Sentences with phrase «southward as»

Cold pools that were fed by Arctic air shunting southward as the Polar Vortex collapsed and remnant continental troughs emerged.

In general, the winds tend to dive slightly southward as they approach the Peninsula, an effect of the mountain ridges of the Andes and other circulation features in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea (the ASL mentioned above).

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.

Not exact matches

Local officials say the evacuations are a precaution as a plume of noxious black smoke drifts southward from the plant.

There are too many people, as in the southward - moving Sahara Desert, who are now starving, and many others are so undernourished as to be not far from the edge of starvation.

For passengers, meals are the last link to civilization as they head ever southward on a classic route through the Straits of Magellan.

As such, the southward run is not favourable to any producer.

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

At the time, Earth's climate was warmer than it is today, and as Antarctica moved southward, settling into its home over the South Pole, the continent teemed with plants and animals.

On the day after Christmas in 1889 the» Vincennes,» «Peacock,» «Porpoise,» and «Flying Fish» headed southward from Sydney and, falling in with the land in latitude 64 degrees south and longitude 158 degrees East of Greenwich, on the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of Greenwich.

They also discovered interesting patterns, such as how the birds fly up to six times as fast during their northward flight than they do in their southward migration.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

This «bipolar seesaw behavior of the Atlantic Ocean,» as the paper calls it, led to a southward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which carried the monsoon rains away from sub-Saharan Africa and into the South African region.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

The southward creep of the Sahara however suggests that additional mechanisms are at work as well, including climate cycles such as the AMO.»

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

The river swelled as it rushed southward on the continent's downward slope, toward the depression in the planet that would become known as the Gulf of Mexico.

Oki says the team might find telltale signs of higher waves as it extends its survey southward into more hard - hit areas closer to the epicenter of the quake.

The film follows the true life story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in New York, who in 1841 was deceived and sent southward to be sold as a slave.

Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's final message before he passed away, and it revelas an artist still grappling with the complexities and vagaries of the human heart, as well as organs slightly southward.

With skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testament.

The night was unusually chilly, the wind sharpened by the speed of the train as it rolled southward through the darkened valley.

Among other major roads, it's served by I - 40 which runs west to Albuquerque, NM and east to Oklahoma City, as well as by I - 27 which connects southward to Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, and Abilene via I - 20.

Unable to prevent an estimated $ 5 million to $ 10 million worth of bird damage each fall to a sunflower crop which fetches between $ 330 million and $ 500 million per year, Wildlife Services staff theorized in 1994 that they might accomplish more by poisoning the birds as they migrate north each spring, so that fewer would join the fall migrations southward.

Outside of the caves, the views extend southward — a spectacular view as the sun began to set and launch a thousand pastel colors over the distant plains.

I waved goodbye to Ian as he rode off towards France, and turned my bike southward.

Each October, as the northern ice pushes southward, small groups of eastern gray whales in the eastern Pacific start a two - to three - month, 8,000 — 11,000 km (5,000 — 6,800 mi) trip south.

Then as I traveled southward through the region from Mexico I kept hearing the same reports from other travelers who were heading northward, having recently come up from Nicaragua.

Migration This seabird is not recognized as the migratory bird, however the northern birds may move southward during the winter season toward ice - free areas.

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.

Due to ocean and wind currents and differences in geography, weather conditions are not exactly the same in Coron and El Nido, toward the northern tip of the province, as they are in Puerto Princesa, the capital city of the province located about 300 km southward.

Conceived as something of a compensatory response to the presumed southward pull of the Turner Prize, the Northern Art Prize will provide a welcome boost to the pockets of the four nominated artists working in the north of England.

As we all now know, Art Basel Miami Beach's 2016 edition was marked by more political work than usual, even if many of the VIPs skipped this year's southward art collecting hajj, making for thinned - out crowds.

In 1968 - 1970, her commercial gallery, The Art Wheel, represented the best local artists and crafts people, simultaneously Norwegian Caribbean Shipping line contracted her services as a Caribbean artist to paint some 360 works on paper that depicted Caribbean life, characters young and old, scenery, vegetation, flowers and landscapes, that would be permanently mounted on three ships, The MS Starward, MS Skyward and MS Southward — a mammoth and rare commercial undertaking which took her two years to complete.

The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Neilson, Director at the Zabludowicz Collection and is accompanied by an extensive public programme of talks, events and screenings as well as an artist's book, designed by Malcolm Southward and Mark Holt.

So when a deep trough like the one this winter happens in the future, the southward surge of cold air won't be as extreme.

As both people's mobility and their ability to select the climate they prefer have increased throughout this past century, the core of the U.S. population has moved southward — into warmer climates.

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The coldest weather of the month occurred on the 19th and 20th, as an unusually strong Arctic high pushed southward across the region.

MOVE observes the cold deep branch of the AMOC as it passes southward east of the Caribbean, crossing a section between Guadeloupe and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

As it flows southward it splits from the coast at around 31 ° to 32 ° S. By the time it reaches 33 ° S it begins to undergo a southward meander while another portion of the transport turns back northward in a tight recirculation.

As it skirts along the East Coast of Australia it carries a large amount of warm tropical water from the equator southward.

As the entire pattern shifts slightly westward (retrogresses) this week, this modified Arctic airmass will be able to spill southward and even slightly westward over the West Coast and intermountain states.

JULIA Gillard has invoked a doomsday - like scenario of metre - high sea level rises and a 2000 km southward shift of Australia's climactic zones as she battles an opposition scare campaign over her proposed carbon tax.

As the region of maximum warming moved southward during November (vii), waters around the northern Antilles cooled; low - level heat stress affected the northern coast of South America until it mostly dissipated around the end of December 2005 [12].

Industrial fishing fleets initially targeted the northern hemisphere's coastal fish stocks, then as stocks were depleted they expanded progressively southward on average close to one degree of latitude annually since 1950.

As Howell notes, the opening may only be temporary since open water in this region provides a pathway for the southward flow of multi-year ice through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The overturning circulation pushes water through the Atlantic Basin, distributing heat as it moves warmer surface water from the tropics toward Greenland and the high northern latitudes and carries colder, deeper water from the North Atlantic southward.

As eastern Pacific temperature trends from Alaska to the Southern California Bight reversed, species of fish that had once moved northward are now retreating southward.

The arrival of a single MC, in general, is connected to a decreasing of SPE and consequently of the ionospheric absorption as it is observed in this case when Bz flows Southward, while the large decay, observed in this case, in the recovery phase of Dst index is connected, in general, to the presence of multiple Interplanetary medium structures, as two MCs, near Earth (Xie et al. 2006).