Sentences with phrase «weaker trade winds»

To see this correlation a little better, I've reversed the sign so that weaker Trade Winds are shown as positive values and stronger Trade Winds are shown as negative values.

The weaker trade winds also draw less cool water from below the surface.

Islands closer to the Equator such as Kiribati and Tuvalu had intense rain causing flooding, as well as higher sea levels due to warmer waters and weaker trade winds.

«We know that winds flip - flop between periods of strong trade winds and periods of weak trade winds,» Thompson said.

Pacific trade winds scientists also suggest the opposite: that weak trade winds are responsible see 10

Not exact matches

China posted surprisingly weak foreign trade growth in April, signaling that the world's second largest economy continues to face strong head winds, both from abroad and at home

Phytoplankton production is enhanced by strong winds (because they cause upwelling of nutrients from deeper waters) and diminished by weaker winds, and the scientists found evidence that trade winds were weaker then.

When trade winds are weak, the lagoon's waters are churned more frequently by gusts blowing from the west.

Then the trade winds strengthened, the waters cooled, and nearly everyone thought El Niño was, if not gone, then at least so weak as not to have a noticeable effect on the climate.

Instead of relying on trade winds (weak), they could use a solar tower, or preferably, an «AVE» to draw air through the system, humidifying it first.

El Niño - Pacific Ocean trade winds slow and almost stop which brings warmer conditions and weak upwelling currents to the eastern Pacific which hurts fishing in Peru

McPhaden writes: «For at least a year before the onset of the 1997 — 98 El Niño, there was a buildup of heat content in the western equatorial Pacific due to stronger than normal trade winds associated with a weak La Niña in 1995 — 96.»

Again for example, during multidecadal periods when El Niño events dominate, the tropical North Atlantic trade winds would be on average weaker than «normal», there would be less evaporation, less cool subsurface waters would be drawn to the surface, and tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperatures would rise.

I'd like to know more about what makes the Trade Winds stronger, and what makes them weaker, because it seems to be the difference between the Pacific «recharging» or «discharging.»

no. 5404, pp. 950 — 954, DOI: 10.1126 / science.283.5404.950], Michael McPhaden explains, «For at least a year before the onset of the 1997 — 98 El Niño, there was a buildup of heat content in the western equatorial Pacific due to stronger than normal trade winds associated with a weak La Niña in 1995 — 96.»

Caleb: You wrote, «I'd like to know more about what makes the Trade Winds stronger, and what makes them weaker, because it seems to be the difference between the Pacific «recharging» or «discharging.»»

Cap and trade is long dead in the United States, a victim of shifting political winds, fierce oil industry opposition and a weak economy.

I don't see how you can argue against the logic that weaker solar increases negative North Atlantic Oscillation states, and that negative NAO is directly associated with slower trade winds and hence increased El Nino.

It is driven by changes equatorial trade winds, which are normally weakest in the spring and change direction when warmer SSTs starts moving east.

Because the high MHI cast a partial wind shadow in the easterly trade winds that blow almost year round, a narrow zone of weak winds develops on the lee sides of the islands.

The weaking of the trade winds is of course (like everything else) blamed on global warming even though there's been no notable increase in frequency or intensity of El Nino nor of La Nina for that matter.