Hi, so I have an oceanography test coming up and I was just wondering… So I unde

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Hi, so I have an oceanography test coming up and I was just wondering…

So I understand that FL hurricanes are counterclockwise, why do FL hurricanes break apart? What is El Niño and how does it affect the warmness of the water and how does it affect fishermen? When going from the east coast of the US upward to Europe it is pretty fast, but why is it longer when going down Coast of W Europe? A plane that goes from Vancouver to San Francisco can’t go directly there, where does it end up going before reaching San Francisco?

Thanks loads! I will leave a thumbs up if you are able to answer all of them :) just even a push to the right direction works.

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Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters—they gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters as a result evaporation from the seawater increases their power. Warm, moist air moves toward the center of the storm and spirals upward. AS you understand that FL hurricanes are counterclockwise. AS the temperature increase the evaporation increases in other words we can say that it’s a group of storms formed on the basis of temperature condition’s of oceans.

AS we know with the rise of temperature water (ocean water) expanses most of the surface water and hurricane stirs up the water bringing up cold water from below. Winds need to be converging near the surface. The air needs to be unstable for the air to keep rising. As a result the air needs to be warm and humid as it is pulled into the storm. This extra water vapor supplies more potential heat energy. The winds that are not created by the storm need to all be coming from almost the same direction at almost the same speed or they will break the storm apart. Finally there needs to be an upper atmosphere of high pressure area that pumps the rising air away from the storm.

2)      El Niño is unusually characterized by warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific. it describes basically the fluctuations in temperature between the ocean and atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial Pacific having important consequences for weather around the globe.

Subtropical and tropical species, however, might increase in abundance because these species find the warming waters more favorable. It may seem like a good thing, but the presence of these warm-water species near the coast indicates the absence of conditions that are favored by our resident cold-water species. They’re displaced from their natural habitat and they migrate further north.

Additionally, there can be periods of harmful algal blooms that typically are associated with warmer, low-nutrient waters. There are some species of algae, or phytoplankton, that are toxic under certain conditions. They aren’t toxic all the time, but under warm, low-nutrient conditions, these phytoplankton produce toxins that may reduce their mortality by deterring predators. Under these conditions of El Niño, we would expect more harmful algal blooms and these blooms may impact shellfish, marine mammals, and fish.

3)      Because the Earth is a three-dimensional sphere and not merely a two-dimensional flat, East-West surface. Because of this spherical shape, often times the shortest distance is flying more north and south, up over the Northern latitudes and the North Pole, rather than flying east/west over the Pacific.

AS expert tries to make it generalize to put a concept on spherical Earth surface which may be helpful to understand and make a clear picture about the plane movement from onle place to another place

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