Sentences with phrase «major ocean areas»

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Looking at the locations of 1.5 billion lightning strokes from 2005 to 2016, the team found nearly twice as many lightning strokes on average over major routes ships take across the northern Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climOcean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climocean that have similar climates.

Under Obama the CEQ is moving forward with plans formulated during his predecessor's tenure for a U.S. policy on oceans — from newly protected areas to reconciling competing authorities and laws — along with continuing the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate as a way to address global greenhouse gas emissions.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

In addition to the high diversity of endemic species, plants and animals that are abundant in Okinawa's corals, the area is also the site of the confluence of two major currents in the Pacific Ocean.

If Earth is now locked into many feet of ocean rise, it would be enough to flood major metro areas.

And I live on the Oregon Coast, which is a major tourist area and Highway 101 is the major highway out here that runs along the Pacific Ocean and right through the center of our little town.

This grand resort is located on Ocean Boulevard in the heart of Myrtle Beach and just a short drive away from the airport, the Convention Center, major highways, and all the attractions the area has to offer.

MAJOR TOURIST DESTINATION IN BALI - Uluwatu Temple - Cliff - top temple with spectacular ocean views -(30 km away)- Tanah Lot Temple - The coastal temple of Tanah Lot, perched on a rock at the edge of the shore line -(17 km away)- Denpasar - Bali's capital and main business & government offices area -(20 km away)- Ubud - Beautiful landscape of rice fields, art galleries, sacred monkey forest, craft and jewelries -(35 km away)- Kuta - Busy tourist area, great shopping and night life -(10 km away)- Nusa Dua - Masterfully planed tourist area famous for its white sandy beach, golf course, convention and exclusive retails complex -(28 km away)- Besakih Temple - Located on the slopes of Mount Agung, often referred to as the «mother temple» -(85 km away)- Rice Paddies at Jatiluwih -(50 km away)- Sacred Spring and Palace at Tampaksiring -(40 km away)- Padang Padang Beach - famous surfing spot for professional surfer -(30 km away) ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Bali's Airport is listed as «Denpasar» (DPS) which is the name of the island's capital.

Ocean Hunter III sails to the Peleliu area and we dive some of the following divesites: Peleliu Wall, Peleliu Corner, Peleliu Coral Garden, Orange Wall, Peleliu Expressway, White Beach, Yellow Wall, Peleliu Cut, etc For those who are interested we can offer a land tour on the island of Peleliu which was a major battlefield during WWII.

After I read the Hatun et al paper I thought the major point of the paper was that ocean circulation and the subpolar gyre is an important but little understood factor in the THC and more research in the area was needed.

Pew is pleased that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recognized the major bycatch problem with bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known spawning area in the western Atlantic Ocean.

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

An apparently small change in just one aspect of the ocean's behaviour can produce major climate variations over large areas of the earth.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

The review is focused on three major factors: the inputs of freshwater into the system, such as rivers and precipitation; how and where freshwater is stored and transported in the Arctic Ocean; and the factors that remove freshwater from the area.

Deep ocean currents occasionally push through the warm surface layer in the south eastern Pacific in one of the major areas for upwelling on the planet.

Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).

South of Taiwan in the ocean area separating the island from the northern Philippines could be a major area for development of renewable energy.

Another indicator of intensifying global warming: The area of Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice, a major influencer of weather for the Northern Hemisphere, continued its multi-year shrinking trend.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is looking to sell more offshore wind development zones facing Massachusetts later this year, and zones facing New York by the end of 2019 — two of the most enticing areas in the whole of the Americas for offshore wind given their proximity to major cities like New York and Boston, and their relatively shallow water depths.

One of the emerging areas of major concern is the amount of heat rise that is stored on the ocean's top layer.

A new study in the Arctic north shows that water at the higher latitudes are undergoing as serious changes as other areas, but they're changing at an even faster rate.Physorg writes that researchers from nine European countries have turned a coal mine village off the coast of Ny - Aalesund, just shy of 750 miles from the North Pole, into a laboratory site during July in a major effort to understand how ocean acidification is altering the northern water.

This all seems to point to some major change in the ocean overturning circulation having occurred in this run, resulting in the cold ocean anomaly south of Greenland and substantial surface cooling in most areas.

These space junk cleanup concepts could potentially help to clear some of the debris which is currently littering the area around Earth, but many of them still have one major drawback - they tend to focus on getting the junk to come back to Earth to land in our oceans, which have enough problems without the added debris.

Located in the East Bay Area of the Pacific Ocean, its economy as a major port city with one of the country's most ethnically diverse populations has resulted in a show of urban muscle pushing it into the 21st Century.