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	Atlantic Ocean - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Islands in the Atlantic Ocean include Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, Rockall, Great Britain, Ireland, Fernando de Noronha, the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands, Newfoundland, Bermuda, the West Indies, Ascension, St.
		The South tide s in the Atlantic Ocean are semi- diurnal ; that is, two high tides occur during each 24 lunar hours.
		Evidence indicates that it did not exist prior to 180 million years ago, when the continents that formed from the breakup of the ancestral supercontinent, Pangaea, were being rafted apart by the process of seafloor spreading.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /atlantic_ocean.htm (2171 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Atlantic Ocean -
		This ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending in a north-south direction and is divided into the North Atlantic and South Atlantic by equatorial counter currents at about 8 ° north latitude.
		On the east, the dividing line between the Atlantic and the Indian oceans is the 20 ° east meridian.
		The Atlantic is separated from the Arctic Ocean by a line from Greenland to southernmost Spitsbergen to northern Norway.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/at/Atlantic_Ocean (1805 words)

	Atlantic Ocean - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atlantic Ocean * Arctic Ocean * Indian Ocean * Pacific Ocean * Southern Ocean
		The volume of the Atlantic Ocean with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 km³ (85,093,000 mi³) and without them 323,600,000 km³ (77,632,000 mi³).
		The width of the Atlantic varies from 2,848 km (1,769 mi) between Brazil and Liberia to about 4,830 km (3,000 mi) between the United States and northern Africa.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /a/at/atlantic_ocean.html (1916 words)

	Atlantic basin hurricanes: Indices of climatic
		This is due to the Atlantic basin having a marginal climatology for tropical cyclone activity because of its sensitivity to changes in vertical wind shear and lack of an oceanic monsoon trough (Gray et al.
		Atlantic hurricane activity is enhanced during the west phase of the QBO and diminished in the east QBO years.
		In contrast to this, the influence of Atlantic SSTs is occasionally not in phase with the overlying tropospheric circulation on the interannual timescale.
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/Landsea/atlantic (10593 words)

	North Atlantic Basin Inversion/GSA Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The deformation post-dates the youngest synrift deposits in the Fundy basin and is hypothesized to be Middle Jurassic in age, based on similar inversion-related structures in offshore basins.
		Therefore, inversion in the southern basins occurred while extension was continuing in the northern basins, and initiation of inversion was diachronous along the Atlantic margin.
		The most likely cause of basin inversion was compression related to ridge push during the initial stages of seafloor spreading (when the crust was weakest as a result of extensional thinning and magmatism).
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~schlisch/negsa95.html (262 words)

	2005 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season Forecast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation, or ATC, is a density-driven circulation in the Atlantic Basin that undergoes cycles on decadal timescales.
		The North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO, is the fluctuation in 500 millibar heights in the northern Atlantic, primarily between western Europe, Iceland, and Greenland.
		Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone activity tends to experience a fairly sharp increase during the month of August, particularly after August 15.
	www.independentwx.com /2005.html (10072 words)

	Oceans of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In that region the Atlantic is separated from the Pacific by a man-drawn line from Cape Horn across Drake Passage to Antarctica.
		Similarly the Pacific is separated from the Indian Ocean by a string of islands extending from the Straits of Malacca to Australia, and southward from Tasmania to Antarctica.
		Unlike the basin floors of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Pacific is characterized by the Central Pacific Trough.
	pao.cnmoc.navy.mil /pao/Educate/OceanTalk2/indexoceans.htm (982 words)

	The Atlantic basin and sea floor
		The Atlantic has grown, but the planet Earth has not, and the crumple zones where crustal plates collide can be seen as the Rockies in North America (5) and the Andes in South America (6).
		Around the margins of the Atlantic ocean the sea floor rises steeply (the continental rise or continental slope) as the young ocean floor basalt is over-ridden by older, but less dense continental crust.
		The wide continental shelves, and relatively low coasts of the Atlantic are typical of an ocean that is expanding.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /JRD/SCHOOL/wt/wt001_1.html (467 words)

	UPDATED FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The general warming of the North Atlantic that has taken place during the last six years is in concurrence with increased incidence of major hurricanes, an association similar to what occurred during the most active hurricane seasons of the 1930s to the 1960s.
		Atlantic basin NTC can be skillfully predicted and the strength of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation can be inferred as SSTA* from North Atlantic SST anomalies from prior years.
		Note that although Atlantic basin NTC activity in 2001 is expected to be approximately that of the long term average (100), U.S. hurricane landfall probability is expected to be above average.
	hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu /forecasts/2001/april2001 (7042 words)

