Sentences with phrase «warm equatorial waters»

The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.

19 El Nino Southern Oscillation: ENSO Occurs: three to seven years The warm countercurrents in the Pacific become unusually strong and replace normally cold offshore waters with warm equatorial waters.

If not, then cheer yourself up with a dip into some warm equatorial waters.

Its weirdness was likely maintained by warm equatorial waters and barriers to migration by other marine mammals posed by the newly formed Isthmus of Panama, and the still - closed Bering Strait.

With warmer equatorial waters reducing plankton abundance and spurring many fish species, notably bigeye and skipjack tuna, to migrate toward the poles, the waters around Wake and Johnston, 1600 kilometers north of the equator, «are precisely where you want to have a protected area,» says Robert Richmond of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.

So while water vapor is suggested to warm the equatorial water more than before, the water can move to where the path to the TOA is much easier.

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.

Not exact matches

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Spawned by the Sea Atlantic hurricanes often develop over equatorial waters off the African coast, where colliding winds generate thunderstorms fueled by warm, humid air.

Three of the four warmest years since 1900 have been years with El Niño — the phenomenon in which warm water from the western side of the equatorial Pacific sloshes east, increasing global temperatures.

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

They mix warm equatorial surface water into greater depths, and help bring cooler waters to the surface.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

In one projection, there is a greater warming of the water in the eastern equatorial Pacific compared to areas immediately north and south, or the West Pacific.

This warming is largely focused on the equatorial and South Atlantic and is driven by a significant reduction in deep - water formation from the Southern Ocean.

Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Dan H.: «Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.»

The El Niño / La Niña pattern of warm or cold water in the equatorial Pacific has shifted to neutral phase.

The colder, polar waters have an ~ 3x higher CO2 solubility than the warmer, equatorial waters.

El Niño events consist — very broadly — of an area of warm water in the equatorial Pacific coupled with changes in atmospheric circulation.

In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Stream.

El Niño is a warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific that influences global weather patterns.

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures.

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.

Relax, read a book, play in the warm, inviting equatorial waters, this area is beautiful — enjoy it!

«Arctic Amplification» form CO2 was not primarily from the (theorectical) loss - of - ice / increase in albedo meme so often used, but ratehr it began from the relative amounts of GHG's in the warmer, more water - vapor laden equatorial climates to the very dry Arctic regions.

The record warm sea surface and atmosphere held a never before seen excess of water vapor and moisture in suspension — primarily over the Equatorial Ocean zones.

The size and location of a large body of warm water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean drive the transition from El Nino to La Nina.

Along the east coast, the warm Agulhas Current brings nutrient - poor, tropical waters southward from the equatorial Indian Ocean.

These are the warmer equatorial surface waters giving rise to the El Nino event.

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

They concluded the influx of freshwater from melting ice sheets in modern times would essentially shut down the ocean's circulation, causing cool water to stay in the Earth's polar regions and equatorial water to warm up even faster.

It can not account for the huge volume of leftover warm water that's below the surface and returned to the West Pacific and into the eastern tropical Indian Ocean via off - equatorial slow - moving Rossby waves.

The models make atmospheric CO2 concentration the cause of warming, but fail to account for either the solubility effect of CO2 in water, the intense outgassing in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, or the effects of climatologists» formula for the residence time of atmospheric CO2 (it's quite short - lived (~ 1.5 years), not long - lived (decades to centuries), and its lumpy in the atmosphere, not global).

That process releases warm water from below the surface of the PWP, shifts it to the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, releases heat there through evaporation, which causes changes in atmospheric circulation, in turn causing SST outside of the tropical Pacific to vary.

The raging El Niño Southern Oscillation, a band of warm ocean water in the central and east - central equatorial Pacific, is about to cause droughts in southern Asia — and to bring enough rain to boost California almond production after years of drought - induced decline.

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

In 1997 and 1998 there was a strong El Nino event in the equatorial Pacific, meaning that the surface water there was unusually warm.

I've used JPL sea level animations to demonstrate equatorial Pacific Kelvin waves during El Niño events and the much overlooked Rossby waves that return vast amounts of warm water to the western Pacific during La Niña events.

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.

And your description of why the water warms in the central equatorial Pacific is lacking.

«Blue light is most prevalent in the open oceans, as it penetrates into deep waters — whereas in warm equatorial and coastal waters there is more green light, and in estuaries the light is often red,» explains David Scanlan, professor in marine microbiology in the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences.

The potential spoiler is the cyclical El Nino event: a band of unusually warm ocean water that periodically forms along the equatorial Pacific Ocean and drives up global temperatures.

The first is salinity driven and carries mostly hot saline water down into the depths from shallow equatorial atolls warming the deep ocean.

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.

When enough warm water has piled up gravity flow begins east along that equatorial counter-current.