Sentences with phrase «stronger trade winds»

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.

«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.

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.

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...

Likewise, the more vigorous ocean circulation forced by stronger trade winds forces more heat to be exported from the Indian Ocean, around the southern tip of Africa, into the South Atlantic.

El Nino with less upwelling and less trade wind warms the upper ocean, La Nina with more upwelling and stronger trade winds cools the upper ocean.

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

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

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

That rise in OHC is associated with unusually strong trade winds.

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

«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.

And, just like that window - mounted unit, the strong trade winds will eventually break down.

Strong trade winds have been forcing heat into ocean depths, contributing to a temporary slowdown in land surface warming over the past 15 to 20 years that some have called a warming hiatus, pause or false pause.

Strong trade winds have been forcing heat into ocean depths, contributing to a temporary slowdown in land surface warming over the past 15 to 20 years that some have called a warming hiatus

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.

As an added bonus, Maluaka is hidden behind the mountains of Haleakala and is protected from Hawaii's strong trade winds, so you can expect calm water that makes snorkeling easy and relaxing.

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

A positive feedback is created: to compensate the pressure differences the stronger trade winds become permanent and La Niña keeps itself firmly in place, for months or longer.

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.

These details are certainly of some interest to scientists: For instance, if extra heat did go into the ocean because of, say, strong trade winds in the Pacific, that could set the stage for more rapid warming in the years ahead.

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.»

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.

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.

Strong trade winds in the Pacific have likely had a dampening effect on the global average temperature by essentially allowing the ocean to store more heat, but those winds are expected to weaken in the near future as part of a natural fluctuation.

During an El Niño, the strong trade winds that usually blow from east to west across the Pacific weaken and waft in the opposite direction.

La Niña is a time of strong trade winds, upwelling of cold water along the pacific coast of South America, and good fishing.