Sentences with phrase «ocean flows as»

Variance and extent have increased since 2000 by cooling and changing wind and ocean flows as the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) attests.

This is an exclusive beach - style 3 bedroom / 2 bathroom apartment cleverly designed with interiors, exteriors and the ocean flowing as one.

Not exact matches

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.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

Above all, understanding human civilisation as an ocean into which many rivers flow and contribute guards against the conceptual possibility of hermetic civilisations destined to come into conflict with one another.

But some of them also wind up as a part of a hidden underground flow that seeps into the ocean through seafloor fissures.

The shelves act as a buttress to the «grounded» ice, helping slow the flow of the ice sheet's glaciers into the ocean.

Just as a precisely timed push on a swing will make it go higher, oceans can fall into a resonance state and sometimes produce significant heat through tidal flow.

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

This image, the competition's first place winner, captures the pattern water makes as it flows from beaches out into the Atlantic 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.

Researchers have been using satellites to trace the path of sewage - and sediment - laden water as it flows toward the Atlantic Ocean.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

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).

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf StreaAs global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Streaas much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Streaas oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

The current isn't much (about 30 milliwatts from an electrode the size of a manhole cover), but it flows indefinitely, and for free — ideal, he suggests, for running low - power seafloor devices, such as ocean - monitoring instruments.

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.»

As a result, the frigid flow plays a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans, and serves as both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that changAs a result, the frigid flow plays a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans, and serves as both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that changas both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that change.

A spin wave can be thought of as similar to an ocean wave, which keeps water molecules in essentially the same place while the energy is carried through the water, as opposed to an electric current, which can be envisioned as water flowing through a pipe, said principal investigator Kang L. Wang, UCLA's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN).

Thanks to the natural circulation pattern, that oxygen would then be carried deeper into the ocean interior, where it might still be detectable years later as it travels along its flow path.

«As more freshwater flows into the Arctic Ocean due to global warming, I think we are going to see it become more brackish,» said Eberle, also curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

If this scenario is accurate, Earth may today hold half as much water in its depths as is currently flowing in oceans on the surface, Panero said — an amount that would approximately equal the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

The deep waters of the modern Arctic flow into the North Atlantic via the Nordic seas, contributing up to 40 percent of the water that becomes North Atlantic Deep Water — known as the «ocean's lungs» for delivering oxygen and salt to the rest of world's oceans.

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

Kapteyn b is represented here as an old and cold ocean planet with a network of channels of flowing water under a thin cloud cover.

Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds, precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean.

On Europa the biggest density contrast is at the rock - ocean interface and we can therefore use gravity anomalies to look for heat flow as a proxy for volcanism.

Scientific and political leaders have identified the need to improve land - based waste management — particularly in rapidly industrializing economies — as the single most important step we can take to reduce the flow of waste into the ocean.

The breakdown of minerals such as pyrite produces sulfate, which then flows down rivers to the oceans.

We also know that Mars once had free - flowing water, too, in the form of lakes and rivers, and potentially oceans as well.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how ocean chemistry affects biology or how the geology on the seafloor affects the physics of flowing water.

As the Arctic warms like crazy, heat flow there slows, thus jet streams slow and are wavier; the same slowing and waviness increase happens with ocean currents.

They slow the flow of ice from the continent into the ocean and act as a buffer, preventing the formation of large cliffs of land ice.

The imprint of SAM variability on the Southern Ocean system is observed as a coherent sea level response around Antarctica (Aoki, 2002; Hughes et al., 2003) and by its regulation of Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow through the Drake Passage (Meredith et al., 2004).

«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean,» Karina Graeter, the lead author of the study as a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Earth Sciences, said in a statement.

As plastic in the world's oceans continues to rise, researchers are pinpointing sources of pollution so that conservation efforts can stem the flow.

The ocean will always ebb and flow, but as mindfulness expert Jon Kabat - Zinn has said, «You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.»

- Finances should flow to investments as soon as possible because the little stream of dollars today, turns into a Net worth ocean when your 60 years old.

Letting the ocean breeze and natural sunlight into the interior is as simple as can be, creating a free - flowing atmosphere that enhances the open - concept design, expanding hosting space throughout the entire property, boundary - free.

On the other hand, during those periods between widespread glaciation, the water had melted from the ice sheets and polar areas, flowed, back into the oceans and sea level was as high or higher than now.

As you explore Hawaii's tropical underwater world, you'll learn how the Big Island got its start 18,000 years ago — when lava flowed into the ocean and created one of the most magnificent coral reefs found anywhere in the Hawaiian Islands.

Villas Las Mareas overlooks the lazy curves of the Las Baulas estuary as it flows into the azure Pacific Ocean.

The warm Indian Ocean flows along its coastline making activities such as snorkelling, diving, surfing and swimming ideal.

A sea breeze, which is caused by the temperature and pressure difference between warm areas inland and the cool air over the ocean, often develops on warm summer days as well, increasing the on - shore flow pattern and maintaining a constant flow of marine stratus clouds onto the coastal areas.