Sentences with phrase «falls over the ocean»

Rain now falls over the ocean instead of on the once - fertile land nearby.

A slowdown disappears La Niñas also mean that more rain falls over land and less falls over the ocean, particularly in the Pacific, Cazenave explained.

Hatun et al. examined the possibilities that [i] a change in rain falling over the ocean (freshens the water) and evaporation (increases the salinity by removing water and leaving salt behind), [ii] increased salinity in the sub-tropical gyre (in the main part of the North Atlantic), [iii] increased salinity in the sub-polar gyre, or [iv] dynamical changes in the relative contributions from the two gyres could explain the high salinities in the in - flow regions.

While there are few ground - based weather stations in the North Pacific to tally how much rain fell over the ocean, satellites such as those participating in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can estimate precipitation rates from above.

Not exact matches

If it's any consolation for the summer being over with no opportunity to dip my toes in the ocean, it's all the fabulous FOOD that fall brings!

But over the last 20 years or so we've realized that that was quite wrong, and that large - scale ocean and atmosphere patterns are significantly more powerful in terms of shaping where the rains fall.»

One was that the location had to be on the coast, over the ocean, so falling debris or spent rocket boosters would not drop on inhabited places during ascent.

• Most of the radioactive particles are expected to fall out over the western Pacific Ocean.

A songbird that easily fits in the palm of your hand still piles on enough fat each fall to fly nonstop over the ocean from Canada to the Caribbean islands.

What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The warm ocean water evaporates, adds moisture to the air and falls as precipitation over nearby regions.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

The warmer ocean waters mean more moisture in the atmosphere for the storm to suck up; the cold air over the continent ensures that moisture falls as snow.

From its base in Namibia, the Observations of Clouds above Aerosols and their Interactions (ORACLES) study will use airborne instruments this fall to probe the impact on climate and rainfall of the interaction between clouds over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean and smoke from vegetation burning in southern Africa.

The recent fall 2017 accessory trends are positively pillaring the wider, the better idea with oceans of corset - style belts over everything, starting from strict dresses and western skirts to everyday outerwear pieces and grunge gowns.

There should also be a big gap and the land will be gone and you'll have to roll the dice to get a high enough number to jump over it (like toad road), and if you suceed you'll take the mini star path and jump over the gap, and if you fail you'll fall in the other side of the ocean and go under water and take the mini ztar path.

In this third big screen adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore (voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney) get in over their heads when they and their Chipettes pals (voices of Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler) fall overboard during an ocean cruise.

You will be brimming with envy when you hear of what took place over the weekend at San Francisco's Ocean Beach: The Corgi Con, fall edition!

These tiny shells fall to the bottom of lakes and oceans over millions of years, accumulating in massive white deposits that are then mined and crushed to a fine powder.

We don't have any definite plans for excursions at any of these stops except Snuba in Cozumel, zip - lining over the ocean in Haiti and I'm hoping to make my way back to Dunn's River Falls in Jamaica since I haven't seen these falls in over ten yFalls in Jamaica since I haven't seen these falls in over ten yfalls in over ten years.

Fundy, in fact, has the world's highest tides and at Hopewell Rocks, which also has a visitor centre to explain the phenomenon, you can walk on the ocean floor at low tide and gaze up at the extraordinary shapes sculpted over the millennia by the rise and fall of billions of tonnes of water.

Being able to look over the ocean, watching the sun set, makes this the ideal place for a relaxing afternoon before the night falls.

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California's rugged Pacific coastline certainly has no shortages of scenic beauty but few locations can match the splendour of the Alamere Falls where the waters cascade over a cliff face directly to the ocean below.

[1] A main feature of the park is McWay Falls, which drops over a cliff of 80 feet (24 m) into the Pacific Ocean.

It flows steeply west and south from McWay Canyon, high in California's Central Coast Range, and spills into the Pacific Ocean at Waterfall Cove after flowing over scenic McWay Falls.

Sunshine, stunning views over snow - capped mountains, golden beaches and turquoise oceans, not a bad view to take in as you skydive from up to 16,500 ft high with an Abel Tasman Skydive before an adrenaline fueled 50 second free fall!

For guests who like to fall asleep to the sound of the ocean there will be 32 villas standing majestically on stilts over the glistening Laccadive Sea and one spectacular four - bedroom Royal Water Villa that will come complete with nanny's quarters.

It's only 10 mins from the carpark on an evenly graded path to a lookout over the gorge to the falls which are one of the highest along the Great Ocean Road.

Unwind each evening as the sun falls into the secluded Bay of Violin and wake each morning with a spectacular sunrise over the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, all within the luxurious sanctuary of Villas Las Palmas.

The paintings will be complemented by a selection of Bengston's handwoven Oaxacan rugs, depicting glowing moons rising and falling over indigo - dyed oceans.

In Antarctica, this means that cold and moister air from the surrounding oceans will blow over the interior and fall as snow, so increasing ice mass is to be expected.

We know that the glaciers are not piling up along the coastline, but that they are instead falling over it into the ocean.

Now of course increased evaporation also means increased precipitation, but this tends to fall prematurely over the source of the evaporation — the oceans.

The atmospheric river of moisture streaming off of the record warm Pacific ocean is heavily aerosolized (as described above) which keeps much of the moisture from falling and broadcasts it out into massive regions of rainless (and toxic) cloud cover expanding out over the Western US.

But Parr said, «The problem with offshore turbines is that it's virtually impossible to know and track over time what impact they're having (on bird deaths) because any birds that get struck will fall directly into the ocean and be washed away by the currents or get eaten by sharks.»

But the oceans won't be falling (except for the brief La Nina events) over the long - term.

I also wonder how that measures snow that falls on the ocean, which must be a significant portion (do years with randomly more blizzards over land overtake the signal being looked for?).

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

He says well - above - average warmth over the Arctic Ocean since fall has led to well - below - average sea - ice formation.

When solar activity falls, energy comes out of the ocean, not just over the period of the decline of a single 11 year solar cycle, but if the Sun stays low in activity terms, for many years.

The first two years of this decade saw a unique combination of three atmospheric patterns come together over the Indian and Pacific oceans, causing about 300 millimetres more rain than average to fall over the Australian continent.

It is currently suspected, for example, that the recent increase in deep - ocean heat content is driven by geothermal sources rather than atmospheric (which would solve the «paradox» that shallow ocean temperatures, over the same period, have fallen slightly).

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

Grace satellite data during the period of «the pause» is pretty convincing to many experts who believe the data pretty clearly displayed exactly where the mass was displaced to as ENSO related wind shifts caused more moisture to fall over land versus ocean.

In La Nina years, more rain fell away from oceans, including over the Amazon, the Congo basin and Australia, she said.

On the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis effect makes that such emissions will typically reach areas over the nearby ocean to the east of such industrial areas, resulting in the sea surface there being cooled substantially, until the particulates have fallen out of the sky.

When pointed out that, in the Antarctic, there are many places where there is increased ice pack over the last few decades, even if some shelf here or there falls into the ocean, we are told that the mass isn't as important as the area.

So all those hurricanes, typhoons, summer storms, winter snow all that precipitation fell on land and didn't go into rivers that flow to the seas and all those hurricanes we tracked over oceans didn't drop any water on the oceans??? What schools did these scientists go to?

One study concludes that about 60 percent of the rain and snow that falls over land comes from moisture originating from the oceans, and the other 40 percent is «recycled» over the continents.