Sentences with phrase «away by ocean currents»
Each summer some of it melts or breaks off and is carried away by ocean currents.
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The increased wave action reaches down and stirs up sediments on shallow continental shelves, releasing radium and other chemicals that are carried up to the surface and swept away into the open ocean by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.
But Parr said, «The problem with offshore turbines is that it's virtually impossible to know and track over time what impact they're having (on bird deaths) because any birds that get struck will fall directly into the ocean and be washed away by the currents or get eaten by sharks.»
Relatively clear skies in the central and eastern tropical Pacific [during a La Niña] allow solar radiation to enter the ocean, apparently offsetting the below normal SSTs, but the heat is carried away by Ekman drift, ocean currents, and adjustments through ocean Rossby and Kelvin waves, and the heat is stored in the western Pacific tropics.
«The top of the glacier is melting away as a result of decades of steadily increasing air temperatures, while its underside is compromised by currents carrying warmer ocean water, and the glacier is now breaking away into bits and pieces and retreating into deeper ground.»