Sentences with phrase «ocean water also»

6) There is less eK in the entire A during ice ages, and cold ocean waters also store (sink) more CO2 within.

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But secretive water worlds like Europa are not alone; Enceladus around Saturn also sprays out water, and so does Neptune's moon Triton, likely because they all hide giant, globe - spanning oceans.

Not only can cruise ships generate the same amount of sulfur dioxide fumes as 13.1 million cars in a day, but they also dump boatloads of noxious bilge water into the ocean.

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.

(e.g. Things from the water that do not have «fins AND scales» are the filters of the ocean and contain «God knows what» when they are harvested from today's polluted waters, which also now contain some incredible superbugs.)

Also, that does not address the fact that you would need 5 times the water on the planet to flood thae earth to the level the myth says, Noah could not have built a watyer tight craft using the stone tools he would have had at that time, the salinity of the oceans would change enough to kill all life in the oceans, so that would end the food chains, ending all life for a very long time.

No, I am not Roz... I am a Rozta» (big fan of Roz, and I made up the eponym) Roz is in the Indian Ocean, somewhere, rowing from east to west (Australia to Madgascar, I think) and you have in common with her that she is also naked (salt water and clothing make for a bad skin situation when one is in that environment for months on end) You should look her up... writes a fantastic blog.

They also believed in water below the firmament, the oceans etc, and above the firmanent which is not rain in the clouds but the blue sky.

We also walked along Ocean Drive, taking in the beautiful views of the water, walking the seawall, and dipping our toes in the waves at the little Colony Beach.

Water play is also excellent for encouraging their imagination as they create an ocean rescue scene with their plastic boat, figures and beakers or an underwater zoo with their sharks.

The sound of oceans and water may also have a calming effect since they resemble the sounds in the womb.

Having so much water might also slow or halt the movement of building blocks of life, such as carbon and phosphorus (the backbone of DNA), into oceans.

It's also water resistant for up to 80 minutes so you don't have to worry when you take a dip in the pool or wade out into the ocean.

Evaporation from the ocean waters can also lower the density of the air close to the surface to the point that it can not mix with the air layer above it.

Changes in ocean currents are also lead to upwelling of warm water, which also increases evaporation — and thus snow.

This trade wind strengthening, which occurs during a the negative phase of a phenomenon called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (also known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation), pushes warm water westward and and changes Pacific Ocean circulation.

Co-author Dr Gerhard Kuhn, from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, says: «Our results provide evidence that in the past WAIS retreat was also predominantly caused by melting through warm ocean water.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluOcean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluocean acidification and pollution.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

«Presumably the tidal heating is also replenishing the ocean,» Stevenson says, «so it is possible that some of that water is making its way up through the tiger stripes.»

Kadri says the results may help scientists connect interactions between not only surface and deep ocean waters, but also with the atmospheric forces that affect surface waves.

Astrophysicists also suspect that some super-Earths could contain water, as either an ocean or an ice shell.

Beneath its frosty exterior, Titan also hides a deep, liquid - water ocean.

«The water in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans is extremely cold, but also very rich in oxygen.

These tough little buggers, also known as tardigrades, could keep calm and carry on until the sun boils Earth's oceans away billions of years from now, according to a new study that examined water bears» resistance to various astronomical disasters.

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.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

Antarctica was also more sensitive to global carbon dioxide levels, Cuffey said, which increased as the global temperature increased because of changing ocean currents that caused upwelling of carbon - dioxide - rich waters from the depths of the ocean.

However, in the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC concluded that «Modelling indicates that SRM methods, if realizable, have the potential to substantially offset a global temperature rise, but they would also modify the global water cycle, and would not reduce ocean acidification.»

Such vast algae farms might also subsist on so - called «impaired» water, either salty ocean or polluted waters, Pate says.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

The scientists also identified carbon fluxes where further research would be needed to reduce uncertainties, including the exchange of carbon between shelf waters and the open ocean.

His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.

During a multiyear project funded by the Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office, engineers from Sandia's Water Power program are using a combination of modeling and experimental testing to refine how a wave energy converter moves and responds in the ocean to capture wave energy while also considering how to improve the resiliency of the device in a harsh ocean environment.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

Winds over the ocean (blue arrow) also create currents on the surface, pushing the water up one side of the wave and down the other.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

It's also sensitive to how salty the ocean is, because the salt content affects the density of the water.»

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

The team discovered that internal waves are generated daily from internal tides, which also occur below the ocean surface, and grow larger as the water is pushed westward through the Luzon Strait into the South China Sea.

A series of drains and underground barriers — including a $ 325 - million * supposedly impermeable «wall» of frozen soil — was also constructed to keep water from flowing into the reactors and the ocean.

Taylor and her colleagues also tested water temperature and pH levels in the laboratory to study the impact of ocean warming and acidification on the exoskeletons of several species of crustacean.

The study also showed that only this heat source in the core can keep the overlying ocean water from freezing.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

Goddard's computer models, with input from ocean buoys, atmospheric models, satellite data and other sources, can also simulate what ocean water temperatures could do in the coming months.