Sentences with phrase «return southward»

The warm waters give up their heat in the bitterly cold regions monitored by OSNAP, become denser, and sink, forming ocean - bottom currents that return southward, hugging the perimeter of the ocean basins.

In 2004, more of the northward Gulf Stream flow was recirculating back southward in the thermocline within the subtropical gyre, and less was returning southward at depth.

Not exact matches

The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction.

Safety Dezmen Southward may end up being a force on the backend, and they are going to need the defense to carry its share of the weight for once to return to the top of the NFC South.

Now that they are not getting returns from the optimism they invested in Buhari, whose ill - health has largely distracted him from governance, the people have become forlorn and appear ready to re-invest the same optimism and support in the presidential aspiration of another of their own, not inclined to look southward.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

Most members of the Eastern Pacific Gray whales pass by Point Cabrillo twice; once on their southward journey from November to March, and with some returning north as early as February and others traveling through May.

Take off from Maroochy River, then bank slowly north and follow the beaches to Noosa Heads National Park, circle over Noosa Village and return along the beautiful coastline southward, all the way to Caloundra and the north end of Pumicestone Passage Marine Park.

a) The wind driven gyre fills the entire basin (between the rapid western boundary current and the slower southward returning currents in the rest of the Atlantic), and extends vertically down to the top of the NADW.

But, he points out: «The method concentrates only on the upper [northward] flow - it doesn't give you much information on the returning flow southward.»