Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean on the other»

The ridge's 1,200 - foot - high summit slopes down to the bay on one side and to the Pacific Ocean on the other.

With the mouth of the wide, lazy Hastings River on one side and the sparkling blue Pacific Ocean on the other, Port Macquarie is a water lover's paradise where surfing, water skiing, sailing, deep - sea fishing, dolphin and whale watching, scuba diving and great fishing are all available.

The resort city of Cabo San Lucas lies at the tip of the 900 mile long Baja Peninsula, with the Sea of Cortez on one side, and the Pacific Ocean on the other.

Spend the weekend at Mojosurf's Camp «The Surf Shacks», with massive sand dunes on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other.

The area is basically one winding road with mountainous jungle on side and the Pacific Ocean on the other.

Not exact matches

Other evidence to bolster this claim includes rock sequences from the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

The West Coast can rely on a steady stream of dust particles from Africa and Asia — it takes between seven and 10 days for the dust to cross the Pacific Ocean, Prather added, and dust can circumnavigate the globe in a matter of weeks — but what the western United States has been missing during this drought is the other main part of the equation: clouds that the dust can seed.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

New research reveals that the spindly - legged Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Oocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific OceanOcean.

Research reveals that the spindly - legged bug Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Oocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific OceanOcean.

Instead, the ITOCHU Corp., a Japanese partner of Simbol, will sell the purified lithium to battery - makers on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Bluefins in the Pacific, on the other hand, feed off California for a few years before crossing the ocean to their breeding grounds off Japan — where a single one can fetch $ 175,000 on the Tokyo market.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

It was only 3000 years ago that humans first set foot on Fiji and other isolated islands of the Pacific, having sailed across thousands of kilometers of ocean.

Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South Ameocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South AmeOcean is plunging under South America.

The revolutionary discovery in the 1970s of a thriving complex marine ecosystem around the hydrothermal vents of the Galapagos Rift on the ocean floor of the eastern Pacific forever changed our understanding of habitability showing that life could also arise and flourish in the complete absence of sunlight in conditions that were utterly toxic to any other life forms on Earth.

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's more likely than not we'll see more intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific Oceans, but a lack of data means the same can't be said of other regions just yet.

Men have devised and tested a most impressive way of annihilating each other, detonating the bomb in secret on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

I want to believe we're built for soaring in our thoughts, and out here on the edge, in California, at night, in that fading wakefulness before sleep erases sight, my mind projects that sketch of Leonardo's, and then, before I realize it, I'm flying in, flying to America, making landfall on this continent, not from over the Pacific, not from Singapore or Australia, Fiji or Hawaii on routes I've flown in real airplanes, but I dream I'm coming in across the other ocean, over the Atlantic, like Columbus.

On one side is the sparkling turquoise Pacific Ocean with its pounding surf, dramatic cliffs and endless horizon, and on the other is the Santa Lucia Mountain RangOn one side is the sparkling turquoise Pacific Ocean with its pounding surf, dramatic cliffs and endless horizon, and on the other is the Santa Lucia Mountain Rangon the other is the Santa Lucia Mountain Range.

Aeroplan might show you several options with other Star Alliance partners, so if you want to fly EVA Air on the long - haul segment across the Pacific Ocean, make sure you check which airline is operating that segment.

Behind it (on the other side of the famous «Arch») is Divorce Beach — where the undertow is so dangerous that people have died swimming there on the Pacific Ocean side.

From Carmel, ride along the Pacific Ocean with dramatic cliffs on one side and the Santa Lucia Mountain Range on the other.

Sitting not far from the equator, it's got a definite tropical paradise vibe, with sparkling turquoise ocean (laidback Caribbean on one side, pounding Pacific on the other) along its lengthy coastline and lush green rainforest cloaking its interior, punctuated by the giant peaks of more than 300 volcanoes.

Sitting amid bougainvillea - covered white walls at the surprisingly inexpensive Hotel Milo (formerly Oceana Hotel), just across from the gentle blue Pacific Ocean — if also next door to the uncomfortably named Sambo's On the Beach — there are few other places in Southern California I'd rather be.

North of the city the beautiful stretch of coast from manly to Palm Beach has a relaxed beach ambiance with the Pacific Ocean on one side and Pittwater on the other.

There is no other real estate company on the North Pacific Coast that has more experience in Costa Rica real estate than RE / MAX Ocean Surf and Sun.

With the famous surf beach on the Pacific Ocean side and a serene inner harbour beach on the other, Manly has the best of both waterfront worlds and is a popular place to swim, windsurf, parasail, snorkel, kayak, surf and scuba dive.

Costa Rica is bordered by Pacific Ocean on one end and by the Caribbean Sea on the other.

Alinghi overlooks the Pacific Ocean and set on 14 acres of natural bush land with direct access to a private beach at Honeymoon Bay shared with just 5 other houses in the estate or explore nearby Sunrise Beach.

Mal Pais carries spectacular white sand beaches bordered by crystal clear Pacific Ocean on one end and by a covey of jungle covered hills on the other.

Navy Allowed to Kill or Injure Nearly 12 Million Whales, Dolphins, Other Marine Mammals in Pacific Monday, 16 May 2016 00:00 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout Report A whale swims in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Maui, on December... Continue reading →

Search for seashells on a romantic stroll, ride bicycles along the shoreline, or just watch the roaming Pacific Ocean waves in each other's arms.

Casa Cielito is located north of Punta Mita in a remote setting on a mile long beach on the Pacific Ocean that is shared with twelve other villas.

Trap Door sees two teams battling each other on a shrinking platform high above the Pacific Ocean.

The new research focused on corals in the Andaman Sea, in the northeastern Indian Ocean, but other scientists have made similar algae findings in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

On the other hand, the budgeting of salinity implicit in the ocean model used by Hatun et al. may not properly account for river run - off (freshens the water), transport from the Pacific, the Canadian Archipelago, the East Greenland current, or melting processes.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

Some of the very wet years are caused by El Nino, a reversal of winds over the Pacific Ocean that has been going on every few years ever since there was a Pacific Ocean... People... will cite computer models predicting that El Ninos should become stronger or more frequent with global warming, but there are an awful lot of other models showing that they won't change or that they might even lessen in frequency.

It is affected by events on the other side of the planet, in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

SLR already threatens several small island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and, depending on how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries, other coastal areas will become uninhabitable.

On the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or anotheOn the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or anotheon longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or another.

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

The Galapagos trench and many other Pacific, Indian Ocean (possibly related to a SW Pacific biogeographic province) and mid-Atlantic trenches have been slowly «unearthed», until recently the faunal diversity was found to be centred on the Antarctic Ocean.

Frederick Davies: You wrote, «On the other hand, I am wondering why ENSO happens in the Pacific Ocean and not in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans; there are Trade Winds in all of them.

On the other hand, I am wondering why ENSO happens in the Pacific Ocean and not in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans; there are Trade Winds in all of them.

Remember that there is a variable lag between the initial solar effect of warming or cooling on the Pacific Ocean and that effect then working through all the other oceanic oscillations so it is difficult to establish the overall balance of the oceanic oscillations at any given time.

Other natural events, like El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean, also have large short - term influences on climate.

Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.