Sentences with phrase «waters near the equator»

But these low - oxygen waters near the equator are expanding, because the water in the polar regions is not as cold and is not absorbing as much oxygen as it used to be.

That's a question also asked about coral, which usually forms reefs in warm, shallow waters near the equator.

Hurricanes form over warm water near the equator.

---- Even during the deep freeze the Earth went through around 700 million years ago there were likely open pockets of water near the equator — so no one is suggesting a complete solid freeze.

Most hurricanes form over warm water near the equator.

Heat rising from warm Pacific waters near the equator causes waves of warmth in the atmosphere — a phenomenon called the Rossby wave train, researchers report today (April 10) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Not exact matches

Scientists first thought this water was melting from surface ice, but that interpretation is less likely for the slopes near the equator, where the surface is probably too warm for ice.

For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.

Eventually, it makes its way back to the surface as the ocean's bottom water circulates and rises anew near the equator (although carbon buried in sediment might stay buried longer).

In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.

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.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

If ice is moving on Europa, this also means that water is flowing, at least near its equator.

According to Wordsworth, «Even then, however, the warm / wet early Mars does not explain the patchwork of Martian water erosion features and valley networks observed on the planet today, and why these features tend to be concentrated near the planet's equator.»

Researchers found that due to warming waters, the edge of the sharks» range could shift as much as 40 miles poleward per decade, pushing the sharks away from the warming oceans near the equator into different habitats.

Firstly, the Martian sand dunes show evidence that water may have been active near Mars» equator — potentially in the not - too - distant past.

Higher water temperatures near the Equator could reduce winds and current, allowing sargassum to accumulate before being carried by currents to the north.

Situated near the Equator, Mwinda is very deliberately located on the Fimi River, which flows from Lake Mai - Ndombe, in order to provide easy access to water; there are also rich mineral deposits nearby.

Keep in mind when you are snorkeling in Costa Rica that the country is located very near the equator and the tropical sun reflecting off the water will fry your skin faster than a fish over fire.

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.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

As you can see, air near the equator is lifted high into the troposphere, effectively drying it by precipitating out nearly all of the water vapour.

I only assumed that the absorption of water vapour in one of the bands is near zero at the poles and near 100 % at the equator.

As I have said before, water is most of surface area of earth near the equator, and tropics [40 % of surface area of earth] receives most of the Sun's energy and the tropical ocean does seem to me to drive Earth's climate.

Wind strength is a result of pressure differentials, which near the equator in the Pacific would seem to be defined by temperature differentials over open water between the tropics and the equator.

Without water the earth would be like the moon with an average temperature near -23 C (the measured unchanging temperature of lunar regolith 50 or more centimeters deep) and diurnal temperature change near 100C at the equator.

The cold sub-polar water displaces the warm surface layer nearer the equator and facilitates cold water upwelling on the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean.

T0 can be taken as more or less constant near 255 K while P0 is latitude dependent near 400 mbar at the equator, and near the ground in the polar regions (as there there is very little water vapour and the optical thickness of the air on most of the thermal infrared spectrum is low).

That water returns to the surface in a variety of locations that are nearer the equator, but not necessarily in the tropics.

In this case, the Earth becomes largely covered with ice, but open water remains near the equator.

13 C. Wind & Ocean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temperature

For one thing, cold, salty waters occupy less volume than warmer, fresher seas, so MSL tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles.

Melting ice that sits above sea level nearer the poles ends up adding more more mass nearer the equator as the now liquid water distributes itself across the globe at sea level.