Sentences with phrase «like sea surface»

If the heat input is not entirely from insolation then the problem is like the sea surface temperatures, a lot deeper.

Steven Mosher: When you can match things like sea surface salt and ocean circulation, and ocean acidification with the model, when you find a force which can produce the kind of near instaneous response that you need, then you are onto something.

More subtle effects are seen from variables like sea surface temperature and net primary production.

In the case of ORAS4, this includes ocean temperature measurements from bathythermographs and the Argo buoys, and other types of data like sea surface height and surface temperatures.

In section 4.5, the authors point out the need to simulate a number of features realistically and the model does not really do them very well, especially basic things like sea surface salinity.

I wonder what would happen if the same approach was applied to other climate metrics, like sea surface temperature, water vapor feedback strength, and precipitation - evaporation changes.

Not exact matches

Thou shalt not, He meaneth, become like unto such men, who are desperately wicked, and are already condemned to death, just as these fishes alone are accursed and swim in the depths, not swimming on the surface like the rest, but dwell on the ground beneath the deep sea.

His life was anathema to the pharisees... laying down absolute law is like trying to paint the surface of the sea... MacArthur is under grace though... let's hope he gives away the grace and mercy he's received.

Then in November, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released pictures like this one from an expedition that found coral coated in black gunk 4,500 feet below the sea surface.

The radar instrument observed a glint, indicating an extremely smooth surface like that observed from Titan's hydrocarbon seas.

Later in the spring, Widmer tells me, «we would expect the sea lions to be ripping the top and bottom fins off the molas and throwing them around like Frisbees, skipping them on the surface.

I have read that people drown in seas like these because there's so much wind - whipped water in the air that even if you can keep your head above the surface, you can not draw a breath.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Beyond human activity, tropical sea surface temperatures further back in time are affected by volcanic eruptions, changes in the intensity of sunlight and natural events like El Niño.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

... [It will be] like a sea - surface temperature map, except it's whale occurrence.

Pellets are often found in the stomach content of seabirds like fulmars, which feed from the surface of the sea.

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is related to sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean and, like El Niño, it affects weather far away.

Other scientists at Goddard are investigating ways to forecast the ebbs and flows of nutrients using the center's supercomputers, incorporating data like winds, sea surface temperatures, air pressures and more.

Sea otters live offshore in forests of kelp — huge, yellow - brown, rubbery seaweed reaching from the sea floor to the surface, like tall treSea otters live offshore in forests of kelp — huge, yellow - brown, rubbery seaweed reaching from the sea floor to the surface, like tall tresea floor to the surface, like tall trees.

Looking something like Egyptian pyramids surrounded by an undulating sea of sand, this microscopic image shows the surface of a silicon solar cell.

The results launched a hunt for life's origins that's now uncovering these building blocks in surprising places, like the surface of comets and in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

«It would be like trying to predict El Niño with a sophisticated atmospheric model, but with the Sea Surface Temperatures taken from external, independent projections by, for example, the United Nations,» said Kalnay.

There are strong competing effects such as changes in the large - scale atmospheric circulation, sea surface temperature changes like El Niño and La Niña and the dynamics of westerly storm tracks that all interact at the mid-latitudes,» said Stanford co-author Matthew Winnick who contributed to the study with fellow doctoral student Daniel Ibarra.

Sea surface temperature data since 1882 document large El Niño - like patterns following four out of five big eruptions: Santa María (Guatemala) in October 1902, Mount Agung (Indonesia) in March 1963, El Chichón (Mexico) in April 1982 and Pinatubo in June 1991.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

Even the deepest parts of the ocean — with pressures up to 1000 times that at the surface — are buzzing with shrimp - like creatures called amphipods, as well as sea cucumbers, nematodes and other worms, and bacteria.

Like Earth, it has a thick nitrogen - suffused atmosphere and rainwashed surfaces carved with rivers, canyons and seas.

If you were soaring above the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, you'd see mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, but you might also run into a monsoon - like rainstorm.

Like a skin, the sea - surface microlayer separates the ocean from the atmosphere.

A well - known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg / Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren't all coherent either).

Because it is far from the Sun, Titan is extremely cold (surface temperature of about minus 178 Celsius (minus 289 Fahrenheit), allowing a hydrocarbon rain that may form gasoline - like seas.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Use the ground or surface from the original 3 N64 games» boards for the matter of spaces, like the ocean floor for Deep Blooper Sea or the coastal beaches for Pirate Land.

While a very few live in tube - like structures, most live on the surface of the sea floor, attaching to hard surfaces.

Shark Point and Anemone Reef are pinnacle like rock formations with Shark Point breaking the surface and Anemone Reef beginning about 5 meters below it, and both sites are sea life magnets, and shouldn't be missed!

Coral reefs can grow anywhere there is a hard foundation like limestone sea floors or sunken ships that are close enough to the surface of the water to allow access to sunlight.

The cut itself is about 9m deep and the occasionally strong tidal currents of Ambergris Caye provide a constant stream of food for the waiting filter feeders like the gorgonian sea fans and sponges that adorn the walls of the reef, which rises to the surface on either side sheltering turtles, crabs, morays and hundreds of small reef fish.

Bobbing like a cork in a kayak, half under and half above the surface of the sea, Californian Janet Zuhse pointed to cruise ship in the distance steaming down the Inside Passage from Alaska.

Just like a terrestrial forest, the kelp is a teeming three - dimensional realm, extending from the sea floor to the surface, and to dive the kelp is to soar weightlessly through that undersea forest.

Flat calm seas made us feel like we were running on a mirror with humpbacks rising up from the surface with a mighty breath.

Rain only has a minimal effect on the way your car handles (although it does make the road surface look a bit like a sea lion's back) but for those wondering if Horizon 2 is too «My First Forza» for them, put the steering in simulation mode, turn off traction control and ABS, and you've got a racing game that's perfectly pitched for those who don't want to powerslide round every corner at 120mph but also like a bit of a challenge.

Across its expansive surface Untitled unveils the complexity of Still's oeuvre as he brings together divergent areas of color, creating a palpable sense of tension as large sea of deep blue tussles for supremacy with subtle passages of lighter pigment as a vertical expanse of scorching red, spreads across the surface like a trail of molten lava.

Every three minutes, a grayish model of the Biennale's Giardini, with their characteristic national pavilions, rises dripping from the surface like some sea monster, emerging for 30 seconds then returning into the opacity of the pool.

The paintings» swirling surfaces of yellows, grays, and sea greens felt like vortexes of pure expression, tapping into the mystical power of painting that great artists like Sigmar Polke espoused — but with a new quality of openness and warmth.

For him the circular motifs were «structures that floated to the surface in my memory like life preservers floating in after a storm at sea»

The curling top lip of the bronze is like a representation of a breaking wave while the green and white patina of the inner surface recalls the colour of the sea and surf.

A subset of Earth System Models (ESMs) project that El Niño - like conditions will progressively increase in coming decades as sea - surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific warm, implying increased drought and forest dieback in the Amazon.

Like almost all historical climate data, ship - board sea surface temperatures (SST) were not collected with long term climate trends in mind.