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CRU Information Sheet no. 2: The Causes of Climatic Change
The main source of the ... of the winds over the equatorial Pacific Ocean. During a warm ENSO event, sea-level pressure drops in the eastern Pacific and rises in the west and the dominant easterly trade winds weaken ...
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Christmas, when warming of the surface waters creates a strong convection over the equatorial Pacific, trade winds die down and allow a warm current to pass through to the coast of Peru ...
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The Dolphin Institute - Whale Participate: Location
Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe), this area is relatively well-sheltered from the predominant northeast trade winds. Water temperatures range from 75 to 78F. Abundant and diverse sea life is found on ...
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Hoike o Haleakala Environmental Curriculum
Rain normally falls year-round as a result of the moisture-laden northeast trade winds that predominate for most of the year. Sixty billion gallons of surface water per year ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY - Indian Ocean Logs
Real Audio - >28k October 27, 2003 'The Coriolis Effect' "Trade winds are caused as a result of the earth's rotation. Winds run parallel in the northern and southern hemispheres along either ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY - Indian Ocean Logs
June through September when the trade winds are most settled and steady. The Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans all experience trade winds at different times of year, north and south of the equator and along the tropical belt, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The southeast trade winds are ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Sea Surface Temperatures
During an El Niño event, slackening trade winds result in unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific. These ... Australia and fall over the central Pacific—changes indicating the weakening of the westward trade winds. Westward flowing currents that carry warm surface waters in the Pacific slow down. This ...
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Exploratorium Webcast: La Niña Summit
La Niña, the weather equivalent of an opposite twin. El Niño begins when trade winds die down and sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific begin heating up, eventually ... all over the globe. Contrary La Niña, known as a "cold event," starts with increased trade winds and cooler-than-normal ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific. The temperature differences are only ...
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Solar X-Ray Imager
Ever present "trade winds" come in the form of galactic cosmic rays, a wind of atomic nuclei that blows ...
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Walton Hall Nature Trail, non-UK sites, Tenerife
Cloud sea Cool moist trade winds often blanket the northern part of the island in cloud up to a height of ...
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