Sentences with phrase «more shallow oceans»

There were more shallow oceans then which allowed higher SST's to exist.

Not exact matches

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

Next, he wrote a simple aqueous geochemistry model to calculate how much of these gases would have been dissolved in shallow lakes and reservoirs — environments that would have been more conducive to concentrating life - forming reactions, versus vast oceans, where molecules could easily dissipate.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

Whereas the nodules are scattered across the deep abyssal plains of the oceans, hundreds of miles from shore and typically three miles or more below the surface, many of the sulfide deposits are close to a coastline; also, they are always on undersea mountains and therefore located in much shallower water.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

Faster flow is more turbulent, and in this turbulence more heat is mixed into AABW from shallower, warmer ocean layers — thus warming the abyssal waters on their way to the Equator, affecting global climate change.

In contrast to more common shallow and deep earthquakes, a subduction zone quake will generate a destructive tsunami, a series of waves up to 30 feet (10 m) high that will hit the Cascadia coast and travel across the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska, Hawaii and Asia.

We have more than 60 dive sites on the regular Small Hope Bay Lodge dive schedule, including colorful shallow reefs, coral gardens, wreck dives, breathtaking blue holes and stunning wall dives at the edge of the continental shelf, where the Tongue of the Ocean plunges to 6,000 feet.

The port of Coralview Island is little more than a section of the beach whose crystalline shallows are enclosed by sand - banks that form a small rectangular inlet of the South Pacific Ocean.

Calm waters lie over the shallow ocean bed like blue glass, and you will be hard - pressed to find a more beautiful stretch of beach anywhere in the world.

The beach drops of fairly steeply into a vast protected lagoon offering shallow and safe water for swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, and sailing, whereas offshore the reef soaks up the full force of the ocean swells and there are numerous surf spots to be found here and enjoyed by the more experienced surfers.

The beach drops of fairly steeply into a vast protected lagoon offering shallow and safe water for swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, and sailing, whereas offshore the reef soaks up the full force of the ocean swells and there are numerous surf spots to be found here and enjoyed by the more experienced surfers.Nusa Dua is for the more affluent tourists, and especially suits business conferences and honeymooners.

And shouldn't the relative T - difference even increase in the future as shallower coastal waters heat up more quickly than deeper ocean water (except probably in upwelling areas)?

Ocean waters around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 50 years, but in addition to that, the region's shallow seas are also heating up, more quickly than others.

Due to the Antarctic Refrigerator Effect, the deep oceans continued to cool, and the thermocline that separates warm surface water from cooler deep waters became increasingly more shallow.

By obtaining a more high - resolution map of the ocean floor below the glaciers, they were able to detect an unmistakable cavity beneath the Pine Island Glacier and a slightly shallower depression beneath Thwaites Glacier.

Smaller but still large methane hydrate amounts below shallow waters as in the Arctic Ocean are more vulnerable; the methane may oxidize to CO2 in the water, but it will still add to the long - term burden of CO2 in the carbon cycle.

And temperature anomalies, thermal stresses, and the coral bleaching they provoke are often much more pronounced in shallow reef systems than in the surrounding ocean.

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.

It doesn't even appear to be enough to raise the temperature of the shallow surface layer by more than a fraction of a degree to say nothing of imparting any significant warmth to the other 90 % of the volume of the global ocean below the thermocline (400 + meters deep).

Looking at it from this perspective it would be quite thermodynamically supportable to see how the deeper oceans are storing even more as the entire flow is backing up from shallow to deeper oceans.

I think there are several AGW factors & other natural factors that go into higher Mexican Gulf SST, and we need to consider all of them — more shallow waters being heated more, & more rapidly than deep seas; the slowing of the thermo - haline ocean conveyor from fresh water pouring into the North Atlantic, leaving hot waters more stuck in place in the south.

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.

The Arctic Ocean may be a special case, because of the shallower stability zone due to the colder water column, and because warming is expected to be more intense in high latitudes.