Sentences with phrase «sea surface water»

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

Concerning decadal changing trends of CO2 content in atmosphere I have expressed that they are caused by changing temperatures of sea surface water on the seasurface areas where seasurface CO2 sinks are.

All the sea surface water, warmed by the tropical sun, is blown to the west of the Pacific and, to compensate part of the imbalance, cooler deep ocean waters well up on the western shores of Latin America (and spread all the way up to the Solomon Islands).

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

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

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

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

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

«During Norwegian winters, sea surface water is colder than at depth, so by lifting warmer water to the surface using bubble curtains, we can prevent the fjords from icing up», he says.

4) By interpreting the analyss of Bob Tisdale, the global sea surface temperatures used by Endersbee in his calculations have been controlled by warming of the sea surface waters outside the tropical sea surface i.e. mainly by the warming of the sea surface waters of higher latitudes where the sea surface CO2 sinks are.

The weather records that the team collated showed that sea surface waters have warmed by an average of 0.9 °C in the summer - and 2.3 °C at the height of the southern winter, in August - since 1925.

It means that the global sea surface temperatures used by Endersbee in his calculations have been controlled by warming of the sea surface waters outside the tropical sea surface i.e. mainly the warming of the sea surface waters of higher latitudes where the sea surface CO2 sinks are.

Unlike Oschlies» study, the authors found that the warming of sea surface waters was largely to blame for the growth of these deserts.

Not exact matches

Since the sea is pure only when it is deep, and is transparent only when it is pure, as soon as it is impure it is no longer deep but only surface water, and as soon as it is only surface water it is not transparent.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

500 g (about 4 cups) whole wheat flour (I used organic King Arthur Flour), plus extra for the work surface and dusting 3 g (3/4 teaspoon) granulated yeast (I used instant (*)-RRB- 7 g (11/2 teaspoons) kosher salt (I used fine sea salt) 25 g (2 tablespoons) extra-virgin olive oil 375 g (1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon) lukewarm water

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

The strike - slip and thrust movements of the fault may drive water from the Red Sea in between the fault and the surface of the igneous block, allowing the two to slip past each other, the scientists suggest.

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.

A new power plant offshore converts the temperature difference between sea surface and deep waters into electricity

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

This means they could spread microplastic pollution throughout the marine ecosystem, by carrying microplastics from the surface down to deeper waters, affecting deep - sea organisms.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

SEAS researchers suggest that early Mars may have been warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse effect, possibly explaining water on the planet's surface billions of years ago.

«If we assume an average microplastics concentration on the day we took the water sample in Rees, we can say that the Rhine contributes a daily load of more than 191 million plastic particles to the North Sea, and that only takes into account the surface.

But the researchers suspect that the creatures» poop, as well as their mucus houses, could transfer microplastics from the water's surface to the depths of the sea (along with nutrients such as carbon that cycle through the environment).

I have read that people drown in seas like these because there's so much wind - whipped water in the air that even if you can keep your head above the surface, you can not draw a breath.

«We are in awe that an animal that spends most of its time on the surface of sea ice could swim constantly for so long in water so cold.»

The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.

Sea spray droplets are aerosol water particles that are ejected into the atmosphere as waves break at the ocean surface.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

Ocean water sops up the red so effectively that 100 feet below the sea surface only the bluish components of sunlight penetrate; a sunken ship's crimson lower keel appears black to divers since nothing can look red in the absence of red light.

The short answer is everywhere — the sea surface, deep waters, the Gulf Coast, in deepwater corals and even as far as the Arctic

The tiny moon Enceladus, which has a liquid sea below its icy surface and spews geysers of water into space, set behind Saturn as Cassini watched:

Computer - generated models of sea spray, however, show that at least some ions remain in the surface layer of water.

Heat that stays at the surface will ultimately result in greater sea - level rise as warmer water expands more readily as it heats up.

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

In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

The oxygen content of the ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form of the numerous sea creatures that dine near the surface at night then submerge into the safety of deeper, darker waters at daybreak.

Fish are dependent on oxygen that dissolves in the surface water and then sinks downward, but it is only within the past 70 million years that the deep seas have been oxygenated.

Geysers and deep - sea vents are hydrothermal phenomena in which water, heated and pressurized by molten rock, is released through vents at the land surface or into the oceans.

Since the density of pure water ice is ca. 920 kg / m3, and that of sea water ca. 1025 kg / m3, typically, around 90 % of the volume of an iceberg is under water, and that portion's shape can be difficult to surmise from looking at what is visible above the surface.

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

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

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

Real - world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep - sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt — type circulation.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

The team discovered that internal waves are generated daily from internal tides, which also occur below the ocean surface, and grow larger as the water is pushed westward through the Luzon Strait into the South China Sea.