Sentences with phrase «blowing over the oceans»

Most of the worlds winds blow over the oceans, unseen and undetected — until now.

For the first time, a satellite has calculated the whopping amount of Saharan dust that is blown over the ocean to reach the Amazon rainforest every year

Balmaseda et al suggest that the recent years may not have much effect on the climate sensitivity after all, and according to their analysis, it is the winds blowing over the oceans that may be responsible for the «slow - down» presented in the Economist.

Peter: I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing In regards to a: I am not sure that it would always be «localized near to the coast».

I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing.

Twelve countries now have wind turbines spinning offshore, and more will be joining them to take advantage of the powerful winds blowing over the oceans.

Do Now Sometimes very cold air can blow over the ocean and or large bodies of water like lakes.

These differences from location to location can be caused by a variety of processes, but two of the most important are (1) winds blowing over the ocean and (2) melting of large ice masses.

Not exact matches

Assuming Falcon Heavy's launch isn't delayed by technical issues, bad weather, or errant boats (debris could rain over the Atlantic Ocean if the rocket blows up), lift - off should occur at 1:30 p.m. ET on February 6, though it could be as late as 4:30 p.m.

Once it was when from the summit of a high mountain I looked over a gashed and corrugated landscape extending to a long convex of ocean that ascended to the horizon, and again from the same point when I could see nothing beneath me but a boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dragging their anchors.

Plastic trash in the ocean threatens to outweigh the fish population by 2050... and with over 500,000 single - use plastic straws thrown away every day, we can be sure that a significant amount of that plastic waste can be attributed to these lightweight items that easily are blown into the ocean.

One has been blowing dry air from the Southern Ocean over south - west Australia since the beginning of the drought, whilst another is shifting moist air south towards Antarctica.

-- Editor's Note] The second reason was it had to be on the east coast, over the ocean, so you wouldn't fly over people that might get killed as stuff dropped off or blew up.

Daniel Rosenfield and his colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied satellite data of air masses over the Indian Ocean, which contain large numbers of air pollution particles blown off the surrounding continents.

The ash was deposited on the seafloor after being blown through plumes that rose miles into the atmosphere and drifted over the ocean.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

Apparently the reason for the disappearance was an anomalous weather system which generated a strong jet of surface winds blowing straight over the pole southward toward the Atlantic ocean, a «Polar Express».

Westerly winds took America's dirty air out over the Atlantic, while the pollution from Europe blew south and then west over the ocean with the trade winds.

In short, because Florida homes — particularly homes in places along the coast like Broward County — regularly get battered, bruised, and blown over by crazy weather gusting in from the ocean.

Once you feel the soft sand under your feet and the cool ocean breezes gently blowing over you, you'll know you've finally found Riu Yucatan and the perfect destination to experience your all - inclusive Mexico vacation.

Whether you want to kayak through swamps, catch marlin off rocks, watch the sunset over the ocean, sail in the Mediterranean, explore numerous surfing locations, swim in a Fijian lagoon, sunbake in the Caribbean with pure white sand and turquoise water, float in fabulous rock pools, hike through wild country, stroll on long deserted beaches or stand on massive, wind - blown cliffs, Currarong has a location nearby to fulfil your aspirations.

Options here are a short sleep over on a reef like Hardy Reef with Cruise Whitsundays Reefsleep adventure, a liveaboard that moves around a little but stays in the same general area such as the Ocean Quest from Deep Sea Divers Den, or the full - blown liveaboard that travels across the Coral Sea and visits only the best sites on the way.

Our distribution loop got clogged with low density water and we had a backup of heat until our heater over heated and blew off steam in the form evaporating ocean water which made a swirling cloud called a hurricane.

sheesh 2 DEGREES just look at the s ** t we are getting at 0.8 degrees Its like goodbye coral reefs, goodbye amazon rainforest, goodbye himalayan glaciers that provide water to 40 % worlds population (lot of poeple in china), goodbye east india monsoon rains needed to grow crops, hello more droughts, hello more forest fires, hello more heat waves, hello more stronger huricanes / typhones / cyclones, hello more floods (because warmer oceans have even more water evaporated from them turned into clouds and blown over land so even more rain pours down at once), hello more jellyfish (they thrive in acidified oceans because of CO2 absorbtion).

(See http://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/global/pd11498f.html) Prevailing winds, which blow in an easterly direction over the continent, contain more CO2 just after they blow off the Pacific Ocean than they do after they exit the continent over the Atlantic.

In Antarctica, this means that cold and moister air from the surrounding oceans will blow over the interior and fall as snow, so increasing ice mass is to be expected.

The study published in Nature Climate Change finds that equatorial trade winds have been blowing harder over the Pacific for the past two decades, forcing more heat down into the ocean.

The best way to envision the relation between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun - warmed waters far towards the west.

When the intensity of ultraviolet light from the sun increases, temperature rises in this ozone rich air and weakens the downdraft, lowers the surface pressure and with it the strength of the trade winds that blow across the ocean to the low pressure zones that form over the warm waters that accumulate in the west.

6 Measuring Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere The winds that blow steadily over Mauna Loa have come thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean, far from most forests and human activities, swirling and mixing as they traveled.

Remember, all that 10 to the 23rd power joules of heat in the ocean is causing the wind to blow the wrong way over India and China and everywhere else.