Sentences with phrase «western sides of ocean»

These currents are located on the western side of every ocean basin.

Warm currents transport heat from lower latitudes poleward and tend to occur on the western sides of oceans.

As shown here for the North Atlantic but also true for all ocean basins, the ocean surface slope is steeper on the western side of an ocean basin than on the eastern side.

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.

The study reports that glaciers flowing to the coast on the western side of the Peninsula show a distinct spatial correlation with ocean temperature patterns, with those in the south retreating rapidly but those in the north showing little change.

The western side of the mountain offers stunning views of the town, port, ocean, and several outlying islands.

Oceans Rest is situated in the picturesque sea side village of Vlees Bay, in the Western Cape.

Boasting the highest number of ocean - side holes in the Western Hemisphere, the 72 - par Playa Grande Golf Course affords panoramic mountain - to - sea views.

The hooks will be required starting May 5 ahead of the spring spawning season in the Gulf of Mexico for the bluefin that frequent the western side of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (off Chile and Peru), the Benguelan Current LME (Namibia and South Africa), the Canary Current LME (Morocco), are the other main upwelling ecosystems, all driven by similar oceanographic and atmospheric processes, all on the eastern sides of ocean basins (western sides of continents).

The aforementioned high - amplitude ridging in the Gulf of Alaska and the associated «blocked» flow over the Pacific Ocean has led to an accumulation of very cold air on its downstream side over western Canada.

As a result of this juxtaposition of cold air and warm air, the eastern sides of continents and the western fringes of oceans in middle and high latitudes are the preferred locations for extratropical storm development.

Owing to the enhanced descent of air over the eastern parts of the oceans, landmasses adjacent to these areas (typically the western sides of continents) tend to be deserts, such as those found in northwestern and southwestern Africa and along western coastal Mexico.

But unlike those cycles, which create a standing pattern of warmth on one side of the tropical Pacific, the MJO is nearly continuous, creating a migrating cluster of storms that spawns over the western Indian Ocean and moves eastward at 15 — 30 kilometers per hour.

Overall, this study reveals a unique susceptibility of the Antarctic coastal ocean to remote wind perturbations, particularly subsurface ocean temperatures on the western side of the peninsula.

My understanding of Richard Seager's point is that even without a Gulf - Stream - like current, the eastern side of middle latitude ocean basins will be warmer than their western flanks and continental Europe would be warmer than North America at the same latitude.

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).