Sentences with phrase «over oceans»

Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.

Van Booy's confident prose carries the reader over oceans and back again, into archaeological digs and airport hotels, and the romance at the center of the book stays vivid long after the story is through.»

The patterns of salinity change can be used to infer changes in the Earth's hydrological cycle over the oceans (Wong et al., 1999; Curry et al., 2003) and are an important complement to atmospheric measurements.

Simulations and observations of total atmospheric water vapour averaged over oceans agree closely when the simulations are constrained by observed SSTs, suggesting that anthropogenic influence has contributed to an increase in total atmospheric water vapour.

But that data lacks complete global coverage, especially over the oceans.

In March, 2018, lower tropospheric temperatures (1500m) over the oceans (71 % of the earth's surface) also saw a further drop:

Other big differences are removing AQUA and NOAA - 15, which appeared to have an evolving bias based on comparisons to other satellites, especially over oceans where we don't expect diurnal cycle problems to be big.

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water

A 1983 study conducted by climate researcher Kevin Trenberth found that the meteorological definition more closely agreed with observable weather in the continental regions of the northern hemisphere, while the astronomical definition only fit reality better over the oceans in the southern hemisphere.

Some of the more recent conjectures include the constant winds over the oceans pushing varying amounts of water on the earth at one time or even the effects of a major earthquake.

Warming has occurred in both land and ocean domains, and in both sea surface temperature (SST) and nighttime marine air temperature over the oceans.

Warming, particularly since the 1970s, has generally been greater over land than over the oceans.

Is it the case that evaporation will increase primarily over land while precipitation will rise mostly over oceans?

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.

The phenomenon lowered precipitation over the oceans in the last decade, dampening the warming signal, they said.

Alexander Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, first noticed light flashes occasionally appearing over oceans as he looked through that day's EPIC images.

«The impact on our estimates of the trends, especially over the oceans, does seem noteworthy.»

There's a new long - distance insect flyer in town: a tiny dragonfly a mere 4 centimeters in length that wings its way over oceans and continents.

Difficulty in measuring rainfall over the oceans has precluded any analysis of this immense area.

Satellite observations from GPM, like its satellite predecessor the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, are vital because they can measure rain accumulation over oceans, where the majority of rainfall occurs.

To avoid potential collisions, planes on long - haul routes out over the oceans currently have to fly quite a long way apart.

For the first time, these devices, known as ADS - B transponders, will enable air traffic controllers to locate aircraft that are far out over oceans, remote deserts or the poles where there is no radar coverage.

At least over the oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.

Accurate tracking of lightning and thunderstorms over the oceans, too distant for land - based radar and sometimes difficult to see with satellites, will support safe navigation for aviators and mariners.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

Though they don't fully understand what caused the different outcomes at the two sites, Weatherhead speculated it had something to do with Clyde River's proximity to Baffin Bay, and the influence of weather patterns that develop over the oceans.

Over the oceans, some contain organic or biological ingredients (bacteria, degradation products of microscopic algae) which come from sea spray, others are transported in the air (mineral dust, smoke).

Fish - shaped reptiles called ichthyosaurs reigned over the oceans for as long as dinosaurs roamed the land, but only recently have paleontologists discovered why these creatures were so successful

Most of the worlds winds blow over the oceans, unseen and undetected — until now.

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.

«A new view: NASA / NOAA water vapor animations over oceans.»

Flight - tracking over the oceans That flight MH370 could not be tracked with GPS is astonishing.

(Iced - over oceans on moons of the gas giants are almost our last hope.)

We don't want more Americans to lose their jobs, as we buy cheap stuff from over the oceans.

Within a brief moment, a lifetime of journeys over oceans, abysses, deserts and mountains condenses and collapses into one life - defining revelation.

Maybe not in the brief iconic moment of Mary's Easter morning, but over the oceans and abysses and mountains and deserts of our life through time.

But its advantage only holds up as long as the supply chains are in China and shipping raw materials and finished goods over the oceans remains cost - effective.

Humans can't breathe underwater, nor swim indefinitely over oceans and vast seas, but humans do have eyes, and can see the set of the stars.

Of course, matching the landscape to your degree of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging it.

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

by the way, the things keeping you aloft over the ocean are the thrust produced by the engines, the aerodynamics of the wings, and the skill of the pilots.

I heard they wrapped him in white and threw him off a plane over the ocean... this was frm cnn on xm: what if his body floats?

Spafford looked out over the ocean, overwhelmed with the incredible presence of God's peace despite his terrible circumstances.

Its consistent direction allowed early Polynesian explorers to travel thousands of miles over the ocean in simple, koa - wood canoes.

Plus the sun setting over the ocean was worth seeing just in itself.

With the sun setting over the ocean and good friends around the table, it couldn't have been a happier moment.

Hiking through the misty trees to the rocky shoulder that sticks out over the ocean fulfilled me in a deep, electrifying way.

Todays smoothie is inspired by the color of late - Summer sunsets over the ocean, particularly one memory I have of an evening sky painted in cotton - candy colors: magenta, pastel pinks and soft blues.

Candice Combs, the superintendent of Torrey's marquee Southcourse, especially enjoys watching the moon set over the ocean, though there «sno moon to see this morning, not with the thick winter fog rolling in, and notime for reverie: The Buick Invitational looms, and, in the distance, the 2008U.

He wants his honey, and he's not afraid to sail over an ocean of bees to get it,» said Boras.