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Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off our shores and transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off the shores of the United States, transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity, and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

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BOATING — «The roughest race I ever saw,» said JERRY LANGER of Miami Beach after being declared winner of the 172 - mile Sam Griffith Memorial ocean race for powerboats, run off Florida's east coast in 8 - to -10-foot seas and 23 - mph winds.

When that wind started whipping off the Atlantic Ocean in Rochester, I was gone.»

Meantime, as a result of groundwork laid by NYSERDA, the state announced it has asked the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to consider identifying and leasing at least four new Wind Energy Areas off the coast.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone encountered something unexpected yesterday as he walked the hairline paths of Ocean Beach, Fire Island, where superstorm Sandy swept homes off their foundations and tossed around brawny off - road vehicles like paper cups in the wind.

At present, such Indian Ocean Dipole events are typically cut off by the end of the monsoon season, as the monsoon winds die down so too does the cooling near the coast of Sumatra.

Up to 100 million sharks are killed each year by finning: Fishermen cut off a shark's dorsal fin to sell as a delicacy and dump the wounded animal back into the ocean to die.

On a recent day, the Ocean Researcher, a survey vessel belonging to the Danish wind giant Dong Energy, was preparing to cast off from the marine commerce terminal.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

Meanwhile, on the cut - off high's eastern side, winds heading south drove cold air from the Arctic Ocean toward Greenland's southern tip, bringing the lower than usual temperatures there.

Over the last decade, the waters off Central California have seen stronger winds, which bring more nutrients, such as nitrate, to the ocean surface.

The warm air pulls moisture off the cool ocean, and onshore winds at night help drive the resulting fog inland.

Hurricanes, the largest and most damaging weather events, peak in late autumn, when winds coming off the coast of West Africa meet thunderstorms clustered over the warm tropical ocean.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.

The First Evirogenomic Profile Near Acadia National Park in northeastern Maine, I feel the frigid wind blow off the ocean at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a cluster of buildings enveloped in snow and surrounded by winter - bare trees.

During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and cold, deeper water rises up, or upwells, off the west coast of South America.

Those winds allow an upwelling of deep, cold water off the northwest coast of South America to move west, piling up on the other side of the ocean.

Upwelling — or deep ocean water rising to the surface following north winds off the Washington coast — was carrying acidic water to the surface.

Probably because wind and moisture coming off the Pacific Ocean are forced to rise over our region's tallest peak.

Taking them both to the ocean with my mom this weekend ended up being very fortunate indeed, because the wind was so strong the first day that as I was trying to photograph a different outfit, the wind just whipped up and blew my skirt alll the way up to show off my underwear.

In Dellow: uncompromisingly a sports car, John Warburton, a former owner, tells the story of these distinctive sporting specials from Birmingham / In Shaped by the Wind, Delwyn Mallett travels to the Zeppelin Museum to visit an exhibition dedicated to streamlining in all its forms / Douglas Blain savours an opportunity to stretch the legs of his rebuilt Ballot 2LS along Australia's Great Ocean Road... A Vintage Adventure / In this months Back on the Road, Michael Ware reports on the restoration of» Goff» Imhof's 1946 Allard J1, which has been off the road for half a century

For the last two years I am in a high humidity environment, about 1 mile off from the Pacific Ocean, so there are onshore winds.

It was my first trip to Nags Head, but it hasn't been my last, and the area served as an inspiration for my new Ocean Breeze trilogy of novels, which kicks off with Sand Castle Bay (out now), followed by Wind Chime Point on April 30 and Sea Glass Island on May 28, all from MIRA Books.

At one end of the room, wide sliding glass doors open to the lanai to fill the space with tropical sunshine and the warm trade winds off the ocean.

Here, the dense foliage is bathed in year - round moisture created by cooling winds coming off the ocean.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the coastal bluffs at Fort Funston have faced off against the Pacific Ocean, prevailing winds cleaving off inches of sandstone each winter.

Sparkling, crystal clear ocean waves, long, powdery white sandy beaches and gentle tropical trade winds to cool off in the afternoon sun define Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

On warmer days the fog will burn off only to have the strong northwest wind blow in additional fog from the open ocean.

The ocean waves and winds are buffered by the small island of Isla Mujeres which lies off the coast.

Located at Ma`alaea Harbor Village just off Honoapi`ilani Highway between Kahului and Lahaina, the $ 20 million MAUI OCEAN CENTER is designed to draw visitors in through a series of more than 60 INDOOR - AND - OUTDOOR EXHIBITS that twist and wind their way through an impressive array of living coral reef.

A world of open air and open spaces, of falling asleep to the soft patter of rain on a tin roof or waking to the kiss of a light trade - wind breeze sliding off of the ocean.

Whether you want to kayak through swamps, catch marlin off rocks, watch the sunset over the ocean, sail in the Mediterranean, explore numerous surfing locations, swim in a Fijian lagoon, sunbake in the Caribbean with pure white sand and turquoise water, float in fabulous rock pools, hike through wild country, stroll on long deserted beaches or stand on massive, wind - blown cliffs, Currarong has a location nearby to fulfil your aspirations.

But the climate is dry, and pleasant trade winds come off the Atlantic Ocean.

The good thing about Aruba is that they are known for getting strong winds and those winds coming off the ocean can do wonders to cool you down when outside.

Expect south east winds when we have a tropical storm or hurricane off of Mexico or coming from the open ocean.

Now picture perfect waves with warm off shore winds on the ocean with amazing epic natural settings to keep a smile on your face the whole time while enjoying the Maui paradise.

This isn't due to a warming ocean (though the deep water off the Antarctic coast line is indeed warming), but to changes in the winds that have forced more circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf.

(See http://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/global/pd11498f.html) Prevailing winds, which blow in an easterly direction over the continent, contain more CO2 just after they blow off the Pacific Ocean than they do after they exit the continent over the Atlantic.

An illustration of potential designs for floating offshore wind projects, which need to be developed in order to generate wind energy off the coast of California and other states along the Pacific Ocean.

«Oceans present the largest amount of renewable energy to the planet,» said Alla Weinstein, founder of Trident Winds, which wants to place its wind farm off the coast of Morro Bay, along the Central Coast.

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In his recently published study in the journal Nature, Temperatures blown off course, he explains how unprecedented trade winds have shifted heat into the ocean thermocline - between 100 metres and 300 metres - and that this is the primary cause of the global warming pause.

With its Smart from the Start leasing program, the federal government's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hopes to avoid that controversy: the 2,400 square miles set to be auctioned off for wind development later in 2012 are located at least 10 miles from shore, on the Outer Continental Shelf off the East Coast.

From the article: A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming.

The company acquired the lease for the Ocean Wind farm, to be located about 10 miles out in the ocean off Atlantic City, in Ocean Wind farm, to be located about 10 miles out in the ocean off Atlantic City, in ocean off Atlantic City, in 2015.

Seattle - based Trident Winds, a company founded in 2015, for example, submitted an unsolicited proposal to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to put up 100 floating wind turbines in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Morro Bay, Calif..

Wind off the ocean prevents extreme changes in temp (mild climate).

Part of this effect has been associated with the prevailing west wind bringing in warmer air off the ocean.

«But the Altamont, which captures strong winds off the Pacific Ocean, is also a key migratory corridor and wintering spot for raptors.