Sentences with phrase «of turbulent seas»

The latter canvas, meanwhile, with its impastoed blobs, smears and scrapes, makes you think of a turbulent sea in a harmony of white and greys (a brisk walk along the Margate coast afterwards is recommended).

Not exact matches

Massive demographic and economic shifts, as well as historic levels of technological and media disruption, are turning this once predictable industry — where «average» was king — into a sea of turbulent change, leaving consumer behavior permanently altered.

Their oars had no more effect on the turbulent sea than toothpicks, even though some of them were fishermen, They were accustomed to wind and wave, but to nothing like this.

OFF the northernmost tip of Scotland, where the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean meet those of the North Sea, sits a chain of 70 mostly uninhabited islands collectively known as Orkney.

This says that empty space is really a frothy, turbulent sea full of virtual particles — matter and antimatter that spring in and out of existence so fast that we can't see them.

Filtered almost exclusively through Amir's muddled consciousness, Moon Brow is intimate in its inquiries and epic in its scope, ushering the reader through some of the most turbulent decades in Iranian history, and from locations as diverse as the polluted heat - haze of modern Tehran to the burning battlefields of the Iran - Iraq War, to the near - mystical calm and beauty of the Caspian Sea.

Turbulent seas may sometimes arise for a while during the monsoonal influenced months of January — February.

Instead of the tranquil Caribbean Sea, the beaches face the Atlantic Ocean, which means that waters can be more turbulent, especially in the winter months.

Paysage de mer, painted by Courbet in Normandy in 1869, with its vigorous application of paint and urgent, thickened brushstrokes is in ideal symbiosis with the depopulated sea and turbulent cloudscape he powerfully evokes.

Twombly often remarked on his profound love of landscape, and the murky, sensual qualities of humus - rich soil and turbulent seas are present in works such as the four - part Paesaggio, 1980, composed of varying degrees of dark, earthy tones.

In Gallery II, a large, wall - based sculpture of colorful ceramic disks on rotating arms titled, THIS ONE GOES OUT ACROSS THE SEMAPHORE SPECTRUM, simultaneously takes form as a double solar system model or an antiquated signal device used to communicate turbulent atmospheric conditions to pilots in air or at sea.

Each of the selected works depict turbulent skies and choppy seas.

The exhibition shows the symbolic potential of the sea, with its associations of unpredictability, infinity, the beginnings of life, turbulent passions, interpersonal relationships, unfettered freedom, purification, solitude and rebellion.»

Through the twelve large - scale charcoal drawings comprising the show, Longo contemplates important world events, such as in «Untitled (Raft at Sea),» which is derived from a Doctors Without Borders periodical and portrays a raft of refugees navigating the turbulent Mediterranean Sea.

A product of a turbulent childhood, he spent his early years painting wooden models of famous ships, and on several occasions ran away from home with the intention of going to sea.

If Victor wasn't so stupid & trollish I would suggest Rob Painting's «How Increasing Carbon Dioxide Heats The Ocean» over on SkS and, by way of preparation, the added quote from IPCC AR5 WG1 3.4.1 «The net air — sea heat flux is the sum of two turbulent (latent and sensible) and two radiative (shortwave and longwave) components.»

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

The low - lying Pacific Island country of Kiribati is one of many micro-nations in danger of serious damage and even inundation from rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice and increasingly turbulent global weather.

While vertical AW [Atlantic Water] heat fluxes are negligible in the Canadian Basin, turbulent mixing may be strong enough in the western Nansen Basin to produce a sizable effect of AW heat on sea ice.

They are calculated as daily turbulent air - sea fluxes over global oceans with a spatial resolution of 0.25 ° in longitude and latitude.

The air - sea interface «is typically the most turbulent part of the ocean,» Clayson said.

IMO the process whose changes are most likely to be responsible for apparent changes to deep ocean heat content are changes to the nature of turbulent vertical mixing in specific areas of the world, especially the West Pacific / South China Sea, and perhaps the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.