Sentences with phrase «of surface waters of»

Their causes range from completely unpredictable events like volcanic eruptions (which have mainly local effects) to more regular phenomena such as «El Niño» (a warming of the surface waters of the tropical Pacific that occurs every three to five years, temporarily affecting weather world - wide).

Collectively, coastal upwelling ecosystems represent only 1 % of the surface waters of the ocean, but they have historically provided 20 % of the fisheries.

One of the reasons for the lag is the delayed reaction of the surface waters of the oceans to the absorption of heat and it's ultimate contribution by releasing this heat back to the atmosphere.

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.

The Atlantic annual formation of deep water has the volume of about one meter layer of surface water of the oceans based on a rapid calculation I made.

Not exact matches

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

The agency downplayed the impact of the withdrawal, saying it would amount to only a 0.07 percent increase in total surface water withdrawal from Lake Michigan.

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.

Think of it as an iceberg: What you see above the water is the result of everything hiding beneath the surface.

That's not to say that water is not abundant there - but it's so cold on Titan (with a surface temperature of -180 ℃) that water behaves like rock and sand.

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

Knightscope recently made headlines when one of its security bots was found drowned in a shopping mall pond — slippery surfaces had prevented the K5 from detecting stairs leading to the recessed water.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

Per the UBS report — written by Tom McLoughlin, Mike Ryan and Justin Waring of UBS — the No. 1 priority on the agenda is America's airports, followed by surface transportation, maritime ports and water utilities.

The 77 - year - old director of «The Martian» (opening Friday) told The New York Times on Monday that the head of NASA showed him the photos of water on the surface of Mars two months ago.

It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.

Tiangong - 1 is likely to crash over the ocean, as water covers about 71 % of Earth's surface.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

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.

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

To ensure that surface water quality is maintained, measurement and reporting of water quality parameters in key water bodies is carried out on a weekly basis.

SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.

Made from a ring of tires lashed together around a tube extending below the surface, waves would overtop the ring, pushing the column of water down, while a check valve in the tube would keep it from flowing back.

At midspan, the height of the top of the roadway surface is +270.9 feet Mean Lower Low Water, which is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum EWater, which is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Ewater height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch.

For soaps that come in their own tub or container, you can simply pour the water into it so that the surface of the soap is fully covered.

Producers have to heat up prodigious amounts of water to melt the stuff and get it to flow toward the surface.

In this day and age, energy comes from wind, water, sun and from geothermal forces below the surface of the -LSB-...]

DREDGING SOLUTION The SlurrySucker operates from the top of the water surface and sucks silt from the bottom of the processing pond

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

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Boar bristle will absorb water, whereas badger will shed water; badger, however can hold more water than boar, likely because of surface tension and water's attraction to the greater quantity of the finer hairs in the badger brush.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., displayed a bottle of brownish water he said came from a constituent's well near a surface coal mine.

... and yet Earth is literally peppered with super-volcanic craters, massive magma intrusions, lava flows etc. and not to mention that the vast majority of surface strata were indeed laid down via water.

We're all there, gathered around the proverbial water cooler, but it's mostly surface talk (and the occasional bit of juicy gossip).

Well before dawn the first day, I took a bus to the Tiber and stood on the bridge colonnaded with Bernini's angels, watching the sun rise, glinting orange off the still surface of the water.

Most of the surface is salt water, can't live there or even drink it.

If all of that water was contained inside the Earth (as many Christian «claim» is the case when they get desperate because the other options clearly don't work), then you wouldn't have been able to walk on the surface because the Earth's crust would have turned into a literal quicksand soup.

Yet in Genesis 2 we have this: ----------- — 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

I recall us in our pallor at the stand - offish kibbutz on its narrow shelf of shore past the Qumran scroll mines, how they had fresh water hoses afloat on the surface to wash our mouths and eyes if the clear Mars - gravity water got into them, as we drifted high as triremes.

If slightly smaller, gravity would be less, causing surface water and oxygen to escape and again making the earth barren of life.

The stereo surface, the glass and the water itself all become part of this conductor, so certain signals interpreted by the arrangement of stereo, glass and water are translated into specific responses.

Then with the hand of your pastor or your friends, sometimes both, at your back your face breaks the surface of the water and you breathe in new life.

The big puffs of foam that form on the surface of the water aren't evidence of agricultural runoff, but rather the result of rainwater leeching through the forest floor.

This is derived from movements on the surface of water and turns out to be applicable in many other areas.

Perhaps, when Jesus walked on the water, he knew of some stepping stones, hidden just beneath the surface (John 6:16 - 21).

The observance of the millennium has brought an apparent calm on the surface of the water, but according to several sources, it has really done little to ensure any regularity in the unpredictable currents beneath.

The task of an interpreter is to help the faithful look beyond the surface, to highlight a word here, an image there, to find Christ unexpectedly, to drink at the bountiful spring whose water is ever fresh.

It may be likened to that large part of every iceberg which lies hidden below the surface of the water.