Sentences with phrase «since water depth»

Since water depth is generally shallow near coastlines, the tsunami can grow in size as it approaches land, becoming particularly hazardous along heavily populated coastlines such as the Southern California coastline.

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He said the water section is much more in - depth than the land section, since so many of Southold's most crucial environmental issues are water - related.

Fish finders have the best depth sensing in freshwater since salt water decreases the effectiveness of sonar.

As a general matter, yes, but AIUI the increasing height (depth) of the ice face is the key factor for accelerating retreat of these glaciers since it creates more surface area for the warm water to work on.

Since water can't be compressed, you need enough tread depth to allow the rain to escape through the tire grooves.

The set - up for the CatGenie is a little more in - depth, since it does requires a water hook - up, as well as a place to drain the waste it captures (either via toilet, or through your washer's drain pipe).

A source of extremely salty water comes out of the mountains and since the time of the Incas the salt mines consists about 3,000 small fields with an average size of 4 m ² and a depth of 10 centimeters.

One point I would make is that the relationship between large hurricanes and SSTs as such will always be a little fuzzy since the presence of warm water at depth seems to pay a large role in storm intensification (as with Katrina when it crossed the Loop Current).

Since ENSO is a coupled ocean - atmosphere process, I have presented its impact on and the inter-relationships between numerous variables, including sea surface temperature, sea level, ocean currents, ocean heat content, depth - averaged temperature, warm water volume, sea level pressure, cloud amount, precipitation, the strength and direction of the trade winds, etc..

Since water completely absorbs any IR within the first few centimeters, how can IR from CO2 heat the ocean at any meaningful depth?

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.

Put another way, just the melting of these icefields has contributed enough water to the world's oceans since 2000 that it would cover the entire US to a depth of 3.3 cm.

One of the Pumpmakers» NSP Solar Pumps has been in place in a remote village in Mozambique since 2012, and it delivers 5000 liters of water each day from a well depth of 80 meters, which supplies the 800 villagers with a source of clean safe drinking water.