Sentences with phrase «areas of the ocean used»

First, you have to corral portions of the slick into areas of the ocean using fireproof floating barriers.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.»

Not exact matches

Climate change and increasing ocean temperatures are the main reasons why the pacific oyster suddenly thrives in areas where it used to be too cold; The oyster is picky about temperature in most of its life stages.

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

Fertilizer runoff and fossil - fuel use lead to massive areas in the ocean with scant or no oxygen, killing large swaths of sea life and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

The ocean has long been used as a means of disposal of human wastes, and still is used this way in many areas of the world.

His areas of expertise are paleoceanography of surface and deep - ocean circulation using micropaleontological and geochemical tracers; planktonic foraminiferal ecology and paleoecology; and paleoclimatology from cave deposits.

Though the resort has shared pools and lounges for your use, Wamoro also has its own infinity pool, ocean - view terrace with plenty of loungers, and al - fresco sitting and dining areas.

ABOUT US Ocean Riders of Marin has been managing the historic Golden Gate Dairy as a stable since 1998 on a special use permit from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

In addition to the beautiful ocean, the condo has the use of a built in swimming pool and sunny lounge area.

Sliding doors open from the living area onto a balcony, which offers patio furniture and braai facilities to use, with amazing views of the ocean and surrounds.

California's marine protected areas encourage recreational and educational uses of the ocean.

Exceptional views of the open ocean, with residential use only areas with beautiful rock out cropings perfect for exploring tide pools.

Hotel Mandatory hotel imposed resort fee inclusions: • Resort fee of $ 15.00 per room / night (plus 6.5 % sales tax) covers • wireless Internet connectivity in sleeping rooms and most public areas of the resort, • use of fitness center and DVD library, • daily newspaper, • two (2) bottles of water in your guest room, • local and toll - free phone calls, • and use of tennis courts, bocce ball, shuffleboard and horseshoes at nearby (less than half - mile) Oceans Racquet & Recreation Center • Resort fee of $ 15.00 per room / night (plus 6.5 % sales tax) covers • wireless Internet connectivity in sleeping rooms and most public areas of the resort, • use of fitness center and DVD library, • daily newspaper, • two (2) bottles of water in your guest room, • local and toll - free phone calls, • and use of tennis courts, bocce ball, shuffleboard and horseshoes at nearby (less than half - mile) Oceans Racquet & Recreation Center The above list may not be comprehensive.

The extensive tropical gardens have two barbecue areas for your use, or if you are feeling not so energetic, the beachfront restaurant offers wonderful woodfired pizzas and stylish modern cuisine where you can dine while taking in the beautiful ocean views of the Coral Sea.

Guests can enjoy making use of the braai amenities with views of the ocean and surrounds, and for colder days the house also has an indoor braai area, with free Wi - Fi throughout the premises and flat screen TVs in lounge, bar and upstairs main bedroom.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

In order to find out if these plumes are the result of that recent warming or are simply a feature of the area, a team of researchers led by Christian Berndt of Germany's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel used a submersible to get a look at the seafloor where the methane is bubbling up.

There does need to be more study to identify exactly how much carbon dioxide is actually sequestered in the bottom of the ocean, but the use of iron as a fertilizer in naturally barren areas of the ocean to induce plankton blooms is no different from what mankind has been doing for thousands of yeas — albeit on the ocean versus on land.

There are two ways to categorize the amount of ice: by measuring the extent (essentially the area of the ocean covered by ice, though in detail it's a little more complicated) or using volume, which includes the thickness of the ice.

and «Where was all the water going to come from» so I decided to have a go and try to work out how much water would be needed to allow the World Ocean to rise by just 1 meter, there are two variables that I can not solve, 1 is that the world is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an answer.

We may be able to gain an idea of approx Sea surface temperature for brief periods of time in small areas of the most travelled bits of ocean but for the most part the use of SSTs is highly flawed and should have no place in the IPCC reports.

