Sentences with phrase «meters of surface water»

The oceans do not compress, so a cubic meter of surface water has the same number of molecules as a cubic meter of water from the deep oceans.

Not exact matches

It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.

The city says errors may have surfaced following the installation of new water meters to replace the outdated ones last fall.

But new data suggest that there are zones of liquid water hundreds of meters below the surface.

Water removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standWater removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standwater standards.

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

But if you turn the water in that beaker into microdroplets, you will get about 3,000 square meters of surface area — about the size of half a football field,» Zare said.

«The surface area atop a one - liter beaker of water is less than one square meter.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

The researchers found 532 wells, or 1.3 percent of those studied, that were fracked about 300 meters or less from the surface — within the depth range of drinking water wells.

Slower, less energetic ones indicate the amount of hydrogen lurking within a meter of the surface, and on the moon, hydrogen is a proxy for water.

Over the years, her team has shown that it's responsible for 5 % of global photosynthesis and depends on an estimated 80,000 genes distributed among hundreds of strains to thrive in nutrient - poor waters ranging from the sea surface to 200 meters down.

But to scientists» surprise, plumes of oil extending several kilometers were floating roughly 1,000 meters beneath the surface, where the toxic compounds are literally washing off the oil and contaminating the water.

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

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In 1998, a Russian - French - U.S. team drilled to within 100 meters of the surface before stopping to avoid contaminating what one researcher calls «the last pristine water on Earth.»

A vast number of animals, including fish, shrimp and squid, live in the ocean's mesopelagic zone — the waters 200 to 1000 meters (660 to 3300 feet) below the surface.

But if you turn the water in that beaker into microdroplets, you will get about 3,000 square meters of surface area - about the size of half a football field,» Zare said.

This does not seem a very large loss rate, but it has taken place relentlessly for more than 2 billion years, and the equivalent water or CO2 lost over this time period is in excess of several meters of liquid water spread over the whole surface of Mars.

And here's one reason: The snippets of DNA that they studied all come from frozen lake water collected tens of meters above the current surface of the lake.

South of Spitzbergen, the oceans have been ice free the past 2 winters, reason being, the warm waters from the Gulf Stream are travelling further north, and closer to the ocean surface, only 25 meters at the last measurement, The ocean temperature has been +2 C instead of -2 C.

Any surface and the first few meters of water would probably be deadly for radiation, but they would also produce a «rain» of oxidants: a substitute for light?

Assuming that Jurassic coral reefs grew in modes similar to those of today, the surface of the reefs would have been only 10 meters or so under water.

Impact craters at many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

A co-author of a paper published Jan. 11 in the journal Science noted that future explorers can probably use the ice as a source of water, given the ice is only one to two meters (3.3 to 6.5 feet) below the surface.

The typical ground temperatures of -70 °C (or colder) in the gully regions is fatal to claims that large volumes of liquid water suddenly «seeped» from several hundred meters below Mars» surface.

«The surface of Mars is so cold — on average -70 ° to -100 °C -LSB--94 °F to -148 °F]-- that any water within 2 or 3 kilometers of the surface, never mind a meter or two, should be permanently frozen, they noted.»

It has a span of 503 meters; it's length including ramps is 1149 meters, it is 49 meters wide and its highest point is 134 meters above the water surface.

Cyclops, Western Australia, for example is one of the biggest and thickest reef breaks in the world, with waves measuring up to 10 metres high, but the reef below is only about 2 meters (6.6 feet) below the surface of the water.

