, with a greater morning preference near the equator, the investigators studied diabetic patients from two different geographic regions: Chicago and Thailand.

RSL are mostly found on steep rocky slopes in dark regions of Mars, such as the southern mid-latitudes, Valles Marineris near the equator, and in Acidalia Planitia on the northern plains.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

During the summer of 2017, the Cassini team used Keck Observatory to take near - infrared spectroscopic data of the regions near Saturn's equator, just as Cassini was diving between Saturn and its rings during its final orbits.

Images of Neptune taken during twilight observing revealed an extremely large bright storm system near Neptune's equator (labeled «cloud complex» in the upper figure), a region where astronomers have never seen a bright cloud.

The creatures roamed at the site during the Middle Jurassic, when Skye was part of a subtropical island near the equator and the region was dotted with lagoons, rivers, and beaches.

The patterns are not particularly surprising, there is higher salinity in the sub-tropical evaporative regions, lower salinity near the equator (because of the rain!)

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.

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

The choice of region Poon for CO2 measurement, seems at first glance quite sensible: — Near equator (NH has higher CO2 than SH — the same argument that makes Mauna Loa a good choice)-- Appear to be average vegetation.

T0 can be taken as more or less constant near 255 K while P0 is latitude dependent near 400 mbar at the equator, and near the ground in the polar regions (as there there is very little water vapour and the optical thickness of the air on most of the thermal infrared spectrum is low).

The ITCZ is located at the ascending branch of the Hadley cell, an atmospheric circulation associated with rising air near the equator and descending air in subtropical regions (see Fig. 2 for a schematic).

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.

Examining the structure of the global cloud field one can see, a long line of bright, dense clouds near the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), more clearly evident over the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific oceans.

Regions that are near the equator are already hot, and a further increase in heat could be devastating.

The number of species increases exponentially from the regions near the poles across the moderate latitudes and to the equator.

A simple example is compare average surface temperatures at or near the equator to the average surface temperatures in the desert regions north or south of 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.