Sentences with phrase «of polar water»

If that current is stronger, wouldn't the likelihood of La Niña be increased, with an associated increase of polar water migrating to the tropical Pacific, which would affect the amount of heat absorbed by the Pacific?

The SH has neither of these effects due to lack of polar water and high - latitude sub-polar continents.

Too much of the polar water, which is also less salty, and the Gulf Stream could be displaced to the south, removing the flow of water that currently warms England and Northern Europe....

Acidification of polar waters is predicted to have adverse effects on calcified organisms and consequential effects on species that rely upon them (high confidence).

When oceans get cold, and the surface of polar waters freezes, it snows much less and the sun takes away ice and limites the lower bound of temperature and sea level.

Not exact matches

Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.

That means he's not trying to solve world poverty, bring fresh water to Africa, bring the internet to the farthest reaches of South America, or save species in the polar regions from going extinct.

I am bi polar and was when he got out of the navy after 3 and a half years under water.

Made of water - repellent polar fleece or hemp / cotton flannel, your baby's buns will remain warm while your potty cozy stays relatively dry.

Made of water repellent polar fleece or hemp / cotton flannel, your baby's buns will remain warm while your potty cozy remains relatively dry.

Because of the water - repellent properties of Wind Pro polar fleece, hybrid fitted diapers are much more water - resistant than regular fitted diapers.

Windpro Windpro is a polar fleece that is often used for diaper covers and AIO diapers because of its ability to repel water while maintaining breathability.

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

There is abundant evidence for the past presence of water on Mars but today it appears relatively dry, with water ice confined to the planet's polar caps.

Much of the world's water is stored in glaciers and the great polar ice sheets.

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.

«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.

In aqueous fluids, amino acid residues that have polar sidechains — components that can have a charge under certain physiological conditions or that participate in hydrogen bonding — tend to be located on the surface of the protein where they can interact with water, which has negatively and positively side charges to its molecule.

These particles can build up electric charges faster than the soil can dissipate them and may cause sparking, particularly in the polar cold of permanently shadowed regions — unique lunar sites as cold as minus 240 degrees Celsius and known to contain water ice.

When they discovered a new parasite in water fleas a couple of years ago, they classified this undescribed species as a microsporidium, mostly because it possessed the unique harpoon - like infection apparatus (the polar - tube), one of the hallmarks of microsporidia.

MTMS - uncoated cellulose aerogels are hydrophilic, thus they can also absorb and retain huge volumes of polar fluids such as water and alcohol.

Biological oceanographer Victoria Fabry of California State University at San Marcos has spent years studying pteropods, thumbnail - size creatures that flutter through frigid polar and subpolar waters using flaplike wings.

The water molecules avoided non-polar areas of the molecule, polar areas were preferred.

Although water ice was known to exist at the polar caps of Mars (see ScienceNOW, 28 May, 2002), Mars Express has now observed its spectroscopic signature for the first time.

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

Within two hours Phoenix had transmitted the first surface images of the planet's polar terrain: a level plain marked with regular octagonal mounds and furrows, evidence of freeze - thaw cycles in a substance that Phoenix's instruments would prove to be frozen water.

Clementine used radar to detect the signature of water in the permanently - shadowed South polar region, which scientists thought was the most likely place to look for water.

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

As Mars Express flies in polar orbit, dipping to within 155 miles of the planet spinning beneath it, instruments made in Sweden, France, and Italy will map the composition of the atmosphere, looking in part for evidence that vestiges of that water are still escaping into space.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

The GRS will also be able to detect the presence of volatile materials in the permafrost and the polar caps, such as water and carbon dioxide.

A spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The hunt for extreme oil proceeds apace in the ultradeep waters off the coasts of Ghana and Nigeria, in the sulfur - laden depths of the Black Sea, under the polar ice caps, and in the gummy tar sands of Venezuela's Orinoco Basin and Canada's McMurray Formation.

A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.

The craft is designed to dig into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and organic compounds, the carbon - rich molecules that make life on Earth possible.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

«A lot of research has shown that intrusions of warm water are responsible for melting ice along the polar coastlines and that these intrusions are steered by the shape of the seafloor,» said Jamin Greenbaum, an oceanography and geology expert at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the new study, in an email.

The polar bears must now swim undetected towards the seals before launching themselves out of the water to grab their prey on the floating chunks of ice.

The sugars contain many polar chemical groups, which take the place of water and stabilize cellular proteins and membranes until the parched period is over.

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

Previous analysis of Cassini data suggested the presence of a lens - shaped body of water, or sea, underlying the moon's south polar region.

Some climate models suggest that, at current CO2 emissions levels, 80 percent of Arctic waters could prove corrosive to clams, pteropods and other species at the base of the polar food chain by 2060, the new statement said.

The extreme tilt of the Martian axis at the time would have pointed the planet's poles at the Sun and driven polar ice to the equator, where water drainage and erosion features are still seen today.

Unlike the south polar cap, the north polar cap probably consists of water - ice.

Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.

Mars must have lost a volume of water 6.5 times larger than the present polar caps to provide such large enrichment.

Other key discoveries included evidence that Enceladus's spouting water lands in Saturn's atmosphere and that the south polar area changes over time, hinting at evidence of Earth - like plate tectonics.