Sentences with phrase «frigid oceans»

Beneath half a mile of frigid ocean water, at the bottom of a deep trough that never sees the light of day, lay a chiaroscuro world of grayish bacteria and giant brilliant white clams.

This documentary tells the story of the survival of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of his vessel «The Endurance,» which shipwrecked in the ice floes and frigid ocean of the Antarctic in 1914.

IF we had say, a bowl of frigid ocean water — and we immersed a sun warmed rock into that bowl of frigid ocean water, till 70 % of it was covered — then whipped the exposed surface of the rock with air that was many degrees colder than the exposed rock surface --

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I just hope it was in the deepest, darkest and most frigid depth of ocean they could find.

But while the frigid weather and the thought of having to endure it on an exposed rock ledge in the ocean turns many a shooter away, the sea duck's tough, fishy meat discourages others.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

World weather patterns will also start to change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

The most frigid polar regions and the darkest depths of the ocean are home for a few organisms that like a good chill.

If a glacier reaches the ocean where the seafloor is shallow, the ice interacts with frigid freshwater and melts slowly.

As a result, the frigid flow plays a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans, and serves as both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that change.

Richard Alley, a Penn State geosciences professor who wasn't involved with the new study, said far more work is needed to understand the effects of wind and ocean changes in the Southern Hemisphere's most frigid stretches.

The First Evirogenomic Profile Near Acadia National Park in northeastern Maine, I feel the frigid wind blow off the ocean at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a cluster of buildings enveloped in snow and surrounded by winter - bare trees.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

The frigid satellite has long been thought of as candidate for possible microbial life due to its vast subsurface ocean of water.

If such findings were indeed to be uncovered on Charon, they would provide strong evidence for the existence of past liquid water oceans on the interior of the faraway frigid moon.

Two University of Chicago scientists researched whether a planet dramatically ripped from its solar system and sent forth into the frigid atmosphere of open space could still harbor life under frozen oceans.

It's a spectacular piece of work, from director James Cameron's plotting of the story between past and present (though not his direction of Billy Zane) to the stunning execution of the ship's slow descent into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Located in the South Atlantic Ocean near Antarctica, the frigid islands offer Stevens the isolation she needs to concentrate on her Dickensian novel — which, like her life, features a young English academic who travels to the Falklands.

Chile's grapes were protected in the east by the cold Pacific Ocean air, in the north by the barren Atacama Desert, in the south by the frigid Antarctic glaciers and in the west by the Andes.

I took two snorkel boat trips with Ocean Quest and jumped in the frigid Atlantic for a chance to get up close with these giants.

Although Vancouver Island has admittedly mild weather compared to other parts of Canada, the Pacific Ocean can still be frigid, especially considering the best waves are often in the winter.

In those pre-wetsuit days, O'Neill rode a balsa wood board, braving the frigid waters and the notoriously fickle waves at Ocean Beach's Kelly's Cove, then later opened Mollusk Surf Shop, one of the world's first surf shops, just off the Great Highway.

Catch a glimpse of Pacific Ocean habitats, from the Northwest's frigid waters to the tropical ecosystems of Mexico and beyond at La Jolla's Birch Aquarium at Scripps...

But if atmospheric warming can produce cooling, as we are hearing so often in these frigid days, then I suppose the same could be true for the oceans.

It's not so much a town as a rugged industrial work camp situated near the frigid Arctic Ocean at the far end of the pipeline; it exists mainly to facilitate the extraction and pumping of oil.

Down south there is a largely frigid continent surrounded by ocean.

As the mixed layer is slowly cooled by the frigid bulk of ocean below the thermocline the atmosphere is cooled along with it.

Fifthly, because the Arctic Ocean is always frigid and full of ice, it is always around the same temperature... that of ice water (ice seawater)... during the entire Holocene.

The great majority of the ocean which lies below the mixed layer is 3C so in the long run the warmer mixed layer can only be cooled by the slow rate of energy exchange with the frigid depths.

What's so frightening to them is that after one of the regular warming periods begins, they can see (in air bubbles trapped in glaciers from those past times) that CO2 starts increasing, and they know that this is because of the warming and thawing of vast natural stores of carbon dioxide in the oceans — as well as in the frozen or frigid earth of the northern tundra.

The findings need to be verified in the ocean, Dabiri says, which will involve finding and following swarms of krill in locations as diverse as the California coast and frigid Antarctic waters.

In the Pacific Ocean more flow in the Peruvian and Californian currents trigger more frigid and nutrient rich upwelling in the north - eastern and central Pacific.

It was the cold, dry ice ages that created frigid deserts, life - smothering ice sheets, retreating oceans and massive losses for all life forms.

The oceans are frigid at depth, and the rate at which those cool waters are exposed to the surface is not constant.

This effect at 200 mbar to 400 mbar is unrelated to the «frigid depths of the ocean»

The continents changed which caused the ocean currents to change and that changed the climate and caused Antarctica to become the frigid place that it is today.

But after high - seas clashes between the whalers and activists in the frigid Southern Ocean, the brief detention of activists on a whale hunting ship and diplomatic protests from Japan, Environment Minister Peter Garrett would not promise a repeat.