Possible sites include: Bandit Ledge: The gentle hills and ridges of this site support a surprising amount of beautiful cauliflower corals Garden Eel Cove: The slow drop - off ends in a sandy bottom covered with graceful garden eels Anglers: A beautiful archway housing a big family of lionfish High Rock: A massive ridge capped by a pinnacle rising to within 10 feet (approx. 3 meters) of the water's surface Anchor Drag: A maze of canyons, arches small caverns provide enjoyable exploration of the lobsters, crabs, shrimp and puffer fish who live here North Golden Arches: The main attraction is a rock arch with scattered coral heads throughout the area South Golden Arches: A large rock arch with a sandy area, housing numerous marine animals Harlequin: A great spot for a deep dive to see large schools of fish Kaloko Arches: The main attractions here are the unique rock outcroppings and lava formations Turtle Pinnacle: One of best sites to find green sea turtles Eel Cove: Interesting and rapid drop - off for deep diving Thunder Reef: Good spot for viewing deep - water animals West Kaiwi: This dive site is one of the best for observing fish, with lots of coral and a nearby drop - off Please note: This is not an introductory dive.

From the place where the anchor is, the plated sand bottom with some bommies are well covered by soft corals, keep swimming on the right side (north) from a huge single lime rock toward the channel, you will end up in a wonderful cave underwater in 11 meters of water leads up to the surface under rugged lime cliff, suddenly will be heard the voice of roosting of bats clinking on the sealing of the cave.

Once you arrive simply gear up, pull on your booties, wade in to chest deep water, slip on your fins and relax on your short surface swim (50 yards / meters of less) toward the drop off.

This particular room is a one - of - a-kind private floating island with the bedroom sited four meters under the water's surface.

The title Esponja reflects on the one hand on the maritime Porífera, a simple animal species that can be found on the water surface until a depth of 8000 meters.

A longer period of open water with larger areas will allow more mixing of the top 2 - 300 meters, which should increase the surface salinity prior to freeze up, possibly enhancing the effect.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

The resulting reduction in groundwater use would help stabilize the water table, which has fallen from 5 meters below the surface down to 30 meters in parts of the state.

With melt - water lubricating the surface between the glaciers and the rocks on which they rested, ice flows were accelerating, flowing into the ocean at a pace of 2 meters an hour.

We also know that while the ocean surface wasn't anomalously warm (it was still about 30 °C which is fairly normal for that part of the planet), the water up to at least 100 meters bellow the surface was 4 — 5 °C (7 — 9 °F) warmer than average.

So a ocean water thousand of meters deep, if vaporized make makes massive atmosphere and make the surface pitch black, without even considering the clouds reflecting light.

But 10 meters of water per square meter, will make plenty of clouds which would also make it very dark at the surface.

There are those who appear to steadfastly maintain that all thermal radiation is from the surface and the and the convection return flow, which must heat at the dry adiabatic rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters going down — unless it is gobbling up condensed water vapor on the way, and reach the surface before it can be cooled again.

A reduction in UV (ultra violet) light then should have a profound effect on the amount of energy entering the ocean surface waters from the sun extending down to 50 - 100 meters in depth, resulting in cooler ocean temperatures.

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.

The Atlantic annual formation of deep water has the volume of about one meter layer of surface water of the oceans based on a rapid calculation I made.

This hinders the fresh water from reaching the surface, and much of it ends up settling hundreds of meters down.

I think the biggest effect the atmosphere has on climate is 14.7 psi at the surface raises the vaporization point of water enough that can have a global ocean covering 70 % of the surface to an average depth of 4000 meters.

Location: 55 ° S, 90 ° W Water Depth: 4800 meters Mooring Type: Acoustically Linked Surface Mooring with Subsurface Profiler Mooring and Mesoscale Flanking Mooring Pair Description of Infrastructure:

When the convective processes of the atmosphere remove enough water vapor from the oceans to drop sea levels and build polar ice caps, as has happened many times before, the top 35 meters of the oceans where climate models assume the only thermal mixing occurs, must heat up cold ocean water that comes from depths below the original 35 meter depth, removing vast more amounts of heat from the earth's surface and atmosphere.

The warming reached a depth of about 10,000 feet (4,000 meters), interfering with the normal circulation process in which colder surface water descends, taking oxygen and nutrients deep into the ocean.