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    The Walker circulation, also known as the Walker cell, is a conceptual model of the air flow in the tropics in the lower atmosphere (troposphere). According...
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    Atmospheric circulation is the large-scale movement of air and together with ocean circulation is the means by which thermal energy is redistributed on...
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    surface temperatures (called El Niño), a weaker Walker circulation (an east-west overturning circulation in the atmosphere) and even weaker trade winds...
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    The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the "main current system in the South and North Atlantic Oceans".: 2238  As such, it is a component...
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    with the atmosphere. Its waters are affected by the Indian Ocean Walker circulation, resulting in unique oceanic currents and upwelling patterns. The...
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  • surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and the strength of the Walker circulation. Increased radiative forcing (warming) is more effective in the western...
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    circulatory system has two divisions, a systemic circulation or circuit, and a pulmonary circulation or circuit. Some sources use the terms cardiovascular...
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  • footballer Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County Walker, Mono County, California Walker, Illinois Walker, Iowa Walker, Kansas Walker, Louisiana Walker, Michigan...
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    global climate, and for discovering what is named after him as the Walker circulation, and for greatly advancing the study of climate in general. He was...
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    The pulmonary circulation is a division of the circulatory system in all vertebrates. The circuit begins with deoxygenated blood returned from the body...
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    ground, out to sea during the night. Longitudinal circulation consists of two cells, the Walker circulation and El Niño / Southern Oscillation. Some more...
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    gyres Physical oceanography South Pacific Gyre Thermohaline circulation Walker circulation Montecino, Vivian, and Carina B. Lange. "The Humboldt Current...
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    winter National Weatherperson's Day Precipitation ROFOR Space weather Walker circulation Weather station Frisinge, H. Howard (1983). The History of Meteorology:...
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  • Thomas Walker from whom the Walker circulation takes its name; now an important aspect of the Pacific ENSO phenomenon. 1924 – Gilbert Walker first coined...
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    Coral bleaching Ocean current Oceanic gyres Physical oceanography Walker circulation Humboldt Current Wyrtki, Klaus (1973). "An Equatorial Jet in the Indian...
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  • the eastern Pacific, which can be explained by the weakening of the Walker circulation. The change in temperature dominates the increasing stratification...
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    aerosol pollution over the Amazon rainforest. During the event the Walker circulation and associated rainfall was shifted eastwards, which meant that a...
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    Mark; Jin, Fei-Fei; Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu (3 August 2014). "Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming"....
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  • ocean induces westerly wind anomalies, causing a weakening of the Walker circulation. This results in an anomaly of the equatorial thermocline slope, which...
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    related to regional oscillations in the global climate system: the Walker circulation which is related to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation; the North Atlantic...
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    of factors such as trade wind regimes, the paired Hadley cells and Walker circulation, seasonally varying convergence zones such as the South Pacific Convergence...
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    needed to allow for proper blood circulation through the arms as the walker is used. The front two legs of the walker may or may not have wheels attached...
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    more functional right ventricle to provide blood flow to the systemic circulation. The procedure was initially performed in 1968 by Francis Fontan and...
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    Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner...
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    the tropical oceans. Here, the sinking air masses of the Hadley or Walker circulation and the sea breeze ensure that the subsidence inversion lies particularly...
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    storms in the basin. Activity was below normal due to a powerful Walker circulation, which increased convection over the neighboring Australian basin...
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    Oscillation (ENSO), appeared in Pacific Ocean. It affects the walker circulation (an Atmosphere Circulation between East Pacific and Western Pacific). In normal...
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    cycle lasting years or decades. The phenomenon, a consequence of the Walker circulation, is marked by two phases: a warming phase, El Niño, during which sea...
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  • be understood as the weakening and strengthening of the Atlantic Walker circulation. This is strikingly similar to the wind stress anomalies seen in the...
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    to cooler than normal water temperatures and the Walker circulation – a broad atmospheric circulation – causing unusually moist conditions in the eastern...
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