Sentences with phrase «with southward»

Several studies suggest that there would be a change in precipitation patterns over the tropics, associated with a southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone (e.g., Vellinga et al 2002; Brayshaw et al, 2009), which could also affect the intensity of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific (Timmermann et al, 2007).

Individual records from caves and other paleo - hydroclimate proxies have implied that simultaneous drying of the Northern tropics and wetting of the Southern tropics followed Heinrich events, consistent with southward shifts of the tropical rain belts and the thermal equator.

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

Not exact matches

Born in the vast mountain ranges of British Columbia, the Fraser River floods southward to its rendezvous with the Pacific.

Ottoman influence continued to expand, notably again under Sultan Selim, who, in eight years between 918 and 926 (A.D. 1512 - 20), conquered Kurdistan and then moved southward to include Arabia, with its Holy Cities, and Egypt, where the last Abbasid Caliph was living.

The trail will start from the Outer Harbor trail on Fuhrmann Boulevard and continue southward, with the goal of ending at Woodlawn Beach Park in Hamburg.

«Our new data however, contrasts with sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates that the South African climate responded in the opposite direction, with increasing rainfall, that can be associated with a globally occurring southward shift of the tropical monsoon belt.»

At the time, Earth's climate was warmer than it is today, and as Antarctica moved southward, settling into its home over the South Pole, the continent teemed with plants and animals.

Extreme summer weather events in the American Midwest are also associated with extreme northward or southward movements of the jet stream, the authors write.

Join TravelQuest in the summer of 2017 for an incomparable Pacific Northwest eclipse adventure that includes cruising among the San Juan Islands, crossing into Canada to visit the charming city of Victoria, and then a leisurely loop back southward, combining artsy Port Angeles with the unique rainforest ecosystem of Olympic National Park.

On the day after Christmas in 1889 the» Vincennes,» «Peacock,» «Porpoise,» and «Flying Fish» headed southward from Sydney and, falling in with the land in latitude 64 degrees south and longitude 158 degrees East of Greenwich, on the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of Greenwich.

The seafloor animals of the Southern Ocean shelf have long been isolated by the deep ocean surrounding Antarctica and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with little scope for southward migration.

Later, there was some movement of northern bison southward, with the two populations overlapping in the corridor by 13,000 years ago.

«We're expecting that if indeed this plays out the way that die - off occurred that we're looking at mortalities being higher and the moribillivirus spreading southward and likely continuing until spring of 2014,» Teri Rowles, National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with NOAA Fisheries, said during a conference call today (Aug. 27).

When ice begins to lock the bays, they start southward in long gooselike wedges, conversing excitedly with whoops and soft trumpeting laughter.

A synthesis of six such experiments with different models shows consistent hemispheric - wide atmospheric warming, strongest in the mid-to-high-latitude lower troposphere; an intensification of the wintertime Aleutian Low and, in most cases, the Siberian High; a weakening of the Icelandic Low; and a reduction in strength and southward shift of the mid-latitude westerly winds in winter.

This long - term change in the East Asian monsoon index is consistent with a tendency for a southward shift of the summer rain belt over eastern China (Zhai et al., 2004).

When polar air dipping southward collides with rising warm tropical air, the meet - up causes a powerful atmospheric wave with rollercoaster - like patterns that propagate eastward around the globe.

By Brooks Hays, UPI COLLEGE STATION, Texas, — Monarch butterflies have begun their 3,000 - mile trek southward; with summer coming to a close in Canada, it's time to make their way to Mexico for the winter.

And when that happens, a burst of frigid air swings southward behind the jet stream, causing temperatures to plunge and sometimes bringing heavy snow with it.

Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's final message before he passed away, and it revelas an artist still grappling with the complexities and vagaries of the human heart, as well as organs slightly southward.

With skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testamWith skyrocketing costs of higher education, in conjunction with an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testamwith an ever - escalating dropout rate, the focus is taking a southward bend from offline to online learning, and we have myriad online learning statistics and trends as a testament.

Our Parent Coordinator is Ms. Southward who will be working very closely with you and on behalf of you to ensure parent / school communication.

Located a short walk to the south of Tuna Bay along a series of easy to follow walkways, Teluk KK has a western stretch (the length with the pier), but then, after the very photogenic rocky point, it sweeps east, creating a lovely southward facing, totally undeveloped beach.

