Sentences with phrase «on ocean transport»

World trade has always depended on ocean transport and the world's navies grew up in order to protect these maritime trade routes.

Hall, T.M., and T.W.N. Haine, 2002: On ocean transport diagnostics: The idealized age tracer and the age spectrum.

Not exact matches

Malaysia's deputy transport minister says it is «almost certain» that the wreckage found on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean this week is from a Boeing 777 — the same type of aircraft as missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Kohl says that there will be enough supply to meet the demand over the next decade in Greater Vancouver, although Fraser Valley gravel sources on land will become depleted, necessitating the transport of gravel by ocean barge from Texada Island.

RW: Have studies proved to the federal government that products from the Kinder Morgan pipeline can be safely transported both on land and on the ocean?

These amounts include cuts to Environment Canada, and those imposed on environment related programs at Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada, Parks Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Transport Canada.

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

Accordingly, at no small cost in money and effort, it was towed across the Atlantic Ocean on a specially constructed barge, unloaded, and transported through the streets of New York City on a specially built, very wide - tired truck, to its present site in Central Park near the Metropolitan Art Museum.

From New Orleans, the bourbon will be transferred to Besh's renovated rum runner boat and transported to Key West with Zoeller and Besh before being loaded on a sailboat to sail north up the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.

A pipeline feasibility study on the possibility of transporting oil from Kenya and Uganda — where Tullow has another operation — to the Indian Ocean is planned.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is transported to midlatitudes on long filaments of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's oceans.

So understanding ocean currents and the timescale on which they transport ocean pollutants is critical during any maritime accidents, especially ones involving oil leaks.»

Based on simulations using real weather data in the Atlantic Ocean, the work was focused specifically on the transport of water from the tropics of the Caribbean to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, but it suggests a more general way to study the transport of tropical water vapor globally.

«The Importance of Planetary Rotation Period for Ocean Heat Transport» is published in the journal Astrobiology on Monday, July 21, 2014.

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

Dr. Hoffmann: «The isotope Hafnium 176 in contrast to its counterpart Neodymium 143 was transported by means of weathering into the oceans and became part of iron - rich sediments on the sea floor 2,700 million years ago.»

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean).

The team focused on Saharan dust transported across the Atlantic Ocean to South America and beyond, to the Caribbean Sea, because it is the largest transport of dust on the planet.

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

«In that area, like on the eastern boundaries of other tropical oceans, nutrient - rich waters from deeper water layers are transported to the surface,» explains co-author Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange, also from GEOMAR.

This work has been supported by the NOPP project «Advanced coupled atmosphere - wave - ocean modeling for improving tropical cyclone prediction models» (PIs: Isaac Ginis, URI and Shuyi Chen, UM) and by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Consortium for Advanced Research on the Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment — CARTHE (PI: Tamay Özgökmen, UM).

According to the model, wind and ocean currents often transport meltwater around the southern tip of Greenland on a westward journey that can take upward of 60 days.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and member of the BIO5 Institute.

These systems play a major role in transporting heat and carbon, and are therefore indispensable to understanding the ocean's influence on climate.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the BIO5 Institute.

At this time the E-W sea surface temperature gradients in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans increased [29], [31] intensifying the E-W moisture transport in the tropics, which greatly increased rainfall variability both on a precession and an ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) time - scales.

A continual cycle of heat and moisture is pulled from the tropical ocean and transported around the globe on belts of atmospheric energy.

We review data on the absorption of anthropogenic CO2 by Northern Hemisphere marginal seas (Arctic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and East / Japan Sea) and its transport to adjacent major basins, and consider the susceptibility to recent climatic change of key factors that influence CO2 uptake by these marginal seas.

During a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, Cambridge USA, his research interest focused on the interaction between ocean eddies and deep convection regions and their respective heat and density transports.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Cursor movement keys or arrow keys are buttons on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction A cay forms when ocean currents transport loose sediment across the surface of a reef to a depositional node, where the current slows or converges with

Looking suitably classy and cool, even on public transport — these are very much a higher class of criminal — the eight women who make up the gang are, from left to right, Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean (estranged sister of George Clooney's Danny Ocean); Cate Blanchett as Lou; Rihanna as Nine Ball; Mindy Kaling as Amita; Awkwafina as Constance; Helena Bonham Carter as Rose; Anne Hathaway as Daphne Kluger; and Sarah Paulson as Tammy.

Portuguese rule officially began in 1505, bringing the Portuguese a useful revenue source from tribute payments, but also strategic control of the Indian Ocean allowing them to extract high tariffs on items transported by sea.

OTTAWA — August 11, 2017 — The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) congratulates Transport Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on its joint decision to impose a mandatory slowdown order on large ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from fatal ship strikes.

Open the wall - sized glass sliding doors in the living room to the amazing ocean view, turn on some soft music through speakers that are installed in the ceiling, turn on the gas fireplace and feel yourself transported to a truly magical place.

Extras included in the package i didn't mention but made our trip top notch were the transport to and from the airport, individual motorcycles to travel to the surrounding villages, stellar condo with ocean view and A.C, free wifi and a few rounds of Tona's on the bigman Buzz himself...

On Sunday, April 26th, the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa's Ocean Lawn will transport attendees to the Casbah — no magic carpet required — for a celebration with a Mediterranean / North African theme.

On the first floor, guests also can relax in the OceanView Theatre — a comfortable cinema that features the award - winning, originally produced Ocean Original travel series that transports viewers to new and exotic places, introduces them to extraordinary people who live there and provides inspiration for near and far ocean trOcean Original travel series that transports viewers to new and exotic places, introduces them to extraordinary people who live there and provides inspiration for near and far ocean trocean travel.

Since man first set out on the sea for commerce or transport, artists have depicted the ocean in artwork.

They are spun and exchanged on the global lubrication of currency and then transported by the conveyor belt of the ocean.

The paper by Bryden reports on a particular calculation done to infer the volume transport of the Atlantic Ocean along 25N at five instances in time (now granted this is expensive so we can not get to do many of these types of transects).

Based on transient climate model simulations of glacial - interglacial transitions (rather than «snapshots» of different modeled climate states), Ganopolski and Roche (2009) proposed that in addition to CO2, changes in ocean heat transport provide a critical link between northern and southern hemispheres, able to explain the apparent lag of CO2 behind Antarctic temperature.

--- On a lighter note, here is a beautiful and somewhat creepy video of a «brine - icle» transporting very cold brine down from below the sea ice to the ocean floor and freezing everything in its path.

3) Can you confirm that the temperature and net flux data for GISS - E2 - R, available via the CMIP5 portals and KNMI Climate Explorer are based on a model corrected to fix the ocean heat transport problem which you identified in the Russel ocean model in your 2014 paper?