Pacific是什么意思？

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

El niño, Spanish for "the child", occurs when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean

As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.

But what if the fault that runs along the Pacific Northwest delivers a gigantic earthquake of its own?

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

Here’s how the Pacific Northwest is preparing for "The big One".

Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific.

Many scientists believe that El nio events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific.

The new marine reserve, now the largest in the Pacific, will permit no fishing or mining.

The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine sanctuary in the world.