Sentences with phrase «ocean flows at»

While ECCO2 provides data on the ocean flows at all depths, only surface flows have been visualized.

«Our results conclusively show that ocean flows at small scales, below 10 kilometers, contain significant energy fluctuations to control the initial spread of pollutant clouds,» said UM Rosenstiel School Professor and CARTHE Director Tamay Özgökmen.

Not exact matches

ecclesiastes 1:7 says that all the streams of water flow to the ocean yet it does not overflow... but there was no way for people to know this at this time Really?

Ultra-strong flexible pipes, remote flow - control valves, and vibration - resistant drill rigs can protect the prospecting equipment against corrosion, thermal shock, and crushing water pressure at the ocean floor.

Tides raise the ocean by 30 feet, reversing the flow of freshwater at the river mouth, and winds blow at up to 35 mph.

«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.»

«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.

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.

Sharks are at the top of the ocean food chain, Meyer noted, making them an important part of the marine ecosystem, and knowing more about these fish helps scientists better understand the flow of energy through the ocean.

At a first glance, the evidence that not all of the meltwater flows into the ocean via the large Asian currents and causes the sea level to rise seems positive.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

Either because there's flow through the subsurface between the seas or because the channels between them allow enough liquid to pass through, the oceans on Titan are all at the same elevation.

Scientists working off the California coast use chemical - sniffing probes, robotically driven subs, and seafloor - tethered temperature sensors to watch flows of lava pave over a once - thriving ecosystem at hydrothermal vents several kilometers below the ocean's surface.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

«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.

Another reason to study the AMOC in the subpolar North Atlantic is that the rugged ocean floor in this region carves the current pathways up into tortuous tributaries, unlike the relatively smooth flows at 26 ° N. OSNAP's stationary moorings can not trace these meandering pathways, so the array is supplemented by drifting floats.

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.

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.

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

Taking into account the dwarf planet's size and interior heat flow, which is around two percent that of Earth's, the team discovered that the temperatures and pressures at play below Sputnik Planitia could give rise to a viscous, slushy subsurface ocean of water ice.

They calculate changes in heat flows, moisture changes, and other factors in three - dimensional grid boxes — and do so in Earth's atmosphere, at its surface, and beneath the surface of the oceans — with grid boxes interacting with their neighbors.

Increased warming of the cool skin layer (via increased greenhouse gases) lowers its temperature gradient (that is the temperature difference between the top and bottom of the layer), and this reduces the rate at which heat flows out of the ocean to the atmosphere.

One year without a net loss also doesn't buck the long - term trend of Greenland losing ice, both from surface melt and from ocean waters eating away at glaciers that flow out to sea.

Episode 61g lava flow continues entering the ocean at Kamokuna where a small lava delta has been growing since late March proceeding the January 1, 2017 26 acre bench collapse & the 3 month long lava firehose event.

Lava tubes can also be extremely long; one tube from the Mauna Loa 1859 flow enters the ocean about 50 kilometers (31 mi) from its eruption point, and the Cueva del Viento — Sobrado system on Teide, Tenerife island, is over 18 kilometers (11 mi) long, due to extensive braided maze areas at the upper zones of the system.

But visitors must pay careful attention to the day's tide tables; when the water is at its highest, the hot spring flow has little impact on the ocean's natural temperature (and the shape of the rock barrier can occasionally lead to dangerously rough waves).

At the northern end of the peninsula the cliffs and hills become lower, disappearing entirely in Ocean Beach and the Midway area, where the San Diego River flows.

It flows steeply west and south from McWay Canyon, high in California's Central Coast Range, and spills into the Pacific Ocean at Waterfall Cove after flowing over scenic McWay Falls.

Incorporating flowing curves evocative of the winds and the ocean, Hawaiian's spacious Premium Cabin features 18 lie - flat leather seats that fold into 180 - degree beds at a roomy 20.5 inches wide and 76 inches long.

The Indonesian throughflow Looking at the the great ocean map of how all the currents flow there is a pattern: in the northern hemisphere the currents are rotating clockwise, and in the southern hemisphere they rotate anti-clockwise.

You understand the «island life» and you can rest, relax, and look at the ocean and go with the traffic's flow.

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Ps — the folks @ the nusa dua bar and grill are the good guys, same with the local warungs at pantai Geger (and the seaweed farmers) The Hotel MULIA has breeched the 100 metre Law, and developed up to the waters edge and beyond with ungly man made creek (that stops public access to the beach)..., for their stormwater??? drain into the ocean and an ugly unatural rock groyne to keep the natural flow of sand away from their septic / rancid manmade creek

Set at the villa's centre, just behind the 25 - metre pool, the open - plan living area features floor - to - ceiling glass doors that slide open fully to let the ocean breezes flow through.

The tidal inlet at Bolsa Chica Wetlands, a multi-million dollar project, has helped restore this wetlands to its earlier state in which fresh salt water ebbs and flows daily from the ocean into the wetlands.

Set right at the ocean's edge, the stunning scene flows over the wide green lawn right out to the turquoise sea and beyond to Anguilla and the poetic mountains of St Martin.

At the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants, from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progresAt the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants, from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progresat all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progresat all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progress.

Also, there is some evidence that what happens at the front of such glaciers can affect the «back» (inland) parts of the glaciers increasing glacial flow toward the ocean.

After all, if average surface temperature is 15 C, wouldn't you expect land and ocean below the surface to equilibrate at roughly that temperature (with a slightly rising gradient to account for the flow of Earth's internal heat)?

If you want to explain the hiatus on the basis of heat flow from the atmosphere to the ocean within a period of one or two years, you have to explain how the laws of physics are cancelled at the same time.

The other is the recognition that warming ocean temperatures at the grounding line for the glaciers is driving a really strong flow and thus melting response.

Could this at some point lead to embedded «tropical cyclone» development within the core of such a system even outside the tropics and perhaps even removed from the ocean if a sufficient stream of moisture is flowing in the atmosphere?

Their observations were that the region of lightly grounded ice at the glacier terminus is extending upstream, and the changes inland are consistent with the effects of a prolonged disturbance to the ice flow, such as the effects of ocean - driven melting.

The state of the Earth System (a single system at the planetary level) also involves the oceans, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and very important processes like the surface energy balance and the flows and transformation of elements.

The massive water system is thought to stretch for 3,700 miles across the Amazon basin with an average width of about 200 miles, flowing west to east into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate of 350 feet a year.

eadler2 January 10, 2015 at 5:54 pm ... When ocean surface temperatures cool, due to a La Nina, the warmer surface water is mixed deeper into the ocean and cooler ocean water flows along the surface of the Pacific.

Once they are gone, that can cause the pent - up ice behind the shelves to flow out into the oceans, at a much faster rate.

With melt - water lubricating the surface between the glaciers and the rocks on which they rested, ice flows were accelerating, flowing into the ocean at a pace of 2 meters an hour.

In the case of oceans the energy does penetrate the surface layers and is often carried away for eventual release elsewhere and at another time, depending on the ocean currents and other internal oceanic mechanisms such as the flow of the Thermohaline Circulation with a period of more than 800 years for a full circuit.

While the individual flows are relative huge, the fact that oceans and vegetation are each opposite makes that the influence in the atmosphere is resticted: 16 ppmv in Barrow, 8 ppmv at MLO, 2 ppmv at the south pole.