Sentences with phrase «in turbulent seas»

Not exact matches

This says that empty space is really a frothy, turbulent sea full of virtual particles — matter and antimatter that spring in and out of existence so fast that we can't see them.

Unlike its related species, the yellow - bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus), the yellow sea snake subspecies lives in a significantly more hostile environment — the waters in the gulf are warmer, often turbulent, and the dissolved oxygen in them occasionally drops to extremely low levels.

Filtered almost exclusively through Amir's muddled consciousness, Moon Brow is intimate in its inquiries and epic in its scope, ushering the reader through some of the most turbulent decades in Iranian history, and from locations as diverse as the polluted heat - haze of modern Tehran to the burning battlefields of the Iran - Iraq War, to the near - mystical calm and beauty of the Caspian Sea.

Instead of the tranquil Caribbean Sea, the beaches face the Atlantic Ocean, which means that waters can be more turbulent, especially in the winter months.

Paysage de mer, painted by Courbet in Normandy in 1869, with its vigorous application of paint and urgent, thickened brushstrokes is in ideal symbiosis with the depopulated sea and turbulent cloudscape he powerfully evokes.

Twombly often remarked on his profound love of landscape, and the murky, sensual qualities of humus - rich soil and turbulent seas are present in works such as the four - part Paesaggio, 1980, composed of varying degrees of dark, earthy tones.

The latter canvas, meanwhile, with its impastoed blobs, smears and scrapes, makes you think of a turbulent sea in a harmony of white and greys (a brisk walk along the Margate coast afterwards is recommended).

The works on cloth appeared to be landscapes — a turbulent sea; a sky crowded with moons, shrouded in mist; mountains in the distance, only faintly visible.

In Gallery II, a large, wall - based sculpture of colorful ceramic disks on rotating arms titled, THIS ONE GOES OUT ACROSS THE SEMAPHORE SPECTRUM, simultaneously takes form as a double solar system model or an antiquated signal device used to communicate turbulent atmospheric conditions to pilots in air or at seIn Gallery II, a large, wall - based sculpture of colorful ceramic disks on rotating arms titled, THIS ONE GOES OUT ACROSS THE SEMAPHORE SPECTRUM, simultaneously takes form as a double solar system model or an antiquated signal device used to communicate turbulent atmospheric conditions to pilots in air or at sein air or at sea.

Through the twelve large - scale charcoal drawings comprising the show, Longo contemplates important world events, such as in «Untitled (Raft at Sea),» which is derived from a Doctors Without Borders periodical and portrays a raft of refugees navigating the turbulent Mediterranean Sea.

Alan Feuer has a nice feature in The Times exploring whether a softer perimeter and strategic retreats can allow New York City to persist in a turbulent century with rising seas (a reality we're stuck with even if CO2 emissions abate).

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

The low - lying Pacific Island country of Kiribati is one of many micro-nations in danger of serious damage and even inundation from rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice and increasingly turbulent global weather.

While vertical AW [Atlantic Water] heat fluxes are negligible in the Canadian Basin, turbulent mixing may be strong enough in the western Nansen Basin to produce a sizable effect of AW heat on sea ice.

They are calculated as daily turbulent air - sea fluxes over global oceans with a spatial resolution of 0.25 ° in longitude and latitude.

Future work must track how changes in sea ice and surface turbulent fluxes influence specific atmospheric regimes related to the episodic events.

IMO the process whose changes are most likely to be responsible for apparent changes to deep ocean heat content are changes to the nature of turbulent vertical mixing in specific areas of the world, especially the West Pacific / South China Sea, and perhaps the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

Variations in SST due to variations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature difference.