Sentences with phrase «southward by»

Meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley of Global Weather Oscillations http://www.globalweathercycles.com, says the gravitational cycles act like a magnet by pulling the atmosphere's high pressure systems northward or southward by as much as 3 or 4 degrees of latitude from their normal seasonal positions.

This mass of air has been pushed southward by a warmer, high - pressure system that moved north and east toward Alaska from the Pacific, Weber told OurAmazingPlanet.

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

Not exact matches

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.

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Significantly, by far the largest proportion of those who commuted that distance (17,029 out of 69,306 residents) did so southward, toward the Big Apple.

Well, you have the Pamirs, which are broad valleys flanked by mountains extending southward from Russia to Pakistan's borders.

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.

The seafloor animals of the Southern Ocean shelf have long been isolated by the deep ocean surrounding Antarctica and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with little scope for southward migration.

By analyzing bison fossils from within the corridor region, the researchers were able track the movement of northern bison southward into the corridor and southern bison northward.

The multinational World Conservation Union, headquartered in Switzerland, is coordinating a project to create a massive transborder greenbelt that would eventually extend from the border of Russia and Finland southward through areas once obscured by the iron curtain: the old, rural East and West German border and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Later, there was some movement of northern bison southward, with the two populations overlapping in the corridor by 13,000 years ago.

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 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.

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

Wriggling like a garden hose, each southward kink in the wind tends to be balanced out by a northward bend somewhere else.

By Brooks Hays, UPI COLLEGE STATION, Texas, — Monarch butterflies have begun their 3,000 - mile trek southward; with summer coming to a close in Canada, it's time to make their way to Mexico for the winter.

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.

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.

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.

Newly pregnant females lead the southward migration, followed by their mates.

From the lake district near Bariloche on Ruta 40 by way of the dry foothills of the Andes Mountains southward to the glaciers in National Park Los Glaciares near El Calafate.

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.

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.

SUNDAY launches its first art fair in London, sponsored by Zabludowicz Collection Rebranding of the Collection takes place and an ongoing working relationship with designers Malcolm Southward and Mark Holt.

In the case of the first explanation, the mechanism by which a weakened jet stream invites Arctic air southward is not presented.

The magnitude and sense of net fresh water flow between the Arctic and Nordic Seas is determined by the difference between poleward flowing saline Atlantic waters and southward flowing fresh waters.

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.

In recent months, new research, in part inspired by last winter's «polar vortex» excursion southward into the eastern United States, and the White House - spurred speculation that it was caused by anthropogenic climate change, has hit the scientific press.

If the northward cross-equatorial energy flux strengthens (indicated schematically by the blue line), but the slope remains fixed, the energy flux equator moves southward.

It was caused by a weather front with a warm tropical air mass (it is currently high summer in South America) moving southward and meeting a somewhat cooler air mass.

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.

What we experienced was one of those big southward dips in the jet stream caused by warming air in the Arctic, in combination with a big northward swing over California and the Eastern Pacific.

In particular, a stronger southern center - of - action of the NAO (i.e., a stronger high pressure anomaly) and a northward shift of the SLP dipole nodal line is associated with greater precipitation deficits over southern and central Europe; and a southward shift of the nodal line accompanied by stronger anomalous westerly flow across northern Europe and Russia favors enhanced precipitation and warming in these regions (Fig. 4).

7) I'd also love to hear an explanation that reconciles the apparent stability of temperatures implied by the «handle» portion of the hockey stick with the significant southward movement of the treeline over the period of the Hantemirov.

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

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation A major current in the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward flow of colder water in the deep Atlantic.

When the boundary between C (Mild Temperate / mesothermal climates) and D (Cold winter / microthermal climates) is increased to 32 F (not the 27 F suggested by Köppen), this creates a smaller C zone located further southward.

The amount of detrital petrological tracers transported by icebergs and deposited in the ice - rafted debris belt (an Atlantic region between 40 - 50 ° N) greatly increases during episodes of southward and eastward advection of cold surface waters and drift ice from the Nordic and Labrador seas (Bond et al., 2001; figure 48 A).

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.

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.

The eddy transport mechanism results from a reduction in both the diffusive and advective southward eddy heat transports, driven by decreasing isopycnal slopes and decreasing along - isopycnal temperature gradients on the northern edge of the peak warming.

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

The MMS coincided with deepest LIA cooling and was likely caused by southward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

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.

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