Sentences with phrase «water along the equator»

When the easterly trade winds strengthen during La Nina it pushes water along the equator from the east to west.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

Not exact matches

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

Constellation Pisces (the Fish) is faint but can be found along the celestial equator swimming north of Aquarius (the Water Bearer) and Cetus (the Whale or Sea Monster) and surrounded by Pegasus, Andromeda, Triangulum, and Aries.

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.

Temperate waters flow northward along the coastline from the equator with the Gulf Stream, bringing an array of excellent game fish with them.

One other factor here is increased evaporation at the equator which has increased the salanity of tropical waters along with increased percipitation at the poles seems to be making the thermohaline system move faster which in turn carries move heat to the poles and hence increases polar ice melting and hence possibly a greater chance of slowdown of the thermohaline system.

Intense trade winds and strong uppwelling along a region near the equator, known as the cold tongue and caused by Ekman pumping, bringing up cold and nutrient water from the deep sea.

After 30 + million years of cooling, 2 to 3 million years ago, colder ocean waters eventually upwelled in the mid latitudes along the west coasts of major continents as well as along the equator.

(Page 384) The cold, saltier water sinks and starts moving back towards the equator along the bottom of the ocean.

It is an harmonic oscillation of ocean water from side to side along the equator.»

The cold, saltier water sinks and starts moving back towards the equator along the bottom of the ocean.

It runs ashore at the equator, spreads north and south along the coast, and warms the water and the air above it.

As it skirts along the East Coast of Australia it carries a large amount of warm tropical water from the equator southward.

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

El Niño is a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean mainly along the equator, but more broadly, those warm waters trigger profound events across half the planet, including heavy rains in California, fires in Australia, and more and stronger typhoons in the western Pacific.

As the winds blow west along the Equator, they push warm water ahead of them, piling it up in a warm pool in the western Pacific.

When that warm water reaches the western Pacific it rises and, in the main, tracks back along the equator in the upper atmosphere and loses its heat to space.

Again, the America's stand in the way of a free circumpolar circulation and some colder waters must be diverted along the East coast towards the Equator.

The long blue La Nina line at the equator is upwelled and / or kicked along the South American coast from the South water.

7 Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Humid Tropical Moist mid-latitude Sub climates Tropical wet; tropical wet / dry a) Sub climates Severe winters; humid continental, sub - arctic / mild winters; humid subtropical, marine west coast, Mediterranean b) Location Close to equator and in ITCZ Severe winters: interiors and eastern coasts of continents, close to poles; mild winters: along water at edges of continents c) Features Hot / rainy year round; hot with wet and dry seasons; tropical rain forests and grasslands c) Features: severe winters: cold winters, hot / humid summers except in sub-arctic; mild winters: hot, muggy or cool summers depending on coastal position, and mild winters with mostly rain.

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.

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.

This upwelling creates a cold tongue of water that extends along the equator from Peru to the International Dateline (180 ° longitude east).