Sentences with phrase «western equatorial»

During the typical El Niño, the warm phase of that oscillation, the trade winds weaken, and episodic westerly wind bursts in the western equatorial Pacific generate internal waves into the ocean.

This paper investigates the variability of sea surface salinity (SSS) in the western equatorial Pacific fresh pool.

As a result, the SPMM no longer influences the equatorial region while the NPMM shows strengthened linkages to the central - western equatorial Pacific.

ENSO - related atmospheric anomalies from the central - western Equatorial Pacific (CWEP) propagate to the South Pacific and the circumpolar high latitudes.

Given two systems that can produce upwelling off the western equatorial coast of South America, it wouldn't be surprising to find that they interact with each other.

From Observation of large diurnal warming events in the near - surface layer of the western equatorial Pacific warm pool, by Soloviev and Lukas, Deep Sea Research (1997):

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.»

Huge swaths of oceans were record warm, including much of the northeastern Pacific around the Gulf of Alaska, the central to western equatorial Pacific, large swaths of northwestern and southeastern Atlantic, most of the Norwegian Sea, and parts of the central to southern Indian Ocean, NOAA said.

K. Billups, A. C. Ravelo, J. C. Zachos, «Early Pliocene deep water circulation in the western equatorial Atlantic: Implications for high - latitude climate change,» Paleooceanography 13: (1) 84 - 95 (February 1998).

If human - caused warming continues to alter these complex circulation patterns, the study's models predict more rain in the eastern tropical regions of the Indian Ocean and drought in the western equatorial Indian Ocean region.

During a La Niña, trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific are stronger than normal, and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South America extends to the central equatorial Pacific.

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.»

Moreover, the western equatorial Pacific is studded with atolls that already have lost the race with sea - level rise, in the sense that these atolls already have no land above sea level.

However, during La Niña Modoki the anomaly of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the eastern Pacific isn't affected by cooling but by warming just like western equatorial Pacific, while a cold anomaly affects the central equatorial Pacific (Niño 3.4).

Steve Fitzpatrick, your theoretical argument does not take into account that sea - level rise - rates are nowhere greater in the western equatorial pacific.

The highest average tropopause is over the oceanic warm pool of the western equatorial Pacific, about 17.5 km high, and over Southeast Asia, during the summer monsoon, the tropopause occasionally peaks above 18 km.

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

However, if one downweights these two events (either by eliminating or, as in Cane et al» 97, using a «robust» trend), then an argument can be made for a long - term pattern which is in some respects more «La Nina» - like, i.e. little warming in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, and far more warming in the western equatorial Pacific and Indian oceans, associated with a strengthening, not weakening, of the negative equatorial Pacific zonal SST gradient.

In Western equatorial Africa, the endangered central chimpanzees and the critically endangered western lowland gorillas have been especially hard hit.

According to a paper published this week in the biogeography journal Diversity and Distributions, the areas that underwent the greatest habitat loss were found in the centre and east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Equatorial Africa and the upper Guinean forest in Liberia.

«The rainforests of Western Equatorial Africa contain most of the world's gorillas and about one - third of all chimpanzees, and gorillas in particular are being severely and negatively impacted by human activities across their range,» said Dr. Fiona Maisels, WCS Conservation Biologist and a contributor to the plan.

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Not exact matches

Far East 42,005,000 China & Korea 42,000,000 Japan 5,000 Southeast Asia 79,180,000 Indonesia 74,200,000 Philippines 250,000 Malaya 3,300,000 Thailand 640,000 Pakistan - India 107,450,000 Pakistan 66,000,000 India 40,200,000 Burma 750,000 Ceylon 500,000 Turkish areas 64,250,000 Sinkiang 3,000,000 Afghanistan 12,000,000 Turkey 23,600,000 Soviet Union 22,000,000 Albania 700,000 Yugoslavia 1,900,000 Bulgaria 800,000 Greece 200,000 Romania 50,000 Iran 20,700,000 Arabic areas 64,200,000 Iraq 5,000,000 Arabian Peninsula 12,500,000 Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel 5,000,000 Egypt 20,000,000 Libya 1,100,000 Tunisia 3,200,000 Algeria 8,000,000 Morocco 9,400,000 Africa 35,000,000 Somaliland 1,800,000 Ethiopia 3,200,000 Tanganyika 1,500,000 Sudan 7,000,000 French Equatorial Africa1, 500,000 French West Africa 6,300,000 Other African countries 13,700,000 Western countries 800,000 Total 413,585,000

He was roughly 2 years old when he was captured in Equatorial Guinea, in western Africa, in 1966.

