Sentences with phrase «western edge of the ocean»

There is also a phenomenon called La Niña («the girl»)-- the extreme opposite of El Niño — where easterly winds are especially strong and the warm waters of the South Pacific are confined to the western edge of the ocean.

Not exact matches

As the name implies, it hails from the Brittany region of France, which occupies the far western edge of the country abutting the Atlantic Ocean.

RETREATING ICE Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland (its front edge, where ice is calving into the ocean, shown here in 2012) is one of the world's fastest - shrinking glaciers.

At the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a remarkable new creature they have dubbed the «squidworm.»

Yam:... pushing 30 years there, but when he tries to push the western edge of California into the ocean to get beachfront property from the desert, and I think that has settled into the popular consciousness that the Big One will kind of rip California asunder.

Kipp led efforts to measure radium at 69 locations from the western edge of the Arctic Ocean to the Pole on a two - month voyage aboard the icebreaker Healy in the summer of 2015.

Collecting this data at the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site located on the western edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater oceaWestern Pacific site located on the western edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater oceawestern edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater ocean area.

Among other things, it includes anomalous precipitation patterns in the eastern and western edges of the Indian Ocean, which are linked.

A stunning new ocean overlook above the Sutro Baths, running along the western edge of a parking area with enforced safety and environmental features and offering views of the Sutro Baths, Pacific Ocean, and Cliff ocean overlook above the Sutro Baths, running along the western edge of a parking area with enforced safety and environmental features and offering views of the Sutro Baths, Pacific Ocean, and Cliff Ocean, and Cliff House

Sunset Cliffs Natural Park is a 68 - acre (28 ha) city park adjacent to the Pacific Ocean on the western edge of Point Loma.

The North Umpqua River canyon slices through the western edge of the Cascade mountains on its way to the Pacific Ocean.

At its southeast edge, the circulation around the feature forces a salinity gradient in the ocean, with fresher and warmer waters of the western Pacific lying to its west.

Note that there is also poleward transport in the shallow currents at the western edge of each subtropical ocean gyre - known as western boundary currents.