Sentences with phrase «along coastal shelves»

But the same process of sea ice formation and brine production along coastal shelves plays a critical role wherever it occurs.

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Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

Prefer to feed in coastal bays and estuaries, as well as in the shallow water along the continental shelves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The sea level anomaly creates an along - shelf geostrophic coastal current anomaly, which is particularly strong on the western side of the Peninsula.

Most pending offshore wind projects are along the New England and Mid-Atlantic coast for three reasons: First, the strong, consistent winds there — which a recent University of Delaware estimated as having the potential to generate 330 gigawatts of power, enough to meet a significant proportion of the energy needs of the Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts to North Carolina — can be tapped on the broad, shallow continental shelf.