Sentences with phrase «form over the ocean»

The difference in lightning activity can't be explained by changes in the weather, according to the study's authors, who conclude that aerosol particles emitted in ship exhaust are changing how storm clouds form over the ocean.

«Hurricanes almost always form over ocean water warmer than about 80 degrees F. in a belt of generally east - to - west flow called the trade winds.

Storms mostly move around the globe in preferred regions called «storm tracks,» forming over the ocean and generally traveling eastward and somewhat poleward along these paths.

These enormous, swirling storm systems form over the ocean.

Hurricanes form over ocean hot spots.

The G - 1 aircraft probed the clouds that form over the ocean and their transformations upon landfall as well as the orographic effects over the coastal range and the Sierra Nevada.

One is natural: a low - lying cloud bank that naturally forms over the ocean.

The G - 1 probed the clouds that form over the ocean and their transformations upon landfall as well as the orographic effects over the coastal range and the Sierra Nevada.

Dissolved CO2 being removed from the ocean, and clouds formed over the ocean, on our time scale, looks to be mostly biology.

Two main wind - forms over the ocean are the trade winds and westerly winds.

Not exact matches

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

For a rope cloud to form, the leading edge of the cold air mass must be advancing straight and steady, which can happen only if it is flowing over a smooth, flat surface like the ocean.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

Instead, the team proposes, soot and other particles in the ships» exhaust create large numbers of cloud droplets that are, on average, smaller than those forming around natural dust particles in the air elsewhere over the ocean.

When carbon dioxide, CO2, from the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz), making the ocean more acidic and decreasing the ocean's pH. This increase in acidity makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral reefs the world over.

Eyes in the Sky Of course, even the best radars can not see over mountains or out into the oceans, where hurricanes form.

As that ocean cooled, its most buoyant components floated to the top, forming an outer shell over denser layers of rock.

Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the oOcean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the oceanocean.

The findings indicate that the ocean was teeming with primitive organisms 3.2 billion years ago, just over a billion years after the planet formed.

A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars» putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as once thought.

If these rays from the dying star were to wash over a once - frozen moon or exoplanet, the planetary body's icy layer would melt into liquid: setting the stage for life to form in a flowing ocean.

While both seasons are now officially over, as ocean waters cool with the onset of winter, that doesn't mean storms can't still form if conditions are right.

On a highly technical level, Henson notes that Sandy developed a rare «warm seclusion,» which typically occurs in strong winter storms over the ocean when pockets of warm air form within their cold cores.

The deposits were formed over hundreds of thousands of years in the past, when the sea level was much lower and areas now under the ocean were exposed to rainfall which was absorbed into the underlying water table.

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

Lookouts and walkways connect these natural attractions formed over millennia by the surging power of the Southern Ocean.

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 low - altitude stratus clouds that make up the June Gloom cloud layer form over the nearby ocean, and are transported over the coastal areas by the region's prevailing westerly winds.

The superbly - decorated lounge with ocean - view balcony and the dining room form the social hub of the house, while the bedrooms — a magnificent master suite with commanding views over the smooth white sands of Pandawa Beach, and five gorgeously appointed en - suite rooms — provide guests with their own private sanctuary.

Although the apartment does not have sea view, it is still only 10 meter away form the sea and has awesome views over the ocean from its deck with braai facilities.

The metallic surfaces of the large paintings, in part mimetically related to the play of light on the ocean at midday, join such innovations as the use of spray paint to create atmospheric layers of transparent color over color and the use of mylar and networks of tape to form geometric figures.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings are all about the pentimenti — the earlier images, forms and strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Our distribution loop got clogged with low density water and we had a backup of heat until our heater over heated and blew off steam in the form evaporating ocean water which made a swirling cloud called a hurricane.

In its simplest form averaged over a year, can not the ocean heat balance be expressed as:

Chan and Liu (2004) argue that current models are not yet sufficiently good for addressing the question regarding global warming and typhoons (A typhoon is technically the same as a hurricane, the difference being that they form over the western Pacific or the Indean Ocean).

This storm formed and intensified near the Beaufort Sea and moved to the central Arctic Ocean where it will slowly lose its intensity over the next several days.

In the absence of that ion supply, abiotic CO2 uptake in the ocean as a function of CO2 in air is at least somewhat limited by ions already present; acification can (over time) dissolve carbonate minerals that supply cations and carbonate ions, buffering pH and reacting with CO2 to form bicarbonate ions; new cations from chemical weathering have to be supplied to actually remove C from the oceans while keeping pH from dropping and without releasing as much CO2 from bicarbonate ions).

The point is the range and the stable zone for current oceanic life - forms as they have evolved over the ages during which the ocean has remained stable within a very narrow pH range....

(With the ocean cloaked mainly in relatively thin floes, formed over a single winter, the chances rise each summer of a big melt - off under the 24 - hour sun and influxes of warmer seawater.)

Two years ago this month, an edge - pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron - rich dust over one of the 60 - mile - wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.

And the details: «Even the low stratus and stratocumulus clouds that form over the subtropical oceans, thousands of miles from any precipitation activity, are there because of precipitation.

The dense, deep water thus formed spreads out over the whole ocean.

An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it slowly dissipated over the next several days.

This lack of numbers brings me back to an old example, which first arose from a statement (by Judith Curry, IIRC, about 3 years ago) that hurricanes form over hot ocean areas, but not necessarily the hottest ocean areas around.

Generally, cloud nuclei are not in short supply over the ocean, as the oceanic clouds form mostly around crystals of sea salt.

The Arctic «radiator» thus became about 10 % more efficient (10 % reduction in ice extent) over the next several years peaking in 2007 and now those chickens are coming home to roost in the form of a cold pulse making its way along the ocean floor back down to the tropics.

SCAR - MarBIN has brought together over 1 million distribution records for Southern Ocean species, forming a baseline against which future change can be judged.

The main difference between H2O and CO2 (apart from the numerical differences of their specific physical properites such as degree of freedom, thermal capacity, physical mass, etc) in terms of their effects on the atmosphere is that water is capable of condensing into liquid to form clouds and readily and rapidly moves between surface and atmosphere, daily, seasonally, annually and on even greater time scales, but CO2 does not liquify in the biosphere and transfers over mostly long time periods between surface (primarily oceans, seas, etc) and the atmosphere.

Well, to make it work, the mechanism needs clean air (which you always had over at least parts of the oceans) and nucleating aerosols (e.g., as you get from DMS, which is primarily formed by phytoplankton which exists for a loooooong while), so yes, it is reasonable that the mechanism has been operational, though quantitatively it may have changed somewhat.