The shore, one of the most westerly in Africa, is cooled by the north-east trade winds, taking some of the edge off the searing tropical heat. |
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The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth. |
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We've walked along gorgeous, empty beaches strewn with sun-baked coconuts and treasures blown in by northeastern trade winds. |
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The pollution clouds of vog are normally carried by the northeasterly trade winds to the southwest, where the winds wrap around the island. |
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Like the trade winds on Earth, these rivers of plasma transport gas beneath the Sun's fiery surface. |
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A stronger seasonal contrast with cooler Northern Hemisphere winters likely intensified northeast trade winds. |
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Unlike westerlies and trade winds, the polar easterlies are not a global wind belt. |
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Besides, being outside was much better, what with Pacific trade winds conditioning our air. |
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The trade winds affect the movements and activities of Torres islanders in various important ways. |
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The easterly trade winds are part of the low-level component of the Walker circulation. |
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The monsoon season begins in summer when northeast trade winds reverse direction and carry water-saturated air inland. |
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The highs provide the driving force behind the southeast trade winds which dominate the Territory's weather in the winter months. |
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But with the southeast trade winds blowing, we vowed to return once the wind had abated. |
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Snorkel early in the day, before Hawaii's trade winds ruffle the surface and stir up sand in the water, which reduces visibility. |
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The strong temperature contrast across the Pacific means the easterly trade winds will be enhanced for the Pacific Ocean. |
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Most of the time the pretty steady, east-to-west trade winds ensure there is a breeze, but the air the trade winds bring is warm and humid. |
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Prevailing trade winds transported them equatorward across the southern edge of Baltica to the Russian Platform. |
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April and November are marked by the inter-seasons: calmer periods, sometimes windless, this is the time trade winds change direction. |
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Waiting for the trade winds to be well-established guarantees downwind sailing, which is much pleasanter? |
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Madeira lies right in the track of the trade winds, and down the centuries the island has played host to voyagers passing between the Old and New Worlds. |
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You have really steep hills, lots of rock, oceanfront, trade winds. |
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Thus, the most favourable zones are the ones with trade winds, to benefit from a steady sea and a brief compression of the isobars. |
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Northeast trade winds blow from December to March and southeast trade winds from May to October. |
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It occurs when easterly trade winds in the tropics strengthen, intensifying the up-welling of cold waters off the coast of Peru and Ecuador. |
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The trade winds blow almost continuously making our weather very changeable: a dull rainy morning can often lead onto a bright sunny afternoon. |
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Despite the islands locality within the tropics, its climate is kept mild and equable by the south-east trade winds. |
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Akena will have to get away from the thundery lows before sailing in the light easterly trade winds. |
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As air is sucked towards the equator on the trade winds and rises, it loses its moisture as rainfall before moving back towards the poles on the antitrade winds. |
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The Atlantic zone receives trade winds and has high rainfall year-round. |
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Upwelling intensity varies with location and season, due to the variation in trade winds throughout the year. |
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Swept by the maritime trade winds, Dakar has a micro-climate that is mild and pleasant and distinguishes it from the rest of the country. |
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The islands enjoy a tropical climate tempered by trade winds that blow throughout the year. |
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For reasons not yet fully understood, these trade winds can sometimes be reduced, or even reversed. |
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At the Saint Louis coast, Dakar, the trade winds blowing along the coast reduce the temperature. |
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Following trade winds, they fly over the entire Pacific and the Southern oceans. |
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The force of trade winds periodically diminishes, modifying surface currents and oceanic circulation. |
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Tropical waves, or easterly waves, move westward across the tropical Atlantic under the easterly trade winds. |
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Then she crossed the Atlantic with more than 5 tons of food, medicines and clothes on board but without trade winds. |
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Prevailing westerlies occur between the polar easterlies and trade winds. |
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The Ryder Cup is eight months and 7500 miles away from the Mercedes, where whales breach offshore, the trade winds blow and golf is anything but that long walk spoiled. |
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Normally, the trade winds blow west in the tropical Pacific. |
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The northeast trade winds further south, so called because they blow in this direction for much of the year, was where the sailing clippers used to head for guaranteed wind. |
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Outstanding hilltop Caribbean style villa kissed by trade winds with magnificent views of the sea and surrounding islands. |
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The extreme eastern highlands lie outside the path of the ITCZ and are subject to the influence of the southeastern trade winds alone. |
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These changes in tack have already begun: We jibed a few times yesterday in order to stay in the flow of stronger trade winds. |
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In the West Indies, the prevailing winds, known as the trade winds, blow out of the southeast. |
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Temperatures vary according to elevation, proximity to the coast, and the moderating effects of the northeast trade winds off the Caribbean. |
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Winds are predominantly from the northeast and are dominated by the northeast trade winds. |
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He reasoned that the trade winds of the Pacific might move in a gyre as the Atlantic winds did. |
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The British Virgin Islands enjoy a tropical climate, moderated by trade winds. |
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Northeastern trade winds keep this tropical island relatively cool and dry. |
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The trade winds act as the steering flow for tropical cyclones that form over world's oceans, guiding their path westward. |
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The high pressure in the center is due to the westerly winds on the northern side of the gyre and easterly trade winds on the southern side. |
