Sentences with phrase «broad areas of the ocean»

Nowadays the cost of covering a broad area of the ocean with multiple receivers to locate marine mammals or underwater vehicles based on the acoustic signals they produce is excessively high.

Ambient noise in broad areas of the ocean has increased significantly over the last half - century from the introduction of tens of thousands of commercial ships continuously transiting the sea.

Not exact matches

The heads of the two agencies have agreed, in broad terms, that the FERC would have the authority to license ocean wave and tidal energy projects while the interior department would issue the final permits for solar and wind projects in areas beyond the state waters.

Marine sediment cores cover a broader area — nearly 70 percent of the Earth is covered in oceans — but they only give tiny hints about the climate over the land.

In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009).

The sea ice extent measure is broader, including areas of ocean where ice covers 15 % of the surface area.

Regions showing large positive correlations between GRACE and ECCO, large fraction of ECCO variance explained by GRACE, and large signal - to - noise ratios include the northwestern Pacific Ocean, broad areas of the Southern Ocean, the South China Sea and the Arafura Sea.

Coastal areas and nations dependent upon fishing for food and revenue are likely to suffer as well, the report said, with broad changes in marine species richness and fisheries catch potential as warming and increasingly acidic seas cause species to move to different parts of the ocean.

In making their seasonal outlook, which was released on May 23, NOAA cited a broad area of above - average sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Basin, a continuation of a natural cycle of above - average hurricane activity, and a lack of an El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean as reasons why there may be more storms this year.