Sentences with phrase «change in water temperature»

Deep lakes warm very slowly in the spring, and small changes in water temperature at the end of winter can lead to large changes in the timing of summer stratification for these lakes.

(Wool only felts in hot water with agitation or with changes in water temperature.)

She discovered that, when grouped, fish are able to estimate subtle nuances, such as changes in water temperature, salinity or concentration and use such metrics to decide, together, on the best path.

Cloudy weather and seasonal changes in water temperature can also cause the weeds to die back.

The NAO is a periodic climatic phenomenon that, like El Niño, causes changes in water temperatures, although the mechanism is different and the NAO affects the North Atlantic rather than the Pacific.

The depth of the site requires good control over one's buoyancy and a calmness when faced with little light at depth and a feeling of sensory deprivation due to very little change in water temperature or movement.

Coral reefs are very fragile and susceptible to slight changes in water temperature.

According to the National Weather Service, changes in the water temperature in the Eastern Pacific can have dramatic impacts on tropical rainfall in that region.

The June 2008 report also concluded that, alongside changes in water temperature, extreme flooding and drought will have a negative impact on water quality and food security.

«A relatively small change in the water temperature can destabilise these hydrates fairly quickly.

With this sampler we can initiate autonomous sampling remotely, in response to a change in the environment — such as a change in water temperature — that we suspect initiates larval transport.»

This includes, for example, how the atmosphere responds to increasing levels of greenhouse gases, how the gases cycle through the environment, and changes in water temperature and sea - levels.

One possible explanation the researchers found for the continued decline of oxygen concentrations is related to changes in water temperature.

Use of this type of modeling allows for better understanding of the effects of OTEC deployment in global phenomena (changes in water temperature and its effect on atmosphere - ocean interaction or global warming, to name some).

• Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching — or die - off in response to stress — ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent.

SD: The extra heat in the ocean is «diluted» by their enormous heat capacity, so the changes in water temperature are mostly smaller than over land.

Gravitational changes and effects due to changes in water temperature and salinity lead to nonuniform regional sea level rise.