Sentences with phrase «of surface water»

The oceans beneath delay the warming of the surface waters due to thermal inertia.

The unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters could be a number of different kinds of precipitation or water accumulating unexpectedly from a nearby body of water.

They found that more than 80 percent of the deep water and more than 50 percent of surface water had methane levels more than eight times that of normal seawater.

As the wind blows across the surface of the ocean, it «grabs» onto a thin layer of the surface water.

Evaluation of the area where this lake existed shows the expansion and contraction of this groundwater - linked body of surface water.

In addition to causing changes to the timing and quantity of surface water supply, global warming is also causing more severe impacts from drought.

However, significant emissions reductions to meet the two - degree target by 2100 could ensure that half of surface waters presently occupied by tropical coral reefs remain favourable for their growth.

Most of the surface water appears to be depleted, leaving behind a thick crust of dark organic material.

As the paper suggests, one could be the evaporation of surface waters that have become exposed because of sea ice loss in the region, he added.

This area must normally be considered dry land and the flooding must be caused by accumulation or runoff of surface waters.

The two alien life forms that we envision for this world are animals — mobile predators that live around the planet's few small bodies of surface water.

The project was inspired, Graham says, by dramatic progress over the past 15 years in predicting El Niño, the periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean that affects everything from Indian monsoons to flooding in the midwestern United States.

Britton Stephens, an NCAR scientist and the project's co-principal investigator, said HIPPO flights have collected the first large - scale measurements of carbon dioxide and oxygen cycling into and out of surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

Clifford acts for both claimants and defendants in claims for damages arising out of surface water flooding, damaged sewers and wayward watercourses particularly in respect of claims brought before the Technology and Construction Court.

Scientists aren't sure why the blob formed, though many blame a ridge of high pressure that brought sunnier weather and less mixing of surface water with colder, deeper water.

Transport of surface waters toward the western boundary of the ocean basins causes the ocean - surface slope to be steeper on the western side (versus eastern side) of a gyre (in either hemisphere).

Over several decades, the concentration of garbage in the patch grew by two orders of magnitude, reaching densities of about one piece of trash per 10 cubic meters of surface water, the group reports online today in Biology Letters.

Injecting the same meltwater further down is believed to have the opposite effect, favoring sinking of surface waters and the retreat of Antarctic sea ice.

This could be as the result of the accumulation or run off of surface waters, including torrential rainfall when water enters the property, which is what caused the disastrous floods in the Calgary and High River areas in 2013.

This is accomplished with a powerful blast of warm air that quickly breaks up the layer of surface water on a userâ $ ™ s hands for quick removal and evaporation.

Some of the major hydrology applications involve the use of surface water systems, namely rivers, open - channels, and estuaries.

In the dry season, surface water reservoirs are at the same level as the aquifer that feeds them: altitude measurements of the surface water then made possible direct observations of the height of the groundwater.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is «stressed,» with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new analysis of surface water in the United States.

The main research themes include GHG concentrations and ecosystem — atmosphere fluxes, the climate effects of atmospheric aerosols, aerosol — cloud interactions and air quality (FMI), the effects of air pollution on ecosystems, climate effects on hydrology, the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of surface waters and the deposition of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)(SYKE).

Lower calcification rates would reduce the alkalinity pump, reduce surface CO2 and increase the buffering capacity of surface waters.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading proponent of the doom of global warming, states that the mean pH of surface waters ranges between 7.9 and 8.3 in the open oceans, so the oceans remain alkaline.

The horizontal movement of surface water arising from a balance between the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force is known as geostrophic flow.

These subtropical ocean gyres are large rotating masses of surface water which occupy the mid-latitudes of each ocean basin.

Higher temperatures in polar regions and a decrease in the salinity of surface water due to melting ice sheets could interrupt such circulation, the report says.

Most of the surface water comes from snow.

It also reduces flooding, erosion and contamination of surface water.»

Maue discussed how «two camps» of researchers claim to have increased predictability of such weather events over periods of a month or more by using clues either in the Arctic, related to the extent of sea ice and snow cover, or in the temperature of surface waters across the Pacific Ocean.