Sentences with phrase «by sea currents»

A major factor is that everything is expressed as being global, wheras most of the extremes are local, and compartimentalized by sea currents, mountains, whatever.

It is the only marine ice sheet to have survived beyond the last ice age, and just as scientists predicted 30 years ago, the parts of it that are shrinking are those that are raked by sea currents.

In short order the rovers found proof of past water on the planet, including minerals that can form only in the presence of water, and ripple patterns in fine - grained rocks shaped by sea currents.

Not exact matches

Current generations, because kids born today will see sea levels rise by more than a foot, maybe six feet according to some projections, in their lifetimes.

Every little bit of plastic that gets tossed into the ocean or swept downstream out to sea either sinks or is picked up by currents.

These facilities could be impacted by long - term (> 100 years) rising sea levels; however, the range of currently estimated short - term rise in sea levels suggest that neither facility would be impacted within the current lifespan of the projects (< 20 years),» the company said in March 2017.

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The report stresses that «If we continue on our current path, by 2050 between $ 66 billion and $ 106 billion worth of existing coastal property will likely be below sea level nationwide, with $ 238 billion to $ 507 billion worth of property below sea level by 2100.

We must set our course by such stars as we can see, always prepared to change it as new currents, shoals, rocks, and channels are disclosed in the uncharted seas into which we sail.

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.

The hope that, by farming the sea, increasing the yield of grains, or otherwise working a miracle of production in food science and technology we can in the nick of time prevent mass starvation without any of the affluent having to give up current privileges, is vain.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Only swim in designated areas in the ocean and are aware of how to escape rip currents, which can pull you out to sea, by swimming parallel to the beach (sideways), until you are out of the rip current and can swim back to shore.

Also, Russia does not want to have bad relations with Ukraine, it was forced into the current conflict by the need to protect its vital national interests in the Black Sea.

Disputing claims by Former President John Mahama that he left «a sea of vehicles» for the Akufo - Addo administration, Mr. Hamid said the current administration came to meet only 179 vehicles.

A recent study (pdf) estimated that at the current rate of global warming, Manhattan will face a sea level rise of 2 feet or more by 2080.

Following the current trajectory toward a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature increase in the atmosphere, experts say sea levels could rise between 3 and 6 feet by 2100.

By mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icBy mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea icby compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea ice.

Thomsen and his colleagues have discovered that changes in ocean currents triggered by storms raging on the sea surface can alter the release of gas from the hydrate mounds.

If currents occasionally pull methane down to the deeper sea, the methane and ethane can mix, simulations by Daniel Cordier of the University of Reims Champagne - Ardenne in France and colleagues suggest.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

The current outbreak of sea star wasting syndrome was first reported in June 2013 along the coast of Washington by researchers from Olympic National Park.

A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

The panelists emphasized the interconnectedness of the countries» ecosystems, separated by less than 100 miles of sea and situated among ocean currents that Wiley called «a veritable conveyor belt of marine life.»

In an unusually severe storm nearby Miami Beach would be swept by a wall of water up to 16 feet above the current sea level.

Current coatings to prevent fouling by marine organisms include toxic chemicals, and become ineffective after a short time because the additives in the coatings break down rapidly in sea water.

«These last several years have brought new environmental stresses to the California Current, and we've seen that reflected by the sea lions.»

By analyzing current building codes and the like, the New York City Panel on Climate Change determined the acceptable level of risk for its residents and is now prioritizing projects that hold to those same levels the perils from climate change impacts directly on the city, such as sea - level rise or more frequent heat waves.

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.

The winch, pedaled by crew members and scientists, gradually deploys water - sampling equipment that delivers samples central to the mission: to characterize and understand the currents below the sea ice on which the scientists» tents rest.

The foundation's fieldwork has revealed an ever - growing synthetic sea where particles concentrate by season, trash commutes in the currents from far - off places, and plastic outweighs zooplankton, retarding ocean life.

By comparing several years of measurements, climate researchers and oceanographers can now draw conclusions about changes in sea level and ocean currents.

Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon's northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.

With both West and East Antarctica affected by the change in currents, in the future abrupt rises in sea level become more likely.

Stafford and colleagues will continue their long - term data collection to document the inter-seasonal and inter-annual presence of vocal marine mammals in the Bering Strait by integrating oceanographic drivers — sea ice, temperature, current speed and direction, and water mass properties — with acoustic detections.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

Current estimates of sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consider only the effect of melting ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention in water storage on land.

Each year a million cubic metres of sediment has been dragged by the currents southwards down the coast or out into the North Sea.

This leads us to think that in the near future we should be able to map currents from space by detecting even smaller variations in sea surface height.»

One outcome emphasised by experts is that if society continues on the current high emissions trajectory, cold water coral reefs, located in the deep sea, may be unsustainable and tropical coral reef erosion is likely to outpace reef building this century.

Under current projected rates of sediment sinking and sea - level rise, the area of land at risk on deltas globally is expected to increase by at least half by 2100.

Then the team's computer simulations showed that eddies could trigger changes in sea floor currents matching the patterns measured by the instruments, with the best correlation occurring when the effects on deep - sea currents happened 8 days after the eddy passed overhead.

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

«As revealed by monthly snapshots of sea surface height from satellite imagery and other estimates, the Loop Current from late winter through summer 2012 was positioned to the west of the shelf slope in deeper water,» Weisberg explained.

The upper part of the modern Arctic Ocean is flushed by North Atlantic currents while the Arctic's deep basins are flushed by salty currents formed during sea ice formation at the surface.

The region's weather is shaped by the currents of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and the chemistry of the ice can reveal when each of those systems played the dominant role.

«These results will have wider reaching implications, such as how we map the circulation of the world's oceans in the past, which are affected by how quickly the sea floor is moving up and down and blocking the path of water currents,» said Hoggard.

That is a major change in sea currents, warming, wildlife, coastal erosion, and much less solar energy being bounced back into space by ice that in not there.