Sentences with phrase «western ocean boundary»

Compare with NCEP / NCAR: Same global - scale patterns — key thing to note is patterns of equator - pole & land - ocean gradients, notably steep northern hemisphere winter western ocean boundary / eastern continent gradients — same large - scale annual cycle pattern on both animations.

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.

Not exact matches

That is the boundary on the Western side, it goes all the way down, it cuts across Graphic Road to Nkrumah Circle Area and then the Southern border of that will be the Atlantic Ocean.

MHW intensity between 1982 — 1998 and 2000 — 2016 increased in over 65 % of the global ocean, most notably in all five western boundary current regions, where the mean warming has been considerably faster than the global average39, and most mid-latitude ocean basins (Fig. 1e).

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).

As may be expected from the positions of ocean currents, most mixing in the upper layers of the ocean takes place on the western boundaries of ocean gyres where the current speeds are greatest.

The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend «from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean.»

The oceans are a difficult part of the system for a number of reasons (mainly that the scale at which important things happen (bottom currents, eddies, western boundary currents) is quite small relative to similar processes in the atmosphere.

Because of the Earth's rotation, the poleward flow in the western Atlantic is constrained to a narrow current on the western boundary of the ocean basin.

While western boundary currents exist in all the major ocean basins, the two in the Northern Hemisphere (including the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific) are better developed and more intense than their Southern Hemisphere counterparts.»

Cronin, M. F., N. Bond, J. Booth, H. Ichikawa, T. M. Joyce, K. Kelly, M. Kubota, B. Qiu, C. Reason, M. Rouault, C. Sabine, T. Saino, J. Small, T. Suga, L. D. Talley, L. Thompson, and R. A. Weller, 2010: Monitoring ocean - atmosphere interactions in western boundary current extensions.

Kathryn A.Kelly at U. Wash has done a lot of great work on ocean - heat flux from western boundary currents in relation to the winds related to AO.

The US CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Working Group was charged with identifying shortcomings in the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere - ocean interWestern Boundary Current Working Group was charged with identifying shortcomings in the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere - ocean inteBoundary Current Working Group was charged with identifying shortcomings in the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere - ocean interwestern boundary current atmosphere - ocean inteboundary current atmosphere - ocean interaction.

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.

«The main hydrological features of the deep Mediterranean Sea are (a) high homeothermy from roughly 300 — 500 m to the bottom, and bottom temperatures of about 12.8 °C to 13.5 °C in the western basin and 13.5 °C to 15.5 °C in the eastern basin (i.e., there are no thermal boundaries, whereas in the Atlantic Ocean the temperature decreases with depth)»

They are largest in regions of high sea surface temperature variability such as the western boundary currents and along the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean.

The two gyres share the eastward extension of western boundary currents, such as the Gulf Stream or Kuroshio, and are induced by the shear in the winds that cross the respective ocean basins.

The thing is, Lindzen was right and Nye was wrong - nothing short of freezing the ocean or boiling it off, or stopping the rotation of the earth, will literally stop the western boundary currents.

Consequently, surface ocean currents are stronger, narrower, and deeper in all western boundary regions.

For example, the Agulhas Current, the Indian Ocean's western boundary current, is a source of rings.

These currents are weaker than those in the northern ocean basins, in part because western boundary currents require extended land barriers that are generally absent in the Southern Hemisphere.

Transport of surface waters toward the western boundary of the ocean basins causes the ocean - surface slope to be steeper on the western side (versus eastern side) of a gyre (in either hemisphere).

Gyre - Basin - scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100 - 200 km wide) boundary current on the western side.

The New Zealand archipelago forms the western boundary to the South Pacific Ocean south of 34 °.

Recent studies have shown that western boundary currents have shifted position slightly over the course decades, leading to changes in wind, temperature and precipitation patterns around the globe more commonly associated with El Niño and the other ocean oscillations.

The zonal integral (east to west) of wind stress curl across an ocean basin is proportional to the western boundary current transport (i.e., the transport responsible for the dominant part of the poleward heat flux by the ocean).

In this paper, it is shown that coherent large - scale low - frequency variabilities in the North Atlantic Ocean — that is, the variations of thermohaline circulation, deep western boundary current, northern recirculation gyre, and Gulf Stream path — are associated with high - latitude oceanic Great Salinity Anomaly events.

Bring together the KESS, CLIMODE and other western boundary current atmosphere - ocean interaction groups for a synthesis of results