Sentences with phrase «over the open ocean»

Nor is there good observational evidence that air over the open ocean warms faster than SST.

This allows scientists to study clouds over the open ocean.

We simply don't think about these birds that spend most of their lives over the open ocean.

A new storm - following tool continually watches for lightning over the open ocean.

What exactly happens during a tropical storm over the open ocean is still a mystery to scientists.

The ice - covered area increases in autumn at times when passing weather systems drive ice away from land, or induce low - level divergence over open ocean.

This in turn provides added fuel for storms as they travel over open oceans.

Polar lows are small, intense cyclones that form over open ocean during the cold season.

It took a while after the discovery of the ice ages before anyone realized that glaciers don't form over open ocean: the pack ice at the North Pole is a few meters thick.

Sandy (23:31:48): You wrote, «You say higher Trade winds over open ocean is a warming effect.

Another benefit of the animations is that they are also useful wind - tracers of the middle atmosphere over the open oceans, where there are no weather balloons.

Hurricane winds whip up high waves over the open ocean, but their heights are notoriously hard to measure because the rough seas inevitably rip the standard buoy instruments loose from their moorings before the peak of the storm.

If so, then north and south look inherently different to migratory birds, and even when flying over open ocean on a starless night, they may use that distinction to stay on course.

The blackpoll warbler is capable of traveling up to 1,700 miles over the open ocean during its annual migration.

Feeding Western gulls feed over the open ocean or along rocky shores.

From a technology perspective, satellites were just beginning to collect vessel positions over the open ocean, and the «global coverage» was spotty.

Over the open ocean RL04 has errors of ~ 1 - 2 cm for 750 km Gaussian - smoothed data, whereas RL05 has errors of ~ 0.5 - 1.5 cm.

I question whether using SST as a proxy for tas over the open ocean has caused any downward bias in estimation of TCR in the real climate system, or even (to any significant extent) in CMIP5 models.

However, because tropical storms and hurricanes spend much of their lifetime over the open ocean - some never hitting land - many systems were «missed» during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries (Vecchi and Knutson 2008).

These match closely over the open ocean, but at high latitudes the layer of sea ice insulates the ocean and allows them to diverge.

When measured over the open oceans or throughout most of the 96 % non-urbanized land masses of the earth, its around 350 ppm.

Chowdhary, J., M.I. Mishchenko, and L.D. Travis, 2006: Contribution of water - leaving radiances to multiangle, multispectral polarimetric observations over the open ocean: Bio-optical model results for case 1 waters.

This minimum temperature can be related to convective activity over open ocean and suggest the presence of an active regulation mechanism.

The Minimum Central Pressure, being 879 millibars, was off the charts, then for the hurricane to move in, over Western Mexico is somewhat uncommon, as the majority of storms steering patterns move the systems westerly out over the open ocean.

You say higher Trade winds over open ocean is a warming effect.

The remaining 9 percentage points are due to HadCRUT4 blending air and sea surface temperature (SST) data, and arise partly from water warming less than air over the open ocean and partly from changes in sea ice redistributing air and water measurements.

Paul, it is global SAT, but I'm pretty sure that using SST over the open ocean wouldn't have changed it non-negligibly (though I haven't actually checked).

The early Falcon 9 booster landing attempts were over the open ocean, with the rockets either slamming into the sea hard, or hovering over the waves before tipping over.

Conducted in 1999, INDOEX exploited a unique occurrence during the winter monsoon in which air currents carry pollutants from India and Southeast Asia in a southern direction out over the open ocean.