Sentences with phrase «ocean under its surface»

Some of it was forming a plume and drifting through the ocean under the surface.
Icy objects in our solar system have large oceans under their surfaces and here life could evolve and flourish.
Cassini itself later found that Titan might encompass such an ocean under its surface.
The best way to explain this is if the moon has a salty ocean under its surface.

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It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.
No conscious guidance is needed to swirl minerals around a geothermal vent under the surface of the ocean — and that sort of place is just the sort of environment that can give rise to new organic lifeforms, thanks to the requisite and very common factors to be found there.
Like the need for their children to have them home, their first holidays as a married couple I was asked if I remembered how it was My first Christmnas as a wife, It was the most lonely time in my life, My husband was 150 feet under the surface Atlantic ocean.
Nearly all those comparisons aligned with the model's output, indicating that the model replicated many aspects of what happened to oil and gas under the ocean surface.
Aside from myriad practical applications, these organisms could exemplify the kinds of life that exist in environments where little or no oxygen exists, such as the deep ocean or under the Martian surface.
Weird and wonderful forms of life have been found deep within the Earth's crust, swimming in boiling pools, and clinging to vents deep under the ocean surface.
The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change
Another grand project under way is the Ocean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean fOcean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean floor.
Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.
Its dark surface (Ceres reflects just one - fourth as much light as Vesta) indicates a water - rich interior; some researchers even speculate that it could have a mile - deep ocean under a frozen surface.
These snailfish live almost five miles beneath the ocean surface, in pitch - black waters and under immense pressure.
Under the ocean this job is much more difficult, as the electromagnetic energy emitted by satellites can not penetrate the sea surface and instruments are much more difficult to set up on the volcano itself.
These effects are reflected in the ocean surface, which is generally smooth underneath the weak winds of the wake and rough under the strong winds outside the wake.
Squeezed by 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure yet buoyant under one - seventh Earth's gravity, humans on its surface would feel more like divers under an ocean than astronauts on exposed airless rocks in space.
GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
This is the shape that the surface would take under the influence of gravity and rotation alone, which is the same shape that dominates Earth's oceans,» said Hayes.
A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.
The Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation has bankrolled much of the research into depressurizing these deposits, many of which lie a mile under the ocean surface.
These discoveries were made possible by the enhancement of a global network to monitor sea - surface temperatures, under the auspices of TOGA and another large international study, the World Ocean Circulation Experiment.
This could be good news for any life under the ice: such movements would deliver organic molecules on the surface to oceans that are otherwise completely sealed off.
Earth and Venus are of comparable size and mass, yet the surface of Venus bakes at 460 degrees Celsius under an ocean of carbon dioxide that bears down with the weight of a kilometer of water.
Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.
Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South Ameocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South AmeOcean is plunging under South America.
The large satellites of Uranus show unique geologic features we'd like to understand (such as the tortured - looking surface of Miranda, a small moon with the tallest cliff in the Solar System), while Neptune's satellite Triton is thought to be a captured Kuiper Belt object, similar to Pluto, potentially harboring an ocean under its icy surface.
And the researchers say: «The projected ocean surface warming pattern under increasing greenhouse gas forcing suggests that typhoons striking eastern mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan will intensify further.
After recently discovering what is thought to be the largest body of water on Saturn's Titan moon, NASA is considering options to send an autonomous submarine under the surface of Titan's Kraken Mare Ocean.
Cassini discovered a liquid - water ocean under the icy surface of the moon Enceladus and, perhaps a victim of its own success, must die to prevent any chance that its warm electric generators might melt their way down into those life - friendly waters.
Under cloudy conditions, the cloud cover radiates more heat back down toward the ocean surface than happens under clear sky conditUnder cloudy conditions, the cloud cover radiates more heat back down toward the ocean surface than happens under clear sky conditunder clear sky conditions.
While many details of Ocean's Eight's plot are being kept under wraps, some photos from the set have begun to surface.
Little is known about the role on film, however in comic books Black Manta is a man from the surface world who now lives under the ocean and has sworn revenge on his former home.
However, casual reading while you are hundreds of feet under the ocean surface is probably the last thing that even the most avid readers wouldn't think to do.
Flannery and other scientific writers have identified 1976 as the year when the earth's climate took a serious turn under specifically human influences, when the ocean's surface waters warmed and its salt content fell.
