Sentences with phrase «open water surfaces»

Analyzing the data from 1979 to 2014, the researchers found the solar heat input through open water surfaces correlated well with ice melt volume, suggesting heat input is a major causative factor of melting ice.

Not exact matches

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.

Also, I just cut the circles out and put a dallopp of filling in each one, instead of picking them off the surface, then I dip my finger into a bowl of water and go around the edge so that the seam will stick together better when boiling, because seems like it doesn't stay together well enough if I don't and it opens up while boiling...

Children squeeze the trigger to open his mouth, then try to gobble up all the little guppies as they float on the water's surface as fast as they can.

Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum into smaller droplets that dissipate into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.

Finally, narwhals scan vertically as they dive, which could help them find patches of open water where they can surface and breathe amid sea ice cover.

Findings include a discovery that surface waters in the open Arctic Ocean release heat - trapping methane gas into the atmosphere at a «significant» rate

The Galileo mission to Jupiter bolstered the case in 1999, showing for instance that Europa is scarred by long cracks that may periodically open up and let water reach the surface.

Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

At night the chamber is opened, allowing ambient air to diffuse through the porous MOF and water molecules to stick to its interior surfaces, gathering in groups of eight to form tiny cubic droplets.

With its body coiled up at the sea surface, the snake points its head under the water, mouth open.

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

But the water's source — whether melting ice, rainfall, or groundwater — and its duration on the surface are still open questions.

This makes it possible to precisely measure the altitude of the ocean water which reaches the surface through ice cracks and openings.

Some of these biomarkers are produced by certain species of algae, among which one group can only be found in open surface water, while the members of another group only live in sea ice (or did so in the Earth's distant past).

When Kempthorne first proposed opening up the land to uranium mining, several concerned parties — including dozens of elected officials, public utilities and Native American tribes — complained about potential threats to surface and ground water from such activities.

There are more open water leads within the ice, and the surface melt of the sea ice is more intensive than before.

And how much do those levels change from place to place — at the coast or out in open waters, or at the surface versus in the depths?

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

The evidence of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) spontaneously using sticks to scoop food from water surfaces is published in the open - access journal PeerJ.

NORMAN — A University of Oklahoma research study, led by Professor Xiangming Xiao, reveals the divergent trends of open surface water bodies in the contiguous United States from 1984 to 2016, specifically, a decreasing trend in the water - poor states and an increasing trend in the water - rich states.

A paper on this study by Xiao and his team, «Divergent Trends of Open Surface Water Body Area in the Contiguous United States During 1984 to 2016,» has been published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

«It opens the doors to using hydrogen bonds to make surfaces hydrophilic, or attracted to water, and to (template) these surfaces for the selective absorption of other molecules possessing fundamental similarities to water,» Mavrikakis says.

[2] «Water Sky — The dark appearance of the underside of a cloud layer when it is over a surface of open water.&rWater Sky — The dark appearance of the underside of a cloud layer when it is over a surface of open water.&rwater.»

Just as our moon's gravity squeezes and stretches the Earth a bit, causing the oceans to rise and fall, Saturn's massive gravitational pull squeezes and stretches its tiny moon, causing cracks on its icy surface to open and allowing water to shoot out.

A crane lifts Doc Ricketts off the floor, the floor opens up to reveal the surface of the sea, and the machine is gently lowered into the water.

The resulting spongelike openings were then filled with SCW.During the flood, that pore water provided an enormous surface area for slowing and capturing neutrons and other subatomic particles.

Researchers have long speculated that water could find its way to the surface through openings along the cracks and ridges of the moon's chaotic geologic terrain.

(The tidal forces are also probably what open the cracks in its surface that vent the water vapor into space.)

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

I'm a certified open water diver, but admittedly am very panicky on the surface of the water.

The opening shot has pinstripes of sunshine poking through the surface of emerald - green waters to a reef below, and on first pass I thought they were banding, but a closer inspection suggests the beams» compression - like gradient decay is intended to mimic the Northern Lights.

The recurring signature image of «The Master» — which is also the opening shot — is the aforementioned view of the ocean seen from a high deck on the rear of a ship, the waters roiled by the propellers deep below the surface.

As these films always are, the story is a slight variation on Jaws (whose John Williams score is paid «homage»), with a deadly aquatic predator surfacing and various reasons (authority ineptitude, nature defiance, a marina festival with an open water polo match) keeping people on or in the water and at risk.

The opening, in particular, set against looking - glass water surfaces, is breathtaking.

Some of the major hydrology applications involve the use of surface water systems, namely rivers, open - channels, and estuaries.

Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in water beneath a frozen lake, a favorite haunt of ice fisherman: «The circular ice hole was partially filled with water, and a few inches below the surface floated a human head, the long hair beaded with ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»

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Dog Run 105 (105th St. in Riverside Park): Open from sunrise until 1:00 am, there are organized events throughout the year; nice area with crushed stone surface and water for pets and their humans.

Surface lunge - feeding is also observed here, where whales trap krill or schooling fish at the surface and lunge out of the water with their mouthSurface lunge - feeding is also observed here, where whales trap krill or schooling fish at the surface and lunge out of the water with their mouthsurface and lunge out of the water with their mouths open.

A hawksbill turtle slumbering next to a large barrel sponge decides it's had enough of our annoying intrusion and glides off into open water, angling for the surface.

She paddles around the kelp floating at the surface, looking intently into the water, and then suddenly ducks her head in, emerging with a green urchin in her beak, which she takes to shore, breaks open and eats.

You can head 25 or 30 feet below the water's surface, opening up a whole new world.

When the bill touches the surface of the water the pelican will push its legs and wings back creating a bit more force, under the water the bill opens and the pouch stretches out wide allowing the pelican to scoop up fish.

This natural wonder occurs when water rushes under a lava shelf and bursts through a small opening at the surface.

The open wells from the shelves meeting deep waters bring nutrients to the surface and the combination creates strong north and south tidal currents.

Shaped like a slightly oval well, it is fifty - eight meters in diameter, with vertical walls that measure twenty meters from the ground's opening to the water's surface.

There was an open area on the rocky surface at the water level, which was completely packed with people, waiting in line to be able to jump into the cenote from a platform above the water and another line to climb down one of the four wooden ladders into the water.

Actual sea surface water temperatures close to shore at Mangamaunu can vary by several degrees compared with these open water averages.

The best months are November true March and are found near surface in open water, outside the reef to a depth of 650 feet.