Sentences with phrase «buoys near»

For photographers, the collections of Feather Dusters that collect on the anchor chain by the humongous buoys near by are excellent for micro photography.

He envisions a network of sensors and cameras on the seafloor, transmitting data to buoys near the surface, which in turn bounce the signals off satellites to Baker's office in Seattle.

22 December 2016... The Washington Post, Capital Weather Gang (Quoted): Weather buoy near North Pole hits melting point

1/1/2016 Update on what NPEO / IABP buoys tell us about the 12/30/2015 warming event: Several bloggers and reporters brought it to our attention that at least one buoy near the North Pole had exceeded 0 °C.

To correct for aerosol absorption of the radiation, ship and buoy near - surface temperature measurements are required to calibrate the SST values.

Not exact matches

MARKETS: The dollar held near a four - month high against a basket of major currencies, buoyed by the outlook for a strong U.S. economy and rising yields amid signs of slowdown elsewhere, especially in Europe.

Swirling about him are Model 3 production issues, three investigations between two federal organizations, and a near never - ending cycle of new, grander ideas and plans that often buoy the stock in the short term, while threatening to further sap the company of much - needed cash down the line.

Oil's recovery, buoyed by potential supply risks, was capped by rising U.S. inventories while President Donald Trump neared a decision on whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

Ms Brenner's departure was welcomed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Treasurer Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, but did little to buoy the AMP share price, which rose just 3 cents to hover near six - year lows at $ 4.04.

The SRB buoy was set up on an ice floe near the North Pole, and was left to eventually drift southwards with the ice.

To test how much these looping ocean highways might be buoying young turtles away from their hatching sites, the researchers first designed a computer simulation of ocean conditions near the turtle beach between 2000 and 2008.

They include a wave glider to survey areas of the New York Bight, and a moored buoy that will be installed near Mount Desert Rock, Maine, where fin and humpback whales are common.

They'll physically restrain the animal by drag — by putting more buoys on the animal, slowing it down and tiring it out so they can get near it.

The constellation Orion is more than merely lovely and obvious; it's like a navigational buoy floating in the middle of the sky, pointing the way to the nearest spiral arm of our galaxy.

I found problems with the data including: ««⠉ NOAA buoys measuring near - to - sea - surface air temperature — e.g. inadequate shielding of direct solar heating ««⠉ ship - based sea surface temperature — e.g. variable points in cooling systems for diesel versus steam ship propulsion

Following near - universal acclaim from critics (a staggering 98 % fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), the film proceeded to attract sizable crowds in limited release, buoyed no doubt by strong word of mouth.

As with most dive sites near San Pedro, Tackle Box Canyons has a mooring buoy that provides dependable access to the rugged reef terrain on this part of the barrier.

As well as snorkelling and diving trips organised by the on - site dive centre (there's a WW2 shipwreck for some excellent diving in the Atoll), the island also has its own house reef which is easily accessible from the steps near the water villas, just follow the marked path between the buoys to reach it.

Yet measurements from more than 3600 automated buoys throughout the ocean that dive down a mile and a quarter and take detailed temperature and salinity profiles every ten days show that the deeper strata are warming faster than the near - surface strata.

The land in turn creates warmer rivers which then enter the ocean and follow the bottom out to deep water so for diving buoys that don't come near shore the heat is not observed passing through the open ocean surface.

This is corroborated by ice ablation data from an ice mass balance buoy (Figure 2) that was deployed in April near Barrow and has moved through the Chukchi Sea.

A study using data from Polar drifting ice buoys showed that near surface air temperatures over the pack ice are relatively homogenous, with a CLS (correlation length scale) of 900-1000 km, see (Rigor 2000).

Figure 4 shows the present (13 August 2008) surface condition as evidenced by the web camera image from the NPEO Automated Drifting Station, the location of the ice - mass - balance buoy installation nearest Fram Strait.

Coastal - Scale Node Surface buoys, profilers, benthic nodes and gliders will provide near real time data from the air - sea interface to the sea floor.

Here's a buoy's pressure data from near where the cyclone is setting up currently.

DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy purchased the buoys to improve offshore turbine performance in the near term and reduce barriers to private investment in large - scale offshore wind energy development in the long term.

Researchers working from PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, Washington, will conduct initial tests on the custom - made buoys in Sequim Bay and near the Dungeness Spit along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, a channel of water between Washington state's Olympic Peninsula and British Columbia's Vancouver island.

However, in the deep tropics, where the theoretical effects on the surface energy budget of temperature - driven changes in evaporation and water vapour are particularly strong, there is a near quarter century record of both SST and tas from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array of fixed buoys in the Pacific ocean.

In truth, even if Christmas does bring warmth, it won't matter a whit, and not because the true measurements — based on comprehensive satellite readings rather than from a scattering of thermometers on land and ocean buoys — show 2014 to be nowhere near setting records.

In this connection, perhaps the most significant NPEO buoy result (see the NPEO 2015 Data Buoy Drift Map tab) is that the NPEO buoys deployed near the North Pole in April are already (on 1/1/2016) south of 76 ° N in the Greenland buoy result (see the NPEO 2015 Data Buoy Drift Map tab) is that the NPEO buoys deployed near the North Pole in April are already (on 1/1/2016) south of 76 ° N in the Greenland Buoy Drift Map tab) is that the NPEO buoys deployed near the North Pole in April are already (on 1/1/2016) south of 76 ° N in the Greenland Sea.

However, looking at data from the last two days, courtesy of the Wendy Ermold of the International Arctic Buoy Programme we see that over a couple of days the AXIB reported temperature near the North Pole rose significantly.

Ablation stakes made of plywood strips 10 - cm wide and marked with alternating black and white 10 - cm squares are planted in the ice near the buoy to indicate visually the amount of surface melting as the summer proceeds.

A Buoy deployed in April near the Pole has a high probability of following that general route to reach the central Greenland Sea by the following mid-winter.

The latest incident which took place in the Solent on the morning of 13 May, involved a Vector powerboat prototype, on a scheduled test run, which was reported to have struck a buoy and «flipped» in water close to the Warsash Maritime academy, which is on the River Hamble near the entrance to Southampton Water.