Over 500 life - sized sculptures and statues, created by recognized artists and set in 3 underwater salons, are displayed meters under the surface of the ocean.
Atmos Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid (catalogue) Hemispheres and Continents Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2012 All Things Pass Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue) Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad Fullmoon and Night + Fog Domaine de Chaumont - sur - Loire, Chaumont - sur - Loire 2011 Landscape with Path The High Line, New York Xippas, Montevideo L'Abbaye de la Chaise Dieu, Chaise Dieu Nocturne Villa Merkel, Esslingen (catalogue)... between here and the surface of the moon FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand; traveled to: FRAC Haute - Normandie, Sotteville - lès - Rouen 2010 As it is Alfonso Artiaco, Naples The Principle of Moments Whitecube, London Fullmoon@Eifel Weidingen, Eifel Matthew Marks Gallery, New York PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul 2009 Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv Xippas Gallery, Athens Sometimestill Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2008 Nail to Nail David Patton, Los Angeles SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo In The Between Eye of Gyre, Omotesando Substitute Galleri K, Oslo Fire under snow Parasol unit, London (catalogue) Moons of the Iapetus Ocean White Cube, London (catalogue) 2007 Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples Day Return Castle Ujazdowski — Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (catalogue) Night + Fog Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue) In the Between Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2006 Day Return Museum Folkwang, Essen (catalogue) Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: Impossible Landscapes The Horticultural Society of New York, New York If I had you Domus Artium 2002 — Center for Contemporary Art, Salamanca Darren Almond / Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2005 Take Me Home Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Alfonso Artiaco, Naples Isolation K21 - Kunstsammmlung Nordrhein - Westfalen, Düsseldorf Only Sound Needs Echo and Dreads its Lack Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris 2004 Live Sentence Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (catalogue) If I Had You Galerie Max Hetzler, St. Johannes Evangelist Church, Berlin 2003 11 miles... from Safety White Cube, London (catalogue) If I Had You Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan Mine, A Galleri K, Oslo A Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Full Moon Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel - Aviv 2002 A National Theatre, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, London at speed (with Sarah Morris) Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2001 Coming up for air Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (catalogue) Night as Day Tate Britain, London (catalogue) De Appel Foundation - Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin 2000 Mean Time Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Geisterbahn The Approach, London Traction Chisenhale Gallery, London 1999 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago 1997 ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, comissioned by Toshiba Art & Innovation, London Fan White Cube, London 1995 KN120 Great Western Studios, London 1991 Crawford Art College, Cork
Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)
Lou Grinzo (12)-- I am under the impression that HadCRUTv3 uses air temperatures on land and sea surface temperatures in the oceans to produce their global mean.
The paleoclimate record (8.2 kyr, and earlier «large lake collapses») shows a dramatic drop in surface temperatures for a substantial period of time when the ocean circulation shuts off or changes, but is that actually what would be expected under these warming conditions?
Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.
The upper atmosphere has a small heat capacity and reaches equilibrium temperature in considerably under a year; this feeds back on the forcing of the trosphere + surface, which are generally convectively coupled with the ocean (strongly with the upper ocean) and take a number of years to reach equilibrium.
Now if you were to strip the surface of the planet of it's vegetation in a massive wildfire, then watch the silicates, solid carbon, phosphates (Pot Ash) and iron oxides run off into the ocean where the phytoplankton can thrive on the added nutrients and be shaded under the light colored high altitude ash for a few years, now you are talking.
OTOH, if a nuclear weapon was exploded on or under the ocean surface, then water vapour would be ejected into the stratosphere.
With that source being 5,000 feet under the ocean's surface, this has been extremely difficult.
The heat retained by the oceans is a natural property of a water surface under an air and GHG blanket.
We have used the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling (GENIE) framework to undertake a systematic search for bi-stability of the ocean thermohaline circulation (THC) for different surface grids and resolutions of 3 - D ocean (GOLDSTEIN) under a 3 - D dynamical atmosphere model (IGCM).
If AGW is not true then the parameters are meaningless, but if it is true then these are best esimates of those parameters under reasonable hypotheses of why AGW is true, e.g. the blanketing effect of CO2 and the time needed to warm the ocean's surface layer.
of those parameters under reasonable hypotheses of why AGW is true, e.g. the blanketing effect of CO2 and the time needed to warm the ocean's surface layer.
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