Sentences with phrase «west along the equator»

South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west).

Low - level surface winds, which normally blow east to west along the equator, or easterly winds, start blowing the other direction, west to east, or westerly.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

This affected the hurricanes that grew out of systems coming off of the west coast of Africa that headed west, roughly along the Equator.

In general, the tropical systems that become hurricanes are formed from masses of hot, humid air travelling east to west from the west coast of Africa across the mid-Atlantic along the equator, although they can form in other ways, too.

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.

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

Near the equator, these masses meet along an east - to - west course.

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.

Walker deduced that the gradient between high pressure in the east and low pressure in west generates the east to west trade winds along the equator.