Sentences with phrase «as sea waves»

Latvian - American artist Vija Celmins creates incredibly realistic images of the intricate patterns that underlie the natural world, such as sea waves, stars in the sky, and spider webs.

Not exact matches

When going on a sea journey, one prepares for «dirty weather» by making everything in his cabin as snug and secure as possible, and waits for the waves to subside.

In the stormy sea of modern life, the Humanist (he used to be called the Rationalist) and the generalised agnostic is as much tossed on the waves as we are.

Things like: — there is no such thing as a ghost — people do not rise from the dead — snakes can not talk — seas do not part at the wave of a hand, and on and on...

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

During his lifetime, and after his death, Nicholas performed many miracles, such as stilling the waves of the sea to rescue ships in distress.

With strawberries we filled a tray, And then we drove away, away Along the links beside the sea, Where wind and wave were light and free, And August felt as fresh as May.

«All over the surface of the great waves themselves, the wind was whipping up lesser waves, and blowing their tops away, so that the whole sea was lined and streaked with the blown spume, and it looked as if all the surface was moving.»

He won Hawaii's international surfing title three years ago at Makaha, Oahu's leeward beach, where a series of 20 - foot waves may suddenly rise and thunder in and as suddenly subside, so that a good rider on the last wave can sometimes catch the rebounding back swell and ride back out to sea.

There he will be a contented farmer, sailor and erstwhile poet of the broadcast booth, and, as he puts it, «my fans will then be the waves of the ocean, and my applause, the roar of the sea.»

If your beach has some rock pools then these are a perfect way to explore «under the waves» in a child friendly manner — all you need is a simple net and a bucket — you'll commonly find small fish especially flat fish that live on the sea floor their fry try and stay in the rock pools as it's safer, shrimps, anemones, crabs, molluscs like snails and bivalves like mussels.

This interaction may occur anywhere in the ocean, in particular in regions where surface - gravity waves interact as they reflect from continental shelf breaks, where the deep - sea suddenly faces a much shallower shoreline.

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

«Severe sea states, such as tsunamis, rogue waves, storms, landslides, and even meteorite fall, can all generate acoustic - gravity waves,» Kadri says.

Barnard and his team predicted how SoCal's shores would evolve from 2010 through 2100 by modeling the factors that influence beaches — estimates for sea level rise as well as wave and storm behavior and predicted climate change patterns if the world eventually stabilizes its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, then starts reducing them.

As the snake, which is moored by the nose to let it turn into the waves, undulates with the sea movement, so the pistons operate and the electricity flows.

Sea spray droplets are aerosol water particles that are ejected into the atmosphere as waves break at the ocean surface.

«Suddenly I heard a noise as of thunder, which I thought to be that of a wave of the sea.

The distance from the Luzon Strait to China is relatively short — compared to perhaps the Hawaiian internal wave that crosses the Pacific to Oregon — and the South China Sea is relatively free of obstructions such as islands, crosscurrents and eddies, Legg said.

Submarine earthquakes and landslides can cause tsunamis, so these monster waves may have been more common as sea levels rose.

On foot Pruthu and his team immediately began mapping the affected area and collecting information on the severity of the damage in the portion of the park closest to the sea, a sector known as Block I, where an area about 10 miles long had suffered the brunt of the tidal wave.

Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the hurricane.

But as the heat wave stretched from days to weeks, Coral Sea temperatures spiked more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, and many corals succumbed to starvation or disease.

Public health will suffer as heat waves become more frequent and intense, rising seas inundate coastal cities, extreme storms lead to more deaths and catastrophic wildfires burn more forests and reduce air quality.

They can make big waves, but not ones that rise — as rogue waves do — three to five times as high as the waves around them and seem to come out of nowhere, out of sync with the rest of the sea, from a direction completely different from that of the wind and other waves.

Sailors refer to calm seas as glass, and astronomers in turn have their own nautical metaphor for the smoothness of each of the newest generation telescope mirrors: imagine the entire Atlantic Ocean without a single wave higher than a few inches.

The team discovered that internal waves are generated daily from internal tides, which also occur below the ocean surface, and grow larger as the water is pushed westward through the Luzon Strait into the South China Sea.

Some of the ships rocked on the crests of the waves; the other ships watched in the troughs as the sea parted, exposing the sands on the bottom as they whirled in the furious winds.»

By analyzing current building codes and the like, the New York City Panel on Climate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat waves.

Paleoshorelines are a useful tool to constrain the magnitude and mechanisms of this uplift, as they are often spectacularly preserved as wave - cut platforms, benches and sea - notches, providing a geological record of the interplay between sea - level changes and rock uplift.

According to Hill, another interesting finding was that future extreme water levels were due to more than sea level rise, as waves and tides will be amplified in the future.

As an adult, she studied how sea anemones survive strong waves and how insects fly.

Much of Pres. Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., sits less than two meters above the Atlantic Ocean, meaning big parts of the resort could rest beneath the waves by the end of this century as seas rise in response to global warming.

The earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rise, waves and various weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, accretion and reshaping of coasts as well as flooding and creation of continental shelves and drowned river valleys (rias).

As soon they saw the waves crashing on the shore, the children would realise they had been set a tricky task: how do you measure sea level when it is constantly changing?

As California reels from record - breaking erosion following punishing waves last winter, the federal government is turning to mud and sand from dredging projects to slow land losses and ease flooding nationwide as seas rise and storms intensifAs California reels from record - breaking erosion following punishing waves last winter, the federal government is turning to mud and sand from dredging projects to slow land losses and ease flooding nationwide as seas rise and storms intensifas seas rise and storms intensify.

Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern hemisphere, waves could ripple across the moon's hydrocarbon seas, and hurricanes could begin to swirl over these areas, too.

A new study shows that as a glacier's ice melts, bubbles of pressurized ancient air escape into the water, leading to noise levels even louder than those beneath rain - pounded seas heaving with 6 - meter waves.

They may explain an ancient observation by the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder, who opined that the concrete, «as soon as it comes into contact with the waves of the sea and is submerged, becomes a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger.»

Yesterday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed a $ 19.5 billion plan to protect his home town against future sea level rise and other effects of climate change such as heat waves.

Some of the effects are related to erosional processes such as a decrease in sediment supply, changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme events (storms and cyclones, among others), and changes in sea levels and in the wave climate.

As soon as a baby sea turtle hatches, it races to the water's edge and vanishes into the waveAs soon as a baby sea turtle hatches, it races to the water's edge and vanishes into the waveas a baby sea turtle hatches, it races to the water's edge and vanishes into the waves.

Coastal erosion is common phrase referring to the loss of subaerial landmass into a sea or lake due to natural processes such as waves, winds and tides, or even due to human interference.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

In 2012, the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography was awarded to John Colosi of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, for his research on ocean internal waves as they relate to sound fluctuations in the sea.

Physical processes affecting human health include rough seas that threaten both small and large vessels; weather disturbances such as typhoons and hurricanes; rogue waves; and surges from storms and tsunamis.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

John was given the award for work on ocean internal waves as they relate to sound fluctuations in the sea.

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