Word: coasting
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Naber has been in touch with Caedmon's Call since she met the band at the Spirit West Coast festival in Monterey, Calif. last July...
...convinced, is that high pressure in the eastern Pacific sends trade winds blowing to the West. Because these winds push water before them like an invisible plow, the sea's surface actually measures about a foot and a half higher around Indonesia and Australia than it does off the coast of Peru. When the pressure drops and trade winds slacken, the water sloshes back downhill, to the east...
...detect directly. So scientists use satellites to pick up the subtle undulations in sea level produced as the ripples pass by. That's how NASA oceanographer Anthony Busalacchi could see early last spring that swarms of undersea waves had started to head out across the Pacific toward the coast of Peru; he followed them as they slammed into the continental shelf, then split, heading sharply south toward Chile and north toward Alaska...
These subsurface waves explain more than the origin and propagation of El Ninos. They also explain how El Ninos end. When the waves first hit the South American coast, some reflect back, like sound bouncing off a wall. When the reflected waves reach Asia, they rebound again. But this double bounce inverts their effect: instead of depressing the thermocline, these twice-reflected waves now lift it up. Cool water dilutes the warmer liquid at the surface, causing a temperature drop in the eastern Pacific known, aptly enough, as La Nina. Thus, observes Ants Leetmaa, director of the National Climate Prediction...
Marilyn and J.F.K. Monica and Bill. Kids were selling star maps on Sunset Boulevard last week. Down on the coast, a seal washed ashore in the storm and took refuge in a public rest room even as Monica was taking refuge from the El Nino of all sex scandals. And a Brentwood News headline read, STAR TREK CAPTAIN TAKES OVER AS MAYOR...