Sentences with phrase «oceanic waters»

A chance encounter is a constant fear anytime we enter oceanic waters.

Here divers are provided a rare chance to view great white sharks in clear oceanic waters, and more than 170 individual sharks have been known to visit the area.

It is the steady flow of oceanic water washing over the reefs that promotes life and growth, while also supplying the excellent water clarity divers crave.

Clear oceanic water enters the pass and pristine hard and soft corals abound.

Normally these fish are found in oceanic waters, however they come closer to shore from as early as July until the beginning of November in Bali.

In fact the atmosphere is warm mainly because of surface (thermal mass) tensor contact with $ kv sources such as plant lief, earth and oceanic water masses.

High - diversity reef complexes that are well flushed by oceanic water.

Temperature effects are also quite reliable, and are mainly for above normal temperature in and around the warmed oceanic waters in the Pacific.

Influxes of fresh oceanic water bring higher total alkalinity and saturation states that support reef and shell building

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

This had the effect of producing intense surface upwelling of oceanic waters along the margins of the supercontinent and significantly boosting biological productivity.

The country thus influences the flow of the major water masses and results in shelf - edge currents and oceanic eddies that interact with coastal waters over the shelf, bringing oceanic water into the coastal zone.

The Arctic Ocean's surface temperature and salinity vary seasonally as the ice cover melts and freezes; [4] its salinity is the lowest on average of the five major oceans, due to low evaporation, heavy fresh water inflow from rivers and streams, and limited connection and outflow to surrounding oceanic waters with higher salinities.

Kaustubh Thirumalai (Brown University) helping retrieve a CTD instrument, which collects water samples and measures physical parameters of oceanic waters such as temperature, aboard the R / V Point Sur in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

The problem for scientists is that oceanic waters tend to mix, which makes monitoring and delineating an experiment in the ocean challenging.

Gray whales just happened to occupy a new ecological niche by feeding on crustaceans in coastal oceanic waters.

Occurring offshore in blue oceanic waters, the blue marlin prefers to stay in the warm waters near the surface, above the thermocline.

The clean oceanic water and pretty beaches proffer an abundance of fun activities.

I was drifting along the outer edge of a fringing reef, with dark oceanic water to one side and the bright, comfortable shallows to my right.

farther offshore in the vast central oceanic waters of the North & South Pacific and Atlantic, where I have spent most of my time, I see the same wildlife that I have since I first went to sea 26 years ago: whales, turtles, flying fish, numerous pelagic birds, schools of fish, and the odd mystery creature that makes us all put down our coffee cups, look at each other, and scratch our collective heads.

Hidden layers of warming oceanic waters, snaking around the coast of Greenland and Antarctica, could drive forward the melting of their glaciers faster than previously predicted.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Our findings require a reassessment of the role of the Southern Ocean in determining the impact of atmospheric warming on deep oceanic waters.

«This paper is a good estimate of mercury in oceanic water, but it's only part of the bigger picture.»

Global warming and an ongoing El Niño are driving up oceanic water temperatures and damaging reefs

Assuming this process has been going on for all 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, the researchers say that all known ultralow - velocity zones could have been formed in this manner, even if just 100 billion pounds (45 billion kg) of water — one - 10th of all the oceanic water on Earth — reacted with iron each year.

Sea - level rise, which — due to climate change melting the planet's ice caps and warming oceanic waters — will soon flood the peninsula they call home.

This rise may have been eustatically controlled, possibly through a combination of thermal expansion of the oceanic water column and melting of unknown sources of high - altitude or polar ice caps in response to global warming.»

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

Turneffe Island is located 20 Miles east of Belize City, Belize and is surrounded by deep oceanic waters.

Nusa Lembongan, Bali: Mola Mola, usually found in oceanic waters, come close to shore between July and September every year in Bali.

As the glacier retreat was more extensive in the period ending 1200 it is likely the oceanic water levels were higher than around 1600, or than they are today.

It is sufficient for present purposes that on average globally there is ongoing evaporation from all oceanic water surfaces most of the time.

As the air's content rises in response to ever - increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions, more and more carbon dioxide is expected to dissolve into the surface waters of the world's oceans, which dissolution is projected to cause a 0.3 to 0.7 pH unit decline in the planet's oceanic waters by the year 2300.