Sentences with phrase «southward at»

It is also often called an «overturning» circulation because cold, salty waters sink in the North Atlantic and travel back southward at deep ocean depths.

Instead, she found that the key AMO features she identified are linked with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a major current in which warm, salty water flows northward in the upper Atlantic while colder water flows southward at greater depths.

Bart R, As already said by ivpo, the excavations at Herjolfsnes is one part of the story, but there are more: the borehole temperatures were from near the summit (GRIP) and more southward at lower altitude (Dye 3), which shows 1.5 times larger amplitudes.

Hereabouts, the ice moves southward at about 15 km every day, carried by the far less salty Greenland Current.

This water flows southward at great depth.

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

Update: Sales announcement at $ 85 million here Southern California, poking northward into Santa Barbara and stretching southward to the Mexican border, will soon become Tribune Territory.

In the first place, the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Iberian Peninsula and north Africa by only a few miles, so it is a logical assumption that chiles would filter southward from Cadiz to Tangier by at least the early 1500s.

Observation: Southward was the heir apparent at the weakest position in the secondary — and was moved.

«Because the areas north of 95th Street have developed new storm - water retention facilities, drainage southward has slowed,» consultant Chuck Hulse told Naperville Park District committee members at a recent meeting.

«I feel good about where we are in the race,» she told the Valley News before entering a Chevrolet Suburban that ferried her southward to meetings in Ballston Spa, Greenwich, Queensbury and her election night headquarters at the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls.

The trail will start from the Outer Harbor trail on Fuhrmann Boulevard and continue southward, with the goal of ending at Woodlawn Beach Park in Hamburg.

Now, a detailed look at the magnetic signatures from the lab of paleomagnetist John Tarduno of the University of Rochester in New York confirms the suspicion that the hot spot drifted southward 3 to 5 centimeters per year — faster than many crustal plates move.

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.

He made a successful landing at a point near his former situation in MacMurdo Sound, and continued to be engaged in exploration to the 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.

After lunch at a local restaurant, we continue our journey southward along the Pacific coast, crossing the Peruvian desert to arrive at the beautiful Bay of Paracas.

«We're expecting that if indeed this plays out the way that die - off occurred that we're looking at mortalities being higher and the moribillivirus spreading southward and likely continuing until spring of 2014,» Teri Rowles, National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with NOAA Fisheries, said during a conference call today (Aug. 27).

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 Indian subcontinent is pushing under the Tibetan Plateau at roughly 1.8 meters per century, but it regularly gets stuck; when the obstruction gives way, a section of the Tibetan plate lurches a few meters southward and releases the pent - up energy in an earthquake.

Then, like toothpaste coming out of a tube, it squirted back southward to emerge at the Himalayas, where it pushed up a chunk of Asia to make the mountains the tallest on the planet.

Fray Jorge lies at the north end of a vast rain forest belt that stretches southward some 600 miles to the tip of Chile.

Nuclear engineer Shih - Yew Chen of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois says he's «not at all surprised» that iodine - 131 is showing up in Tokyo's water because if the wind blows southward from the plant, it could carry radiation that far.

An hour later we joined the I - 79 at Erie, Pennsylvania, and aimed the Pacifica southward.

This afternoon, continue southward to mysterious Nasca, with a stop at the Huacachina sand dunes.

After you're done at Bacalar Chico, your skipper will take you outside the reef for a 12 - mile ride southward to the Basil Jones Cut where you'll enter the protective waters behind the reef.

Beyond Outlet, Coronado and the rest of the coast southward to Imperial Beach is all gently sloping beach break with fun and forgiving surf, the exception being the unsurfable offshore sand bars at the mouth of the Tijuana River.

The mountain range starts at Blyde River Canyon, located just west of Kruger National Park, and heads southward, through the smaller country of Swaziland, and ending near Lesotho.

The glorious Kapiti Coast has many lovely beaches en route for a quick splash or snack, there are potteries at Te Horo and Waikanae, a superb lookout over Kapiti Island's rare bird sanctuary; and two great vintage museums: the Southward (Motor) museum at Paraparaumu and the Tramway museum at Paekakariki.

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.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

Therefore, at any particular latitude (say 24 N) the total amount of northward mass flow is pretty much equal to the amount of southward mass flow (otherwise mass would be accumulating somewhere else).

More often than not, the expansion of the circum - polar vortex which shifts the jet - stream southward brings colder temps to the mid-latitudes and also results in above normal temps at the higher latitudes.

Previous research has pointed the finger at a southward shift in storm tracks and weather systems during the late 20th century.

At times, some tentacles of it will slip southward and bring cold air outbreaks into the U.S., but this year, we're seeing a huge chunk of it, most of it descending into the U.S.»

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.

At around 15 ° S near the Australian coast the SEC divides forming the southward flow of the EAC.

The expansion of the Hadley cell at that time is reflected in a southward shift of the the high pressure cells and the jets in the southern hemisphere.

The IMF Bz component turned southward, remained south between 05:32 UT and 08:20 UT on May 15 reaching a value of − 44 nT at 05:56 UT and the high solar wind velocity (close to 1000 km / s) are the cause of a geomagnetic superstorm occurred with a Dst peak excursion of − 263 nT.

Together with the progressive shortening of the ISM season and gradual southward retreat of the summer ITCZ, the total amount of monsoon precipitation decreased in those areas located at the northern fringe of the ISM domain, but increased in areas closer to the equator.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)-- characterized by warm surface waters flowing northward and cold deep waters flowing southward throughout the Atlantic basin — is defined as the zonal integral of the northward mass flux at a particular latitude.

NSF - funded scientists believe at least part of the answer lies in the frozen tundras of Siberia, where greater - than - average autumn snowfall causes weather patterns in the Arctic regions to shift southward into the midlatitudes during the winter, while less - than - average snowfall causes the patterns to retreat poleward.

The lack of ice creation in the Artic will have reduced the southward flow of cold brine at lower levels also.

This water flows at depths, southward and beneath the Gulf Stream, to the Southern Ocean, then through the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

This southward moving snowline at winter is impossible in global warming theory scenarios.

At the very least, potential exists for unusually far southward extent of some wintry precipitation for late March... given cold sector temperature anomalies of 10 - 25 degrees Fahrenheit below normal.