Sentences with phrase «by ocean winds»

With all the talk about expanding the world's existing wind capacity, there is still surprisingly little attention being paid to the tremendous potential offered by ocean winds — save for the occasional offshore wind park.

Can you picture yourself in a home surrounded by palm trees, soothed by ocean winds, maybe near enough to the beach to stroll there every day?

Rippled by the ocean wind, the tent of the Untitled Art Fair is packed to the gills with artworks by up - and - coming artists, many of whom are just starting to get a toehold on success — and some of whom seem primed to become sensations.

Not exact matches

The wind rips through the open bays of the CH - 53E Super Stallion; the crumpled - tinfoil, cloud - shadow - burnished ocean streaks by below.

Examples include the claim that air has weight, 26 the existence of valleys27 and vents28 on the bottom of the sea, ocean currents, 29 and the fact that winds blow in circular paths.30 These are remarkable claims that could not have been directly observed by a bunch on nomadic sheep herders.

Science questions the answers, e.g. hurricanes are caused by warm moist ocean air being drawn up into the cooler atmosphere and creating a wind pattern though we are still open to consider other factors that may have influence on this cycle.

Some 900 feet above the ocean, it is constantly cooled by the trade winds, which brought squalls that kept us jumping back into the cars.

Meantime, as a result of groundwork laid by NYSERDA, the state announced it has asked the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to consider identifying and leasing at least four new Wind Energy Areas off the coast.

HOW SWEET Long before humans inhabited Polynesia, sweet potatoes may have been carried across the ocean from South America to the South Pacific islands by wind, water or maybe even birds.

The Department's R&D initiatives involving applied — as opposed to basic — renewable energy research are supervised by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), which covers biomass, geothermal, hydrogen, ocean, solar, and wind.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

The Southern Ocean sink strength is, at present, determined by the winds in that part of the world.

At present, such Indian Ocean Dipole events are typically cut off by the end of the monsoon season, as the monsoon winds die down so too does the cooling near the coast of Sumatra.

The researchers were able to test their hypothesis that stronger winds were driving the ocean heat uptake by putting the observations of wind behavior into climate models.

The fluctuations in ocean temperature are accompanied by shifts in the winds.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theOcean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

Tides raise the ocean by 30 feet, reversing the flow of freshwater at the river mouth, and winds blow at up to 35 mph.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

In fact, by the time Marco Polo set out to explore East Asia in the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.

Up to 100 million sharks are killed each year by finning: Fishermen cut off a shark's dorsal fin to sell as a delicacy and dump the wounded animal back into the ocean to die.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

So, in theory, if you could manage to lower the temperature of the surface of the ocean ahead of a hurricane by a few degrees, you could conceivably pull enough heat out of the system that the storm would start to wind itself down.

Activity within the eyewall is closely connected to the hurricane's overall intensity, with the vertical updraft fed by an inward - spiraling, ocean - hugging wind whose average speed is the highest across the whole storm.

According to the scientific team, the new findings show that 2.7 billion years ago relatively large landmasses emerged from the oceans that were exposed to weathering and erosion by the sun, wind and rain.

Energy put into the oceans by small animals is a significant component of the total contributed by all swimming creatures, adding up to a force comparable to that of winds and tides, scientists report in the July 30 Nature.

Lozier (p. 1507) discusses how recent studies have challenged our view of large - scale ocean circulation as a simple conveyor belt, by revealing a more complex and nuanced system that reflects the effects of ocean eddies and surface atmospheric winds on the structure and variability of the ocean's overturning.

The dunes also appear to have evolved similarly to those found on Earth, in that the original rocks have been deposited from somewhere else by volcanoes, oceans, rivers, etc. and then moved, shaped, and ground up by wind.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

Pushed by the natural motion of wind and ocean currents — often over long distances — the litter is present in oceans worldwide, as well as in sea floor sediment and coastal sands.

They were birds blown in by storms, or spores and pollen swept in by wind and ocean currents.

But their deadliest component by far is the storm surge, the chunk of ocean pushed ashore by winds that can gust up to 200 miles per hour.

These large systems of rotating currents are common in Earth's oceans, where they are driven by wind.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

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.

Earth's oceans and rivers, pushed by wind and tugged by the moon and sun, ebb and flow over more than 70 percent of the planet, but only recently have researchers and scientists developed the materials and methods to finally harness some of that kinetic energy.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

Whipped up by surface winds and girded by the Coriolis effect (produced by Earth's rotation), eddies may grow to several hundred kilometers in diameter and are known to transport heat, chemicals and biology throughout the oceans» shallower depths.

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.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

Climatologists have suggested that the winds, known as the Greenland tip jet, could be a key force in driving the world's climate and the global ocean circulation by pushing cold, dense water to the ocean floor and triggering the thermohaline circulation.

Moore measures how the arches vibrate to the background shaking of the Earth caused by natural processes like wind and distant ocean tides to arrive at a vibrational signature for each arch.

Both real - world observations and the team's simulations reveal that the abnormally strong winds — driven by natural variation in a long - term climate cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation — have, for the time being, carried the «missing» heat to intermediate depths of the western Pacific Ocean.

When analyzing the data, they found a barrier layer, an upper ocean feature created by the Amazon - Orinoco freshwater river outflow, that makes mixing in the upper ocean waters less efficient during wind events.

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.

The basic scenario goes as follows: Hurricanes — circular storms spinning around a region of low atmospheric pressure — are powered by energy released by spiraling surface winds that draw heat from the ocean.

This the first scientific test for the drones, which are powered only by the wind and sun, in the Pacific Ocean.

These currents are driven by winds, ocean temperature and salinity differences, and are efficient at distributing heat and carbon around the globe.