Sentences with phrase «ocean flow in»

I the answer is yes, then you can think of he ice pack being sculpted by the vectorial ocean flow in the same way sand dune are.

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Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

This is a direct strategic and financial benefit to Method, but there are also cost savings to society in the reduction in the billions of tons of plastic flowing into our landfills and oceans each year.

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

The half - moon design of the hotel is eye - catching and functional, maintaining the ocean vista as the prime focal point, with the three - story high open - air grand entrance having that same effect — drawing your eye right to the royal blue ocean ebbing and flowing in the not - so - far distance.

This traditional Pali design has curves that flow like ocean waves and cottage - style beadboard paneling and inspired the name Marina since it means «of the sea» in Italian.

If all of Shedd's 25,000 member households — and the people in their networks — take the plastic pledge, we'll go a long way toward stopping the flow of single - use plastic into the oceans.

So rather than thinking of competing and separate civilizations, we should think in terms of only one human civilization (one human story), comprised of multiple geo - cultural domains that contain sub-cultures, much like an ocean into which many rivers flow.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

When salty ocean water flows through the magnetic field, an electric current is generated and this, in turn, induces a magnetic response in the deep region below Earth's crust — the mantle.

Three storms that raged near Bermuda in 1995 boosted the flow of CO2 into the air over part of the Atlantic Ocean by more than half, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

Changes in mass, rather than height, control how the ice shelves and associated glaciers flow into the ocean,» Paolo said.

«The new data set will allow us to check if our ocean models can correctly represent changes in the flow of warm water under ice shelves,» he added.

The floating platforms of ice that ring the coast are thinning, glaciers are surging toward the sea, meltwater is flowing across the surface, fast - growing moss is turning the once shimmering landscape green and a massive iceberg the size of Delaware broke off into the ocean in July of 2017.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.

Changes in flow patterns of warm Pacific Ocean air from the south were driving earlier spring snowmelt, while decreasing summer sea ice had the greatest influence on later onset of snowpack in the fall.

«Across the globe, the mountain glaciers influence ecosystem processes like stream flow, nutrient delivery and primary production in the ocean.

Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter's moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the «wrong» place.

«Very old ice probably exists in small isolated patches at the base of the ice sheet that have not yet been identified, but in many places it has probably melted and flowed out into the ocean.»

According to Hassanzadeh, the same vertical flow could explain why oceanic vortices, such as those formed near the Straits of Gibraltar, can last for years in the Atlantic Ocean.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Their vertical flow plays a role in the ocean ecosystem by lifting nutrients to the surface.

But there may be a way to cut drag force by almost 30 %, according to computer simulations of turbulent ocean - water flows reported in the 19 May issue of Science by mechanical engineer Yiqing Du of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and applied mathematician George Karniadakis of Brown University.

In recent years, the flow of these glaciers into the ocean has largely accelerated (red), which exacerbates melting.

Near Larsen C's edge is the Gipps Ice Rise, a rocky bump in the landscape that blocks the flow of ice into the ocean.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

So he set out sensors designed to track water flow along the ocean floor, changes in temperature, and the movement of the crust.

«Hurricanes almost always form over ocean water warmer than about 80 degrees F. in a belt of generally east - to - west flow called the trade winds.

In fact, the water around such animals flows with their go, new research has found, suggesting tiny swimmers may have a big impact on ocean mixing.

Most Antarctic glaciers flow straight into the ocean in deep submarine troughs, the grounding line is the place where their base leaves the sea floor and begins to float.

On a planet covered with an ocean, the water can't all flow in the same direction, say east to west, everywhere, without hitting a snag.

In today's ocean, nutrients are brought up to the surface around Antarctica but then move north and eventually flow into the low latitudes, supporting the plankton and fish populations there, Moore said.

In recent years, melting sea ice has allowed more of the Pacific water to flow through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean.

Acorn worms are marine creatures that live on the ocean floor and feed by filtering a steady flow of sea water through slits in the region of their gut between mouth and esophagus.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Pere Masqué, also co-author of the study, adds that, «in addition to nutrients, SGD can play a crucial role as a source of other dissolved compounds flowing into the Mediterranean Sea, as well as in all the oceans worldwide, such as carbon, iron and other micronutrients, given the magnitude of the calculated fluxes and the high concentration of these compounds in groundwater.»

The floating ice in the channel has ample room beneath it for ocean water to flow in.

Principle topics of the ocean margin systems workshop were microbial systems in sedimentary environments, fluid flow and subsurface material transport, margin building / regulating processes, and benthic population dynamics and relationships to sedimentary settings.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.

Yet Flores lies to the south of Sulawesi — and strong ocean currents in the area flow predominantly from north to south.

«There may be a large fraction of grazing that is being done by mixotrophs, so it's potentially very significant in terms of the flow of carbon in the ocean and it should be quantified.»

Faster flow is more turbulent, and in this turbulence more heat is mixed into AABW from shallower, warmer ocean layers — thus warming the abyssal waters on their way to the Equator, affecting global climate change.

The warm ocean water presently melting Totten Glacier — East Antarctica's largest glacier, which flows from the Aurora Basin — could be an early warning sign, said co-lead author Amelia Shevenell, an associate professor in the University of South Florida College of Marine Science.

It accumulates in an underground cave system and flows into the ocean unused.

We will measure how fast the streams flow, how turbulent they are, and how they respond to changes in winds over the Southern Ocean.

Scientists believe the area is a hot spot in part because nutrients and larvae flow in on ocean currents from Antarctica and South America.

In a finding offering another sea - level rise warning, scientists yesterday reported the existence of deep, canyon - like valleys in the bedrock underneath the Greenland ice sheet that could facilitate the extensive flow of ice into the oceaIn a finding offering another sea - level rise warning, scientists yesterday reported the existence of deep, canyon - like valleys in the bedrock underneath the Greenland ice sheet that could facilitate the extensive flow of ice into the oceain the bedrock underneath the Greenland ice sheet that could facilitate the extensive flow of ice into the ocean.