Sentences with phrase «current along its surface»

He and other researchers were working on growing and making devices out of topological insulators, a type of material that doesn't conduct current through the bulk of the material but can carry current along its surface.

Not exact matches

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

New climate models — made by using estimated radiation levels from that time, along with data from the Magellan spacecraft about Venus's current surface — suggest that Venus would have been only 11 °C (52 °F).

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

The design borrows from the concept behind topological insulators — a kind of material that blocks electric current through its interior but lets electrons surf along its surface (SN: 5/22/10, p. 22).

The bottom one was a topological insulator, which conducts current only along its surface or edges but not through its middle.

Bloomberg goes on to state that the new Surface will be 20 percent lighter than the current Pro, and that along with this weight reduction, comes an additional four hours of battery life.

His current collection includes a Nokia Lumia 830, Apple iPhone 6 Plus, BlackBerry Passport, Sony Xperia Z3, Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50.

An in - water dive master deploys a tethered surface marker, and the dive group is carried along the reef by the currents.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

The statue itself, which depicts a female figure in drapery, disappeared on the night of 11 November 1983 along with more than a dozen other items, and surfaced in a New York gallery in the late 1990s before being purchased by its current owner.

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

The film shows Néry being propelled along by these swift underwater currents, alluding to another kind of «weightlessness» below the surface:

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

Let's see — a negative SAM --(http://curriculum.pmartineau.webfactional.com/monitoring-southern-hemisphere-stratospheric-vortex-fluctuations-and-tropospheric-coupling/)-- pushes cold water along the Peruvian Current to the Nino1 +2 zone dissipating the warm surface mixed layer and allowing cold subsurface upwelling.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

This study shows that a weaker surface ocean current system produces colder coastal SST's along the Atlantic coast of Florida, thereby reducing the length and the total seasonal accumulation of rainfall in the wet season of Peninsular Florida relative to the simulation in which these currents are stronger.

They are largest in regions of high sea surface temperature variability such as the western boundary currents and along the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean.

Our results suggest that the majority of the world's deep water is not transported back to the surface along the current systems of the standard great ocean conveyor (GOC).

Current «cool» phase of the PDO began in late 1998 / early 1999 (certainly not 2008), and when it flipped it generally meant cooler sea surface temperatures along the west coast of N. America but warmer temperatures on average over other other broad regions of the Pacific.

Deep and powerfull currents run along the bottom of canyon randomly hiting undersea bluffs that force the nutrient rich water to the surface.

The arid conditions found along the western coasts of continents in subtropical latitudes are further enhanced by the influence of the equatorward surface air flow on the ocean currents.

12 vertical density currents that occur when cold deep water comes to the surface can occur anywhere, prevalent along western coasts of continents

It consists of cold, deepwater currents starting near the poles and traveling long distances along the bottom of the ocean before surfacing again, with important consequences for the climate.

Scaled to the entire circumpolar current, the mixing we observe is compatible with there being a southern component to the global overturning in which about 20 sverdrups (1 Sv = 106 m3 s − 1) upwell in the Southern Ocean, with cross-density mixing contributing a significant fraction (20 to 30 per cent) of this total, and the remainder upwelling along constant - density surfaces.

Worldwide networks of buoys along with programs such as OSCAR (Ocean Surface Currents Analysis Real - time), which calculates surface currents based on satellite measurements, provide scientists with data on which to build and test their Surface Currents Analysis Real - time), which calculates surface currents based on satellite measurements, provide scientists with data on which to build and test theirCurrents Analysis Real - time), which calculates surface currents based on satellite measurements, provide scientists with data on which to build and test their surface currents based on satellite measurements, provide scientists with data on which to build and test theircurrents based on satellite measurements, provide scientists with data on which to build and test their models.

As defined by NFIP, it is a temporary or general condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land from: mudflow, overflow of inland or tidal waters, unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source, and a collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other similar body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels.

Mudslides which are proximately caused by the overflow of inland or tidal waters and are akin to a river or liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas including your residence, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current.

Australia.com tells me Turquoise Bay is the best place to snorkel: «The glass - clear water is shallow and there's a lovely little current that gently pushes you along the water's surface, so all you need to do is float and admire the coral scenery beneath you.