Sentences with phrase «from ocean winds»

Our Salt Swept Oak mimics driftwood aged from the ocean winds to create a beautiful grey oak floor.

Outside the front door at the larger pool wouldn't work at all - probably just damaged from ocean winds etc, and then upstairs pool speakers would work if you fussed for 15 minutes or more.

Not exact matches

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.

I can say, having never seen how waves develop in the ocean, that «waves come from the rain on the sea», or waves come from the wind»... and I may or may not be right.

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.

Not yet designated as an official American Viticultural Area (AVA or appellation), the Petaluma Gap is a coastal mountain opening that stretches east from the Pacific Ocean, letting the wind race through the town of Petaluma and then roar south to San Pablo Bay.

The most direct way you can help conserve species is to prevent marine debris from winding up in our waterways that might negatively impact ocean and fish health.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the Robinson R44 helicopter, which had departed from Westchester County Airport, wound up in the Atlantic Ocean about 10:25 a.m. and «emergency responders picked up the two people who were aboard and ferried them to shore.»

HOW SWEET Long before humans inhabited Polynesia, sweet potatoes may have been carried across the ocean from South America to the South Pacific islands by wind, water or maybe even birds.

Within the next decade, hundreds or even thousands of solar - and wind - powered drones could roam the world's oceans, using satellites to relay information gathered from the sea surface and the air above.

How whales use sound Sound occurs naturally in the ocean, of course — from waves, wind, precipitation, ice movement and fish, among other sources.

As these winds enhance ocean circulation, they may be encouraging carbon - rich waters to rise from the deep, say the team, meaning that surface water is less able to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theOcean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

In periods when the ocean surface warms (associated with red), the prevailing winds are more prone to sweep down from the north.

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.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

The evaporation of sea spray is thought to contribute to the transfer of heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, which accelerate winds in a storm, potentially impacting its intensity.

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.

«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.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

Efforts to convert the energy of motion — from footsteps, ocean waves, wind and other movement sources — are well underway.

One peculiarity is that rains begin 2 to 3 months before seasonal winds start to bring in moist air from the ocean.

And now you find them in places that are still more or less unchanged from that time — with tussock grass (Poa flabellata is the species) and these seabirds and high winds and cliffs and oceans.

According to the scientific team, the new findings show that 2.7 billion years ago relatively large landmasses emerged from the oceans that were exposed to weathering and erosion by the sun, wind and rain.

To track ocean storms and dangerous waves, the Navy uses radar data from satellites that estimate wind speed and wave height.

The dunes also appear to have evolved similarly to those found on Earth, in that the original rocks have been deposited from somewhere else by volcanoes, oceans, rivers, etc. and then moved, shaped, and ground up by wind.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

The prevailing winds are indeed heading east over the Pacific from Japan, but the vast majority of radioactive material will rain down into the ocean within a few hundred kilometers of the nuclear plant.

Under normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical rainfall around Indonesia.

On a recent day, the Ocean Researcher, a survey vessel belonging to the Danish wind giant Dong Energy, was preparing to cast off from the marine commerce terminal.

«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).

Winds (arrows) blowing in from the northeast across the Atlantic Ocean during the days preceding Sandy's landfall started to pile water up against the mid-Atlantic coast.

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.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

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.

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

Meanwhile, on the cut - off high's eastern side, winds heading south drove cold air from the Arctic Ocean toward Greenland's southern tip, bringing the lower than usual temperatures there.

NSCAT will provide regular measurements of ocean surface wind velocity from space.

Over the course of coming decades, though, trade wind speed is expected to decrease from global warming, Thunell says, and the result will be less phytoplankton production at the surface and less oxygen utilization at depth, causing a concomitant increase in the ocean's oxygen content.

The basic scenario goes as follows: Hurricanes — circular storms spinning around a region of low atmospheric pressure — are powered by energy released by spiraling surface winds that draw heat from the ocean.

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.

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

«NASA has access to large - scale oceanographic data sets ranging from primary productivity to ocean temperature, currents and wind,» Moore said.

«Meltwater from Greenland is directed by the surrounding ocean currents, but its fate depends on when and where the runoff occurs and the wind fields driving ocean currents,» said study co-author Thomas Mote, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography at UGA.

This temperature differential, the engine of Asian monsoons, creates winds that blow from the Indian and Pacific oceans into Tibet, which drag with them the pollutants piled up in the foothills.

During the past 11,000 years, wind patterns have pushed warm waters from the deep ocean onto Antarctica's continental shelf

Linsley said the new results were «exciting,» suggesting that the «poorly understood, rapid rise» in surface temperature from 1910 to 1940 was, in part, «related to changes in trade wind strength and heat release from the upper water column» of the Pacific Ocean.