Sentences with phrase «subtropical ocean areas»
Figure 7u - 7 shows the tropical and subtropical ocean areas where hurricanes typically form on our planet.
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The patch is in an area of ocean between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — a kind of swirling dead end for Pacific currents, which have been depositing floating plastic trash there for decades.
These reefs are found in tropical and subtropical waters and take up a very small percentage of the ocean's surface area.
«The fact that we are seeing an expansion of the ocean's least productive areas as the subtropical gyres warm is consistent with our understanding of the impact of global warming,» he said.
As mentioned above, highest surface densities in the world ocean are reached where water is very cold, while lower densities are found in the saltier but warmer tropical and subtropical areas.
Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.