Sentences with phrase «for ocean wind»

Offshore wind's opportunity costs discourage institutions from providing the billion - dollar financing needed for ocean wind projects.

The company acquired the lease for the Ocean Wind farm, to be located about 10 miles out in the ocean off Atlantic City, in 2015.

Not exact matches

It's signature product is the Submaran ™, the first hybrid wind and solar - powered surface and subsurface vessel designed for extended ocean observation and data collection.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high - level assessment of all waters offshore the United States Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.

Conditions are otherwise favorable for intensification through Sunday, with a moist atmosphere, light wind shear less than 10 knots, and very warm ocean waters near 30 °C (86 °F).

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

Nature provides the perfect setting for this outdoor dining experience, as a light wind from the Pacific Ocean blows in the air and through the decorative palm trees.

Kona «the area of the Big Island that grows the finest Kona cherries in the world» is a delightful drive along Hualalai's high mountainous backdrop narrow winding Cliff side passages dressed with breathtaking tropical blooms that cascade for 30 miles down the valley's of our beautiful ocean coastline.

Champion «Hoot Mon,» running on abroad reach with all of her sails set, won the 184 - mile race for the second successive year, beating a fleet of 20 top ocean racers despite fickle winds and currents.

BOATING — «The roughest race I ever saw,» said JERRY LANGER of Miami Beach after being declared winner of the 172 - mile Sam Griffith Memorial ocean race for powerboats, run off Florida's east coast in 8 - to -10-foot seas and 23 - mph winds.

Those open fairways and the course's proximity to the ocean also mean gusty winds can create havoc for even the most experienced players.

But this Budget feels rather like Franklin's famous search for the elusive North West Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans: paved with icebergs and icy winds.

New York officials are seeking to expand offshore wind generation in the Atlantic Ocean, and has proposed four new sites for wind energy projects to the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

There are just tremendous opportunities for science, to discover what the early solar system was like, whereas on Earth, the wind and the oceans have pretty much washed away most of the evidence.

Faster winds are affecting how much heat and carbon dioxide the oceans soak up, with immense consequences for us all, finds Anil Ananthaswamy

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

This study adds a reason for this heat storage in the Pacific Ocean: increases in trade winds blowing east to west.

The military uses the microwave information to detect ocean wind speeds to feed into weather models, among other uses, but the data happen to be nearly perfect for sensing sea ice, says Walt Meier, a sea - ice specialist with the NSIDC.

As it winds up its studies of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is offering the best evidence yet that this moon's buried ocean could be a great place to search for extraterrestrial life.

Doug Smith at the UK Met Office fed key data such as ocean temperatures, air pressure and wind speeds for every year from 1960 to 1995 into DePreSys, a model already used to predict weather a decade ahead.

In fact, by the time Marco Polo set out to explore East Asia in the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System SciOcean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

«If the winds continue to increase as a result of global warming, then we will continue to see increased energy in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.

Faster winds are affecting how much heat and carbon dioxide the oceans soak up, with immense consequences for us all

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.

Floating turbines hold huge promise for capturing wind energy over Earth's oceans.

On Wednesday, September 6, the colossal category 5 Hurricane Irma amped up its already stunning winds to 185 miles per hour — the second fastest ever recorded for a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

The remote sensing instrument will use radar pulses to observe the speed and direction of winds over the ocean for the improvement of weather forecasting.

And where offshore wind development has struggled in the past, the ocean is now open for business.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Moore measures how the arches vibrate to the background shaking of the Earth caused by natural processes like wind and distant ocean tides to arrive at a vibrational signature for each arch.

Both real - world observations and the team's simulations reveal that the abnormally strong winds — driven by natural variation in a long - term climate cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation — have, for the time being, carried the «missing» heat to intermediate depths of the western Pacific Ocean.

Even if the storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the storm is destined to push strong winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf and heavy rain, forecasters say.

For example, tides, winds and sea surface temperature could disrupt their migration habits, and ocean color — referring to the water's chemical and particle content — could reflect changes in the food chain.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

This the first scientific test for the drones, which are powered only by the wind and sun, in the Pacific Ocean.

Results published by NOC scientists in 2015 have already demonstrated the capabilities of spaceborne GNSS - R for ocean surface wind speed retrieval.

But for a forecast model to work, he says, «We have to resolve the boundary conditions ---- data on tides and winds — very far away, out into the open ocean.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

But ocean temperatures alone don't define an El Niño; CPC forecasters also look for the corresponding shifts in atmospheric patterns, namely a weakening of the typical east - to - west trade winds over the region.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.

Apparently the reason for the disappearance was an anomalous weather system which generated a strong jet of surface winds blowing straight over the pole southward toward the Atlantic ocean, a «Polar Express».

Natural changes in winds, air pressures and ocean currents were found to be responsible for more than 80 percent of the observed warming during the 112 years studied.