Sentences with phrase «large tidal»

Everybody knows this, the issue is how large the tidal effects are, and they are minuscule [fractions of millimeters].

This planet would certainly have a large tidal effect.

102 The first large tidal generating facility — La Rance barrage, with a maximum generating capacity of 240 megawatts — was built 40 years ago in France and is still operating today.

France's La Rance Tidal Barrage, with a 240 - megawatt maximum capacity, was the first large tidal power plant.

The first large tidal generating facility — La Rance barrage, with a generating capacity of 240 megawatts — was built 40 years ago in France and is still operating today.

It includes terrestrial and marine areas as well as large tidal flats, which are home to a great diversity of species and serve as resting places for rare migratory birds.

The piece relates to a spectacular Gloucestershire phenomenon — the Severn Bore, a large tidal wave that surges up the River Severn — and will be shown with a companion work at Camden Arts Centre during February, with related drawings on display at the Contemporary Art Society.

The main swimming beach, across the road from the hotel, is protected by shark nets and lifeguards and also boasts a large tidal pool for the younger ones.

A spring tide or king tide can be defined as high high tides and low low tides or large tidal movement between one tide and the next.

Large tidal activity and clean cold water support healthy populations of wild salmon and bottom fish.

Nicaragua has large tidal swings and most of the breaks around us are «high - tide spots» meaning we surf around the higher tide.

However, the cluster has a large tidal radius, a region beyond which member stars can not escape, which spans 18.34 arc minutes, or 139 light years in linear diameter.

The film also shows a large tidal wave, caused by the powerful eruption, which sends at least one ship from the nearby bay crashing into the city itself.

The biggest problem, says Schulte, is that the islands sit in a «hotspot» for sea level rise affecting Chesapeake, the largest tidal estuary in the US.

Join us for a coach tour of the second - largest city in Northern Norway, Bodø, and then see the world's largest tidal current, the legendary Saltstraumen.

Watch one of the largest tidal ranges in the world from your window, the speed at which the water comes up and down the beach is truly impressive.

The same is true for ice melting: All glaciers of Greenland are receding, but the breakup point of the largest tidal glacier (near Illulisat) moved faster inland in the 1930 - 1940 period than today.

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The European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney has now achieved the building of the largest tidal array in Europe, great employment potential and the cooperation of engineers throughout the British Isles.

I suspect that larger tidal currents over shallow water mix ocean heat up to the surface to keep these waters covered by water or dangerously thin ice.

He added, «This development - the largest tidal array in the world - does just that and will be a milestone in the global development of tidal energy.»

Now the world's largest tidal operation, it has the capacity to provide electricity for half a million people on the country's west coast.

This will be the world's largest tidal power station - which resembles a wind farm, only underwater!

Burges Salmon has helped secure consent for the largest tidal power generation project to have gained approval in Europe.

Sundarban is home to world's largest tidal mangrove forest and the Royal Bengal Tiger, along with some other species.

Not exact matches

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This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

The nation's fourth - largest cellphone carrier is buying up a third of Jay - Z's online music platform, Tidal.

The large contingent of Scottish Lib Dems was, like Scottish Labour, swept away by the SNP tidal wave.

In 1953 more than 300 people died when large parts of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent flooded after a 3.2 m tidal surge.

The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

The mussel raft was located at the confluence of the East River Tidal Strait and the Bronx River in a high nutrient, low - chlorophyll system, making the site unsuitable for large - scale mussel growth.

He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»

A large dam, gate or lock to manage tidal flows could help locals cope with anticipated sea level rise from climate change

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

Tidal effects and gravitational disturbances from relatively large bodies are required to explain the sharp inner edge of Fomalhaut's debris belt, astronomers believe.

A few million years later, once the debris disk had dissipated, the tidal effects of Mars brought most of these satellites back down onto the planet, including the very large moon.

Since a thinner ice shell retains less heat, the tidal effects caused by Saturn on the large fractures in the ice at the south pole are no longer enough to explain the strong heat flow affecting this region.

Provided their spacecraft stays healthy and funded, the Juno team is contemplating additional measurements that could further probe Jupiter's interior, such as monitoring tidal bulges raised by large moons whipping around the planet.

Its largest sea, Kraken Mare, experiences up to a metre of tidal change each day.

Saturn's largest moon may be able to provide enough wind, solar or tidal power to make human life there a possibility — if we can build the tech to exploit it

Some stars in the spheroid are the remains of galactic cannibalism, having come from dwarf galaxies that fell into the spiral galaxy, were ripped apart by powerful tidal forces, and were incorporated into the larger galaxy's structure.

Large cracks could last for a few thousand years, the researchers say, but as Europa rotates relative to Jupiter, tidal stress points in the crust would change, and cracks would periodically freeze shut.

The black hole is so large and massive that tidal effects on the star are negligible, and the star is swallowed whole.

One explanation is that the long fractures in the ice crust experience more stress as gravitational tidal forces push and pull on the moon and so open vents at larger distances from Jupiter.

Material stripped from the galaxy during its collision with a smaller galaxy (seen in the upper left corner of the larger interaction partner) forms a long tidal tail.

On Titan, the largest features may be made by changes in the thickness of its ice shell due to tidal forces from Saturn.

The smaller galaxy's wispy, shredded parts, called a tidal tail, can be seen coming out below the larger galaxy.

«These «hot Jupiters» could not have formed in situ, given the large stellar tidal gravity and radiation fields close to their host stars.