Sentences with phrase «of surface waters across»

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.

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The solution: Poo - Pourri, whose proprietary formula creates a protective barrier across the surface of the toilet - bowl water, halting foul odors from coming into contact with the air.

The scene was much different about 4.5 billion years ago, though: Water covered about 20 % of the planet's surface, and 400 - foot - tall megatsunamis raced across ancient oceans.

It's hot enough when a drop of water flicked across the surface immediately sizzles.

When your skillet is hot enough that a drop of water will skitter across the surface, it's time to cook!

Like when you; re making pancakes, the pan is ready when a drop of cold water «skips» across the surface before sizzling into nonexistence.

The pan or griddle is ready if a drop of water skitters across the surface, evaporating immediately.

While the pasta is cooking, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until a drop of water sizzles when flicked across the surface.

When the pan is hot (a droplet of water should dance vigorously across the surface), add about 1/3 cup of batter, smoothing out the top a tiny bit with a spatula to help it form a circle.

Think of the serene swan gliding across the surface of the pond — there's considerable activity going on below the surface of the water.

Use a straw to blow the boats across a calm surface of water, what happens when you blow gently and then with more force?

Unlike conventional microfiber and cotton towels that absorb moisture, Discovery Trekking Outfitter's innovative fabric is designed to pull water from your skin and then spread the moisture across the surface area of the fabric so it evaporates quickly.

«But these results show us what the range of water availability across the surface is so we can start thinking about where we might want to go to get it and whether it makes economic sense to do so.»

In Martian summer, the combination of warm temperatures and a thin atmosphere make any liquid water on the surface boil, which can let dust hover across the ground

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

Most of us view the continents and oceans as discrete entities of land and water across Earth's surface.

When wind was simulated, a number of the spiders would raise their legs or abdomens to use as sails, propelling themselves across the water's surface.

The ice algae seem to be one of the major players in this scheme — even the slight increase of the atmospheric temperature and liquid water production seems to promote algae colonization across the ice surface.

«Approximately 36,000 of these disposal wells are currently in operation across the U.S., and little work has been done to evaluate their potential impacts on nearby surface water,» said Christopher Kassotis, a former graduate student in Nagel's laboratory and a current postdoctoral fellow at Duke University.

Essentially, they found that protons from a thin layer of water stretching across the surface of the catalyst detach from the water molecules and attach to oxygen molecules, briefly moving onto the surface of the catalyst to spur the reaction before returning to the water layer.

As expected, the simulations showed that the larger, 1 - km asteroid created the bigger splash, throwing 42 trillion kilograms of water and vapour — enough to fill 16 million Olympic - sized swimming pools — across an area more than 1000 kilometres wide and up to hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.

By comparing this fingerprint to the geochemical and isotopic profiles of 29 background surface water samples collected across the region, the team was able to determine where and to what extent contamination associated with brine spills had occurred, and rule out the possibility that it had been caused by other sources.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

This means that, in comparison to Planet Earth, relatively small amounts of liquid water moving across Mars» surface could form the large dune flows, gullies and other features, which characterise the Red Planet.

Whereas the nodules are scattered across the deep abyssal plains of the oceans, hundreds of miles from shore and typically three miles or more below the surface, many of the sulfide deposits are close to a coastline; also, they are always on undersea mountains and therefore located in much shallower water.

River deposits exist across the surface of Mars and record a surface environment from over 3.5 billion years ago that was able to support liquid water at the surface.

For example, the aquaporin protein - mediated flow of water across biological cell membranes is down to a balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions with channel surfaces.

Instead of gently percolating underground, rain water and melted snow can rush across these hardened surfaces, gaining enough power to erode loose sediments.

For both glasses, lay one end of a piece of string across an ice cube whose surface is about water level; let the other end of the string hang over the edge off the glass.

Multiple lines of evidence point to past flows of water across the Martian surface, but conditions on the planet now preclude the existence of liquid water.

The insects are so light they ride high on the water's surface, and they use the especially hairy feet on their middle set of legs to row their way across the water.

But the sheet has started to melt because of climate change, so more water is probably flowing across the surface of the islands underneath the...

An El Niño happens when warm water spreads across the surface of the Pacific, pushing rainfall to the east and causing floods in the Americas and drought in Australia.

The very same force allows water striders to glide along the surface of a pond, and, as Bandi demonstrates, causes flakes to move across water.

So far, these early results showed that physical conditions where the air and the ocean interact must be a vital part of any successful hurricane forecasting model and would help explain, and predict, how a storm might intensify as it moves through across the water based on the physical stress at the ocean's surface.

This ultra-thin ice encourages water molecules to essentially skate across it and colonize other areas of the surface, Zeng said.

By measuring the distance between the two satellites to within the width of a strand of human hair as they orbit the planet, researchers can record changes in Earth's gravitational pull that result from water moving across its surface.

Water - striding insects skim across the surface of a pond with no effort at all, but a team of MIT mathematicians had to work hard to figure out how they do it.

But from my vantage, all I could see was a handful of small boats dragging booms across the water's surface, dwarfed against a massive backdrop of oily water; also visible were one ship burning gases rising from the blowout and two platforms where relief wells were being drilled.

«The data, information and knowledge on long - term trends of surface water bodies across the CONUS at high spatial resolution are valuable for planning and management of surface water resources, however, they are not widely available yet,» said Xiao, professor of ecology and remote sensing in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, OU College of Arts and Sciences.

In addition to the known existence of water, a paper published today shows hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of the smallest of the Galilean Moons.

For example, dropping a pebble in a lake will force the water to move away from its equilibrium — and that change will propagate across the surface of the lake.

The data from Keck Observatory shows that peroxide is widespread across much of the surface of Europa, and the highest concentrations are reached in regions where Europa's ice is nearly pure water with very little sulfur contamination.

A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.

However, «we do have to be somewhat careful in interpreting these results, because it is possible that the observed motions represent the motion of some propagating disturbance in the plasma rather than the plasma itself, in the same way that a water wave can move across the surface of the ocean without physically transporting the water,» Piner said.

During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and cold, deeper water rises up, or upwells, off the west coast of South America.

Presently, much of the Atlantic Ocean is well oxygenated (Figure 1) relative to the North Indian and Pacific Oceans, where bottom water O2 concentrations are lower because of the biological removal of O2 as thermohaline circulation moves deep waters across ocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface ocean.

As to how a freshwater turtle migrated across a salty ocean; Tarduno points to the results of drilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic Ocean.

Its calm seas and enormous sand dunes might remind you of Earth, until you learn that what's flowing across Titan's surface is not water, but liquid hydrocarbons.

Analysis of asteroid 24 Themis shows evidence of water ice along with organic compounds widespread across the surface.