Sentences with phrase «strong trade winds»

Very strong trade winds and prolonged La Nina episodes in the near future is all that is required to reverse the trend.

The Pacific Ocean was the primary repository of that heat as unusually strong trade winds piled up warm water in the west, pinning it against Asia and Australia but those waters became so warm some of the heat leaked into the Indian Ocean.

The best way to envision the relation between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun - warmed waters far towards the west.

The «strong trade winds,» says study co-author Gerald Meehl of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, «are bringing cooler water to the surface in the equatorial Pacific and mixing more heat into the deeper ocean.»

Strong trade winds cross the country creating ideal windsurfing and kite surfing conditions off the northern Guanacaste coast.

With its ideal combination of strong trade winds and consistent surf, the island is one of the world's best windsurfing destinations.

With strong trade winds almost every day of the year, Bonaire sailing will provide an unbelievable array of views as you enjoy your evening or go out into the areas beautiful coastal waters to...

«We know that winds flip - flop between periods of strong trade winds and periods of weak trade winds,» Thompson said.

The Australian and American researchers drew a similar comparison in their paper between strong trade winds and a slight cooling in global surface temperatures from 1940 to the 1970s.

«But if the last 20 to 30 years are not the norm because of these unusually strong trade winds, then there won't necessarily be that impact on the fisheries.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.

Earliest travel memory: Sitting in a Balinese restaurant with my parents, eating the most delicious chicken satay while a strong trade wind blew off the water.

Stronger trade winds push warm surface water towards the west, and bring cold deeper waters to the surface to replace them.

Particularly «The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.»

The stronger trade winds during La Nina do not extend past 130E on average, and are met over the western Pacific by stronger than normal westerlies coming from the east Indian Ocean, causing strong convergence and above - normal rainfall in the western Pacific and around the Maritime Continent.

The Sea Surface Temperatures of the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans remain elevated during the La Nina because the stronger trade winds reduce cloud cover.

lack - footed cousins forage in waters much further south, gaining little benefit from the stronger trade winds.

Their black - footed cousins forage in waters much further south, gaining little benefit from the stronger trade winds.

The recharging takes place during La Nina events when stronger trade winds decrease cloud cover and allow more downward shortwave radiation to warm the tropical Pacific.

England and his colleagues calculated that the stronger trade winds have reduced the global average surface temperature by 0.1 - 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.18 - 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit)-- enough, they write, «to account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001.»

X Anomaly says: February 3, 2012 at 3:43 pm I think a good way to conceptualize the pools of warm and cool water is that when there are stronger trade winds, all the warm water is bunched up over in the west.

To see this correlation a little better, I've reversed the sign so that weaker Trade Winds are shown as positive values and stronger Trade Winds are shown as negative values.

I think a good way to conceptualize the pools of warm and cool water is that when there are stronger trade winds, all the warm water is bunched up over in the west.

Around 8200 BP saw expansion of village settlements in the Indus, Bulgaria, and England, and stronger trade winds as in the MWP.

The greater the SST difference, the stronger the trade winds.

Not exact matches

While antitrade winds are also blowing strong on the other side of the Atlantic — as the failed TTIP campaign shows — trade is likely to be a constant source of tension between Washington and some European capitals in the next four years.

Now, the tariffs alone are likely to hurt the economy, but a strong majority of Fed officials said that the possibility of trade retaliation and general uncertainty over the policy could wind up being damaging.

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China posted surprisingly weak foreign trade growth in April, signaling that the world's second largest economy continues to face strong head winds, both from abroad and at home

Using climate models to understand the physical processes that were at play during the glacial periods, the team were able to show that a gradual rise in CO2 strengthened the trade winds across Central America by inducing an El Nino - like warming pattern with stronger warming in the East Pacific than the Western Atlantic.

Phytoplankton production is enhanced by strong winds (because they cause upwelling of nutrients from deeper waters) and diminished by weaker winds, and the scientists found evidence that trade winds were weaker then.

The group also found evidence that trade winds were stronger and surface temperatures were cooler from 1940 to 1970, providing additional evidence of the relationship between the Pacific trade winds and the rates at which global temperatures have been changing.

For the past few decades, the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, as the influential cycle is known, has been in what's called a negative phase, meaning trades winds have been strong.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

Study links stronger Pacific trade winds to pause in global warming.

Over the Atlantic basin, the amplified trough is associated with stronger upper - level westerly winds and stronger lower - level easterly trade winds, both of which increase the vertical wind shear and suppress hurricane activity.

Snorkeling on board Big Mama, is visibility and sea condition dependant, as the best bays to snorkel around Magnetic Island are exposed to our strong south easterly trade winds approximately April to September, but we still have many beautiful days too which allows us to show you the BEST fringing reef & marine life on the island!

The same brisk trade winds and strong currents that make the waters dangerous for swimming also churn up flotsam and jetsam — and intrepid beachcombers.

Damai Bungalows, South Sumatra 14th September 2017» G'day all just a quick wrap up from last week for you all, waves have been hovering around the headhigh and above for the most part with a coupla small days thrown in, trade winds have been blowing strong which... [Read more...]

The reason the dry season is so much cooler than the wet season is that the northeast trade winds are strongest at this time of year, blowing cooling breezes along the coast which help keep the temperature down.

I never made it there until 8.30 AM and even then the wind was still blowing off shore for the first 30 minutes of my session before the SE (on shore at Canggu) Trade wind kicked in and slowly got stronger and stronger.

Surfing conditions out there were a little blustery with a strong off shore SE Trade wind.

The strong north easterly trade winds which affect the island usually ensure clouds never hang around for long, but July 2011 was an exception.

From March through October the easterly trade winds blow, making the leeward west coasts of the atoll the favored diving locations when the winds are strong.

As the Trade wind got stronger and stronger today the Outer Reefs were not looking up to their usual perfection that's for sure.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

Regarding El Nino, here's the recent update from Australia: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/ «The past three or four weeks has seen a gradual strengthening of La Nina indicators: the near - equatorial Pacific has cooled both on and below the surface, the Trade Winds have been mostly stronger than normal and cloudiness has been lower than average over much of the tropical Pacific.

The cause of the change is a particular change in winds, especially in the Pacific Ocean where the subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, thereby changing ocean currents and increasing the subtropical overturning in the ocean, providing a mechanism for heat to be carried down into the ocean.

22 Cause and Effect La Nina Cause: Stronger than normal trade winds push warm water farther west Effect: Polar jet stream is amplified, brings cold air to northwest.