Equatorial Countercurrent — between the westward
warm equatorial currents of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
Warm equatorial currents — Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans.
Warming equatorial currents later separated northern and southern groups.
Not exact matches
While waters the islands to the south are generally cool, Darwin and Wolf are influenced by the
warmer waters of the Panama
Current and the North
Equatorial Countercurrent.
1) It appears AGW that melts arctic freshwater also results in a negative feedback that acts against runaway
warming; more
warm Gulf Stream volume eventually results in less cool volume from Antarctic subpolar
current to North
equatorial at the base of Cuba.
Along the east coast, the
warm Agulhas
Current brings nutrient - poor, tropical waters southward from the
equatorial Indian Ocean.
Each ocean has two
warm - water
equatorial currents that move westward.
El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean
current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying
warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian
current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the
equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing
Such things as the closing of the isthmus of Panama, and the thrusting of the Himalyas 10 km into the
equatorial atmospheric winds, seem to have been what initiated the onset of the
current cycles of ice ages, while when the Panama gap was open and
warm currents could flow round the world, the earth was
warmer than today.
A powerful pulse of heat that will reinforce the
current weak, mid-ocean El Nino, lend energy to ridiculously
warm Pacific Ocean sea surface states, and pave the way for a long - duration
equatorial heat spike.
Then, as the La Nina of 1998/99/00 / 01 progressed, the trade winds, Pacific
Equatorial Currents, and a phenomenon known as a Rossby wave returned the remaining surface and subsurface
warm water to the western Pacific.
The winds are probably less efficient in that regard than the ocean
currents are so we might well see a situation where during a glacial, we have a situation where the
equatorial region actually gets
warmer than during an interglacial.
It is also known that geothermal energy particularly
warms the pacific waters around its rim (the ring of fire)-- perhaps not a large factor but, it, too, would be gathered and moved to the
equatorial zone by the
currents.
What makes ENSO possible is the blockage of the
equatorial currents in the Western Pacific that allows the Indo - Pacific
Warm Pool to form that is the source of the El Nino wave.
In the North Atlantic and the North Pacific heat transport is regulated by conflict of
warm and cold
currents: North Atlantic Drift and East Greenland Currents (NA) as drivers of the AMO, Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents (NP) driving the PDO, while in Central Pacific the South Equatorial Current is the key oscillator, the source of t
currents: North Atlantic Drift and East Greenland
Currents (NA) as drivers of the AMO, Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents (NP) driving the PDO, while in Central Pacific the South Equatorial Current is the key oscillator, the source of t
Currents (NA) as drivers of the AMO, Kuroshio and Oyashio
Currents (NP) driving the PDO, while in Central Pacific the South Equatorial Current is the key oscillator, the source of t
Currents (NP) driving the PDO, while in Central Pacific the South
Equatorial Current is the key oscillator, the source of the ENSO.
With no (or weak) westward
equatorial current, the sea surface
warms in the tropical Sun and cools evaporatively, adding vast amounts of moisture to the atmosphere.
It is refilled by the coldness of the poles, and artificial pumping, which will increase poleward
warm currents (by mechanical pushing), will
warm the arctic by pushing more
warm equatorial water towards the poles.