Sentences with phrase «southerly current»
Bergs, when first liberated on the west Greenland shore, are out of the strongest sweep of the southerly current, and they may take some months to find their way out of Davis Strait, while again others may at once drift into the current and move unobstructed until demolished in the Gulf Stream.
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But current genetic research suggests that they took a more southerly route, crossing from the African coast of the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula and then following the coast to India.
Southerly katabatic winds and coastal currents produced the circulation field and retentive gyre shown in (a).
«Under the ice shelves there are significant tidal currents and the high southerly latitudes pose difficulties for the AUV's underwater navigation.
PUNTA ARENA CANYONS (Small Cut) Typical Depth Range: 60 - 100 ft (18 - 30 meters) Typical Current Conditions: None to mild southerly Typical Visibility: 100 ft (30 meters) Expertise Required: Advanced with specialized training in deep diving
The prevailing direction of the surface current within the reef lagoon and Chetumal Bay is southerly, and there are strong currents in the reef channels.
«Europe is situated right on the main pathway that air and ocean currents take from more southerly latitudes into the Arctic,» said Mauritsen, who is from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
Like the earlier warming event and migrations, the most recent northward advance of small fish such as sardines, anchovies and herring correlate very well with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and the current distribution of fish from southerly waters is «almost identical to that described by Aurich for 1951.»
Iguanas arrived on the islands several million years ago, courtesy of a floating raft of vegetation and the southerly Panama current, from somewhere around the Amazon basin.