Sentences with phrase «much deeper waters»

Given their potential to both drive down the cost of wind energy and increase the geographical range of feasible sites (floating turbines will be able to operate in much deeper waters than fixed - base turbines), wind energy advocates are beginning to look at larger scale deployment.

So the two Science report authors argue that a sudden shift in ocean salinity that corresponded with the slowdown of global warming could have triggered the movement of the heat to much deeper waters.

The innovative floating approach will allow wind farms to be developed in much deeper waters than conventional offshore wind farms, which are usually placed in water depths of up to 50 meters.

No, for Microsoft to happen, there had to be much deeper waters being dived into.

Dropping in actually on the reef and sandy ridge that extends out to the east into much deeper water.

How much deep water is formed in the Southern Ocean?

As for its competitors, the kind of certifications they come with mean they can even survive up to 1 hour in much deeper water than the Pixel tests show.

Not exact matches

That's exactly the kind of talk CEOs offer before they jump into the deeper waters of a much bigger investment.

Deep - water drilling licences will likely become much harder to come by, not only in the U.S. but in most developed countries, including Canada.

We had an awful lot of rain last season, so much so that the half of our field that was already squishy from an oozing sewer system became immersed in a sea of ankle - deep water.

Much deeper, the outer core is liquid, with a viscosity similar to water.

The study also should marry the two areas Cuomo identified as his most challenging — the environment and terrorism — by evaluating whether the Lloyd aquifer, our deepest and most pure source of water, should be considered a strategic asset that must be reserved as much as possible for emergency use, for example, in the event New York City's water supply is disrupted.

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.

Its dark surface (Ceres reflects just one - fourth as much light as Vesta) indicates a water - rich interior; some researchers even speculate that it could have a mile - deep ocean under a frozen surface.

Badly managed fracking has recently been shown to have contaminated water wells in Wyoming, though this involved a shallow sandstone reservoir rather than much deeper shale.

Their roots can penetrate deep underground to tap hidden water sources, and they produce much of the life - giving water vapour that emanates from forests.

The Glomar Explorer can't be used in water much deeper than 8,000 feet, because it doesn't remain stable against the million - pound pipe.

But engineering of the river to make it better for shipping has caused much of its sediment to flow into deep water.

The lines sink into deeper water where tuna, hake and the much sought after Patagonian toothfish swim.

Based on measurements of Jupiter and the solar wind, which are thought to preserve the hydrogen isotopic ratio of the protosolar nebula, scientists think nebular water had an extremely light hydrogen isotopic signature — much closer to what the Baffin Island lavas suggest about the deep mantle's water.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

However, when temperatures warm over the Antarctic regions, deep waters rise from the floor of the ocean much closer to the continent.

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.

Since much of Beringia, theorized to have been located generally between northwest North America and northeastern Asia, has been under water for more than 10,000 years, it has been challenging to find archaeological and ecological evidence for this «deep history,» as Sicoli calls it.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

With an atmosphere of much less than one percent oxygen, scientists have presumed that there were things living in deep water in the mud that didn't need sunlight or oxygen, but Czaja says experts didn't have any direct evidence for them until now.

The researchers examined sediments from waters only 980 meters deep, which is much shallower than the abyssal plain.

«The weaker overturning circulation brings less naturally CO2 - rich deep waters to the surface, which limits how much of that gas in the deep ocean escapes to the atmosphere.

Last week, lunar scientists made a splash when they announced that three spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 craft and NASA's Cassini and Deep Impact probes — have detected water's spectral signature over much of the moon's surface.

With recent advances in deep - water exploration technology, he adds, videos like this are much more possible, giving us a better idea about what these mysterious creatures actually look like in their deep, dark home.

By measuring the isotopes in all of the most common species, the researchers were able to estimate how much carbon is captured and stored by these deep water fish.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

So much groundwater pumping raises issues, though, as it pushed the water table lower and lower, causing shallower wells to dry up and deeper and deeper wells to be drilled.

The waves that run along shallow continental shelves are much larger than those over the deep ocean, and so the force applied by the standing waves is also larger in shallow water.

«My goal is to understand how much water is stored in the deep Earth.

Wray says the new evidence for water is an encouraging development in the search for life, but he points out that there is much we still don't know — «how deep the water goes, how low the temperature gets and how high the salt concentration gets.

Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA's New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

In this post we will go deep into how Earth got its water (much deeper than in this post from a while back).

The heart beat much more slowly in deep waters and not quite that slowly during active swimming.

Presently, much of the Atlantic Ocean is well oxygenated (Figure 1) relative to the North Indian and Pacific Oceans, where bottom water O2 concentrations are lower because of the biological removal of O2 as thermohaline circulation moves deep waters across ocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface ocean.

Presently the ocean absorbs approximately 25 % of industrial area CO2 emissions, and 93 % of the heat; much of this absorption occurs in deep waters below 200 m (Levin and Le Bris, 2015).

As a result, we are seeing a lot more large whales spread out and much further offshore in deeper water and typically in some deeper diving modes where they can be a little harder to approach and tag.

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

Climate - driven variation affects oceanic communities from surface waters to the much - overlooked deep sea....»

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

It is much like having to push a heavy rock (the ion), from a deep valley (the water), uphill into the oil.

And snowpack isn't the only important water source: deeper groundwater, which is also an component of the region's water supply, takes much longer than a single wet season to replenish.

Clearly much heat is finding it's way down into deeper waters.

Much of the water launched by the fountains of the great deep would have vaporized and slowly formed a thin disk of water vapor aligned with the ecliptic and eventually extending beyond Neptune.