Sentences with phrase «few meters of water»

Any surface and the first few meters of water would probably be deadly for radiation, but they would also produce a «rain» of oxidants: a substitute for light?

Not exact matches

The in situ method is more costly than the mining method, but it is much less damaging to the environment, requiring only a few hundred meters of land and a nearby water source to operate.

They found glacial fjords hundreds of meters deeper than previously estimated; the full extent of the marine - based portions of the glaciers; deep troughs enabling Atlantic Ocean water to reach the glacier fronts and melt them from below; and few shallow sills that limit contact with this warmer water.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

The hope is that these sea gliders, which can dive hundreds of meters and stay in the water for months at a time, will help to unlock the secrets of phytoplankton blooms that nourish the organisms in Antarctica's Ross Sea for a few months each year before mysteriously disappearing.

It was bad enough to learn last year that the ice sheets of West Antarctica were headed toward inevitable collapse in just a few centuries and that the world would have to contend with the more than 3 meters of water they hold.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

Physicists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and at the University of Seville in Spain set up an experiment in which they pulled a disk - shaped object flat down into water so that it hit the water at the relatively leisurely speed of one meter per second (roughly equivalent to dropping the disk from a height of a few centimeters).

However, I have also heard that a few meters of ice (or water) make a sufficient shield.

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

The 796 - square - meter Ocean House comprises a master bedroom, twin bedroom, separate living and dining rooms and a lush oasis of garden courtyards and shady terraces, and guests can choose a plunge in their private infinity pool or taking a few short steps to the warm, crystal - clear waters of Emerald Bay.

Traffic races next to us at a distance of only a few meters with 100 k.p.h., the steps are open (grid) and beneath us, over 70 meters lower, the water moves restlessly.

Surrounded by pine trees and landscapes, the Canyamel Park is a 4 star beach hotel ideally located in Capdepera, on the eastern coast of Park de Llevant, in Majorca, few meters away from the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean Sea.Ideal for holidaymakers, the Canyamel Park Hotel is completely air - conditioned and features a range of facilities like bar, restaurant, big outdoor pool with terrace and bar - service, beautiful garden, sauna, as well as indoor pool with whirlpool and fantastic views to the gardens.

Only few meters away from Cala Tirant beach, the Tramontana Park Hotel has a direct access to sparkling waters of the the Mediterranean Sea and offers an array of leisure facilities such as swimming pool, solarium, snack - bar, restaurant and a large playground with tennis table and other games for children.

A few things we can conclude from these screenshots is there is a new HUD (the meter display in the Kakashi screenshots), there will be a new item (for the UP button on the D - pad), and Kakashi has been updated (he has two different awakening actions and water dragon as part of his arsenal in the game)!

The oceans are really big, yet the presence of currents and layers at different temperatures means temperatures can be quite different in waters just a few hundred meters apart.

After having carefully considered this, I'm going to disagree with Nick's suggestion because according to the Wiki diagram (which I've seen replicated in a few places) the vast majority of the warm waters are concentrated within the first couple of meters

Long story short - IR gets absorbed in the first millimeter or so of water, visible light penetrates a few meters.

The temperature lag between atmosphere and water in the upper few meters of the ocean is on the order of a few days.

To start, the Path is water resistant up to 50 meters so it'll be fine if it gets a little bit wet in the rain or from sweat, and it tracks more than a few different types of activities including automatic step tracking, distances traveled, calories burned, and sleep if you want to keep certain that your sleep quality is of a certain level.