Sentences with phrase «southward into»

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.

This field guide focuses on the glacial geology and paleoecology beginning in the Paradise Valley and progressing southward into northern Yellowstone National Park.

Instead, he says, it's simply because the area has cooled, and winds out of the north have pushed ice southward into the Bering Sea.

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.

In the northern Sahel, grassland is turning to desert, forcing herders southward into the farming areas.

Take a boat ride on Upper Waterton Lake, whose emerald waters stretch southward into Montana.

According to NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Kansas will be 4 degrees warmer in winter without Arctic ice, which regularly generates cold air masses that flow southward into the U.S. (You've probably heard weather forecasters say the following hundreds of times: People in the middle part of the country had better button up.

However, in 2010, active weather systems spread southward into Pakistan.

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.

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.

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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.

Islam expanded southward through the activities of Muslims from India until it reached Natal and Cape Province and spread a little into the Transvaal and Rhodesia.

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.

Join TravelQuest in the summer of 2017 for an incomparable Pacific Northwest eclipse adventure that includes cruising among the San Juan Islands, crossing into Canada to visit the charming city of Victoria, and then a leisurely loop back southward, combining artsy Port Angeles with the unique rainforest ecosystem of Olympic National Park.

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.

A few miles west lies the mighty Mississippi River, pressing the soils and waste of the Midwest southward, past New Orleans, into the Gulf of Mexico.

The New Madrid Fault line is a 150 - mile fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois into Arkansas.

Taking into consideration the 300th anniversary of New Orleans's founding and the city's strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico, P. 4 will direct its focus southward, placing greater emphasis on art and artists that engage the Global South, specifically from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the European powers that colonized this region.

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.

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.»

A small low pressure system is now expected to develop near the Washington state coastline on Thursday and swing southward down the Pacific coast into Northern California on Friday.

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.

only new and young ice moves southward, because an ice barrier forms in the north that blocks all entry of Arctic ice into Nares Strait; and 3.

These carry the North Atlantic's excess salt southward from the bottom of the Atlantic, down into the southern oceans, and some continues into the Pacific Ocean.

When the Arctic Oscillation is negative, cold Arctic air masses tend to plunge southward and into the U.S., spawning snowstorms and leading to cooler than average conditions.

From about 1999 to 2003, the outbreak was primarily confined to Canada's Vancouver Island, but during 2004 to 2009, instances of the disease spread to the mainland coast of British Columbia, and then southward to coastal Washington and Oregon — all locations with a relatively similar climate of wet, mild winters... If global warming were to blame, the disease ought to be moving northward into regions where it would have otherwise been too cold in years past.

The pattern is also associated with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, which is the dominant atmospheric pattern observed during severe winters and comprises a weakened jet stream and more cold air intrusions southward from the Arctic into North America and Eurasia.

The corrosive water then spread southward through the Atlantic, eastward through the Southern Ocean, and into the Pacific, dissolving sediments as it went.

But it got even larger when a cold Jet Stream made a sharp dip southward from Canada down into the eastern U.S..

Then further east — and southward — into the Hillcrest neighborhood sees the rate lower yet again to $ 806.

The New Madrid Fault line is a 150 - mile fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois into Arkansas.