But the success has not been replicated in equatorial West Africa, home of the western lowland gorillas.

Three of the four warmest years since 1900 have been years with El Niño — the phenomenon in which warm water from the western side of the equatorial Pacific sloshes east, increasing global temperatures.

Particularly hard hit is ARGO, an international program (link: http://www.argo.net/) under which Australian researchers track the Indian Ocean Dipole, a fluctuation of sub-surface temperatures in the equatorial region of the southeastern and the western Indian Ocean.

Record warmth was observed in parts of the Arctic Seas, the central Sea of Okhotsk, part of the equatorial western Pacific, and a region in the central southern Pacific.

The higher sea level near the western ocean boundary creates a west - east pressure difference in the ocean, that results in the equatorial undercurrent flowing from west to east below the surface.

Hotspots of high intensity occurred in regions of large SST variability including the five western boundary current extension regions (+2 — 5 °C), the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (+1 — 4 °C) and eastern boundary current regions (+1 — 3 °C).

Record warmth for the year was particularly notable in large parts of the northeastern and equatorial Pacific, a large swath of the western North Atlantic, most of the Indian Ocean where a positive Indian Ocean dipole prevailed, and parts of the Arctic Ocean.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

Conservation Status: Endangered (IUCN Red List) Life span: 40 to 45 years (wild), more than 60 (captive) Total population: 172,700 to 299,700 (wild), 1,450 (captive) Habitat range in the wild: Equatorial Africa, from southern Senegal across the forested belt north of the Congo River to western Uganda and western Tanzania Gestation: 8 months (240 days) Body Height: 816 mm (M & F) Body Weight: 40 to 60 kg (M), 32 to 47 kg (F)

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7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja California, Mexico.

The Cayman Islands lie in the far Western Caribbean in the equatorial tropics.

A measure of the difference in sea level pressure between the western (e.g., Darwin, Australia) and central / eastern (e.g., Tahiti) equatorial Pacific, representative of the east - west changes in atmospheric circulation associated with the El Nino / Southern Oscillation phenomenon.

An unprecedented strengthening of Pacific trade winds since the late 1990s has caused widespread climate perturbations, including rapid sea - level rise in the western tropical Pacific, strengthening of Indo - Pacific ocean currents, and an increased uptake of heat in the equatorial Pacific thermocline.

for article Equatorial Pacific forcing of western Amazonian precipitation during Heinrich Stadial 1.

The regular oscillation of ENSO in g1 is associated with its unsuccessful representation of the role of atmospheric noise over the western — central equatorial Pacific (WCEP) in triggering ENSO events, which arises from the weak synoptic — intraseasonal variability of zonal winds over the WCEP in g1.

In 2016 June to September season rainfall was mainly concentrated in the northern sector as well as the western part of the equatorial sector.

The East Australian Current (EAC) is the southward western boundary current that is formed from the South Equatorial Current (SEC) crossing the Coral Sea and reaching the eastern coast of Australia.

I've used JPL sea level animations to demonstrate equatorial Pacific Kelvin waves during El Niño events and the much overlooked Rossby waves that return vast amounts of warm water to the western Pacific during La Niña events.

ERA - Interim produces more rainfall over equatorial western Africa than in the datasets based more directly on observations, and more rainfall in the convergence zones over tropical seas.

Then, as the La Nina of 1998/99/00 / 01 progressed, the trade winds, Pacific Equatorial Currents, and a phenomenon known as a Rossby wave returned the remaining surface and subsurface warm water to the western Pacific.

During an El Niño, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa and Northeast Brazil tend to experience drought while Southern California, the southern US East equatorial Africa, western South America and Southeastern South America tend to see flooding, McPhaden tells Carbon Brief.

What makes ENSO possible is the blockage of the equatorial currents in the Western Pacific that allows the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool to form that is the source of the El Nino wave.

In the Equatorial Pacific, we normally have equatorial upwelling in the east and downwelling in the west, aka the Western Pacific Equatorial Pacific, we normally have equatorial upwelling in the east and downwelling in the west, aka the Western Pacific equatorial upwelling in the east and downwelling in the west, aka the Western Pacific Warm Pool.