Sentences with phrase «flow along the ocean»

So he set out sensors designed to track water flow along the ocean floor, changes in temperature, and the movement of the crust.

Dense water sinks and can form deep water currents that flow along the ocean floor or on another layer of denser water.

Not exact matches

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

Thanks to the natural circulation pattern, that oxygen would then be carried deeper into the ocean interior, where it might still be detectable years later as it travels along its flow path.

Tarduno and his students had been studying massive lava flows that cover some of the High Arctic islands, and believes the same volcanic events that produced those igneous rocks also could have produced a series of islands along a low underwater mountain range in the Arctic Ocean called Alpha Ridge.

Everything worthwhile takes practice, so just close your eyes, pretend you're sitting by the ocean — not your office, connect to the flowing waves, and breathe along with them.

While boating along the scenic East Hawaii Coastline island treasures to keep an eye out for include 3 unique black sand beaches Kalapana (flowed over in 1989 now reforming), Kehena (formed by 1955 ocean lava flows), & Foxes beach which was flowed over on July 25th 2010.

The warm Indian Ocean flows along its coastline making activities such as snorkelling, diving, surfing and swimming ideal.

To the east and south lie high volcanic mountains, from which several rivers flow to the ocean, cutting the landscape into valleys and deep gorges along the way.

What this course lacks in sea views, as offered by most of the ocean - facing and cliff - top golf courses along Bali's coastal resort areas, Handara Golf makes up for with its great combination of flowing bentgrass greens backed by lush shrubbery, tropical gardens and mountain panoramas, together with the cool mountain air that allows for pleasant rounds of golfing throughout the 18 - hole golf course.

Eli Creek is the largest freshwater creek along the east coast, with over four million litres of water flowing from its mouth onto the eastern beach and into the ocean every hour!

Eli Creek is one of the largest freshwater creeks on Fraser Island located along the east coast, with over four million litres of water flowing from its mouth onto the eastern beach and into the ocean every hour!

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty course teaches you how to enjoy going with the flow as you scuba dive down rivers and use ocean currents to glide along.

The course teaches you how to enjoy going with the flow as you scuba dive down rivers and use ocean currents to glide along.

An exhibition of fifty paintings that trace the country's maritime and seaside history, Reflections on Water in American Painting, pays homage to America's oceans, rivers, lakes, and harbors along with the ships that navigated them, the cities that depended on their steady flow, and the artists who found inspiration in the water's dynamic colors and surfaces.

It flows along the line of least resistance to find its way to the ocean, where it comes and goes in tides and waves, evaporates to the sky, and reappears as precipitation.

eadler2 January 10, 2015 at 5:54 pm ... When ocean surface temperatures cool, due to a La Nina, the warmer surface water is mixed deeper into the ocean and cooler ocean water flows along the surface of the Pacific.

When ocean surface temperatures cool, due to a La Nina, the warmer surface water is mixed deeper into the ocean and cooler ocean water flows along the surface of the Pacific.

It involved a huge amount of data, taken from ocean buoys that take the temperature of the deep sea, along with satellites that measure energy flowing into and out of the atmosphere.

The temperature of the troposphere is constantly being affected by variations in the rate of energy flow from the oceans driven by internal ocean variability, possibly caused by temperature fluctuations along the horizontal route of the thermohaline circulation and by variations in energy flow from the sun that affect the size (and thus density) of the atmosphere and the rate of energy loss to space.

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 fiocean 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 fiOcean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

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.

Dynamical effects arising from changes in atmospheric pressure also play a role in distributing meltwater, as do geostrophic ocean currents that flow along the lines where pressure gradients are counterbalanced by the Coriolis effect associated with the Earth's rotation.

Ive been studying the sun now for four years along with the trends that occur with decade and multidecadle ocean flows.

We know where it starts — in the Arctic Ocean where warm water brought there by currents cools, sinks, and flows south along the bottom until it reaches West Antarctic.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

Being denser than warm water it then sank and flowed out along the bottom of the ocean in deep ocean currents, eventually filling the depths of the ocean basins around the world.

To get a better understanding of how organic phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to the wider Arctic Ocean nutrient budget, Torres - Valdés et al. measured nutrient loads along the paths of currents flowing into and out of the Arctic Basin.