Sentences with phrase «of high sea»

An ~ 100kyr periodicity in fast - spreading seafloor bathymetry, and relatively low present - day eruption rates, at a time of high sea - level and decreasing orbital eccentricity suggest a longer term sensitivity to sea - level and orbital variations associated with Milankovitch cycles.

This resulted from the combined effects of high sea surface temperatures in open water areas and the effects of atmospheric circulation drawing warm air into the region.

They are largest in regions of high sea surface temperature variability such as the western boundary currents and along the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean.

or «Was the storm surge worse because of high sea levels?»

I believe the jury is still out on the question of the number of tropical cyclones because the IPCC's assessment has so far not included studies on the relationship between the number of tropical cyclones and the area of high sea surface temperature, such as the analysis shown in Fig 2 (1).

Please don't lose the bigger perspective and the undoubted effects of high sea surface temperatures, of which a component is human induced climate change, on these events.

«The impacts of sea level change will be felt most acutely during periods of high sea level, both from this type of interannual (and decadal) variability as well as extreme events,» Church said.

The revised estimate for sea - level rise comes from including new processes in the 3 - dimensional ice sheet model, and testing them against past episodes of high sea - levels and ice retreat.

Kaiser Wilhelm II told the sailors of the High Sea Fleet when they returned that «the English were beaten.

How Twitter applications work: Twitter allows anyone to create and sell software that incorporates, organizes, and rearranges tweets in real time — for instance, by collecting messages written by professional athletes (an app called Twackle) or translating tweets into the language of the high seas (an app called Post Like a Pirate).

A kind of Robin Hood of the high seas, who is a husband and father, and his family come pirating with him.»

A handful of countries are putting fish stocks at risk by exploiting the riches of the high seas, but conservationists are working on a scheme to stop them

The vast majority of the high seas is a fishing free - for - all with almost no legal protection, but now a bold idea is taking root: why not ban fishing there altogether?

It should admit that there are real environmental risks involved in maintaining its principle of the sanctity of the high seas.

Implications of the high seas surrounding the North Pole are just now entering front stage.

Tailored bed skirt made from a textured canvas and with inverted box pleats will add to the excitement of the High Seas quilt.

They also directed «Max Manus: Man Of War,» but they were hired off the strength of high seas exploration yarn «Kon - Tiki.»

IF YOU are in any mood to go back in time — to the days of swashbuckling pirates, romance of the high seas, hidden treasures, plank walking, parrots and sails on ships, then perhaps this Disney venture released by Columbia Pictures, is a film you will enjoy.

We do have a little to go on from how Wan has described the movie in interviews, saying: «The spirit that I'm going for is like a classic sort of swashbuckling action adventure, sort of high seas adventure story.»

The hills of a desert, where the trio crashes after flying through a thunderstorm, become the towering waves of the high seas, and a clash of ships results in one swinging like a pendulum from the yardarm of the other.

White Squall is based on a true story of a ship school set in 1960 led by Captain Christopher «Skipper» Sheldon (Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys) who, along with his wife (Goodall, Schindler's List), leads a group of young boys in the ways of the high seas.

But from the moment he steps aboard the Jesus of Lübeck with the blackguard John Hawkyns, we and Billy become awash in the gritty romance of high seas adventurers who are beguiled by risk, danger, and the promise of wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

Quirky characters combined with the adventure of the high seas make for a novel unlike any other you've read.

Having survived the terrors of the high seas, Gon and his companions now have to prove their worth in a variety of tests in order to find the elusive Exam Hall.

Band of Misfits follows the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain — a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less - than - successful, terror of the High Seas.

The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.

To be fair, some of my impatience can be attributed to the fact that we're closing in on the end of a fairly substantial story arc and, as fun as Alabasta has been, it's always genuinely exciting to see the crew move on and kick off what will inevitably be another multi-volume tale of high seas adventure.

Some of the most infamous outlaws of the high seas dropped anchor here, including Calico Jack Rackham, Stede Bonnet and the notorious Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard.

It was during a time of higher sea level that the ancestral barrier reef system off Ambergris Caye developed.

PHYSICAL FEATURES & CLIMATE The site covers an Pleistocene limestone platform, on which, during times of higher sea levels, reefs were deposited.

So, lounge about in the sun or delve into the unfathomable depths of high seas with sport fishing, after all, leisure was never this good!

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Seamless gameplay is for those unfit for the perils of the high seas!

Sala wanted to imagine how a fictional journey through the winds, the waves, and the water currents of the high seas would affect a musical masterpiece of the age of Enlightenment; what would become of Mozart's Clarinet concerto if it were to float and drift like a message in a bottle.

We would expect isobar deviations to more or less radiate out symmetrically from areas of higher sea level.

Further, sea levels, of great significance to the state of various submarine carbon stores, were of course also very different, too, and while we normally think of higher sea levels as always making hydrates more stable (explaining the lack of release then), there could potentially be an opposing effect as well, discussed by Archer, in fact (Archer, 2007).

A fantastic sharing of skills as part of a common effort for the management and conservation of the living resources of the high seas: the first observations uncover Walters Bank as a remarkable ecosystem with a summit zone covered with coralligenous algae.

Storm surges from hurricanes would wreak even more havoc in the era of higher sea levels, potentially swamping entire bases, including Naval Station Norfolk, Udvardy said.

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

Under the oceans section, you have failed to give a clear mandate to even start negotiating an implementing agreement to stop the Wild West abuse of the high seas.

Coastal areas affected by storm surges will face increased risk both because of the increasing frequency and of storms and because of higher sea level.

For example, science can identify how much monetary loss might occur if tropical cyclones grow more intense or heat waves more frequent, or identify the land that might be lost in coastal communities for various levels of higher seas.

The program currently supports grantees working to: create international protections for species and ecoregions of the High Seas; educate scientists and the public about the value and vulnerability of the ocean as a world system; and foment civil society movements to protect Arctic waters and Arctic coastal communities.

What I find odd though is that over on WUWT people who claim to be professional meteorologists try to down play the effect of higher sea surface temperatures on humidity levels and precipitation.

Even issues where environmental campaigners thought they'd see progress, such as improved management of the high seas which have been rampantly overfished, nations (in this case U.S., Japan, Canada, Russia and Venezuela) were able to kick any meaningful changes down the road for another few years.

For example, for Malibu and the crowds it gets, 1.4 meters of higher sea level «could lose almost $ 500 million in accumulated tourism revenue between now and 2100.»

The impacts of a higher sea level can go from permanently flooded areas (below future sea level) to an increase of seasonal and «nuisance» floods, as well as worse (higher) storm surges.

He fails to mention that the particular decade centred on 1998 has one of the highest sea level rises, which in the past has varied dramatically over decades.

The national and international dimensions of and efforts to curb human - caused climate change are in stark contrast to the very local, and disproportionate, potential impacts of higher sea levels.

Impacts of higher sea levels for the lowest elevations in these areas may not arrive in 25 years or 50 years, but possibly in 90.