Sentences with phrase «hit ocean surface»

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Although the researchers did not examine in this study what prevents methane released from the seafloor from reaching the atmosphere, they suspect it is biodegraded by microorganisms in the ocean before it hits the surface waters.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

The oceans are heating up: Not only was Earth's temperature record warm in 2014, but so were the global oceans, as sea surface temperatures and the heat of the upper oceans also hit record highs.

I became so inspired by the ocean this weekend and I think that was because of the way the surface shined when the sunlight hit it!

And for adults, the animation is incredible, especially when Hiccup and Toothless skim along the surface of the ocean kicking up a spray as they hit the waves.

On the surface, this let's - rob - a-racetrack caper looks like a redneck spin on Ocean's 11, his starry (Clooney, Pitt, Damon) 2001 box - office hit.

Where else in the world can you watch molten red lava hitting the surface of the ocean in clouds of steam?

Combined with the data from the Clapham pond you can reach, (using units which at one time yielded acres per fortnight to my great amusement, thank you Benjamin Franklin,) I hope, the same conclusion as I, namely that by the time the petrochemical industry hit its stride it had altered the ocean surface catastrophically.

On the other hand they melt fast when a rising ocean hits their boundary and turns landlocked ice directly into dark ocean surface with no intermediate state of ice - free land surface.

During global cooling periods, there is less ocean evaporation, fewer clouds, lower albedo, which allows more TSI to hit the earth's surface, thus preventing snowball earth.

In other words: Proposed strategies to alter the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface by (for example) deliberately injecting millions of tons of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere pose enormous risks and uncertainties and don «t address the underlying causes of global warming or other major risks from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, such as ocean acidification.

Data travels from the deep ocean via copper cables to the glacier surface, passes through a weather station, jumps the first satellite overhead, hops from satellite to satellite, falls back to earth hitting an antenna in my garden, and fills an old computer.