A standard area in the tropical Pacific Ocean, called NINO3.4 is used to monitor the state of ENSO.

Using satellites we can estimate both sea ice area, which is the area of the sea which is ice - covered, and ice extent, which is the area of ocean which has 15 % or more ice cover.

The arctic ocean used to be 4 to 5 metres thick across the bulk of its area in winter... now you would be hard put to find much over 3 metres.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

As an example sampling the Southern oceans must happen in essentially same areas and using methods with errors that don't move in either direction systematically, but as long as there are no such systematic trends the results are not particularly sensitive to errors of individual measurements.

The CAML / SCAR - MarBIN «area of interest» is the Southern Ocean in its widest sense, as used by oceanographers [1]--[4].

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

If the only station on an island in the ocean is at an airport or has «problems», that islands data will then supposedly be used for the temperature of the ocean up to 1200 km away in all directions, extending any problems over a large area.

Some previous models project an ice - free summer period in the Arctic Ocean by 2040 (Holland et al., 2006), and even as early as the late 2030s using a criterion of 80 % sea ice area loss (e.g., Zhang, 2010).

If the projects successfully demonstrate the twisted jacket foundations, engineers may use the design in future offshore wind projects in locations such as the Atlantic Wind Energy Areas established by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Using sophisticated ocean and climate models, past data and observations, the researchers found that while sea levels are rising in a number of areas in the Indian Ocean, sea levels are falling in other aocean and climate models, past data and observations, the researchers found that while sea levels are rising in a number of areas in the Indian Ocean, sea levels are falling in other aOcean, sea levels are falling in other areas.

How are these values derived and used in calculations for the computing - global warming in a small area such as a 10x10 mile square of ocean?

Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a project scientist who studies satellite ocean surface wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.

The time series uses - an area - weighted average of the surface air temperature over land and the temperature of water at the ocean's surface.

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

RASM (Kamal et al.), 3.61 (± 0.5), Modeling (fully - coupled) We used the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM), which is a limited - area, fully coupled climate model consisting of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Parallel Ocean Program (POP) and Sea Ice Model (CICE) and the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) land hydrology model (Maslowski et al. 2012; Roberts et al. 2014; DuVivier et al. 2015; Hamman et al. 2016).

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

It is estimated that if you were to add up all of the ocean area that is being used for aquaculture into one farm, it would fit inside of Rockland Harbor.

Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.

As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..

Using satellite and field work after an extreme melt event in Greenland, a UCLA - led study finds that melt - prone areas on its ice sheet develop a remarkably efficient drainage system of stunning blue streams and rivers that carry meltwater into moulins (sinkholes) and ultimately the ocean.

Based on detailed reports of TCs that were generated in the Southern Ocean and hit Australia since 1970, from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Seo constructed damage estimates «using the reported financial loss, destruction of houses and capital goods, and losses of agricultural crops and livestock after a careful examination of the detailed individual cyclone reports,» which also included «local area income and population density where the storm hit.»

A UC Davis researcher is studying whether tiny bits of plastic used in face washes, toothpaste and other consumer products are accumulating in Sacramento - area rivers and flowing out to the Pacific Ocean.

Every once in a while there's some good news on the endangered species front: A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discovered an undetermined number of North Atlantic right whales, in an area where it was thought they had been hunted nearly extinction over a hundred years ago: The whales were discovered by using a series of underwater hydrophones to record the sound of the whales over hundreds of miles of ocean.

Graphs and tables are updated around the middle of every month using current data files from NOAA GHCN v3 (meteorological stations), ERSST v5 (ocean areas), and SCAR (Antarctic stations), combined as described in our December 2010 publication (Hansen et al. 2010).

Might I suggest that everyone read the proposal by Latham, Salter et al about using atomised water sprays — more hygroscopic nuclei in deficient areas of the ocean should raise albedo by increasing stratocumulus cover in the boundary layer — to cool selected areas?