Sentences with phrase «depths up to the surface»

Unlike Salter's device, Atmocean's approach used a contraption to instead bring cooler water from the depths up to the surface.

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The rotten rags that I'd used to stuff up all of the leaks and holes riddling my soul began to surface from these murky depths.

Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

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.

New research finds there is a distinct sound coming from a massive community of fish, shrimp, jellies and squid as they travel up and down from the depths of the ocean to the water's surface to feed.

«As the strength of the van der Waals forces depends on the composition of a material to depths of up to 100 nanometres, carefully designing the layer structure at the surface of a material can reduce friction.

The sound could be a signal for the mesopelagic zone organisms to start migrating up to the surface or back down to the darker depths of the ocean, Baumann - Pickering said.

Underneath this layer lies cold ocean water, and the Ekman pumping reaches sufficients depths in the east to bring some of this up to the surface.

In December 2006, Helix transferred to DVR all of the assets and liabilities of its shallow water marine contracting business, including 23 surface and diving support vessels capable of operating in water depths of up to 1,000 feet and three shallow water pipelay vessels.

For more water fun, Scuba Diving is a popular sport below the surface, with attractions including a school bus, fire truck, trolley and many types of aircraft at depths up to 100 feet.

As I looked back up at the surface of the water from the sea floor, I could tell that we'd descended much deeper than I had ever done and was excited to start exploring the reef at these depths.

If you give them space then you can watch them circling about for most of the dive in depths ranging from 18 metres up to the surface.

«Dwarven Depths» has up to four players competing for treasure that, and trying to stop each other from reaching the surface once an opponent finds some.

2 — previously warm saline surface water, now wind cooled (cold) saline surface water sinks to depths up to 2000m.

Would the incoming insolation go to warming up the waters surface (and shading the depths) or would it go to converting H2O and CO2 to sugar?

Increased winds in the tropics and mid latitudes can «spin up» the mid-ocean gyres, increasing the rate at which water gets pumped down to mid depths through Ekman pumping, taking heat from the surface with it.

When the convective processes of the atmosphere remove enough water vapor from the oceans to drop sea levels and build polar ice caps, as has happened many times before, the top 35 meters of the oceans where climate models assume the only thermal mixing occurs, must heat up cold ocean water that comes from depths below the original 35 meter depth, removing vast more amounts of heat from the earth's surface and atmosphere.

Small sea creatures known as salps may have a role in global warming by locking up carbon in surface seas and sending it to the depths of the ocean.

That is easily 2/3 of the total power that makes it to the surface itself — basically «all» solar UV and visible, with the latter absorbed at depths up to a 100 meters, and a good start on the IR.

Basically, the warm water that was built up during the 1995/96 La Nina collected below the surface of an area in the western tropical Pacific known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool (to depths of 300 meters).

Out at sea, the Argo floats have a 10 - day cycle where they autonomously travel down to 2000 meters or more, then back up to the surface to tell satellites what they learned about the depths below.

Now that most oil is produced off shore and other hostile environments, or from tar sands or from newly - discovered deposits at depths of up to 35,000 feet below the surface, the EROEI of oil production is now rarely as high as 20:1, and for new oil fields much less.

This happens relatively quickly for surface waters — just a few decades — but the ocean depths will take about a thousand years to soak up their full share.

The irony is that Dr Kwiatkowski has only lately dismissed at least one ocean geoengineering solution — to cool the sea surfaces by pumping up cold water from the ocean depths — because, in the long run, it might make the climate change crisis even worse.

One reason is that hurricanes pull cold water up to the surface from the depths as they churn through, and the cooling effect acts in a self - limiting way.

As you glide along the surface, you can peer down through the translucent water to spot fallen trees and massive boulders reaching up from the depths, meters below but as vivid as if they were merely under glass.