Sentences with phrase «of ocean storms»

One particularly dangerous aspect of ocean storms is the storm surge.

In 2016, we had another flood, but this flood was not because of ocean storms, it was because of an inland storm that brought water through the St. Jones River and flooded our site.»

Now, a new study led by Colorado State University provides important details on the extent of sea ice, which can protect ice shelves from the impacts of ocean storms, in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Not exact matches

The remnants of the storm which had lashed the South Pacific brought cloud cover and heavy rains to the region, cooling the ocean enough to stop bleaching that had just begun in the south.

The storm threatened to destroy years of work that's crucial to the future of coral reefs around the world and the health of our oceans.

In that type of scenario, cities will lose their protection against big storm surges, fishing and tourism industries could be eliminated, and the ocean may become largely lifeless or at least extremely transformed.

In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmosphere.

Just as southern Texas began to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Florida and the Caribbean soon endured Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

Irma's continued trek west across the ocean was guided by a strong ridge of high atmospheric pressure over the Atlantic, which prevented the storm from curving north and away from North America.

Storm surge — the mass of water hurricanes push onshore from the ocean — will have a higher bed of water that will rush farther inland and destroy more property.

But we are a nation of seafarers, who know how to deal with storms, and aren't afraid to sail to distant oceans, to uncharted waters, in search of a safe harbor,» Tsipras elaborated.

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But, if someone has started to discover to live in the purpose of his / her life, don't be afraid to sail in the storms of life for we all are learning how to sail in the ocean of life.

Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched CalifornOcean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched Californocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

Ice caps are melting faster than predicted, violent storms are the new normal (ask Long Island residents who were flooded last week), oceans are warmer, wild fires consume thousands of acres in the far West, draught racks almost half of our heartland.

Also at 11 a.m., officials from NYPA, NYC HHC, Coney Island Hospital and National Grid will be joined by state and local officials to announce the completion of a $ 21 million storm resiliency and energy efficiency project at the hospital, Hospital Auditorium, 2601 Ocean Pkwy., Brooklyn.

There are clues that these species may fare better than their stony counterparts after a disaster, but more research needs to be done to understand how storms, warming waters and ocean acidification can alter the composition of reefs and whether these changes are permanent or short - lived, Lasker says.

But the real rains start in July, as storm after storm churns and sweeps across the open plains, rinsing the dust from the air, before spinning out into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

They identified wind patterns that mixed the warmer surface and colder deep waters to cool the ocean's surface and reduce the intensity of the storm.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

Three storms that raged near Bermuda in 1995 boosted the flow of CO2 into the air over part of the Atlantic Ocean by more than half, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

In studying the way that tropical storms in turn affect ocean currents, Emanuel developed a measure, or metric, of the power released by a storm over its lifetime.

He believes that a shift in the «Bermuda High,» a zone of strong atmospheric pressure in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, may propel the great majority of intense storms toward either the Gulf coast or the Atlantic coast, but not both, for centuries at a time.

Winter storms raging overhead triggered ocean turbulence that propagated several hundred meters down to the middle of the water column, where shrimp normally hang out.

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.

As the timing and intensity of storms change with the climate, Juniper says connections like these could trigger unexpected changes in the ocean's ecosystems.

Thomsen and his colleagues have discovered that changes in ocean currents triggered by storms raging on the sea surface can alter the release of gas from the hydrate mounds.

Hurricanes do form in the Pacific Ocean, just as they do in the Atlantic, but none of these storms seem to reach the continental U.S..

«Corals are facing a perfect storm of warming and acidifying oceans, storms and invasive predators»

«However, studies like ours can help provide informative answers to the more tractable question of how a perfect storm like Sandy would behave under warmer ocean temperatures,» Lau said.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

This information is critical to understanding the depth of the spray layer above the ocean surface and the overall impact of spray on storm intensity.

Corals face a perfect storm of threats including acidifying oceans, invasive predators and tropical storms.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The ocean plays a critical role in climate and weather, serving as a massive reservoir of heat and water that influences tropical storms, El Nin?o, and climate change.

The evaporation of sea spray is thought to contribute to the transfer of heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, which accelerate winds in a storm, potentially impacting its intensity.

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.

«We were able to show that storm and ocean wave activity in the Drake Passage, the ocean basin between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America, increases during positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode,» he explained.

Ocean chemist Philip Boyd of the University of Otago in New Zealand says many other researchers have tried to link an infusion of iron from volcanic ash or even dust storms to plankton blooms, but this study is the first to «verify such a massive event.»

Thunderstorms directly above two of the world's busiest shipping lanes are significantly more powerful than storms in areas of the ocean where ships don't travel, according to new research.

In 1945, a year after the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, the ocean was busy establishing a beachhead of its own, burrowing beneath a fortified section of an important Antarctic glacier.

The problem, Crowley said, is that much of the plastic has already broken down in a soupy mix that tends to move around as ocean currents and storms produce swells and wind over the course of a given year.

When ocean storms bump into mountains, raindrops burdened with heavy isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen are the first to precipitate.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

Each year, hurricane season brings a series of these enormous storms marching across the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, but that is the only truly predictable thing about them.

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.

So, in theory, if you could manage to lower the temperature of the surface of the ocean ahead of a hurricane by a few degrees, you could conceivably pull enough heat out of the system that the storm would start to wind itself down.

They send them out across the Atlantic Ocean to fly above imminent storms forming out around like the Canary Islands, so that they can really start to get a sense of how do hurricanes form and how do they get launched into the trajectories that they follow.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.