	SECURE_NAtl
		The basin has a rich iron source from Saharan and Sahel dust, and geochemical evidence indicates that the North Atlantic subtropics are a region of active nitrogen fixation (Michaels et al., 1996; Gruber and Sarmiento, 1997).
		While the North Atlantic is the best resolved basin in terms of our knowledge of the spatial distribution and temporal variability of air-sea CO flux, better constrained estimates are crucial to improve the identification and quantification of the regional distribution of fossil fuel carbon sinks (Fan et al., 1999).
		Due to the North Atlantic basin's small size, and the generally broad extent and shallow depth of continental shelves surrounding the basin, continental margin-derived fluxes may be especially important.
	www.msrc.sunysb.edu /OCTET/natl.html (3686 words)

	Brazilian Hydrography
		The basin of the river San Francisco originates in Minas Gerais, in the Serra da Canastra, and it crosses the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Sergipe.
		Platina Basin, or Basin of the rivers Paraná and Uruguay.
		The Platina basin, or basin of the rivers of the Prata, is constituted by the sub-basins of the rivers Paraná, Paraguay and Uruguay, draining areas of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
	www.brcactaceae.org /hydrography.html (1360 words)

	Atlantic Yacht Basin
		Atlantic Yacht Basin, Inc. is a full service yacht repair and storage facility located on the A & C canal of the Intracoastal Waterway in Chesapeake (Great Bridge), Virginia.
		We have the largest and most equipped storage facilities in the area and are capable of accommodating over 150 yachts under cover and 50 yachts outside in our protected fresh water basin.
		Atlantic Yacht Basin, Inc. is recognized by new and repeat customers for its quality craftsmanship, courteous demeanor, and strong commitment to customer satisfaction.
	www.atlanticyachtbasin.com (140 words)

	PREDICTING ATLANTIC BASIN SEASONAL TROPICAL CYCLONE
		Because of the circulation regime of the tropical North Atlantic, tropospheric vertical shear is dominated by the variations in the upper troposphere.
		Thus the use of adjacent Atlantic temperature fields has already been shown to be useful in a forecasting mode and it is possible that additional use of coastal stations of temperature and pressure would also be of use for Sahel (and thus tropical cyclone activity) seasonal predictions.
		In summary, the individual effects of the predictors as measured by linear correlation coefficients to various Atlantic basin tropical cyclone measures is shown in Table 3.
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/Landsea/predAtl (5105 words)

	Jim Hurrell's Published Papers: 2003-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is manifest as coherent fluctuations in ocean and land temperature, rainfall and surface pressure with a myriad of impacts on society and the environment.
		Of central importance is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which dictates much of the climate variability from the eastern seaboard of the United States to Siberia and from the Arctic to the subtropical Atlantic, especially during boreal winter.
		The extratropical portion of the North Atlantic SST tripole also seems to play a significant role in the model, tending to counteract the dominant influence of the tropical Atlantic basin on NAO regimes.
	www.cgd.ucar.edu /cas/jhurrell/2003-2004.html (3564 words)

	Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - oceans - printable text version
		Photo: Anne G Leel/WWF UK The Atlantic Basin stretches between the continents of Europe, Africa and the Americas.
		Few of the mineral deposits of the Atlantic are commercially viable, an exception being oil and gas reserves in the North Sea.
		The North Atlantic is the world’s most heavily fished ocean area, and many fish stocks suffer from over-fishing.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /coolplanet/ontheline/explore/nature/oceans/prtgeog.htm (471 words)

	2004 Hurricane Season Forecast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With all of that being said, the ATC is judged to be a fairly enhancing factor for this year's Atlantic Basin hurricane season.
		The North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO, is the fluctuation in 500MB heights in the northern Atlantic, primarily between western Europe, Iceland, and Greenland.
		The Atlantic Basin has been divided into seperate regions so that the amount of hurricane activity in each sector can be analyzed.
	www.independentwx.com /2004.html (9127 words)

	Hurricane Alley - North Atlantic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The North Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone basin is considered to be that area north of 0
		The area of the Atlantic basin observing the maximum number of hurricanes is near 29.0N, 75.5W, approximately 325 miles east of the central Florida east coast.
		This includes all data related to the current conditions in the tropical North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.
	www.hurricanealley.net /natl.shtml (258 words)

	Multi-Season Forecasts of Atlantic Basin Hurricane Activity: 2001--2005
		The low frequency oscillation might be forced by sea surface temperature (SST) fluctuations in regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.
		Table 1: Five-season forecasts of the number of Atlantic basin hurricanes using the iterative and ARMA algorithms [see Elsner et al.
		Overall, the outlook is for near normal activity to begin with the 2001 hurricane season (avg = 5.1 over the period 1886-2000) and continue for the next four years afterwhich a return to much above normal activity is projected for 2005.
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~jelsner/HTML/Forecasts/Feb1fcst01.html (572 words)