Teluk Dalam is a long, southward facing beach with very fine off - white sands.

This afternoon, continue southward to mysterious Nasca, with a stop at the Huacachina sand dunes.

Travel southward to the tiny town of Tully for a G Adventures - supported experience with an indigenous community.

We drive southward in an atmospheric, varied landscape along mountains with vineyards, castles, Baroque churches, cities and villages.

Beyond Outlet, Coronado and the rest of the coast southward to Imperial Beach is all gently sloping beach break with fun and forgiving surf, the exception being the unsurfable offshore sand bars at the mouth of the Tijuana River.

Changa Paz, of Amigos del Mar dive shop, even suggests a moratorium on lobster and conch fishing, to allow stocks to recover, and hopes for a southward extension of Hol Chan Marine Reserve, to join with the proposed Caye Caulker Marine Reserve.

There are miles and miles of beautiful coastline with rocky crags and sandy coves that extend from Agujitas Bay, where the village of Drake is located southward toward the boundary of Corcovado National Park about 12 miles to the south.

Most members of the Eastern Pacific Gray whales pass by Point Cabrillo twice; once on their southward journey from November to March, and with some returning north as early as February and others traveling through May.

SUNDAY launches its first art fair in London, sponsored by Zabludowicz Collection Rebranding of the Collection takes place and an ongoing working relationship with designers Malcolm Southward and Mark Holt.

you can clearly see the increase in the southward shallow depth transport (above 1000m) with each later survey.

Now to make matters even more complicated imagine this band of jet stream meandering around the northern hemisphere west to east like a cap, it doesn't move along the same latitude, but undulates... sometimes travelling northward on its eastern journey, sometimes southward, with globally four / six massive dips or troughs and four / six massive crests or peaks around the entire northern hemisphere.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

It was caused by a weather front with a warm tropical air mass (it is currently high summer in South America) moving southward and meeting a somewhat cooler air mass.

During the past few weeks, a big swing northward, forming what's called a «ridge» of persistent atmospheric pressure, persisted off the West Coast along with a deep southward dip, or a «trough,» over the East.

And the very same jet stream configuration responsible for the southward plunging Arctic air mass chilling the eastern United States is associated further to the west with a «ridge» of high pressure that is pushing the warm, moist subtropical Pacific air masses that would normally deliver plentiful rainfall (and snowpack) to California well to the north.

What we experienced was one of those big southward dips in the jet stream caused by warming air in the Arctic, in combination with a big northward swing over California and the Eastern Pacific.

In particular, a stronger southern center - of - action of the NAO (i.e., a stronger high pressure anomaly) and a northward shift of the SLP dipole nodal line is associated with greater precipitation deficits over southern and central Europe; and a southward shift of the nodal line accompanied by stronger anomalous westerly flow across northern Europe and Russia favors enhanced precipitation and warming in these regions (Fig. 4).

7) I'd also love to hear an explanation that reconciles the apparent stability of temperatures implied by the «handle» portion of the hockey stick with the significant southward movement of the treeline over the period of the Hantemirov.

The latest weather models are starting to hint of a possible loop back southward with a second landfall sometime next week — a weird but plausible end for a historic storm.

The IMF Bz component turned southward, remained south between 05:32 UT and 08:20 UT on May 15 reaching a value of − 44 nT at 05:56 UT and the high solar wind velocity (close to 1000 km / s) are the cause of a geomagnetic superstorm occurred with a Dst peak excursion of − 263 nT.

Together with the progressive shortening of the ISM season and gradual southward retreat of the summer ITCZ, the total amount of monsoon precipitation decreased in those areas located at the northern fringe of the ISM domain, but increased in areas closer to the equator.

(With freezing temperatures in Jacksonville Florida will mangroves «flee» southward contradicting a previous bogus publication that global warming was moving mangroves northward?)

With the approach of winter, temperatures in Northern Hemisphere begin to cool more rapidly — and the region of maximum north - south temperature differential over the Pacific Ocean starts to shift southward.

All of these, and recent transient simulations (Held et al., 2005; Paeth and Feichter, 2006), found a substantial cooling that was strongest in the NH, with a consequent southward shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the associated tropical rainfall belt.

This result contrasts with what has actually been happening with ravens: expanding slowly southward and to lower elevations.

Most LGM simulations with coupled models shift the deep - water formation in the North Atlantic southward, but large differences exist between models in the intensity of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.