Sentences with phrase «fresh surface water»

One - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply lies here, and it is worth protecting.
The five Great Lakes hold 21 percent of the world's fresh surface water — an H 2 O supply that will come in handy in drier times.
Salt - water intrusion / encroachment - Displacement of fresh surface water or groundwater by the advance of salt water due to its greater density.
Today, 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water is contained in the five great lakes: 5,472 cubic miles (22,812 km ³), or six quadrillion U.S. gallons (22.81 quadrillion liters) in all.
«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.
As to how a freshwater turtle migrated across a salty ocean; Tarduno points to the results of drilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic Ocean.
This dense heated water sinks below fresher surface waters that may insulate it for decades.

Not exact matches

I recall us in our pallor at the stand - offish kibbutz on its narrow shelf of shore past the Qumran scroll mines, how they had fresh water hoses afloat on the surface to wash our mouths and eyes if the clear Mars - gravity water got into them, as we drifted high as triremes.
The task of an interpreter is to help the faithful look beyond the surface, to highlight a word here, an image there, to find Christ unexpectedly, to drink at the bountiful spring whose water is ever fresh.
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I'm talking about «usable» water — «The Earth has a finite supply of fresh water, stored in aquifers, surface waters and the atmosphere.
Higgins has released a written statement noting the route the shipment will take next year crosses the Niagara River, accessing 95 - percent of the surface fresh water in the U.S..
Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.
«When it rains really hard, they can actually sip fresh water off the surface of the salt water.
The new ice - scarp studies confirm indications from fresh - crater and neutron - spectrometer observations that a layer rich in water ice begins within just one or two yards of the surface in some areas.
«Instead of emerging at the surface, much of that heat is melting the ice shelves,» Hansen says, producing more fresh water and amplifying the feedback.
That ocean water then pushes against fresh water already in the ground, causing the fresh water to rise closer to the surface and farther up the drainage wells.
With their spongy, lobe - like leaves only a fraction of an inch long, Azolla float on the surface of bodies of fresh water, dangling long tendrils below.
Their results suggest a drop of as much as 10 degrees for fresh water during the warm season and 6 degrees for the atmosphere in the North Atlantic, giving further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.
More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.
Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.
When that cold, fresh water enters the ocean, it forms an extra-chilly layer on the ocean surface around the continent.
In the Antarctic Zone, the Antarctic Surface Water has become warmer and fresher, and the Winter Water tongue has become warmer, fresher, thinner and shallower.
Containing more than one - fifth of the world's surface fresh water, these five vast lakes straddle the border between the United States and Canada.
If the recent intensification of the cool spot were caused by a recent AMOC slowdown you would expect to see warming of intermediate waters under a cool fresh water surface layer.
New images taken by the ESA's Mars Express orbiter have provided a fresh look at a region believed to be hiding large volumes of water ice just beneath the surface.
This fresher water flows up the underside of the slope and out onto the surface of the surrounding sea.
The fresher water on the surface freezes more easily, increasing ice extent.
This process should be independent of the season of the year and the fresher water flowing out on the surface may help to explain the increase in sea ice.
This layer of cold, fresh water on the ocean surface freezes easily [10].
• Safe: free of disease - causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, spores); heavy metals; chemicals from industry and agriculture; pharmaceuticals; disinfectants and related by - products; radioactivity; and synthetic fluoride; • Fresh: neither salty nor stagnant; • Clean: physically, biologically and chemically; • Natural: coming from a pristine mountain stream, glacial river or fresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carboFresh: neither salty nor stagnant; • Clean: physically, biologically and chemically; • Natural: coming from a pristine mountain stream, glacial river or fresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carbofresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carbonate.
Gently massage into your skin to lift dead surface skin cells then wash off with lukewarm water to reveal fresh - looking skin.
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It floats on the top of water bodies containing fresh water and can take over the surface of the entire body of water very quickly.
Some cyanobacterial blooms can look like foam, scum, or mats on the surface of fresh water lakes and ponds.
As sea level rose and the fresh water table reached the land surface, forming a swamp, all that changed.
Unusually, a layer of seawater is capped by a layer of fresh water, allowing species that normally thrive only in deep water to live close to the surface.
New Zealand's fjords are also host to deep - water corals, but a surface layer of dark fresh water allows these corals to grow in much shallower water than usual.
The surface water is fresh down to approximately 40 feet.
The surface water of the Guardian is fresh and gets progressively saltier the deeper it goes until it actually reaches ocean salt water.
When we dive we are immersed in salt water and when we return to the surface, unless we rinse off thoroughly with fresh water, there will be salt water on our skin which evaporates leaving small salt crystals on our skin and hair.
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The water's surface shines like fresh varnish, and flowers sit on top in thick dabs of red, yellow, and white.
Doubling the river runoff results to very fresh waters at the shelves restricting the convection to shallow surface layer.
[Response: It's a summer - time melt - pond — fresh water created from surface melting that sits on top of the ice.
For example, a layer of fresh water slowly accumulating on the surface of N. Atlantic with sudden shut - down of THC.
Unlikely: this idea was based on the hypothesis that the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, which carries warm surface water to northern Europe, could be halted by the influx of fresh water from melting Arctic ice.
The deep saltier, warmer water is largely isolated from the cold, fresher waters near the surface, they say.
The sinking is mainly driven by the saltiness of the water, which is affected by evaporation of fresh water from the surface or, particularly in the Arctic, freezing seawater which leaves salt behind in the water beneath the ice.
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