Sentences with phrase «ocean hundreds of metres»

Over time, the moon should have built up an ethane ocean hundreds of metres deep.

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In 2015, James Head at Brown University and Michael Carr at the US Geological Survey estimated that the equivalent of a global ocean a few hundred metres deep was needed to explain all the geological features that look like they were formed by water.

And even though it misses out on an ocean view, its only about one hundred metres to the sea — We love it, and it's one of our top picks in Tulamben.

You then have a very pleasant walk through some casuarina trees before you come to a platform almost one hundred metres above the sea with sensational panoramic views of the Great Southern Ocean.

It's because the deep ocean (the majority of it) is colder (often far colder) than the upper few hundred metres at most places.

So although warm water is reaching the continental shelves, and creating some melting, the overall effect is to deliver a cold freshwater layer to the top hundred metres or so of the surrounding ocean.

Unsuspected before the invention of sonar, every night after dark, in many parts of the ocean, billions of small creatures move vertically from the forever dark deeps, upwards to within a couple hundred metres of the surface, sometimes less.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

If the 1.441 mm depth had warmed by 0.700 C same as the ocean - air interface then oceans would gain no heat, but the massive colder oceans below will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.697 C and only when the entire ocean has warmed by 0.700 C in a few thousand years will it let that 1.441 mm depth warm the final 0.003 C and stop heat gain with 4,100 ZettaJoules of heat having been added to the oceans, enough to melt 13,666,666 cubic kilometres of ice.

«Formal attribution studies now suggest that it is likely that anthropogenic forcing has contributed to the observed warming of the upper several hundred metres of the global ocean during the latter half of the 20th century -LCB- 5.2, 9.5 -RCB-»

In that respect it is unlike soar radiation which penetrates the ocean to hundreds of metres depending on wavelength.

No, Henry, it is becoming part of the multi-year ice in the Arctic ocean (mult - multi at thousands of years and hundreds of metres thick.

Nearly half of the sun's energy is in the near infrared which penetrates water to a depth of between one and one hundred centimetres and together with the rest of the solar spectrum warms the ocean very efficiently down to 100 metres.