Sentences with phrase «moving eddies»

My thinking is that these linked, fast moving eddies could «suck - up» small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean.»

Able to efficiently harness the energy of the whirlpools, the shapely whisker was set in motion even by slow - moving eddies generated by a faraway «fish.»

Not exact matches

Figuring skin friction, eddy resistance and wave resistance — the three basic deterrents to anything that wants to move forward in water — Stevens announced brightly that if a porpoise wanted to follow an ocean liner at 25 mph for 10 hours, it would have to eat two to three times its own weight during the 10 hours.

Those eddies — the turbulence — suck speed from the middle of the river and move it to where it rapidly decays.

Zweben and co-authors performed computational analysis of the data from the camera, determining the correlations between different regions of the frames as the turbulent eddies moved through them.

She moves a short way upstream and does it all over again, scouring algae off rock, washing silt out of the eddies, aerating gravel.

It had spun clockwise around the edge of the plume and then gradually moved toward the middle, as if caught in a giant eddy.

As the storm moves forward over these eddies, the warm ocean waters below help fuel the storm's intensity through enhanced and sustained heat and moisture fluxes.

Last year, Hurricane Matthew rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to hurricane status as it moved over the Caribbean Sea in the location where a warm ocean eddy exists, and in close proximity to where these measurements were taken for this study two years prior.

«Ocean eddies almost always head to the west, but by pairing up they can move to the east and travel ten times as fast as a normal eddy, so they carry water in unusual directions across the ocean.

Its flow is turbulent, containing eddies and moving at different speeds in different directions.

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microbes.

When one of the Seagliders unexpectedly started moving against the Agulhas Current, the scientists realized that it had become trapped in an eddy of swirling water.

By taking two pictures of dust motes moving through the air and figuring out how far they moved in the time between photos, researchers can determine the speed of the air and any local eddies.

Then the three dogs did stop and eddy, sniffing in the corner of the street wall and the field fenceposts, moving around the boy, ignoring him.

In the same room, opposite the audio installation, a film is projected, titled Maybe one must begin with some particular places (2012), featuring a dancer twisting and furling, as if moved by an eddying current.

Loosely speaking, this is something like the eddies on opposite sides of a global jet swirling in opposite directions -LRB-... and then the position of the jet moves).

The movement drives storms spinning off the polar vortices and surface ocean eddies moving in Ekman spirals towards the coast of the Americas.

It is clear to me, that the variance observed from region to region behave other than the influence of a well mixed gas; rather, the warm and cold spots reflect powerful forces, moving through gigantic masses governed by laws of mixing by eddies and turbulence not even remotely captured by program code.

For example, equatorward - moving weather systems — known as «transient eddies» — fulfill much of the poleward energy export required to balance the net energy input, with the energy transport associated with vertical motion times gross moist stability less important than in the ITCZ.

The temperature differences created eddies, or disturbances that move air back and forth at the same latitude, and those eddies, in turn, accelerated the jet streams like rotating gears driving a conveyor belt.

Although conventionally shown as a narrow current, in fact much of the water moves in broad ocean - spanning sheets and giant eddies.

A ring forms when a meander in a boundary current (or the Antarctic Circumpolar Current) becomes a loop that pinches off (separates) from the main current and moves independently as an eddy.