	GN Online: Freight rates soften as supply problems ease in Atlantic basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the last fortnight, Panamax bulk carrier rates initially took a bit of a dive in the first week and then recovered and regained all their lost ground in the second.
		The weakening in the market was largely caused by a build-up of tonnage in the Atlantic and the Pacific plus pessimistic comments about the Panamax 'boom' ending.
		However, one had only to look at the continuing emergence of long period timecharter orders and the high levels still being paid to all ages of vessel to realise that long-term optimism was still prevalent.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=111838 (859 words)

	HRD publications
		KAPLAN, J., DeMaria,M. Large-Scale Characteristics of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin.
		BLACK, M.L., J.F. Samsury, and H.E. Eastern Pacific Hurricanes Jimena of 1991 and Olivia of 1994: The effect of vertical shear on structure and intensity.
		POWELL, M.D., and S.D. Accuracy of United States tropical cyclone landfall forecasts in the Atlantic Basin (1976-2000).
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/hrd_sub/publications.html (1916 words)

	Atlantic City hotels and casinos near Gardener's Basin
		Search rates and availability online of Atlantic City Gardener's Basin Hotels.
		Please Click Here to visit the Atlantic City hotel locations page.
		We have Atlantic City hotels near Atlantic City’s top attractions and business locations.
	www.atlanticcityhotelseye.com /atlantic-city-gardeners-basin-hotels.html (173 words)

	GSC Atlantic BASIN Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A suit of seismic time stucture maps were developed during a multi-disciplinary re-interpretation of the Mesozoics of the Scotian Basin.
		The 1:250,000 working scale maps are presented in digtial form as a basis for future work.
		Conversion of files to DXF format is available at extra cost.
	gsca.nrcan.gc.ca /BASIN/DEMO/basin-f-msb.cgi (76 words)

	Hurricane 2005! from AccuWeather.com - Hurricane Season Pictures, Forecasts, tracking maps, and information
		Atlantic / Gulf / Caribbean East Pacific West Pacific South Pacific Indian Ocean
		The rest of the tropical Atlantic features tropical waves located along 38 west, south of 25 north, which a large area of African dust has hindered further development of this wave; along 62 west, south of 21 north; along 73 west, south of 13 north.
		The hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean officially begins June 1.-->
	hurricane.accuweather.com /hurricane/regions.asp (822 words)

	PIRA Energy Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atlantic Basin LNG: The Next Commodity Market answers these questions and more, giving subscribers the detailed data and analysis needed to make informed, profitable decisions.
		Subscribers will be able to assess the financial consequences of a liquid Atlantic Basin LNG market on their natural gas assets, including trading activities, basis management, shipping, liquefaction costs, liquids credits, acquisitions, expansions, and development of power, petrochemical, or water desalination projects.
		What is the methodology behind Atlantic Basin LNG
	www.pira.com /ClientServices/AtlanticLNG.htm (503 words)

	1999 hurricane season closes, sets records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As forecasted, the 1999 hurricane season was busier than the average of 10 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.
		In addition, this period had an average of 8 hurricanes, a record for the Atlantic basin, which includes the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
		Lenny became a powerful category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale near the end of the season and took a rare west to east track across the Caribbean.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/huricane/1999/atlantic/wrapup99.htm (660 words)

	Mid-Atlantic River Basins
		The Northeast-Midwest Institute analyzes and distributes information on interstate watershed management issues within the Delaware, Potomac, and Susquehanna river basins and the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
		To advance these efforts, Institute staff work closely with the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB), and Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC).
		Their Water Watch web site features a map generated by real-time water data collected through the USGS streamgage network, and the map highlights persistent dry conditions on the east coast.
	www.nemw.org /riverbasin.htm (781 words)

	An Investigation of Tornado Production from Atlantic Basin Hurricanes
		For people living along the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico aswell as the Atlantic Coast, hurricanes have the possibility of destroying homes, taking lives, and even stopping daily activity.Hurricanes are not a storm to be taken lightly.
		Studies have shown there to be a modest increase in hurricane development in the North Atlantic Basin from 1886-1996.
		Suggestions for future research would be to explore a much larger range of data, and also to use the TC category at landfall, as opposed to the maximum category of its lifecycle.
	jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu /climatechange02/FinalArticles/AnInvestigationofTornadoP.html (3118 words)

	USATODAY.com - USA fields only tropical storms this hurricane season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All told, there were 15 named storms in the Atlantic basin, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
		Nine of these became hurricanes, and four became major hurricanes, with steady winds stronger than 110 mph.
		But, the Florida Keys escaped its fury, which only brushed the 125-mile island chain before plowing through the Bahamas and weakening in the Atlantic.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/stories/2001/2001-11-30-hurricane-wrapup.htm (242 words)

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