Sentences with phrase «travel along the equator»

In the tropical Pacific, the distance from Indonesia to South America and the way tropical winds push warm water west combine to allow special waves to travel along the equator and are amplified by the atmospheric wind response to produce large fluctuations in temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

In the tropical Pacific, the distance from Indonesia to South America and the way tropical winds push warm water west combine to allow special waves to travel along the equator and are amplified by the atmospheric wind response to produce large fluctuations in temperatures (up to 3 degrees Celsius) in the Eastern Pacific that last for months.

Not exact matches

This strange but educated guess came in response to strong evidence that seismic waves traveling through the inner core along the axis of the magnetic poles complete their trip through Earth about four seconds more quickly than do waves traveling from one side of the equator to the other.

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

They can scoot They travel a lot, spending summers feeding in polar regions and making the long trip to the Equator as winter comes along.

In general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, too.

The descended air then travels toward the equator along the surface, replacing the air that rose from the equatorial zone, closing the loop of the Hadley cell.

Stronger downward transport of water mass must be balanced by upwelling somewhere else, and this occurs in regions of divergence (Ekman suction)- along the equatorward travelling arms of the gyres, and along the equator itself.

These westerly wind bursts sometimes generate long waves called Kelvin waves, which travel east along the equator at about 2.5 meters per second.