Sentences with phrase «currents of the open ocean»

The topography is such that it creates a small bay (hence the name Bahia Ballena which means «Whale Bay») which helps protect the beach from being completely exposed to the swells and currents of the open ocean.

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Opening with a great bit of alliteration («Slow Motion Ocean «-RRB-, Scientific American warns that a critical current that brings warmth from the tropics up to the North Atlantic is slowing.

District 41 District 41 includes Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Bedford - Stuyvesant, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights, and is an «open» City Council seat, with current Council Member Darlene Mealy term - limited out of office.

Lomonosov was likely a slice of the Siberian shelf that broke off northward during the Cenozoic era when the Eurasian Basin opened up on the Arctic Ocean floor, but its current ties to Russia are disputed.

This study also offers a slice of pterosaur life history that is out of reach of fossil evidence, suggesting that the reptiles lived within easy access of warm thermal wind currents near open spaces of land or near the ocean.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

Fewer predators (do not need the protection of a pod) in the current habitat - most lone dolphins are observed in coastal habitats, whereas when found in the open ocean lone dolphins will swim with other species of cetaceans

They are usually blown ashore in various months of the year due to shifts in open ocean current patterns.

The opening and closing of ocean gateways: the opening of the Drake Passage; the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and the closing of the Tethys seaway; along with the final formation of the Greenland — Iceland — Faroes sill; played vital parts in reshaping oceanic currents during the Oligocene.

The currents and choppy conditions as well as the open ocean nature of Socorro islands make it an ideal dive destination for large pelagics not only for mantas but also for Humpback whales.

DeMarco said that when he is «just cruising on the impersonal internet — you know, the current, like, Facebook, Twitter, you're barely on the open ocean of the internet anymore, it's almost always filtered through one of those things... when you see the cracks form or some x-factor image that feels like its a weird thing that you're seeing, it's cool to have a place to put it» — which is to say, on the Yuppie Dystopia channel.

Come explore the current condition of the ocean's threatened reefs and a companion popup shop of 3D Printed Coral pieces with proceeds benefitting The Hydrous Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating open access oceans.

Southern expansion into the North Atlantic and Bering Sea will encounter more heat exchange with the open ocean currents than the ice northward of Canada.

While currents and winds play a role, scientists say, the expanding open water in the far north provides the latest evidence that the Arctic Ocean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming in summers to more of an open oOcean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming in summers to more of an open oceanocean.

So, if some of these ideas on termination of glaciations are correct (ice - sheet temperature, ocean circulation and CO2), and all of these are omitted from the current model, it leaves open the possibility that a more comprehensive model would get a different result.

What's most relevant about plate tectonics is that the world will not get out of it's current coldhouse phase until the plates move and open up a gap for ocean circulation around the planet near the tropics.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Tide heights near ice shelves can be measured using traditional coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure recorders, while currents can be measured with meters on moorings in the open ocean or deployed through boreholes drilled through ice shelves, which are the floating portions of ice sheets.

Hence, how the pH of coastal ecosystems in year 2100 will differ from current ones is difficult to predict due to lack of understanding of the average values and their variability in current environments and of the future trajectories of the multiple factors affecting coastal pH compared to the open ocean.