Sentences with phrase «of lake surface»

Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe.

Not exact matches

The agency downplayed the impact of the withdrawal, saying it would amount to only a 0.07 percent increase in total surface water withdrawal from Lake Michigan.

But other sources have said he and Silver Lake remain reluctant to pay more for a company that traded at about $ 10 before news of the buyout surfaced.

Due to the threats from the mob, Marty and Wendy are forced to put their marriage back together, at least on the surface, and move along with their two teenagers to Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

The rarest of rare books, a one - of - a-kind family Bible, has surfaced in Salt Lake City.

He reaches in and grabs all his hand will hold, turns towards the water and with all his strength throws his arm and releases the food feathering the still surface of the lake.

It started on a New Year's Day, with pomp, parades, bowl queens and quarterbacks in a traditional spectacle, and it ended hardly hours ago to the shush of skis across a hundred mountain slopes, the tranquillity of a year - end sunset seen from a thousand duck blinds and the last ice fisherman packing up his gear onthe frozen surface of Lake Minnetonka.

[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national paLake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national palake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national paLake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

It's been 19 months since the idea of an amphitheater on the once - polluted lake first surfaced publicly.

Take a look beneath the surface of Lake Erie, as divers survey the Admiral, which sank in a storm in 1942.

Wilson said the blooms have occurred on the surface of the lake and away from the city's intake pipes, which are at different depths and about 1,000 feet apart.

Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

The lakes and seas of liquid organics on Titan's surface have naturally raised speculation about whether they might contain life.

But second place goes to Saturn's moon Titan (0.64), which hosts vast lakes of liquid hydrocarbons but has surface temperatures of — 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Congelation ice, unlike «snow ice,» grows slowly downward from the surface of a calm lake in a vertical, column - like fashion with horizontal interlocking grains

But as you descend underground, past Titania's Veil (a gleaming white calcite formation), crossing Giant's Hall and skirting the mirror surface of Dream Lake, you will hear an ethereal music start to fill the dripping hush.

One possible surface sign of such a deep system is Blood Falls, a dark red oozy slush of concentrated, iron - rich brine that seeps out at one end of the Dry Valleys, where Taylor Glacier meets Lake Bonney.

The Cassini spacecraft has since spotted lakes of ethane, making Titan the only world other than Earth known to have bodies of liquid on its surface.

The dark, nutrient - deprived environment of the lakes could resemble conditions on Jupiter's moon Europa, which is assumed to hold a large ocean beneath its frozen surface.

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontlakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in OntLakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontlakes in Ontario.

«The warming surface waters cause large parts of the lake's floor to lose oxygen, killing off bottom - dwelling animals such as freshwater snails,» Cohen said.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

Small lakes with a surface area of less than 100 m2 represent the majority of global freshwater ecosystems.

«Hopefully we'll be able to get some insight by looking at these rocks into some of the global changes happening that maybe no longer permitted a lake to be present on the surface,» says Abigail Fraeman, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

This depth tolerance, coupled with the fact that quaggas don't require a hard surface to attach to, means they can blanket vast swaths of lake bottom inaccessible to zebra mussels.

The waters of the lake are fluorescent green, and the stench of decay wafts from its surface.

Or about it escaping directly to the surface and settling in a smothering cloud on a home or town, as happened in 1986 when Lake Nyos in Cameroon burped out a pure, invisible cloud of natural CO2 that killed more than 1,700 people.

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

In 2012, the Russian Antarctic Expedition completed drilling through nearly 4 kilometers of ice to reach the surface of subglacial Lake Vostok.

The news appears to have originated from Ria Novosti, a state - run news agency, which ran the following quote from an unnamed source with no affiliation: «Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters [12,362 feet] and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake.»

«It's hard to constrain the depths of the lakes because we're just seeing the surface,» says Turtle.

Using radar, infrared, and visual imaging, Cassini has revealed a string of ethane and methane lakes on Titan, making it the only other known world with bodies of liquid on its surface.

However radar observations have shown that lakes cover only a few per cent of the surface and are concentrated near the poles, making Titan much drier than Earth.

The effect of Kelvin - Helmholtz instability waves (named for 19th century scientists Lord William Thomson Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) can commonly be seen in cloud patterns, on the surface of oceans or lakes, or even a backyard pool.

Earthquakes, which were common in the region, might also have forced gas to the surface of the lake.

Eventually, sometime about 2.5 billion years ago, the weight of the sediments caused the lake's icy ceiling to collapse, sending immense amounts of water to the surface, the researchers propose online this month in Icarus.

The latest data from the Cassini - Huygens mission, including a mosaic image of the surface, show an odd bright red spot, an icy volcano, and a dark feature that may be a lake.

Subglacial lakes provide earthly analogs of ice - covered oceans deep beneath the surface of moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.

They got back what look like surface reflections from lakes or oceans of liquid, like the glint of sun on a lake.

Eugene Kolesnikov, a geochemist at Moscow State, and his colleagues excavated trenches in peat deposits near the lake, a tough job given the resistance of the hard permafrost layer below the surface.

Water removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standards.

«The predicted changes in surface water temperatures will affect the thermal characteristics of the lakes,» said Dokulil.

It quickly became clear that this was an environment sealed away from the earth's surface, and although the water in the lake may itself be slowly changed out by the deep - ice dynamics of Antarctica, this process could take well over 10,000 years.

This means that the lakes are part of an open system and are connected to the surface, which is different from Antarctic lakes that are most often isolated ecosystems.

The apparent absence of lakes in Greenland had previously been explained by the fact that steeper ice surface in Greenland leads to any water below the ice being «squeezed out» to the margin.

By looking at how concentrations of chemical elements in the sediment change with depth, the researchers can develop a continuous record of how much surface runoff poured into the lake.

When Duncan J. Wingham and his colleagues from University College London reviewed archived satellite records, they noticed that over a period of 16 months, the surface above an unnamed subglacial lake in the center of the East Antarctic ice sheet was sinking.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

John C. Priscu, a professor of land resources and environmental sciences at Montana State University who discovered microorganisms thriving in permanently frozen surface lakes in Antarctica at temperatures as low as — 10 degrees Fahrenheit, wants to study microbes in Lake Vostok to learn if they are viable or unique, or both.

Scientists have asked: Does the buoyancy that drives plates primarily derive from plate cooling at the surface, analogous with cooling and overturning of lakes in the winter?