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Recently, stronger winds, especially the subtropical trade winds in the Pacific ocean have provided a mechanism for vertical heat distribution. |
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There are still no trade winds established down here and it is in a southerly breeze that Safran is having to sail by tacking upwind to make her way to Guadeloupe. |
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If the high-pressure zone in the Bermudas doesn't stretch to Florida, then the trade winds may die out completely between the West Indies and the arrival in Costa Rica which could make the last 1,000 miles very long indeed! |
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As they approach the Equator and the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, the south-easterly trade winds are beginning to die away and will only pick up again, when they become north-easterly, thanks to the Azores high. |
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After jibing this afternoon, the Safran will only have to perform a limited number of maneuvers to leave the Gulf of Gascony and start heading towards the trade winds. |
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Furthermore, the winds are extremely capricious in this 60 nautical mile stretch. Marc and Charles still have long hours of sailing ahead before they reach the first trade winds, south of the archipelago. |
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Further south, Brit Air, still some 200 miles from the Doldrums, is also experiencing thundery squalls, which is not helping her progress as the SE'ly trade winds are fading away to 12-14 knots. |
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Whilst adverse conditions meant that 2007 was far from plain sailing, the start of 2008 saw some favourable trade winds helping our aerospace and automotive divisions steer a steady course. |
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The trade winds that are frequent on the outer slopes rarely blow with any intensity within the cirques, where breezes are the dominant type of airflow. |
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This morning, the trade winds are light, between 12 and 17 knots, and will freshen to 20-22 knots up to the latitude of Cape Verde, before dropping of again to 20 knots as he approaches the Canaries. |
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Wind patterns must have included strong polar easterlies at high northern latitudes, prevailing westerlies at midlatitudes, and northeast trade winds in the tropics. |
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After Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first sailed around the world, the world got smaller and people suddenly needed a science of oceans, ocean currents, jet streams, large-scale winds, and trade winds. |
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When running downwind for protracted periods, for example when ocean-crossing in steady trade winds, cruisers sometimes set twin poled-out jibs without a mainsail. |
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The east to south-easterly trade winds are not really behaving themselves and are frequently being interrupted by squalls and heavy thunderstorms. |
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But nearly constant trade winds help keep sun worshipers cool. |
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The major question in the first few days of the race will be to know if it is possible to reach the trade winds without being held up, in other words making it to the south of the Canaries. |
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In other words, there will be room for strategy from the outset and it is not going to be a simple question of speed to go and find the trade winds. |
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They have caught the famous trade winds that are pushing them toward America, just as the winds propelled Christopher Columbus and those who followed him to the New World. |
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Caught up in the trade winds, they move westwards across the Atlantic and can cover the distance to the Caribbean Sea in a very short time before continuing across the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Climate is temperate all year round thanks to permanent trade winds. |
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Near to Essaouira, the seaside resort of Mogador has long fine-sandy beaches cooled by the trade winds creating a warm climate suited to board sports. |
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Only the crowd and strong trade winds can be disturbing. |
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Where are the famous Atlantic trade winds? |
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The climate is tropical and desertic, moderated by the sea and in summer by the trade winds. |
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Like trade winds and unlike the westerlies, these prevailing winds blow from the east to the west, and are often weak and irregular. |
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During late boreal winter and spring, the current is weaker as the northeasterly trade winds are shifted south, and oppose the current. |
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In tropical northern Panthalassa trade winds created westward flows while equatorward flows were created by westerlies at higher latitudes. |
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Consequently, trade winds moved water away from Gondwana towards Laurasia in the northern Panthalassa Equatorial Current. |
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An exception to this rule is in Hawaii, where upslope flow due to the trade winds lead to one of the wettest locations on Earth. |
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The highest temperatures occur in April, due to higher levels of sunlight, lower cloud cover and a decrease in trade winds. |
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They discovered new routes, ocean currents, trade winds, crops, spices and other products. |
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Except in the Northern Hemisphere summer season, the predominant winds over Hispaniola are the northeast trade winds. |
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The local climate is tropical and generally hot and humid, though moderated by northeast trade winds along the coast. |
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The prevailing trade winds keep the east side of the island cooler and bring more rain. |
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In 1521, a Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan sailed west across the Pacific using the westward trade winds. |
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The weaker the trade winds become, the more rainfall can be expected in the neighboring landmasses. |
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The one region of the Earth which has an absence of trade winds is the north Indian ocean. |
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When the trade winds are weaker, more extensive areas of rain fall upon landmasses within the tropics, such as Central America. |
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Polynesians may have used the prevailing north easterly trade winds to reach New Zealand in about three weeks. |
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Temperatures in Central America are highest just prior to the summer wet season, and are lowest during the winter dry season, when trade winds contribute to a cooler climate. |
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The current is driven by the prevailing south easterly trade winds. |
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Glasgow's position on the River Clyde, where the trade winds first hit Europe, gave its merchants a two to three week advantage over other ports in Britain and Europe. |
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Several factors influence the geometry of a carbonate platform, including inherited topography, synsedimentary tectonics, exposition to currents and trade winds. |
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In his attempt to return to New Spain he was diverted by the northeast trade winds, which threw him back, so he tried sailing back down, to the south. |
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