Sentences with phrase «ocean air for»

It was amazing to be in the crisp ocean air for a few hours, and a great excuse to layer up in a combination of a wool coat and tall boots, that tends to be too warm for San Francisco.

Not exact matches

Like customs brokers, freight forwarders are licensed, but in this case, by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Federal Maritime Commission (for ocean freight).

Thus, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean aboard Air France 23, the idea for Flight 001, a chain of accessories stores invoking the golden age of travel, was born.

Warm ocean waters provide the fuel for hurricanes, and warm air causes the water to evaporate.

Increasing heat is also warming up the ocean, and hotter air holds onto more moisture, increasing the available energy for hurricanes.

Hydrostor's proprietary technology is based on a simple idea: Anchor a low - cost air cavity to the bottom of a lake or ocean floor, and store energy for use when it is most needed.

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

Arriving at the ocean, he is at first dismayed, but with a mighty leap he sails through the air for four days, reaches Ceylon, and finds Sita who, because she had repulsed Ravan's advances, had been confined in an Asoka grove.

Air Canada Centre is also the first arena to be a partner with Ocean Wise, a sustainable program for seafood.

Nature provides the perfect setting for this outdoor dining experience, as a light wind from the Pacific Ocean blows in the air and through the decorative palm trees.

We will breath in the fresh ocean air and create space for new and experienced doulas to grow and thrive.

«We want to reiterate that if the said land is not released for the installation of this vital equipment, the system can shut down and we may not be able to provide Air Traffic Services over the ocean and other portions of the airspace.

FTN, a global provider of full service customs brokerage, ocean and air cargo distribution and North American transportation, will use 33,000 - square - feet of the building for office space, plus 55,000 - square - feet as warehouse.

For a rope cloud to form, the leading edge of the cold air mass must be advancing straight and steady, which can happen only if it is flowing over a smooth, flat surface like the ocean.

Along with the ocean, Venter is also searching for microbes in the air and deep underground.

Ping louder for ocean flights One problem highlighted in the 2009 search for Air France flight 447 was the difficulty a submarine had in hearing its pinger: the batteries ran out before it was found.

Funding for climate research would drop 19 percent, weather and air chemistry research 25 percent and ocean, coastal and Great Lakes research by 49 percent.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government expelled the entire population of the small Indian Ocean archipelago, then promptly leased the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, to the United States for a military air base.

Doug Smith at the UK Met Office fed key data such as ocean temperatures, air pressure and wind speeds for every year from 1960 to 1995 into DePreSys, a model already used to predict weather a decade ahead.

Global climate models need to account for what Meehl calls «slowly varying systems» — how warmer air gradually heats the ocean, for example, and what effect this warming ocean then has on the air.

So it is on Earth's surface: As it rotates and revolves, everything goes along for the ride — trees, oceans, air, us.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

It would help scientists better understand clouds and carbon dioxide exchange between ocean and air, monitor air quality, improve forecasts for harmful algal blooms, and more.

«Mars for example is in the sun's habitable zone, but it has no oceans — causing air temperatures to swing over a range of 100OC.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

Solar power plants in the surrounding sand, already in early construction, will provide electricity for lighting and air - conditioning and for desalinating ocean water.

Rising temperatures, for example, could either increase or decrease biological productivity,» Salawitch says, as well as the emission of certain less - prevalent gases that are exchanged between the air and ocean.

«For example, ocean currents can disperse microorganisms, but there is also evidence that microorganisms travel by air: microbes believed to have originated from the Gobi desert were collected in air samples from the northwestern United States.»

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice shelves, according to an international team of researchers.

But on New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather in preparation for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

The main driver for Arctic sea ice's disappearing act is the rising ocean and air temperatures driven by human greenhouse gas emissions.

To create their estimate, the researchers took the most recent understanding for how rocks, oceans, and air temperature interact, and put that into a computer simulation of Earth's temperature over the past 4 billion years.

Water changes temperature more slowly than the air or land, which means the global ocean heat is likely to persist for some time.

For the first time, these devices, known as ADS - B transponders, will enable air traffic controllers to locate aircraft that are far out over oceans, remote deserts or the poles where there is no radar coverage.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Launching on four legs, the pterosaur would have flapped its wings till it caught these small pockets of warm air rising from ocean or hot land, and then coasted easily on these for several hours.

The team — from Southampton, the University of Cape Town and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research — conducted three research voyages in 2010 investigating ocean productivity in the area affected by ash from Eyjafjallajökull.

Its number - crunching capabilities are used to study ship hydrodynamics and air turbulence, to probe industrial combustion turbines to create cleaner engines, and to understand global ocean circulation, as well as for earthquake simulations and aircraft noise - reduction modeling.

He subsequently developed solvers for cloud and aerosol coagulation, breakup, condensation / evaporation, freezing, dissolution, chemical equilibrium, and lightning; air - sea exchange; ocean chemistry; greenhouse gas absorption; and surface processes.

However, for the globe as a whole, surface air temperatures over land have risen at about double the ocean rate after 1979 (more than 0.27 °C per decade vs. 0.13 °C per decade), with the greatest warming during winter (December to February) and spring (March to May) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

For the change in annual mean surface air temperature in the various cases, the model experiments show the familiar pattern documented in the SAR with a maximum warming in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and a minimum in the Southern Ocean (due to ocean heat uptakOcean (due to ocean heat uptakocean heat uptake)(2)

Using the Saharan Air Layer as a proxy for volcanic ash, the test aircraft will now fly over the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco to prove the equipment can detect the fine particles of sand at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet and a distance of around 100 km.

These are the Simple Ocean Assimilation Data (SODA) scaled with the surface air temperature trends from the National Center for Enviromental Prediction (NCEP) / National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

The ocean, for instance, absorbs some of the extra carbon dioxide from the air.

Not surprisingly, given that the surface ocean is responsible for much of atmospheric warming, ocean warming and global surface air temperatures vary largely in phase with one another.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

Natural changes in winds, air pressures and ocean currents were found to be responsible for more than 80 percent of the observed warming during the 112 years studied.

The warmer ocean waters mean more moisture in the atmosphere for the storm to suck up; the cold air over the continent ensures that moisture falls as snow.