Sentences with phrase «of salty water off»

«Salt plays a far more important role that we first thought,» says Rainer Zahn, a palaeoclimatologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.Zahn and his colleagues found that a build up of salty water off the coast of South Africa could jump start ocean circulation in the North Atlantic (this despite the two regions being thousands of kilometers apart) while a reduction in the South African waters» saltiness could cause the opposite effect.

Not exact matches

Libya, whose only other water source is the salty Mediterranean, was drawing water off by way of an underground network of pipes and aqueducts known as the Great Man - Made River, which Libyans describe as the eighth wonder of the world.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

Then, in 2013, Union Pacific closed off the railway culverts for repair, sealing off the flow of salty water from the north arm to the south arm.

These so - called walking trees coolly shrug off extreme heat and muddy topsoil deficient in oxygen and filter the salty waters of southern Florida and tropical Southeast Asia, where the majority of the 73 known mangrove species live.

When the team ran the model with rivers, the freshwater diluted the salty surface waters of the tropics and subtropics and shut off the deep currents.

Rinse off the salty water they're usually packaged in and add a little pesto and a pile of chopped raw, fermented, or sautéed veggies.

Being no stranger to extreme lifestyle changes, I could have called it all off and gone back to my childhood diet of colored sugar water, aerosol «cheese,» and all things salty, oily, and crunchy.

Instead of floating in warm, salty water off the coast of Central America, we hopped on an early flight home and ended up having the perfect staycation in San Diego.

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However, the upwelling of cold water off of the east coast of South American is also part of the meridional overturning of the ocean that begins with the sinking of cold salty water near the poles (thermohaline circulation) that forms the characteristic deep water found at the bottom of the major oceans.

Inspired by an early name for the Hudson River, the Muhheakantuck, or «river that flows two ways» — or, as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation puts it, a «tidal estuary, an arm of the sea where salty sea water meets fresh water running off the land» — members of the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio proposed using both porous streets that can filter water and extending the lower part of the island to create a new Lower Manhattan that is part «twenty - first - century business district,» part «center of regional ecological renewal»: