Sentences with phrase «from sea winds»

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The phrase is derived from the tide of the sea, which can move ships to a new location when the wind will not.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

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.

Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water which Allah sends down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the earth — are indeed Signs for the people who understand.

Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but upon the winds of the air as like He does, and shall dwell upon the clouds in great floating cities away from the foulness of the earth's sand upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do live.

There's a famous wartime cartoon by David Low, drawn after we were thrown off the Continent in 1940, of a British soldier shaking his fist at wind and waves from a sea - girt rock and proclaiming, «Very well, alone.»

Paying a price premium can get you a salt that's «made by the action of sun and wind on pristine Australian sea water», «harvested from the crystal clear seas on the east coast of Tasmania» or «handcrafted in small batches».

There, buffeted by the wind and soaked with freezing spray, he suffers and waits for eiders to come in from the sea to feed.

But he started on the wrong tide from Calais and 20 hours later he wound up in the North Sea.

Their tone of voice for example is rather as if they have swallowed wind blowing in from the North Sea, and it is now trying to get out.

Here in the mountains is very harsh climate: strong winds from the sea and the difference between daytime and night temperatures can be 30 ° C (from 40 ° to 10 °).

She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other, and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.

Cold is not the enemy: it's the wind, hammering in unimpeded from a few hundred miles out in the sea.

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.

Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner is worried about the slow pace of expansion of the country's high - voltage lines needed to transport offshore wind energy from the North Sea to industrial areas in the south of Germany.

But Russia is often connected to Svalbard by continuous sea ice and the predominant southeasterly winds blow from there toward these islands.

With the United Kingdom, for one, aiming to get some 30 GW of electricity from wind farms in the North Sea within the next decade as part of its E.U. target to get 15 percent of its power — equivalent to about 40 percent of its electricity — from renewables by 2020, there are also proposals to build a giant subsea grid to bring that power ashore.

If those issues are resolved and the North Sea grid does get developed, the idea would be for it in turn to form part of the much - debated European supergrid, supposed to be able to seamlessly transport power from the wind - rich north and sun - soaked south to the center, from where most of the demand originates.

The wind speeds and directions predicted by the climate model explain phenomena such as the dominance of the seas by the Iron Fleet, the likely attack plans of invading dragon hordes from Essos, and the trading routes between Westeros and the Free cities across the Narrow Sea.

In contrast, in decades of coolest sea surface temperature, swifter winds extract more heat from the western and central Atlantic before arriving in Europe.

The ships rely on so - called Flettner rotors, tall columns like enlarged smokestacks that jut up from the center of the ship and spin in the wind, driving the ship perpendicular to the air flow and also serving as the funnels from which the sea spray would emerge.

«Winds hide Atlantic variability from Europe's winters: Study reveals how wind patterns change along with sea - surface temperatures.»

The new research reveals that, in decades in which North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are elevated, winds deliver air to Europe disproportionately from the north.

During decades when the sea is cool (associated with blue colors), the prevailing winds are more likely to flow across the Atlantic from North America, keeping western European air temperatures mild.

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.

It was sheltered from the waves and wind, its mouth was deep enough to clear the reefs that line the Red Sea coast, and the fossilized coral cliffs could be dug out easily.

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.

The pattern of prevailing winds during the accident meant that most of the radioactive materials released from the plant were blown out to sea.

When the winds shift, these toxic blooms can sink meters below the sea's surface, disappearing from the sight lines of both humans and some underwater robots.

They can make big waves, but not ones that rise — as rogue waves do — three to five times as high as the waves around them and seem to come out of nowhere, out of sync with the rest of the sea, from a direction completely different from that of the wind and other waves.

The spike in levels was most pronounced when the wind was blowing from the African coast out to sea.

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 German grid needs big investments before it can support significant wind energy from the North Sea.

In summer, the effect reverses with winds bringing relatively cool and moist air from the sea.

The analysis of high - frequency surface air temperature, mean sea - level pressure, wind speed and direction and cloud - cover data from the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 from the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland, published today (Monday 22 August 2016), sheds new light on the phenomenon.

Raw data collected from altimeters have been re-processed and collated with wind speed data from scatterometers and sea level measurements from tide gauges, to show the spatial structure of each storm.

«If you look to European experience, offshore wind has been deployed from a number of port facilities in the North Sea, which have been transformed from sleepy shipping ports to thriving industrial centers,» said Deepwater Wind CEO Jeff Grybowwind has been deployed from a number of port facilities in the North Sea, which have been transformed from sleepy shipping ports to thriving industrial centers,» said Deepwater Wind CEO Jeff GrybowWind CEO Jeff Grybowski.

Understanding Antarctic climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away from southern Australia.

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.

Looking at two different measures of wind intensity (the East - West difference in sea level pressure and the depth of the thermocline) over the time periods involved, they conclude that trade winds were diminishing over the course of 1950 to 1990, but then picked up from 1990 to 2010.

Olson says Gray himself had worked on methods to calculate wind and drift direction from buoys and other sensor data: «He collaborated with people on satellite image data capture and analysis and sea surface data capture and analysis, and these people now are using their professional skills in the search.»

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

The increase could be due to a combination of stronger winds spreading out the sea ice and fresh water from melting ice on land diluting seawater so it freezes at higher temperatures.

Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).

This $ 1.5 - billion satellite is state - of - the - art, carrying five advanced instruments to measure everything from sea - surface temperature to atmospheric winds.

Previous studies have suggested that Arctic sea - ice loss causes the NAO to spend longer in its «negative phase» - generating more easterly winds that bring colder air from Scandinavia and Siberia to the UK.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

In the open seas, heavy winds and deep waters lead to a high turnover in the water column, which prevents photosynthetic microorganisms like algae from converting sunlight into energy.

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.