Sentences with phrase «of ocean depths»

How could it happen that radiative heat is causing warming of the ocean depths without warming the surface — especially when water is opaque to IR and the transfer of heat would have to involve mixing.

The multi-decadal nature of the thermal inertia of the ocean depths is not significant to these short - term phenomena.

The vastness of the ocean depths hides all manner of mysterious things — alive and otherwise.

Once again we see that back radiation increases do change the temperatures of the ocean depths — and at almost identical values to the solar radiation changes.

The whole rest of the ocean depths is unaffected by the DLR increase for convection.

Released from the pressures of the ocean depths, methane hydrate expands to create huge volumes of methane gas, one of the most powerful of the greenhouse gases.

Because of the heating of the ocean depths by the sunlight, which penetrates a number of meters, the depths are warmer than the surface skin, because radiation, evaporation and conduction cause the surface skin to lose heat.

When you've had your fill of ocean depths, spot another of the nation's treasures: exotic birds that make this island their home.

The DSCC is urging States and policy makers to take strong measures and adopt robust regulations to ensure the protection of the ocean depths and of the species that are so often «out of sight, out of mind» — those that live in the deep sea.

The author offers a scientific and cultural history of the early exploration of the ocean depths and their biota.

His weighted body, standing in the darkness of the ocean depths.

Not exact matches

Even heroes must spend most of their time, like the rest of us, in the valley that lies between mountain heights and ocean depths.

The call to worship used some of the words of the Psalms, speaking of God as shelter and strength in the time of a shaking earth, when mountains fall into the ocean depths.

One who does not need to feed on anything, breathe air; one who can discern the depths of the ocean and the entire breadth of the universe at an instant of a moment.

There may be challenges in the depths of the ocean, but there are still greater challenges in the depth of the human soul.

The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

It sinks back into the ocean of being, after having been used on the surface, to rest in the depths of calm.

Many dads continue to jump out of airplanes, dive to serious depths in the ocean, and climb high mountains.

Style your desserts with a sweet and awesome design from the depths of the ocean!

Not a real one, of course, but rather a virtual voyager, a computer model that plumbs the otherwise - inaccessible depths of Earth's anoxic past (or an alien planet's present), exploring the possible chemistry of gases in the atmosphere and ocean that could have occurred there.

The OMG mission also involves dropping hundreds of probes into the ocean each year to measure temperature and salinity at different depths.

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

Sensors that have plumbed the depths of Arctic seas since 2002 have found warm currents creeping up from the Atlantic Ocean and helping drive the dramatic retreat of sea ice there over the last decade.

Different kinds of plastic may be suspended at different depths — a dreadful rainbow of rubbish spanning the ocean from top to bottom — but no one has done the research to find out.

Juveniles lose the bright, plankton - filtering gills seen on this individual when they mature and descend into some of the deepest depths of any known fish, often more than 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) beneath the ocean surface.

Thanks to the Apollo missions, 12 humans have walked on the moon's surface, but only two people have explored the deepest depths of our oceans.

From April 20 to July 10, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its partners will probe the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.

Finally, all the climate models assume different amounts of energy stored on Earth that is transferred to the ocean depths, which act as an enormous heat sink.

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.

Their research remedies a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: ocean - observing satellites are incredibly powerful tools, but they can only «see» the surface layer of the ocean, leaving most of its depths out of reach.

Sunke Schmidtko of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, and his team combined a range of data sets on seawater properties at different locations and depths, going back to 1975.

Computations accurately predict how a protein will react to increased pressure, shed light on the inner - workings of life in the ocean depths, and may also offer insights into alien life.

«The results provide new oceanographic insights into the ecology and biogeochemistry of these important algae and particles, and they make satellites an even more powerful tool for describing the entire illuminated depths of the ocean.»

Durable proteins make life possible in the crushing depths of the ocean, and may have evolved in life below the surface of ice - bound oceanic exo - planets.

In the depths of the ocean — a world we are beginning to learn about in detail, thanks to new views provi...

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

Deepsea Challenger belongs to a generation of craft that are opening the ocean's extreme depths to direct exploration; if sea colonies are space stations, these are missions to Mars.

The UNH - NOAA team is already planning a sonar system that could be lowered on a cable hundreds of meters into the ocean and towed beneath the boat, allowing it to better track oil in the depths.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources.

The most massive volcano in the world, with a footprint the size of New Mexico, crouches in the dark depths of the western Pacific Ocean.

Based on the water depths at that time, the shark most likely swam from Australia, through the Indian Ocean, and around the tip of Africa, before reaching Mediterranean 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.

The other ocean temperature study, also published Sunday in Climate Nature Change, used Argo and other data to tentatively conclude that all of the ocean warming from 2005 to 2013 had occurred above depths of 6,500 feet.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

The Gates - backed plan proposes using a fleet of wave - powered rafts to spread a slick of colder ocean water pumped up from the depths in the path of an onrushing storm.

Scientists are creating a massive global database of marine creatures, revealing tremendous biodiversity ranging from the ocean's shallows to its cold, dark depths

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

Such a lid would have greatly reduced the supply of nutrients from the ocean's depths to the surface leading to low biological production.

A major new survey of the seafloor has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter.