Sentences with phrase «ocean flows across»

What makes Hibberdene's beaches so popular is that the warm Indian Ocean flows across its shoreline.

The warm Indian Ocean flows across this wonderful coastline providing it with an abundance of beautiful tropical fish and coral reefs.

Not exact matches

The floating platforms of ice that ring the coast are thinning, glaciers are surging toward the sea, meltwater is flowing across the surface, fast - growing moss is turning the once shimmering landscape green and a massive iceberg the size of Delaware broke off into the ocean in July of 2017.

«Across the globe, the mountain glaciers influence ecosystem processes like stream flow, nutrient delivery and primary production in the ocean.

Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is transported to midlatitudes on long filaments of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's oceans.

Second, melting land ice flows into the ocean, also increasing sea level across the globe.

The same concept applies to the cool skin layer - warm the top of the layer and the gradient across it decreases, therefore reducing heat flowing out of the ocean.

Scientists think that, in the past, water may have flowed across the surface in rivers and streams, and that vast oceans covered the planet.

If you leave Savannah on the coast and travel on the only U.S. highway that goes almost straight westward across the state of Georgia, you will cross the Ogeechee, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, all of which flow to the south and east and empty into the Atlantic Ocean.

Marine mammals know no national boundaries, and populations flow through the oceans across our globe.

We took about a hour hike in across lava rocks and reached an area where it was roped off and a lot of people were watching the lava flow into the ocean from the distance.

This place is also the endpoint of flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean: glass bottles, lightbulbs, hard hats, stones, etc..

The currents flowing across the sill bring warm Atlantic water into the polar sea, and although the net gain each year is tiny, over thousands of years it is enough to make the Arctic Ocean very much warmer.

The massive water system is thought to stretch for 3,700 miles across the Amazon basin with an average width of about 200 miles, flowing west to east into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate of 350 feet a year.

Heat flows across differences in temperatures, yet the winter water temperature under the ice is fixed at -2 C. Thus elevated winter air temperatures should actually cause a reduction in heat flow out of the ocean.

A mass of youth from across Canada will gather, flowing through the streets of the capital like a river and surrounding decision makers like an ocean.

The cold water at the poles sinks, flows equatorwards across the ocean deeps.

Although the Arctic Ocean comprises only 3.7 % of the surface of the global ocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regOcean comprises only 3.7 % of the surface of the global ocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regions.

The evaporative, conductive and radiative processes combined then set up a thermal gradient causing an upward flow of energy from water to air from where that 1 mm layer touches the ocean bulk below, up across the cooler layer then to the Knudsen layer by reversing the normal (warm at the top and cool at the bottom) temperature gradient which exists from that 1 mm layer down to the ocean bottom.

The net flow of LW and latent heat is always from ocean to atmosphere and then to space when averaged across the planet, and the oceans receive the vast amount of their energy from SW solar.

January 10, 2008 — Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across ocean floors, earth's system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet — from its plate - tectonic movements to heat flow from the interior, and the chemistry of rock, water and air...