The c 1 makes the ocean the secon d smallest in the world.Even though all the oceans on Earth connect to each other, people usually think of them as four d 2 parts: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, an d Arcti c Oceans. For more than 100 years, since the National Geographi c start...
A tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean is called a typhoon. The same kind of storm in the Atlantic Ocean is called a hurricane. Typhoons only have two classifications, whereas hurricanes have five. What is the most dangerous kind of tornado? LeStudio // Shutterstock What is the ...
The National Geographic Society, one of the biggest science organizations(组织) in the world, has named the Southern Ocean as the world's fifth ocean. The decision was made to celebrate World Oceans Day, which falls on June 8 every year.All oceans are connected(相连) on the earth, so in...
"Both El Nino and La Nina have defining characteristics, with El Nino associated with warmer than normal ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific - which leads to rainier cooler conditions in the south and warmer conditions in parts of the north. "La Nina...
Other ocean basins may also influence tropical Pacific decadal climate through both atmospheric and oceanic pathways11,57. For example, decadal-scale cooling in the central-eastern tropical Pacific, a main factor driving global surface warming slowdowns, has been linked to tropical Atlantic SST warming...
It has the opposite pattern from El Niño, which is associated with warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean No two La Niña events are exactly alike, but La Niña has a reputation for focusing the coldest and most ac...
The major oceanic divisions are defined in part by the continents, various archipelagos, and other criteria: these divisions are (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific and Atlantic may be furt...
Tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation is a major cause of severe floods and landslides. This study compares the characteristics of TC precipitation over land and ocean in the Northern Hemisphere using satellite data from 2001 – 2020. An analog selection m
Searching for the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1818, Sir John Ross had lowered his “deep-sea clam”—a sort of bivalved sediment scoop—into the waters of Baffin Bay (an inlet between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans), which he determined to be more than a ...
Some of the giants of the sea, 20-metre-long sperm whales, really enjoy the sea outside Vesterålen. As the females seem to prefer the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, only male whales frolic in these waters. Join us for a whale safari at Vesterålen. ...