Sentences with phrase «seawater as»

Assuming that the largest remaining ice shelves in East Antarctica — Filchner - Ronne and Ross — will remain intact, sea level rise from all other melting ice and the expansion of seawater as the weather gets warmer over the next century would be somewhere between 2.6 feet (0.8 meter) and six feet (two meters)-- or nearly twice as much as projected last year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

However, in the past measuring how productive coral reefs are has been time - consuming and expensive, requiring ongoing measurement as scientists need to trace the changes in the dissolved oxygen of seawater as it moves over the reef.

That may seem small at first, but over time, especially when combined with other sources of sea level rise such as melting Greenland glaciers and the expansion of seawater as ocean temperatures increase, it adds up.

(07/21/2008) Shell Oil is funding a project that seeks to test the potential of adding lime to seawater as a cost - effective way to fight global warming by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans, reports Chemistry & Industry magazine.

If Antarctica's ice sheets collapse, it would expose these hydrates, inundating them with seawater as the ocean washed over portions of the continent.

If this is to truly become an invaluable tool in aiding the global effort of converting solar energy into portable chemical energy, it has to work with seawater as well.

If we were mining seawater as I speculated about in the previous comment, for example, then LA and NY would indeed seem to have an important advantage over Toronto or St. Louis.

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You'll also get close enough to blowholes to get soaked by salty blasts of seawater as it whooshes through the rock tunnels.

The only thing that I need to be careful is to avoid the lens from getting any exposure to chemicals such as perfume and seawater as it can cause problem to the lens.

The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.

It is also thought that hydrothermal vents may regulate the chemistry of the global oceans and could be responsible for the elemental composition of seawater as a whole.

In other words, it's after phase A so it's been funded; there's money being spent selecting instruments for a spacecraft to go out to Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as the Earth.

The mission to explore Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as Earth, has entered «phase B,» meaning the project now has funding from Congress.

The analysis showed that acidic waters make it impossible for marine cement — limestone that precipitates out of the seawater as it flows against the coral reef — to form both between individual coral polyps as well as to anchor the entire reef ecosystem against the waves.

Empty ships routinely take on seawater as ballast before they set sail, to keep them stable while at sea.

And there are other naturally occurring radioactive elements in seawater as well, such as polonium.

Schuiling says that before the Red Sea is tapped for power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil) and cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity of the remaining seawater as well as the impact on tourism and transportation).

The storm surge drove seawater as far as 15 kilometers inland.

Not exact matches

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As efforts continue at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant to fully fix the infrastructure damaged in the earthquake and tsunami, workers have discovered seawater with a high radioactivity.

Sea salts, as the name implies, are formed by the evaporation of seawater.

As the iron in the inner core cools and solidifies, the researchers hypothesize, some of those light elements would be squeezed out, like the salt extruded from ice crystals when seawater freezes.

Water: Some lights are optimized for seawater or freshwater systems, while others work just as well for either.

Measurements of oxygen depletion weeks after the spill detected as much as a 30 percent drop in the Gulf of Mexico seawater.

(Because water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice, bergs of such material would waft along just as they would in Earth's seawater, the researchers explain.)

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

He found strange black rocks, some as large as soccer balls, floating in the bubbling, sulfurous seawater.

It requires as little as half the water of some flashiergrasses, and it can subsist on seawater.

Because volcanic rocks are porous, some oceanographers speculated that cold seawater percolates into seamounts, warms up in the crust, and emerges at other seamounts as mineral - rich fluids.

The older models predicted that, at worst, the sea would drop from 57 metres above sea level in 1965 to 34 metres in 2002 and end up 1.6 times as salty as normal seawater.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

Further downstream there is also erosion in the Yangtze's delta as well as seawater intrusion.

A steam plume rises from Bogoslof volcano as hot lava heats the seawater during an eruption in August 2017.

As hydrates rise toward the surface, seawater pressure diminishes, forcing the crystals to melt.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

The shipping industry, if it chooses to, could use alternative means of compliance, such as seawater scrubbers, and continue using heavy fuel oil, he said.

Because that newly released water is less dense than both seawater and hydrate - seawater mix, it will rise as well.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

As if that wasn't bad enough, soaring levels of carbon dioxide are making seawater more acidic, which will make it harder and harder for coral polyps to build their rigid skeletons.

As the 2 - to -5-inch-long bivalves grew, their shells incorporated atoms of the elements oxygen and carbon of slightly different masses, or isotopes, in ratios that reveal the temperature of the surrounding seawater.

For instance, Kuwait has essentially no freshwater; its residents live off desalinated seawater, which doesn't count as a direct resource.

To make matters worse, German and Japanese researchers recently increased CO2 levels in seawater and found that the greenhouse gas can damage some marine organisms directly: Squid slowly asphyxiated as the excess CO2 crowded out oxygen in their blood, and fish embryos and larvae were abnormally small and less likely to survive.

Eventually — possibly as early as 2050 — we will have reached the point where coral skeletons become soluble in seawater.

As atmospheric CO2 levels rise, those in the oceans do too, changing the chemistry of the seawater.

As a result, seawater poured into the emptying pores and the salinity of the water increased until it was often undrinkable.

The new study includes those observations, collected near the end of the Washington bloom, as well as other ongoing beach monitoring and water sampling efforts that filter seawater to see the life it contains.

Baleen whales are a group of Mysticeti, large whales usually from colder waters that lack teeth but have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter food such as krill out of large quantities of seawater.

However, as atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by seawater, ocean pH declines.

This is happening as soon as you have bubbles in seawater, and you have bubbles as soon as you have waves.