Sentences with phrase «ocean areas»

Light blues and greens in ocean areas indicate areas of low ice concentration.

Do you have any idea why a change in land use can lead to a change in forcing over ocean areas?

Although the report has been withheld from the public, nearly 100,000 comments were received with 99 percent in favor of retaining the existing boundaries of the protected ocean areas.

With very little land area to soak up the sun, the ARM site measurements gathered here were expected to emulate the larger ocean area.

The medium - scale power plant will now be tested in different coastal conditions, in order to show that it can operate in different ocean areas.

There have been many cores taken, although far fewer than in ice free ocean areas.

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The research has been the basis for a new rogue wave model that could be used to identify ocean areas where nonlinear effects could give rise to the waves.

This week, Arctic sea ice extent - that is, the total ocean area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent - was at 1.96 million square miles.

The only ocean area with record cold temperatures was east of the Drake Passage near the Antarctic Peninsula, an area that has been much cooler than average since late 2013.

Keith Minto says: «Interesting, Bob, as this region being relatively shallow with close island chains, would provide some resistance to flow compared to deeper water, restricting the volume entering the eastern Indian Ocean area...»

Based on ocean area, the Gulf of Maine — a productive fishing area in New England — heated faster than 99.9 percent of the global ocean over

The study is the first to develop a plan to fulfill all of a state's transportation, electric power, industry, and heating and cooling energy needs with renewable energy, and to calculate the number of new devices and jobs created, amount of land and ocean areas required, and policies needed for such an infrastructure change.

Rather, in addition to massive ice sheets covering the continents, parts of the planet (especially ocean areas near the Equator) could have been draped only by a thin, watery layer of ice amid areas of open sea.

Coral Reef Watch produces maps like this for ocean areas around the world.

But we also thought that this did not apply to ocean areas covered by ice, because the ice was considered impenetrable.

«It is the first time we have, literally, a smoking gun, showing over pristine ocean areas that the lightning amount is more than doubling,» said Daniel Rosenfeld, an atmospheric scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not connected to the study.

An improved understanding of how rogue waves originate could lead to improved techniques for identifying ocean areas likely to spawn them, allowing shipping companies to avoid dangerous seas.

While polar oceans make up only 10 percent of the global ocean area, they strongly influence Earth's activities.

That simplifies the discussion as then we can estimate \ (2 \ sigma \ approx 2 -LCB- \ sqrt -LCB- V / (N - 1)-RCB--RCB- \), where N is given by the number of uncorrelated Atlantic ocean areas between 20 ° N and 20 ° S. With a correlation length of ∼ 10 — 15 ° we obtain a rough estimate of N ≈ 12 for the tropical Atlantic sector.

By analogy, a warmer world wouldn't be rainier (or cloudier); it's an imperfect analogy, because rain isn't absolutely correlated with cloudiness, and lateral transport of energy by ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global warming

Still, the process is «a laudable start in employing a scientifically rigorous methodology to identify those special ocean areas that deserve greater protection,» says conservation scientist Richard Steiner, a consulting researcher in Anchorage, Alaska.

Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter our beaches, but accumulate in open - ocean areas such as the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch.»

But Kristjánsson said their result could be explained by a monsoon circulation that shifts to land when only ocean areas get cooled down.

The vast ocean area and harsh environment presents a challenge for observing systems, but new sensors, materials, battery technology, and more efficient electronics could increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and longevity of ocean - observing instruments.

«This is the first time, to my knowledge, that a group [has] tried to give an overview of all the major ocean areas,» he says.

In contrast, roughly one - quarter of the 207 sites on the advisory panel's list are in open ocean areas (see here, click on UNEP / CBD / SBSTTA / 18 / L.9).

Indonesian and U.S. scientists believe that investigating previously unexplored ocean areas will yield new phenomena and provide information that will improve our understanding of ocean ecosystems, ocean acidification and climate change impacts.

Most ocean areas have warmed.

Collecting this data at the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site located on the western edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater ocean area.

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Built in 2001 Siladen Resort & Spa is an exclusive boutique dive resort located on Pulau Siladen, a lush tropical island in the heart of the Bunaken National Marine Park, a protected ocean area known worldwide for the richness of its waters and epicentre of global marine biodiversity.

Figure 7u - 7 shows the tropical and subtropical ocean areas where hurricanes typically form on our planet.