Sentences with phrase «by ocean waves»

«We detected seismic waves created by the ocean waves both hitting the East Coast and smashing into each other», said Keith Koper, of the University of Utah seismic stations.

In both solo and group shows, expect to find exhibitions featuring modernist functional sculpture, scenes inspired by ocean waves, a distilled version of summer and abstract paintings that burst with joy.

Discarded soda bottles and other items, tumbled and polished by the ocean waves, have been transformed into smooth, colorful jewels.

Based on the various factors that determine the overall ratio, the team determined the point at which a delta would no longer be a smooth outline, shaped by ocean waves, but instead, a pointy coastline, influenced more by the river.

Imperceptible vibrations of the ice shelf, caused by ocean waves and other forces, are transferred and amplified in the atmosphere, according to the new study.

They looked specifically at seismic signals generated by ocean waves.

The researchers utilized a novel approach of studying long - term variations in seismic signals, called microseisms, generated by ocean waves in the region.

Check out Indian Town National Park which features Devil's Bridge, a limestone arch that has been created by centuries of pounding by ocean waves; and hike through the rainforest — something you definitely can't do in Chicago.

Not exact matches

Think of it this way: If you are in a boat on the ocean being bumped around by every wave without any navigation system or set course, you'll never get anywhere.

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer December 15, 2016 Waves on the open ocean come in different sizes and configurations.

At Focus this week I was hit again by the line in the song «Oceans» by Hillsong, «Keep my eyes above the waves» — I truly need to do that as I am drowning in work.

Smaller tsunami waves were observed on the coast or measured by ocean gauges in several other places.

Like an ocean - wave caught in a snapshot, or a torrent of lava stiffened by cooling, the mountains and living things of the earth wear the aspect, to those who study them, of a powerful momentum that has become petrified.

By analogy, we may look at the surface of the ocean on a calm day and see waves, and even, if we so choose, assess their amplitude and frequency.

After those first two hours those pheromones start to fade, they start to wane and babies start getting tired, I mean think about when you go out swimming in the ocean and you are being hit by wave after wave after wave and there is no bottom that you can rest at and that's what birth is like to a baby and so they come out and are like, «oh my god, I'm so tired» and they are exhausted and finally when they go to sleep and those hormonal instincts starts to wear down then when you try to put them to the breast they are like, «well hello!»

In LIGO's control room, monitors display seismic activity caused by the steady motion of ocean waves (left) and the nearby logging operation (right).

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

It's like detecting waves on an ocean by measuring movement of a boat (Earth).

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

For example, a boat in the ocean is affected by the waves, but the ocean is not really affected by the presence of the boat.

Song's technique predicts the exact scale of a tsunami by tracking ground motions to estimate how much water has been displaced on the ocean floor — and, by extension, how much energy is feeding the wave.

Line by line, Tharp transformed sound waves bounced off the ocean bottom into 3 - D maps.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

«Our paper shows that the waves, which are created by what's known as the Kelvin - Helmholtz instability, happens much more frequently than previously thought,» says coauthor Joachim «Jimmy» Raeder of the UNH Space Science Center within the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

During a multiyear project funded by the Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office, engineers from Sandia's Water Power program are using a combination of modeling and experimental testing to refine how a wave energy converter moves and responds in the ocean to capture wave energy while also considering how to improve the resiliency of the device in a harsh ocean environment.

The new technique developed by researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is a major advancement in the study of these skyscraper - high internal waves that rarely break the ocean surface.

Jessup wrote a computer program that uses images from standard infrared cameras to analyze temperature changes in the top layer of the oceans» waters caused by breaking waves.

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

Also known as ambient noise, these are very weak but continuous seismic waves that are generated by colliding ocean waves, among other things.

The shape and size of these chevrons suggest that they might have been formed by waves emanating from the impact of a comet slamming into the deep ocean off Madagascar.

The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

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.

These hardy corals — known as coralliths — grow on pebbles or fragments of dead reefs, and they can survive being buffeted by waves and ocean currents.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

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.

Under - ocean waves are started by tidal flow over the seafloor.

Much like an ocean wave, sound waves are generated by the vibration or movement of an object in a medium.

Sustained by gravity, they are long ocean waves that increase in amplitude (the tsunamis become larger) as water depth decreases.

By engineering breaking waves of natural ocean water under purified air in the lab, they were able to isolate and analyze aerosols from the spray and determine how life within the water altered the chemistry of the particles.

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.

Now, computer simulations by Stanford scientists reveal that sound waves in the ocean produced by the earthquake probably reached land tens of minutes before the tsunami.

This work has been supported by the NOPP project «Advanced coupled atmosphere - wave - ocean modeling for improving tropical cyclone prediction models» (PIs: Isaac Ginis, URI and Shuyi Chen, UM) and by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Consortium for Advanced Research on the Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment — CARTHE (PI: Tamay Özgökmen, UM).

They have arms and they can perform some tasks, but only if controlled by an experienced pilot who can handle the ocean currents and waves.

This image shows how seismic waves play out when they reach the surface: This elevation map depicts the wave height of the tsunami triggered by the Sendai earthquake as it radiated through the Pacific Ocean.

Instead, they found that Greenland's deltas are largely shielded from the ocean's waves by the presence of large, steep - cliffed fjords.

By contrast, a river - dominated delta, such as the Mississippi's, is shaped by a stronger river, which deposits sand faster than ocean waves can push back, creating a crenulated coastlinBy contrast, a river - dominated delta, such as the Mississippi's, is shaped by a stronger river, which deposits sand faster than ocean waves can push back, creating a crenulated coastlinby a stronger river, which deposits sand faster than ocean waves can push back, creating a crenulated coastline.

The researchers came up with a simple ratio to predict a delta's shape, based on a river's sediment flux, or the flow rate of sediment through a river, and the strength of ocean waves, determined by a wave's height, frequency, and angle of approach.