Sentences with phrase «in deep ocean waters»

My theory was we already had observational proof that the heat must be sequestered in the deep ocean waters.

«Deepwater wind» refers to wind - turbine technology that could safely be built in deep ocean waters.

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from shore.

These marine mammals spend almost all their lives in the deep ocean waters, diving to depths of a mile in search of food.

Found in the deep ocean waters off of south - eastern Australia, the Blobfish is really a creature only a mom (or dad) could love!

My theory was we already had observational proof that the heat must be sequestered in the deep ocean waters.

Vast numbers of bacteria and plankton occur both at the surface and in deep ocean waters.

However, a double check of the diagram shows that it doesn't distinguish between organic and inorganic C in the deep and intermediate ocean, so the total amount of organic C within the ocean that is available to be oxidized at that rate (using O2 at a rate of 0.011 % of atmospheric O2 per year) could be larger; however, oxygen depletion in the deeper ocean water wouldn't pull O2 out of the atmosphere until that water resurfaced.)

Not exact matches

Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.

«Son of man, bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent; struggle in its currents and drink of its waters.

The hotel's arrival will launch the transformation of the former shrimp boatyard and fishing village into a chic and contemporary destination, offering the largest deep water marina in the Florida Keys, direct ocean access, and an emerging retail and restaurant district.

When salty ocean water flows through the magnetic field, an electric current is generated and this, in turn, induces a magnetic response in the deep region below Earth's crust — the mantle.

These troughs allow warmer and saltier waters from deeper in the ocean to reach the glaciers and erode them.

RAPID RETREAT New seafloor data reveal that Køge Bugt (shown) and other fast - retreating glaciers in southeastern Greenland sit within deep fjords, allowing warm Atlantic Ocean water to speed up melting.

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

But research published yesterday in the journal Nature rebuts this idea, suggesting that it was changes in ocean circulation, not winds, that predominantly led the deep water to surface near Antarctica and exhale carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Researchers can measure annual changes in how the melt rate occurs, for example, or the effects of a single pulse of warm deep - ocean water.

Ryskin proposes that huge deposits of methane and other gases, which are naturally produced in deep - sea waters, became trapped under the pressure of a then - stagnant global ocean.

Those sites gave her the chance to gather fossils from many different depths in the ancient ocean, from the more oxygen - rich surface waters to deeper zones.

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.

A mass of water called the North Atlantic Deep Water enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below lwater called the North Atlantic Deep Water enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below lWater enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below left).

In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, his team identified two deep underwater cavities beneath the glacier that they note could be pathways for relatively warm ocean water to reach the underside of the glacier, enhancing its meltinIn a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, his team identified two deep underwater cavities beneath the glacier that they note could be pathways for relatively warm ocean water to reach the underside of the glacier, enhancing its meltinin Nature Geoscience, his team identified two deep underwater cavities beneath the glacier that they note could be pathways for relatively warm ocean water to reach the underside of the glacier, enhancing its melting.

At high velocities deep in the ocean, that dual pressure heaves water with forces powerful enough to generate a tsunami, as a similarly massive chunk of seafloor did in the 2011 event in Japan.

The problem stems from oxygen reduction in deep water, a phenomenon that some scientists are observing in oceans worldwide, and that may be related to climate change.

Unexplored deep waters in the Atlantic Ocean could offer a preview of life — if it exists — on other moons and planets.

And C. finmarchicus is far from being the only animal in the ocean which spends part of its life cycle in deep water.

But the balance between DVMs and the limited deep - water oxygen supply could be easily upset, Bianchi said — particularly by climate change, which is predicted to further decrease levels of oxygen in the ocean.

That's in contrast to some recent work that has suggested the Atlantic Ocean is driving the slowdown by burying the missing heat in its deep waters.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

«Nobody had done rapid - response drilling in the ocean, nobody had drilled anything substantial under 7 kilometers of water, nobody had placed an observatory in a fault that deep, and nobody had retrieved a string of instruments from that deep,» she said.

The oxygen content of the ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form of the numerous sea creatures that dine near the surface at night then submerge into the safety of deeper, darker waters at daybreak.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

Just two decades ago, scientists discovered that colorful tropical reefs have ghostly counterparts in deep, cold waters throughout the world's oceans.

Geysers and deep - sea vents are hydrothermal phenomena in which water, heated and pressurized by molten rock, is released through vents at the land surface or into the oceans.

«These results show that the effect of ocean acidification on deep - water corals may not be as severe as predicted,» said David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the reseocean acidification on deep - water corals may not be as severe as predicted,» said David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the reseOcean Sciences, which funded the research.

«These devices can be in open ocean and deep water, maybe 50 to 100 miles off the coast,» Coe said.

A fleet of robotic submarines, based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), head - quartered in in Southampton, have been used to map vulnerable cold - water coral reefs in the deep ocean off southwest England.

When the creatures that eat the plankton die, their shells and organic remains fall to the ocean floor, sequestering carbon in the deep water and sediments.

Real - world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep - sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt — type circulation.

This enabled the research team to reconstruct, for the first time, a detailed picture of the environmental conditions at the ocean's surface, as well as in deeper water layers, over the last 30,000 years.

They compared isotope measurements on the silica skeletons of diatoms, which store environmental signals from the ocean's surface, with isotope signals from radiolarians, which live in deeper water layers.

In these areas, deep ocean waters that are naturally rich in carbon dioxide are upwelling and mixing with surface waters that are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmospherIn these areas, deep ocean waters that are naturally rich in carbon dioxide are upwelling and mixing with surface waters that are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmospherin carbon dioxide are upwelling and mixing with surface waters that are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

They hunt in the coastal ocean at night, when shrimp and squid — their favorite foods — migrate upward from deeper waters.

The resultant steam runs a turbine, and cold water drawn up from deep in the ocean condenses the steam to start the cycle again.

In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface waters with nutrient - rich deep water to promote plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and...