Sentences with phrase «movement of surface water»

Not exact matches

This is derived from movements on the surface of water and turns out to be applicable in many other areas.

the movement of the waters, right on the surface, a stirring coming.

The strike - slip and thrust movements of the fault may drive water from the Red Sea in between the fault and the surface of the igneous block, allowing the two to slip past each other, the scientists suggest.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

This suggests that urban run - off and the below - surface movement of water could be important contributors to the flow of drugs into streams.

Inspired by dynamic shifts in pH due to upwelling — the movement of nutrient - rich water toward the ocean surface — the researchers took urchins from the Santa Barbara Channel and brought them into the lab.

Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh, for example, has published articles with his students in Science and Langmuir describing their successful efforts to direct the movement of water droplets on surfaces.

The goal is to do a complete accounting of the movement of water from the time it hit the surface of a plant and passed through moss and soil, until it flowed out of the basin and into the network of high forest streams on its way to the lowlands.

The researchers added tiny «tracer particles» to the water, which enabled them to see and capture images of the movement and flow near the surface of the coral.

Just as geographers can use the movement of water on the earth's surface to define the borders of a watershed, Tully's team was able to use the movement of galaxies through space to determine the contours of Earth's home supercluster.

At a surface level, FLOW and EBB alludes to the constant rhythm of tidal water, a back and forth movement.

The paintings were not literal renderings of the mountainous and rugged terrain, but instead captured the spartan forms and sculpted surfaces like those shaped by centuries of erosion and movement of wind and water as well as upheavals from tectonic shifts deep within the earth.

«It has been incredible to see how different each work looks depending on where and how it is placed — the movement of light looks like water moving across the surface.»

-- When there are signs of large ground movement, fissures, surface water, there is a high chance the sub-surface utilities, such as water and sewerage piping may have sustained breakages.

The movements of the air and the waters, the extent of the seas, the elevation and the form of the surface, the effects of human industry and all the accidental changes to the terrestrial surface modify the temperatures in each climate.

... The establishment and progress of human societies, the action of natural forces, can notably change, and in vast regions, the state of the surface, the distribution of water and the great movements of the air.

The study also found that the movements of all of the ocean's marine life — from lowly phytoplankton to the largest whales — play a crucial role in bringing cold water from the ocean's depths to the surface.

As other posters have indicated with the point about how ice lost from ice - caps changes the angular momentum, the movement of water and atmosphere over the surface has an impact on the angular momentum and therefore a major ENSO event will show up in a LOD fluctuation.

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Air pollution is rarely linked to water pollution, but the strong links will soon be obvious, just as the surface air movement is influenced by the ocean currents and the temperatures of both.

On top of that, warming increases ocean stratification, which blocks the movement of oxygen - rich surface waters to lower depths.

Global warming affects evapotranspiration — the movement of water into the atmosphere from land and water surfaces and plants due to evaporation and transpiration — which is expected to lead to:

The sequence that produces movement of ocean water is the sun - > wind in the atmosphere - > surface currents in the ocean Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 4

The result is the Trade Winds movement «dragging» warm surface waters towards Asia, that water being replaced by cooler water from the depths off the coast of South America.

In contrast, the oceans lose heat less rapidly, because of the large heat capacity of water, their ability to overturn as the surfaces cool and become negatively buoyant, and the movement of ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio current.

Presumably, the theorized massive movement of heat from shallow surface waters to deep regions of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans remains an active process.

An El Nino is a change in the movement of water that has been warmed with contact with the surface, so that warm water that has been building up at depth over time changes its movement pattern and moves closer to the surface (and to a different horizontal location) where heat is released.

The movement of the Pacific's warm water pulled heat away from the surface waters and this led to the abnormally cool surface temperatures observed during the last ten years.

Minke whales do not display their flukes when diving, but they are active at the surface and can often been seen breaching (leaping out of the water) in a quick, fluid movement.

If you live in a coastal area, you may not be covered for damage caused by storm surge (usually defined as «a rush of water onshore caused by strong winds pushing on the ocean's surface) and / or movements caused by the sea (usually with the exception of tsunamis).