Sentences with phrase «on turbulent seas»

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.

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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.
The works on cloth appeared to be landscapes — a turbulent sea; a sky crowded with moons, shrouded in mist; mountains in the distance, only faintly visible.
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.
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).
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.
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