Sentences with phrase «over open water»

In part, these high temperatures resulted from high sea surface temperatures over the open water areas.

There is a distant camp across the lake and she knows how sound travels over open water, especially in the still of the night.

As we lose the ice, the wind has what we call a big fetch over the open water, and you get big waves.

The missile he launches blows up over open water doing no harm.

The view over the open water of the canals to the distant mountains are stunning and we enjoy beautiful sunsets especially in winter.

But circumstantial evidence had suggested otherwise: The wasps somehow traveled hundreds of kilometers to colonize a formerly lifeless volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean called Anak Krakatoa, and they have been snarled in nets attached to a research airplane flying over open water in the Pacific.

Whenever the birds fly along the coast, the coastline helps them to compensate for sidewind and avoid drifting, which is harder when flying over open water.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

Such warming provides stronger fuel for the furious storms called tropical cyclones that form over open waters (known in the Atlantic as hurricanes).

University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy noted on Twitter that it might be the first tropical storm to spend zero time over open water.

When their plane goes down over open water, Louis and his surviving crew men find themselves stranded at sea with few supplies and little hope.

You can snorkel and zip line over the open water cenotes, or even go below ground and take a guided excursion inside these mythical subterranean rivers.

Upstairs is dominated by the Naksan series, black and white photographs of a snow flurry over open water.

But it's rare to see a wind farm looming over open water — at least in the U.S. European companies with projects in places like Denmark and Scotland have taken the early lead in offshore wind energy.

The height of waves is in part determined by surface wind speed, as well as the fetch (distance over open water that the wind can travel) and the duration of a wind event.

Firstly, the retreat of the sea ice or the loss of the ice will mean that global warming will increase because you are changing a large area of white to dark, reducing the average albedo [reflection] of the planet... Secondly, there will be an acceleration of sea level rise because warm air that lies over the open water in the Arctic Ocean moves over to Greenland and gives you surface melt at the Greenland ice sheet [equals 23» of sea level rise] to an extent that didn't used to happen.

In 2007 due to clear skies over open water there was a massive heat gain (500 % of average IIRC), I don't think that happened this year.

The paper REA16 primarily cite to support faster warming of tas over open water than SST, [6] which is also model - based, attributes this effect to the thermal inertia of the ocean causing a lag in ocean warming.

Tropical Storm Delta largely stayed over open water then moved across the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa.

Epsilon, No. 26 for those keeping track, is destined to head northeast and die over open water.

Even though it causes only a small reduction in concentration - the input to the Slater model - «this trigger accelerates ice melt through the enhanced solar heat input over the open water fraction.»

The NHC said that Ian is moving toward the north - northwest near 13 mph (20 kph), and a turn toward the north and north - northeast at increasing forward speed is expected over the next 48 hours, remaining over the open waters of the Atlantic and no threat to land.

Most known for developing building methods for extreme weather conditions, designing long bridge spans over open waters and being involved in the refurbishing of existing buildings.

The first 45 minutes of the commute will be over open waters.

To sum the PNAS study up: that one thinks especially at the onset of the winter season snowfall is likely to increase as a consequence of Arctic warming, as more open water in the Arctic Ocean means more evaporation (especially when the cold sets in over open water — that creates an unstable atmosphere with convection) and therefore more precipitation, usually in the form of snow.