Sentences with phrase «measuring water depth»

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Before crossing a stream, they'll measure the water depth with a branch.

Not exact matches

«Remarkably, the two most easily measured variables, water depth and the physical structure of the reef before disturbance, predicted recovery with 98 % confidence,» Dr Graham says.

The labyrinthine interiors of depth hoar crystals also cause problems for researchers like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Al Rango, who uses microwave - sensing satellites to measure the amount of water locked away in the winter snow cover.

Sensors under the port - side wing measure conductivity (to find the salinity of the water), temperature, and depth, sending the data to processors within the sub.

For two months he measured the changing currents and sand distribution from a point on the shoreline out to a water depth of five meters.

Bone - chilling February temps caused the shattering of tempered glass collection containers, and the occasional failure of necessary instruments like the CTD sensors that measure conductivity, temperature and depth of sea water.

The team tracked bluefin tuna in the wild using archival tags, which measured the depth of the fish, its internal body temperature, and the ambient water temperature.

The tags, which are placed just below the dorsal fins, measure temperature, depth, and light levels of the waters the fish swim in.

They used diffusion - weighted MRI to quantitatively measure the biofilm - depth - resolved diffusion rate for water, which is directly related to biofilm density and permeability.

echo sounding A type of sonar, it's a technique to measure the depth of water to an object or the seafloor.

Boaty can also detect the amount of phytoplankton in the water and measure the depth of the seabed below.

Land Rover's InControl technologies allow everything from a function that measures the depth of the water you're going to try and drive through to accessing almost all the apps on your smartphone.

When sea levels rose at the end of the Ice Age, the once dry cave filled with sea water producing the hole that now measures 1000 feet across with a depth of over 460 feet.

Finch, after floating his boat on Walden Pond, delivered to James Cohan a rope strung with little cards painted the color of the water at each depth he measured to 250 feet.

A fathom is also a unit of measurement approximately six feet in length that is used to measure the depth of water, and a key reference point for the exhibition.

Do you at least measure the water's depth where your child wants to dive, to make sure it will be completely safe for your child to dive before allowing her to do so?

By measuring the levels of magnesium to calcium in the shells of Hyalinea balthica, a one - celled organism buried in those sediments, the researchers estimated the temperature of the middle - depth waters where H. Balthica lived, from about 1,500 to 3,000 feet down.

Unfortunately, measuring the temperature of the water inside a borehole (presumably cased, but not specified) tells you the temperature of the water at that depth.

Measure the temperature of water in a borehole at some depth over 20 meters and I can assure you can not deduce what the surface temperature was from the present water temperature in the borehole.

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.

a) The flux optical depth anomaly is a rough measure the total column density of water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere from year to year.

Assume the accuracy of each thermometer is + / - 5 % (this is climate science, we can assume lots of things), you also have to factor in at least the time of day, day of the year, and depth of the water measured (we are after all talking about global average temperatures).

Of course, technical details like the depth, speed of water required to take away all the heat so one is left measuring only light, would have to be worked out.

The D - tag is also capable of measuring the surrounding waters» temperature and to monitor the manatees» depth, roll, pitch and direction.

NWS NOHRSC has national operational responsibility for modeling and measuring snow depth and snow water equivalent.

Scientists trudged through thick white powder in Grand Mesa and the Senator Beck Basin to measure the depth of snow — and its water content — for the SnowEx campaign.

Although satellites can used for example to obtain spatial distribution of temperature, clouds, water vapour, aerosols in the atmosphere it appears much more difficult to measure the physical characteristics of the oceans for example the distribution of the optical depth of the particles in the oceans.

Fresh water from lower layers surfaces, heated water disappears to the depth where it no longer heats up the air — which is what you measured in this exercise.

A seaman's work include measuring the depth of water, giving information to the crew of the ship and the bridge, handle different types of gear, look for any obstruction in the path of the ship, steer the ship when needed, paint and instruct the cleaning staff of the ship and also take care in the loading and off loading of the cargo.

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